December 2020

By City News Service, Los Angeles Daily News, December 10, 2020 The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday, Dec. 9, to create a new department to assist families who were already vulnerable to economic uncertainty before the COVID-19 pandemic and are far more so now. Council President Nury Martinez and Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez proposed establishing the Department for Families, Children and Community Investment in October. “COVID-19 has demonstrated that in the face of a crisis,...

By Cory Turner, Anya Kamenetz, and Meghan Keane, National Public Radio, December 10, 2020 For the kids in our lives, the last nine months have been many things. Scary — because an invisible, unknown illness was suddenly spreading across the globe. Maybe even fun, when the possibility of school closing felt like a snow day. But for many, that novelty has given way to frustration and sadness — even depression and anxiety. Just like adults, kids are wondering: Will I get sick? Will someone I...

By Ellie French, VTDigger, December 8, 2020 People are turning to nature to cope with social upheaval during the pandemic, according to new research from the University of Vermont. A study led by Rachelle Gould, a UVM professor of sustainability and global equity, asked Vermonters about the impact of Covid on their engagement with nature-based activities and how time outside affected their mental health. The results were overwhelming, Gould said. People generally think of Vermont as a pretty...

All these requests for our parenting tips bumper stickers and not one was shipped! Why? We haven't the funding to print them! Every bumper sticker that is not printed and shipped is a colossal lost opportunity to prevent child abuse five, ten, twenty, fifty years down the road. What a shame! Visit www.advancingparenting.org. **************************************************************************** Hi David Thanks for this amazing link and all the important work you are doing. Can we order...

Hi. My name is Christopher Freeze and I support ACEs Connection. It’s a great organization, one I’ve come to love and enjoy over the last couple of years. It’s something that’s really been meaningful in my life. I spent over 20 years in law enforcement, and saw a lot of the same people coming into the system over and over again. And I realized the messages I’d probably heard most of my career, most of my life, about “tough on crime” and “we just gotta have more resources” and “more focus”...

Policy Research, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the Homeless and Housing Resource Center(HHRC) . HHRC, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, works in partnership with national experts in homelessness, mental health, and substance use services to develop up-to-date, comprehensive toolkits, webinars, and self-paced online trainings. HHRC provides training on housing and treatment models focused on adults, children, and families who are experiencing...

What is the difference between working hard and being a workaholic? Workaholism is glorified in our society and the term is often misused, making it difficult for people suffering from it to know they have a problem. Before childhood trauma research gained momentum in the 1980s and 1990s, there was no understanding of trauma and its consequences on a person’s life as adult, the link was not made between beating or neglecting a child and how it impacted the adult child’s mental health...

An introduction to our new community, ACEs Connections in Ontario, Canada. You will find the details of the who, what, where, when, why of our community. Come join us!

Some of us here at ACEs Connection were interviewed on film and/or on background and we are eager to watch this four-part series.

Shortly after Resilient Georgia was founded in April 2019, our Board of Directors convened a Strategic Planning session which allowed us to identify our No. 1 priority–to learn from our peers. The stakeholders and partners at the table identified that, to be truly successful, Resilient Georgia needed to first look at what other states were doing–and how they were doing it. After many calls, internet searches and conversations, we completed the National Landscape Scan of Trauma Informed Care...

SAP Implementation Coordinator, Jamie Tilley, and Implementation Manager, Amanda Dolinger, worked with Rebecca McLemore Stokes County Foster Care Supervisor to develop a presentation regarding trauma and the SAP pilot for the district court judges, the county’s DSS Attorney, and GAL. Due to COVID-19, the training was conducted online to ensure everyone’s safety. Information was shared with the court staff about the importance of trauma informed practices and the impact of trauma on children...

Keira Poulsen believes that we all have a deep purpose that the world needs. And when we connect up to The Divine and remember our own inner Divinity, we can create massive change in this world.