December 2023

To prepare for the year ahead, we have a few very special announcements we’re excited to share. First, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the 700+ community champions, facilitators, managers, and advocates in our COOP and Growing Resilient Communities program for your commitment.

Ariel Clinical Services , a Colorado agency that provides services across the state, participated in the Traumatic Stress Institute's IDD-centered Learning Collaborative (LC) in 2021 with three other client agencies. Ariel saw this LC as an opportunity to cement, deepen, and embed previous TIC efforts into the very fabric of their organization. Jesse Padilla-Goryl, the BCBA Program Manager for Ariel, was an essential leader of Ariel’s TIC change effort and has written a blog post about his...

Anyone who’s suffered a perinatal loss––the death of an infant due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal complications––knows too well the loneliness that accompanies such overwhelming sadness. In a society where men are encouraged to act rather than feel, even fathers of healthy newborns often bear the immense challenges of their role in acute isolation. One therapist has created networks of support where fathers can share their insights or explore their grief in community with other...

Since 2003, I have led a cartoon initiative called Cartoon Storytelling in which participants use real life experiences as prompt for a new story. Through a variety of creativity and writing exercises, participants learn about the art of cartooning while also creating a new story driven by a personal search to understand something about themselves. The stories are often motivated by a personal pain -- a response to being bullied, grappling with self-esteem issues, healing a damaged...

Click here to make your donation today. PACEs Connection is a social network that recognizes the impact of a wide variety of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and that promotes trauma-informed, healing-centered and resilience-building practices and policies in all families, organizations, systems, and communities. PACEs Connection supports local PACEs initiatives in neighborhoods, cities, counties, states, and nations. We provide initiatives with a...

Something amazing keeps happening in our CRC Accelerator program that we want to shout out from the rooftops this December. Thanks to our committed participants, the number of CRC graduates keeps increasing! The number of graduates has increased by 15x this year. As we head into a new year, w e are grateful for the unique role CRC Accelerator participants have played in expanding the PACEs movement through the willingness to explore healing-centered practices through a PACEs science lens.

As the world sees an increased need for trauma-informed interventions and systems transformation, PACEs Connection proudly announces the launch of the Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Fellowship program created to empower graduates of the CRC Accelerator program.

Calling all advertisers, PACEs Connection is excited to announce advertising opportunities in our newly launched History. Culture. Trauma. podcast media kit.

As we wind down the year, let's reflect on the success of our podcast. In the last year, HCT has reached over 30,000 people. We are grateful! Here is an encore of our very first episode. Long-time health, science and technology journalist and PACEs Connection founder Jane Stevens joins PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren to do a deep dive into why people aren’t getting an accurate picture about violence in their communities in this encore episode — our first episode, in fact — which was...

Adverse Childhood Experiences: From Screening to True Healing April 20th, 2024 Unresolved childhood trauma underlies some of the most pressing social issues of our day including homelessness, drug overdoses, obesity, loneliness, falling lifespan and crime. GOAL The goal of this conference is to bring together medical professionals, mental health professionals, faith leaders, community leaders, and government leaders to provide actionable solutions that result in true healing for those with...

By Columbia University, Photo: freestocks/Unsplash, Technology Networks Neuroscience News & Research, December 11, 2023 Racial discrimination and bias are painful realities and increasingly recognized as detrimental to the health of adults and children. These stressful experiences also appear to be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy, altering the strength of infants’ brain circuits, according to a new study from researchers at Columbia, Yale, and Children’s Hospital of Los...

Elderly people sit on a bench in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg By Sarah Holder, Bloomberg CityLab, December 7, 2023 In a brick rowhouse in Baltimore County live unlikely roommates, born half a century apart. Lena Wilson is 81 years old and has owned her three-bedroom home for over four decades. Her tenant is in his 20s; before moving in with Wilson, he was homeless. Since 2021, Wilson has welcomed young people for...