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" Hope is a bridge that keeps healing alive. You are healing every moment, even if you can't see the progress. Hope gives your body the encouragement it needs to heal. It's the storms that bring the rain to help us to grow and heal." - Unknown "If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment." - Carlos Santana “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” - Marcel Proust

Here is a look back at the top shared resources in 2023 from the Center on the Developing Child News from the Center on the Developing Child: December 2023 (campaign-archive.com)

By Laura Gallant, 12/21/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ At the HOPE National Resource Center, we create resources all year round. Many of our resources are created in collaboration with HOPE Facilitators, HOPE Champions , and others who are implementing the HOPE framework in their organization or community. Below are many of the new resources we created in 2023. Each resource is a guide, not an instruction manual, that shares ways of practicing or implementing the HOPE framework...

From Axios, December 20, 2023 Stanford researchers have discovered over 1,000 child sexual abuse images in an AI dataset used to train popular image generation tools such as Stable Diffusion. Why it matters: Illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM) represents an extreme example of the wider problem of AI developers not having or sharing clear records of what material is used to train their models. It may take only a small selection of CSAM images create many more new and realistic...

We know how challenging it can be to support a youth who is impacted by the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use, and we also know that your care can be one of the greatest sources of well-being a youth can have. 1 in 5 Canadian youth grow up with the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use, and youth have said the family could be one of the greatest sources of shame AND/OR hope and healing. This space is for Canadian caregivers (Parents, aunts, uncles, Elders, grandparents)...

Families are essential in supporting student mental health. Learn seven family engagement strategies that ParentPowered recommends educators employ for student well-being

Benchmarks’ Center for Quality Integration (CQi) prioritizes continuous learning of new skills and enhancing current staff skills to keep its staff at the forefront of the human services workforce. We take this acquired knowledge and skills and integrate them into the day-to-day work we do in our own agency as well as outside of it. We have learned and applied many lessons from Brene Brown’s " Dare to Lead", including the lesson that everyone is a leader, no matter their position in an...

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. We support communities to accelerate the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences to solve our most intractable problems.

This week's episode focuses on how grief and mental health issues can be exacerbated by the holiday season. As we are emerging from the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have lost loved ones. And, even pre-pandemic, the holiday season was often a time of grief, loss and sadness. Our host Ingrid Cockhren will welcome former PACEs Connection team member and Grief & Wellness consultant, Gail Kennedy, and Yolo Cares for Kids Grief Specialist, Elisa Stone to discuss effective...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Rebbe R, Reddy J, Kuelbs CL, Huang J, Putnam-Hornstein E. The Impact of COVID-19 on Infant Maltreatment Emergency Department and Inpatient...

As Texas leads the nation in Black growth, Tiara Dawson, a newcomer, acknowledges that many lack the survival skills needed for the state's increasing number of climate disasters. Credit: Riot Muse By Adam Mahoney, Inside Climate News, December 15, 2023 Stephanie Roberson wasn’t expecting this phone call from her husband, Corey. “I can’t do this anymore,” she remembers him saying. Do what? Her mind went racing. He was stuck on a mountain over 400 miles away from his family in Cincinnati, his...

By Andrea Bonior, Image: Unsplash, Psychology Today, December 17, 2023 It has long been understood that people who have experienced trauma have a different relationship to those memories than they would to memories of typical, everyday events. Even memories with negative emotional connotations, like sadness, still seem to be in a different category than memories of trauma—where shock and helplessness force the body into an extreme threat response. The intrusion that comes with...