Tagged With "Historical Trauma"
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#ACEs Canada Update @ACEsCanada2020
Elizabeth Perry provides an update on her advocacy efforts to increase awareness, prevention and healing of ACEs in the Canadian context through her #ACEs Canada organization.
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Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and it's having devastating consequences [pbs.org]
By Cat Wise and Jaywon Choe, PBS NewsHour, December 14, 2020 Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and its consequences can be devastating. Those experiencing high levels of trauma can see dramatically lower life expectancies, and the CDC estimates it accounts for billions of dollars in healthcare costs and lost productivity. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports as part of our series, “Invisible Scars: America’s Childhood Trauma Crisis." Cat Wise: This hotel room in Oakland,...
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Free ACEs Podcasts and Resources by the CBC
A list of resources promoted by the CBC. The CBC produces podcasts for CBC radio. The program IDEAS with Nahlah Ayed aired a 3 part series about Adverse Childhood Experiences and childhood trauma entitled “All in the Family”. This is a summary of the content.
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Re: Our Greatest Opportunity: Understanding ACEs & Building Self-Healing Communities
This is so exciting Denise. Thanks for letting us all know about this. What you have been able to launch in New Brunswick with the first Canadian Self-Healing Communities initiative has been a real accomplishment I believe the rest of us can learn from. I look forward to attending this learning opportunity, and inspiring others in Canada and Nova Scotia to consider similar programs. Thanks for your leadership in creating ACEs Aware and Trauma Informed Canada. Elizabeth
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Re: PBS News Hour segment on ACE!
I'm glad to hear you've been able to access it Ray. It's a 4 part series. We'll post each of the video clips here together when they are available. In the meantime, check out the other resources Maria shared in her blog, some of which are from CBC. We're working to make Canada ACEs Aware and Trauma Informed. All this media attention helps. Thanks for engaging. Elizabeth
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4 New Communities Join ACEs Connection / January, 2021
Please welcome these four new communities to the ACEsConnection.com network. Details about each of them are below as is information about starting and growing your community initiatives and joining the Cooperative of Communities . Interested in Starting a Community on ACEs Connection ? For questions about starting or growing an initiative, using our site and tools, please reach out to one of our regional community facilitators. Communities in: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic states, contact @Alison...
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Advancing Your Community’s ACEs & Resilience Strategy
Advancing Your Community’s ACEs & Resilience Strategy (Case Studies and Upcoming Opportunities) Tue, Jan 26, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST This webinar will focus on how two regions in Alberta built on the pre-launch program for the ACEs & Resilience Resource Commons for Communities (ARRCC) to advance their regional strategies to transform the family justice system as part of a larger ACEs and Resilience strategy. The Reforming the Family Justice System coalition in Alberta and the...
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A Conceptual Analysis of Interpersonal Resilience as a Key Resilience Domain: Understanding the Ability to Overcome Child Sexual Abuse and Other Adverse Interpersonal Contexts (researchgate.net)
New Canadian Research: A conceptual analysis of interpersonal resilience as a domain specific type of resilience, based on the premise that it is a multi-faceted construct. The researchers consider interpersonal resilience within the context of child sexual abuse (CSA) as an under-attended and salient interpersonal stressor with profound implications involving the self and personal identity.
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Trauma-informed care as a rights-based “standard of care”: A critical review (https://www.sciencedirect.com)
New Canadian Research: A growing body of literature on the concept of trauma-informed care (TIC) has emerged in response to greater recognition of the prevalence of childhood trauma. Currently, no review has examined the conceptualization of TIC in various child-serving systems, specifically TIC as a standard of care, the outcomes examined relevant to care, and whether child rights are part of the TIC discourse.
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Re: Canadian Thought Leader Dr. Gabor Mate Shares His Wisdom
I am such a huge Gabor Mate follower. He is an inspiration and for me up there with all of the greats! Someday I hope to tell him how significant his work has been through my own journey, and a influence of my own personal work in helping to free woman from trauma. so glad to see this mutual admiration for this great leader. Amber B
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50,000 members strong! ACEs Connection invites you to celebrate, reminisce and commemorate our collective growth
Where were you when you first learned about ACEs science? What do you remember about that moment? Were you relieved, scared, shocked, happy or sad? And where were you when you first learned about ACEs Connection? How did it feel to know there was a community of people who knew some of what you knew, and, perhaps, felt as passionately about learning more of the science and preventing childhood trauma as you do? On March 4th at 12 pm PT (3 pm ET), we’re stopping for an hour to gather around...
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Trauma-Informed Care Toolkit
Becoming Trauma-Informed "As we come together facing this global pandemic, we are all experiencing heightened levels of stress which could be viewed as a collective trauma. The purpose of this toolkit is to build a better understanding of what trauma is and how trauma affects the thoughts, actions and behaviours of people affected by it so that we can come together in solidarity and hope. As we come together facing this global pandemic, we are all experiencing heightened levels of stress...
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"The Brain's Journey to Resilience"
"The Brain Story is a story about how experiences shape our brains. As such, it is also a story about human relationships, because we depend on those around us for the experiences that build our brain architecture."-Alberta Family Wellness Initiative For those individuals who have taken the incredible Brain Story Certification through the Alberta Family Wellness initiative, AFWI has released a report on January 8,2021, titled: "EARLY LEARNINGS ABOUT USES FOR THE RESILIENCE SCALE METAPHOR IN...
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International Perspectives Conversation with ACE Aware Nation (www.youtube.com)
ACE Aware Nation in Scotland ACEs Conversation Series 2020–2021 creates a space in which to explore a wide range of themes relevant to the Adverse Childhood Experiences movement. In this, the seventh in our series, we explore International Perspectives on ACEs. We meet the founders of grassroots movements in two other countries: Canada and Netherlands. Elizabeth Perry of #ACEs Canada speaks determinedly from a first-person perspective, using her experience of childhood trauma to boost wider...
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