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League of Women Voters Orange County - Hot Topics Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): The Biggest Public Health Crisis You've Never Heard of March 11th, 2020 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Sorosis Club: 501 E. Livingston St., Orlando, FL 32801 ACEs are traumatic experiences that occur in childhood (0-17 years) and are now scientifically linked to changes in the brain that lead to an astounding increase in a lifetime of poor life outcomes. Tragic outcomes include suicide, chronic diseases (cancer/heart...

Photo: ALICE Florida Report 2018/ United Way Orlando, Fla. (February 6, 2019) – Heart of Florida United Way announced that more than 350,000 households in Central Florida struggle to afford basic necessities such as housing, food, transportation, health care and child care, according to the 2018 ALICE Report. Statewide, 46% of households face the same financial challenges. In Central Florida, the number of low-income workers struggling to cover essentials grew by approximately 1.1 percent...

We developed ACEs Connection's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Tool — called the Inclusion Tool, for short — to ensure that ACEs initiatives across the world focus on being inclusive when forming a steering committee, recruiting leaders, providing education about ACEs science, recruiting members, or providing resources and services within their communities. The more inclusive your ACEs initiative is, the more diverse it will be, giving your initiative a real shot at achieving equity and...

Digital Communal Gatherings ( Open to Everyone! ) at 12 PM & 6 PM EST Monday - Saturday. Daytime Call: Use your computer to join us 12PM EST Monday-Saturday Join Via Link: https://zoom.us/j/284580732 Join By Phone: 1 929 205 6099 Meeting ID: 284-580-732 Evening Call: Use your computer to join us 6PM, Monday-Saturday Join Via Link: https://zoom.us/j/659519104 Join By Phone: 1 929 205 6099 Meeting ID: 659-519-104 Take Care of You is currently meeting digitally every 4th Saturday of each...

ACEs initiative participants in communities where there is tension between the community and law enforcement will want to join Becky Haas in a compelling conversation on law enforcement, ACEs science, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement and protests. Haas is a nationally recognized adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) science initiative builder and trainer. She and colleagues Renee Wilson-Simmons, the head of the ACE Awareness Foundation of Memphis, Tennessee, and Maggi Duncan,...

Let's Learn Together! Join the PJI Common Read, a book club initiative by the Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma healing, and resilience. The Common Read initiative is open for community members as part of PJI's larger community resilience work. Its theme is also the focus of PJI’s annual conference — Creating a Resilient Community: From Trauma to Healing (save the date: April 20 & 21, 2021!). In advance of bringing...

Common Read of What Happened to You? By Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey - Starting January 10th! Join the Resilience Common Read, a book club initiative started by the Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College addressing positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs), trauma healing, and resilience. In January, the group will begin reading Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey’s book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing : “Oprah Winfrey and...

The Peace and Justice Institute this year facilitated a community common read of Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey's What Happened to You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing. On June 28th, from 1:30-3:00 p.m. EST, PACEs Connection will host a virtual conversation with Bruce Perry, about the book. If you are interested in attending, visit this link for the original event blog post and more details. REGISTER HERE. To join the PJI Common Read Facebook Group - click here. This virtual...

Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...

Judge Sheila Calloway says she had “absolutely no idea that I wanted to become a lawyer” when she was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. But looking back over her fourth-grade papers, which her mother had proudly saved, she found an essay she wrote in which she said she wanted to be a lawyer and help people. And she has. After stints in the Metro Public Defender’s Office and the Juvenile Court in Metropolitan Nashville & Davidson County, TN, she was elected juvenile court judge in 2014.

The Creating a Resilient Community (CRC) Network is so excited to launch our 2023 Common Read of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D! Get a Free Copy of the Book: If you do not have a copy of the book and would like one, please reach out to us at resilience@valenciacollege.edu to coordinate picking up a copy. Valencia employees can receive a copy via intercampus mail. Check out our reading calendar below: 2023 Reading Calendar:...

On June 27th, 2023, over 50 members of the Resilience Network came together in Central Florida to outline goals for the next term. Strategic planning takes place following the annual conference (in April/May) and allows members to set priorities for the year's worth of work in advance of the next conference. The Network currently has four main shared goals: In addition to these shared goals, the Network has nine sectors, each with identified sector-specific goals. During the meeting, sectors...

Last month PJI Executive Director, Rachel Allen, and PJI Resilience Community Manager, Sofiya Asedrem, went live on the Peace and Justice Institute's Facebook page to announce the Common Read book for 2024. Click here to watch the Common Read Reveal. This book club was started in 2019 to encourage the common read of books related to Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs), toxic stress, trauma, healing, and resilience. To date, the group has read the following books: 2019: The...