Former PACEs Connection employees Dana Brown (L) with Vincent Felitti, MD, co-author of the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences study, and Carey Sipp (R) in San Diego in January, 2024. The last few months have been quite challenging, but we pushed, persevered, and didn’t give up hope. The “we” is Carey Sipp and Dana Brown. We were long-time staff members of PACEs Connection determined to reinstate the website and the resources and information we provide to communities after the platform went...

To all of you, who, like me, love this website and want to see it and its communities flourish as we work to prevent and heal trauma; build resiliency: please know there is a move afoot by a small group of strategic partners to find a suitable host for PACEs Connection. More will be announced in the coming days. In the meantime, friends, we are figuring out email addresses and other communications logistics and opportunities. PEACE! Carey Sipp, former director of strategic partnerships ...

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

Med tanke på den roll som barndomstrauma spelar för vår både fysiska och psykiska hälsa genom livet borde fokus på traumainformerade insatser vara en självklarhet i samtliga delar av vårt samhälle. Så är dock inte fallet. För att öka förståelsen för våra barns och ungas (och vuxnas) psykiska ohälsa, och för att hitta effektiva insatser för att förebygga och bemöta denna, behöver vi öka både medvetenheten om trauma och antalet traumainformerade insatser i samhället. I mitten av 1990-talet...