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ACEs Connection envisions a resilient world where ALL people thrive. We are an anti-racist organization committed to the pursuit of social justice. In our work to promote resilience and prevent and mitigate ACEs, we intentionally embrace and uplift people who have historically not had a seat at the table. ACEs Connection celebrates the voices and tells the stories of people who have been barred from decision-making and who have shouldered the burden of systemic and economic oppression as the...

I remain forever grateful that my long felt and seeming innate knowledge ( actually garnered from personal experience, work with traumatised animals and people ) has been evidenced and validated by the amazing work of Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda. They created the peg I, we, can hang our experience and expertise on and work to best apply our skills to assist others. With ACEs I am now able to communicate my knowledge with clients, colleagues and communities with the additional confidence...

In the Hechinger Report, Amanda Wahlstedt wrote about the empathy gap she experienced as a poor student with a disconnected privileged teacher. She wrote: As a young girl in rural southeastern Kentucky, I remember distinctly hearing my teacher talk about “first of the month-ers,” or people who were out and in the grocery stores at the first of the month, typically with shopping “buggies” overloaded with preserved food. When I looked around the classroom I noticed many of my friends either...

Hi, Dawn: These are good questions. Drs. Felitti & Anda also understood that there were other types of ACEs, but the 10 in the study were the 10 they looked at. Since then, people have expanded the definition to include more ACEs. We have included many examples of those in the Resources Center: https://www.pacesconnection.com...xtended-aces-surveys It's probably not a bad idea for organizations to ask the population they're asking and surveying what other ACEs they're experiencing in...

Love the question. For years when doing training and consulting on this topic I often remind people that "the 10" aren't the end of trauma and/or adversity but rather just the ones that were studied. We have talked in depth about issues facing LBGTQ+ and sometimes how "coming out" can turn traumatic. We talk about dangerous neighborhoods, bullying, or the immigrant experience as well. Those are ones that often come up. Lately, there has been lots of conversation around food insecurity and...

The Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) is here to help you gain the skills necessary to change your community and the world. We will be offering a three-day training course June 10 - 12, 2019, taught by Dr. Ram Bhagat , related to challenging the status quo in the education system that allows systemic racism to flourish . Course details are: The framework for Building Resilience for Challenging Systemic Racism is grounded in Restorative Justice theory, values, and praxis. This three day...

Thank you so much Lee-Anne for your post! The Connect Group's development of your empathy circles is an exemplary model of intentional listening, reflection and sharing through authentic vulnerability. Profound! Having the blessing of your youth leaders facilitating and teaching empathy circles with our systems engaged youth in our City of San Diego Commission on Gang Prevention & Intervention's Youth Sub-Committee, we were grateful for their leadership on behalf of our youths' skill...

You're welcome, Dana! Thanks for all you do to support the movement, and for recommending the post! Our youth leaders are eager to serve, and found very empowered peers at the Sub-Committee meeting. Bravo!

By George Farmer, Education Next, June 23, 2020 As the world has paused to analyze the deficiencies of police departments, it is not enough. All aspects of America have to examine areas of systemic injustice. That includes schools, which now have an opportunity to rise to the occasion and improve. American schools are de facto segregated based on income and ethnicity. Where students live determines the quality of education students will receive. Black and Latinx communities receive less...

Brooke Brown has taught English language arts and ethnic studies in Tacoma, Wash., for the past 14 years. In September, the state named her 2021 Washington Teacher of the Year. Ms. Brown is also a biracial Black woman and a participant in a new program in her region aimed at retaining teachers of color, in a state where 88% of teachers in 2019 were white, according to a state agency. The program, the Educators of Color Leadership Community, “has been instrumental in me not just finding my...

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. We are asking for support, from you, our 57,586 members, to help cover the loss of foundation funding that was promised and did not come through. Pay and hours have been cut for our staff—most of us will be laid off for the month of December. Another grant will pick up in January, but we will still be underfunded. Since sounding the alarm this summer, we’ve raised about $26,000 . Thankfully, about 25% of new donors are making monthly...

Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.

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