Tagged With "Alaska Children's Trust"

And unfortunately the opposite is currently occurring... the House Finance Committee is currently proposing a budget that completely cuts state funding to three early childhood programs in Alaska - Best Beginnings, Parents as Teachers, and the State Pre-K program. This is almost a $3 million cut in prevention and early intervention. This is an investment that at the very worst will produce dividends to Alaskans in the form of children and families being more prepared for school and life.

Quote: "creating the *conditions* for safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments for all children, families and communities, which are fundamental to preventing ACEs." Oh boy! Hoo-ray! Just one problem, the one core condition needed is hinted at but NOT DIRECTLY ADDRESSED. Trauma theory even explains why this ONE SIMPLE and OBVIOUS condition is NEVER explicitly stated in our clearly fully Trauma-organized culture - PERPETRATING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN - MODELING VIOLENCE TO...

In the early 2000's there was an initiative named "Alaska Faith Communities Concerned for Children" led by Father Michael Oleska, Tom Hansen (Young Life), and others. It was funded through Alaska ICE. Here's one of the pieces that came from that work. http://alaskaice.org/wordpress...ies-fullstrength.pdf Derek

The March meeting of the New Jersey Education Association’s ACEs Task Force opened without an agenda. It was a virtual gathering with more than 50 people—educators, social workers, professionals in pediatrics, juvenile justice and child abuse prevention. The pandemic had landed emphatically close to home, with a governor’s order to close all schools on March 18, and participants were grappling with what that meant for their students, their families and themselves. So ACEs Task Force co-chair...

Five years of convening Newark’s ACE Impact Team has taught Keri Logosso-Misurell a crucial lesson: Fight the urge to reinvent the wheel.

In Fresno, volunteers from local churches were already working with the schools, mentoring kids and running weekend recreation programs. Community-based non-profits were in conversation with educators; pastors were talking to social-service providers. The problems were clear: nearly 30% of Fresno’s residents living in poverty (the rate tops 40% for Black residents), with a 20-year gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest parts of this sharply segregated city. For several years,...

As the COVID-19 pandemic blurred from days into months, the leadership team of LAUNCH Together Southwest Denver began hearing about the sense of anguish and confusion felt by directors of early-childhood learning centers: Should I re-open? Is that financially feasible? Is it ethical? And how do I decide, in a sea of fast-changing information about a virus scientists are still struggling to understand? LAUNCH Together SW Denver, a collaborative formed in 2016 to boost community capacity to...

ACEs Connection, we need your help ! We are performing a research study to better understand the relationship between positive childhood experiences (PCEs), ACEs, and health outcomes in adulthood. All we need is 5-10 minutes of your time and your honesty to complete the following anonymous survey. With your help we can find a better way to combat ACEs and to support the development of children into resilient adults. Just a little bit more about the survey: This survey is sponsored by the...

The election is upon us. In two short weeks, we voters in this country decide who will lead us for the next four years. We have the opportunity to embrace — as a national priority — the tenets of understanding, nurturing and healing that underlie the science of adverse childhood experiences and move in a direction that embraces cultural and racial equity and anti-racism. Or not. What is clear is that no matter what, the ACEs movement will continue.

By Chris Gunderson, LPC-S, NCC, President/CEO, Denali Family Services In response to a growing need for early childhood mental health services in Alaska, a multi-agency partnership, including the Alaska Children’s Trust and Denali Family Services , is working to disseminate Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) training across Alaska with the goal of training clinicians from around the state in this nationally recognized, evidence-based practice. In this post, I will discuss the need for this...

This is a great initiative by the Alaska ACES Action group to provide free discussion guides and movie loans to promote awareness and understanding of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). It's important to have these resources available to help individuals and communities address the impacts of ACEs and work towards healing and resilience. It's also commendable that they are making these resources easily accessible and free of charge. For those who may need financial assistance, using the...