May 2022

While most of our attention here is focused on assisting maltreated children and their families or adults suffering from the residual of their childhood trauma, I have been working at the other (tragic) end of the spectrum of child deaths due to abuse and neglect (in bureaucratic language "critical incidents.") For three years I have been a volunteer member of the CAPTA mandated Citizens Review Panel under the Department of Social Services' (DSS) Office of Child Abuse Prevention. It has...

SAVE THE DATE! Every year, Tulare County CAPC in California holds a conference focused on an area of child abuse prevention, presented by experts in the content area . The conference is open to anyone who wants to get a more in-depth education on the topic, as well as tools to respond. The conference is named after Cynthia Lockhart Mummery, LMFT, a long-time clinical director at Tulare Youth Service Bureau and CAPC member who was an advocate for abused and neglected children for 18 years.

The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC), a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) and supported through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce the release of 5-year estimates from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) . State, regional, and national estimates for Title V Block Grant National Outcome (NOMs) and Performance Measures (NPMs) are...

Join the RYSE Center and PACEs Connection on July 12. 2022 from 10 am-1 pm PT / 12 pm-3 pm CT / 1 pm-4 pm ET to examine how conventional social science research often produces and replicates unjust and harmful narratives about Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIPOC) capacities, priorities, dreams, and needs. At the same time, research upholds and enables white, middle-class norms and values as the standard of achievement, success, and health. From the website: “RYSE works to reimagine,...

Because in his 180-page diatribe, 18-year-old Payton Gendron provided a motive for shooting 10 people in Buffalo, NY, on Saturday night, police didn’t need to search for one, as they often have other in mass shootings. But if we want to prevent mass shootings, using motive as a way to prevent mass shootings will just get you a useless answer to the wrong question.

Community resilience is much more than the absence of adversity. As we have demonstrated in our work at the Center for Community Resilience-- equitable access to trauma-informed systems and supports that help children and families prevent adversity, heal from trauma and most importantly provide a foundation from which a community thrive is what resilience looks like! As an 'antidote' to our Pair of ACEs tree, we unveiled our latest resource The Resilience Tree. Much like the Pair of ACEs...

Despite the growing recognition that ACEs screening of parents of young children is valuable, only a small number of pediatricians routinely screen parents. The Idaho ACEs Learning Collaborative is seeking to connect with people who are screening parents or interested in this topic.

Due to its popularity, PACEs Connection's Race & Equity Workgroup is continuing the “Historical Trauma in America Series”. This event examines historical trauma in the United States and its impact on American society in a series of virtual discussions. This series, which began in July 2021, highlights several regions within the United States and outlines how unresolved historical trauma has impacted every aspect of American life and directly shapes the sociopolitical landscape of today...

On May 19, 2022, PACEs Connection hosted the sixth event in our Historical Trauma in America series . The event was facilitated by PACEs Connection staff members Ingrid Cockhren (chief executive officer) and Donielle Prince (director of state initiatives and community organizing). Click here to download the slide deck from this presentation. Then click “download file.” Click here to download resources from this presentation. Then click “download file.” The series examines the impact of...

Decades of funding expertise will come together to support rural resilience initiatives on June 9th from noon - 1:30 p.m. ET in a webinar hosted by the Campaign on Trauma Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) and PACEs Connection. Register now . “We’re excited to present this group of three experts, who have worked in every corner of the United States, to help rural communities secure what more they can of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding and opioid settlement funds, as well as...

Whether you are a parent or a guardian, a teacher or a school administrator, if you have children in your life, you might hear them talking about climate change. Whether it’s wildfires or floods or tsunamis and tornados, these events are happening with increasing frequency all around us. Climate change may once have been an abstract concept or foreign idea, but it is now our reality. Young people are more aware than ever of the threats to the planet’s future and are getting involved...

By Greg Toppo, Photo: Courtesy of The Oakland REACH, The 74, May 23, 2022 I n the two years since COVID-19 sent thousands of Oakland children to learn online at home, a parent-led group known as The Oakland REACH has made a name for itself by quickly building and expanding an innovative online resource known as the Virtual Family Hub, or simply the Hub . Now that effort has drawn the attention of one of the world’s wealthiest people, who happens to be giving her money away at a rapid clip.