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PACEs in the Faith-Based Community

Reply to "Worth Forwarding - "Caught between the Amygdala and a Hard Place" - by Karyn Purvis, Ph.D. & David Cross, Ph.D."

I think ALL who share a concern about ACEs, regardless of our personal score, have a contribution to make to this endeavor. I remember learning of a SAMHSA meeting about "Lived Experience" which was about to be convened, and there were no Consumer Survivor "Seats at the Table", and an ally in Washington, D.C. went to a few members of Congress who wrote the DHHS Secretary, requesting seats at the table for Consumers/Survivors/Persons with Lived Experience/Person's at risk of becoming a C/S/PwLE, and Plenty of Seats were made available.

 

I think of one example which Tina's post above, brings to mind. LITERACY. Where the literacy rate is so low (Haiti), that couples can't read or  "perceive beyond the public view", such as diseases, (and possibly poverty, and ACEs,) etc., that they have five children so that two of them will live to reach age 12, such as was known to occur in Haiti, during the 1970's. Even the Illiterate Artist who painted "Maree Humaine" (which now hangs in the lobby of the U.N. Building in NYC) contributed a communication form understandable to many of his co-inhabitants of the western half of that island, that was subsequently used to draw people to health clinics.

 

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