Tagged With "ACEs Awareness 2021"
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Resilient Georgia’s ACEs Prevention & Trauma-Informed Efforts Statewide Landscape Scan: Chapter Two
Chapter Two of Resilient Georgia's statewide landscape scan provides an overview of child and adolescent behavioral health services available across the state, and outlines some of our workforce and access issues in Georgia. It also highlights the regional work our regional grantee coalitions, as well as other local coalitions, faith-based efforts and community organizations are doing to prevent ACEs and increase trauma informed awareness in Georgia.
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We’ve changed our name to PACEs Connection!
We have some very exciting news! As of today, ACEs Connection is now PACEs Connection. PACEs stands for Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences.
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First county homeless shelter in Gwinnett to accept women, children within 60 days [ajc.com]
By Tyler Wilkins, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 16, 2021 Finding food and shelter can be as easy as going home, but for hundreds of homeless people living in Gwinnett, it is a daily challenge. Nicole Love Hendrickson learned the toll these experiences take on someone while spending her childhood years on public assistance and bouncing in and out of homeless shelters with her siblings. Today, after running on a platform to lower homelessness, food insecurity and poverty, Hendrickson...
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A Better Normal Friday, March 26, 2021: PACEs and HOPE with Dr. Christina Bethell
Please join us for our next installment of A Better Normal, our live webinar series in which we imagine and create our society as trauma-informed! You may have seen we changed our name recently from ACEs Connection to PACEs Connection. Please join us to learn all about the groundbreaking research of Positive Childhood Experiences and how this is going to transform the work we are all doing. >>Click here to register<< PACEs and HOPE Live Event Friday, March 26, 2021 Noon PT / 1pm...
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Fourteenth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Many of us are reeling from recent news events. Here is a heart-warming video of a brother helping his sibling practice mindful breathing and reminding us all to take deep breaths to help ground ourselves. First we center, and then we do everything else. That said, we would like to take a moment to share this article about talking to the children in your life about racism. The end of...
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Last chance to apply for a scholarship for the Creating a Resilient Community Conference!
Apply for a Scholarship In this new video PJI Director, Rachel Allen shares some exciting information regarding what you can expect at the upcoming Conference! Register for the Conference Conference Overview: The Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College, the Early Learning Coalition of Orange County, the Creating a Resilient Community Network and Title Sponsor, Orlando Health, are excited to invite you to register for the Third Annual Creating a Resilient Community (CRC): From Trauma...
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ACEs prevention a priority for Rome-Floyd child advocates [northwestgeorgianews.com]
By Olivia Gunn, Rome News-Tribune, April 9, 2021 In recent years,”Adverse Childhood Experiences,” or ACEs, has become a much more prevalent phrase. Studies have shown how childhood trauma not only affects emotional and mental health, but physiological health as well. “Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences could potentially reduce a large number of health conditions,” according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance. “For example, up to 1.9 million cases of heart disease...
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Fifteenth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: We recognize that it has been a hard year filled with social isolation & upheaval, anxiety, stress and mental health struggles for many, and that it has hit some teens the hardest . Here is a free toolkit with 6 yoga and mindfulness tools for youth to help, and if you know a Georgia teen who'd like to make a difference in the mental health of their peers, ask them to check out the...
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Early Childhood Mental Health – Resilient Georgia General Meeting
The first few years of life provide the foundation for children's mental health and brain development. Resilient Georgia recently convened several Early Childhood Mental Health (0 to 5 years) experts from across the state to share exciting updates and leading practices at our quarterly General Meeting in March.
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Sixteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! To help celebrate, we hope you can join the Georgia Parent Support Network and Voices for Georgia's Children, in partnership with DBHDD, for a special, virtual edition of Children's Mental Health Awareness Day at the Capitol on May 6th (R egister here ). DECAL is celebrating children’s mental health by designating May 3 rd –7 th as Children’s Mental...
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Let's Get ACEs Science into our Classrooms with PJI Teachers Academy! [Peace and Justice Institute]
Participate in the summer PJI Teachers Academy! The PJI Teachers Academy is a week-long intensive program designed for educators by educators. This immersive cohort-based program supports teachers in reflecting on their lives and current practices and with an eye to deepening equity in their hearts, minds, and classrooms. Based on the latest neuroscience and teaching literature, participants will explore topics such as privilege, race, gender, trauma informed classrooms, ACEs, resilience,...
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Learn how to secure federal funding for your community. A Better Normal with CTIPP, Dave Ellis, Dan Jurman
The nearly $2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act has several buckets of funding that can be used to promote trauma-informed and healing-centered projects. PACEs Connection communities can apply for this funding, according to leaders of the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP), the National Trauma Campaign, and PACEs Connection. The “Better Normal” webinar on Friday, May 14 at 3 p.m. EST; Noon PST, Dan Press, Jesse Kohler and Marlo Nash of CTIPP will begin by describing...
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The Cost of Child Maltreatment to the Alabama Economy
April 20, 2021 - A study conducted by The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences and The University of Alabama Center for Business and Economic Research in collaboration with the Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention/The Children’s Trust Fund provides insight for the critical public policy issue of child maltreatment in our State. These entities released, “The Cost of Child Maltreatment to the Alabama Economy” during a press conference held Tuesday, April...
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Join the Resilient Georgia Conversation on Social Media
Resilient Georgia is dedicated to healing adversity and promoting resiliency in children and families. We do this through the prevention and early intervention of ACEs and by sharing best practices with our 500+ stakeholders and 80+ partners. As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness Month, we’d like to invite you to join the Resilient Georgia conversation on social media. Our Facebook and Instagram accounts are filled with ongoing content on children’s mental health at the intersection of...
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Seventeenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please mark your calendars for our upcoming Resilient Georgia General Meeting focused on Teen Mental Health on June 10th, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. We will have several experts share leading practices & exciting efforts underway to bolster teen mental health across the state. Please use this link to register, and access the meeting agenda and materials on our General Meeting...
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PACEs Connection presents the "Historical Trauma in America" series
PACEs Connection's Race & Equity Workgroup will be examining historical trauma in the United States of America and its impact on American society in a series of virtual discussions. This series will highlight each unique region within the United States and outline how unresolved historical trauma has impacted every aspect of American life and directly shapes the socio-political landscape of today as well as the overall well-being of Americans. Discussions will make connections between...
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2011-2021—A decade of steady growth in ACEs and TI laws and resolutions in the states
In 2019 and 2020, dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that reference adverse childhood experiences or trauma. In this post, there's an interactive map that shows them all.
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Eighteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Mark your calendars for our Lunch and Learn taking place July 21st from 12 to 12:45. We launched Resilient Georgia Lunch and Learn series this year to provide a place for our regional coalition partners, peers, and stakeholders to share opportunities for partnership across the state. Next month will feature Sewn Arts . Sewn Arts is a nonprofit organization working throughout Georgia...
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40 Acres and a School - Fundraising for Black Liberation in New England States
I am a member of Done for DiDi: White Labor Collective - an international direct giving collective instructed by Black women and non-men organizers and executed by a network of white labor. We are redistributing white wealth - money, land, time, skills, and resources - to Black women and non-men. I’m sharing with your group the opportunity to participate and amplify an incredible campaign called 40 Acres and a School. The project is led by DiDi Delgado and Black Marginalized Genders (MaGes).
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A broken system leads Georgia parents to abandon their children in desperate bid to help them [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
By Rebecca Lindstrom, Center for Health Journalism, July 8, 2021 Trading custody for care. It’s a term that’s been around awhile, but unless you’re the one confronted with making such a decision, you probably don’t know much about it. It’s basically when parents decide to surrender their child to the state’s welfare agency, in belief the child will get access to better medical or behavioral health care. As a mom, I couldn’t understand why a parent would even consider it an option. But when...
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Nineteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please mark your calendars for our Lunch and Learn taking place July 21st from 12 to 12:45. We launched the Resilient Georgia Lunch and Learn series this year to provide a place for our regional coalition partners, peers, and stakeholders to share opportunities for partnership across the state. This month will feature Sewn Arts . Sewn Arts is a nonprofit organization working throughout...
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Re: Nineteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Thank you so much for posting this. It is amazing all that you all are doing. We need to talk, and will! Let me know when you have time one morning next week? Text if you wish! 404-408-9566 Thank you so much. What a terrific team you work on! csipp@pacesconnection.com
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Tribute to Dr. Felitti
By, Felicia Nelson, Christina Velez, and Mark Egan 7/19/21 A pioneer in the field of internal medicine, Dr. Vincent J. Felitti has over 50 years of experience with extensive knowledge in the areas of childhood trauma, the genetic disease Hemochromatosis, and obesity. Here at The Relationship Foundation, Dr. Vincent Felitti is our mentor and an inspiration to us all. He has spent a greater part of his life, serving as a co-principal for the ACEs Study. ACE stands for “Adverse Childhood...
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The Wait is Over! - The Vital Village NOW Playbook [vitalvillage.org]
Please make a commitment to personal use ONLY! NOW Playbook Transformative Community Capacity to Advance Equity We are excited to share the Vital Village Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Playbook . The NOW Playbook is a resource guide designed to provide tools for local leaders, community coalitions and networks, educators, practitioners, and policymakers working to promote the wellbeing of children and families, advance equity, and align systems of care and education in...
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StrongBrains Coaching: Using PACEs and Brain Science to Coach Kids for a Lifetime of Good Choices
How can brain science help a Pop Warner football team of 10-year-olds win the big game, and avoid depression when they're adults? Join us for the August edition of the Up2Us Sports Lunch and Learn Series and find out. The monthly lunch and learn session, usually exclusively for UP2US member coaches, is now open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Register today ! The session is Wednesday, August 11 at noon CST, and features the Rev. Dr. Clifford Barnett, Carey Sipp of PACEs...
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Resilient Georgia Resilient Georgia Twentieth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: We are excited to announce our next Lunch and Learn, focused on Mindful Self-Compassion for Leaders, taking place on August 18th from 12-1PM EST. The Lunch and Learn, which can be accessed through this Zoom link , will be led by our Savannah Regional Grantee Coalition leads, Vira Salzburn. Leading Others through Mindful Self-Compassion is designed to help leaders discover new ways of...
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The Intersection of Behavioral Health and Art
Our July 2021 Lunch and Learn focused on the intersection of behavioral health and art (view recording here) . Sewn Arts joined us to share research, examples, and opportunities to utilize art, music, and other forms of creativity that aid prevention and recovery efforts. Sewn Arts is a nonprofit organization that works throughout Georgia to aid care providers and health & human service agencies incorporate evidence-based art interventions that improve individual and community health.
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FREE WEBINAR: The Impact of Mind Matters: Preliminary Evidence of Effectiveness in a Community-Based Sample
Becky Antle, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work and esteemed University Scholar at the University of Louisville, won The Dibble Institute’s national competition to evaluate Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience in 2019. As a result, Dr. Antle and her colleagues have conducted a randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of Mind Matters on a host of outcomes related to trauma symptoms, emotional regulation, coping and resiliency, and interpersonal skills for at-risk...
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** NCTSN September 2021 Spotlight ** [mednet.ucla.edu]
While natural disasters can strike at any time with very little warning, families and communities can take steps to prepare in the event that a disaster does occur. With the devastation caused by ongoing events (hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, COVID-19) across the nation, this reaffirms the need for disaster preparedness. Our thoughts are with the families, children, and communities who have been affected by these disasters. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) has resources...
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Resilient Georgia Twenty-first Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Taking care of our mental health is just as important as taking care of our physical health. Fortunately many athletes have elevated this conversation in recent months . Please join us by registering for an intimate discussion about mental wellness, resilience, and perseverance with local Track and Field world class athlete and recent Olympian Kenny Selmon on October 28th at 11AM EST.
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Resilient Georgia Hosts Discussion with Olympian Kenny Selmon on Resilience & Becoming a World-Class Athlete
To celebrate its collective impact working to create an integrated system for behavioral health care in Georgia, Resilient Georgia is hosting Olympian Kenny Selmon, a decorated American track and field champion, and storyteller Chrishaunda Lee Perez for a virtual celebration Oct. 28, 2021 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Since its inception in 2019, Resilient Georgia has built a statewide coalition of trauma-informed organizations by convening diverse private and public partners to build a...
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Historical Trauma in the American Midwest Event Recap
On September 16, 2021, PACEs Connection hosted our second event in our Historical Trauma in America series . This event was led by Ingrid Cockhren, the director of the PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities; and Porter Jennings-McGarity, our community facilitator of the Midwest Region. It featured guest speaker Agnes Woodward who is Plains Cree from Kawacatoose First Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada. To download the slide deck from this presentation, click here. Then click "download file".
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Resilient Georgia Makes Mental Wellness More Accessible in Georgia by Expanding to 12 Statewide Regions
Nonprofit now reaches more than half of all Georgia counties with diverse, robust and well-planned regional coalitions helping Georgia’s children and families through mental health “shadow pandemic.” Resilient Georgia , a statewide coalition of organizations building a more resilient, trauma-informed Georgia, now reaches more than half of all Georgia counties with 12 regional coalitions ensuring urban and rural communities statewide have access to behavioral health resources. Resilient...
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Path to a Just Society: Our new infographic shares common language and an aspirational path.
Our version of a “Path to a Just Society” is our first attempt at creating a common language and identifying points along the path to a just society. The Race and Equity workgroup of PACEs Connection started the project in early 2021, following a staff meeting where we realized that we, our organization and the movement needed this. We think it can help all of us gauge where we are, where we want to be, and what’s needed to get to the next level of integrating practices and policies based on...
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Me & My Emotions: A New, Free Resource for Teens
The pandemic has had a lasting effect on youth mental health. Moved by a desire to reduce youth’s toxic stress and increase their resilience, The Dibble Institute, in partnership with a team of students and alumni from ArtCenter College of Design and author Carolyn Curtis, PhD, is releasing Me & My Emotions —a new, free adaptation of our beloved Mind Matters Curriculum. The mobile-friendly Me & My Emotions website features engaging graphics and bite-sized lessons teens can access and...
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Resilient Georgia Twenty-second Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please join us along with storyteller Chrishaunda Lee Perez for our two-year anniversary virtual celebration an intimate discussion about mental wellness, resilience, and perseverance with Georgia native, World Class Track and Field Athlete, and 2021 Olympian Kenny Selmon on Thu, October 28th from 11 am to 12:30 pm ET. We are so proud of athletes across the board who are speaking up...
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Georgia Reads Book Club Presents: "What Happened to You?"
“What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing” by renowned brain and trauma expert Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey - a 2021 must read! We are so excited to announce that Georgia’s Essentials for Childhood Initiative, in partnership with Gwinnett County Public Libraries, will be launching a Georgia Reads Book Club of “What Happened to You?”. Attend the kickoff event on November 15th at 7 pm EST to learn more about the book and how Georgia is working towards...
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Join us October 27, 2021 for the inaugural event in our Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice System series, “The Relationship between PACEs and the Criminal Justice System”
Please join us for a new series entitled: Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice. This monthly series will feature conversations facilitated by Porter Jennings-McGarity, PACEs Connection Midwest and Tennessee community facilitator and criminal justice consultant, with special guests to discuss the need for trauma-informed criminal justice system reform. Using a PACEs-science lens, this series will examine the relationship between trauma and the criminal justice system, what needs changing, and...
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The Hidden Biases of Good People: Implicit Bias Awareness Training
The Dibble Institute is pleased to present an introductory webinar by Rev. Dr. Bryant T. Marks Sr. of the National Training Institute on Race and Equity , which will provide foundational information on implicit bias. It will focus at the individual level and discuss how implicit bias affects everyone. Strategies to reduce or manage implicit bias will be discussed. Broadly speaking, group-based bias involves varying degrees of stereotyping (exaggerated beliefs about others), prejudice...
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Vaccine Hesitancy (Sign On Letter Attached In First Line)
Please sign onto and share this memo supporting using a trauma-informed approach to decreasing vaccine hesitancy! Many of the challenges we are facing with vaccine hesitancy can be better understood by looking at the issue through a trauma-informed lens. The following memo has been developed with input from many of the clinical and academic thought leaders from the trauma healing field to offer supportive guidance to the Administration. To successfully address this challenge, we need to...
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A Trauma Informed Approach to Vaccine Fear
PLEASE SIGN ON TO THIS MEMO TO SUPPORT OUTREACH ALONG THESE LINES TO THE ADMINISTRATION! If the goal is to impact meaningful change, it might prove helpful to view vaccine fear through a trauma informed-lens. There is an intentional shift from the use of the word “hesitancy” and instead using the more specific and appropriate term “fear”. We are more likely to change that which we better define and understand. The following memo has been developed with input from an interdisciplinary team of...
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Parenting to Prevent & Heal ACEs Handout
This handout is based on the work of Donna Jackson Nakazawa , who worked with us and generously allowed us to paraphrase content from her book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology & How You Can Heal . Donna's book specifically addresses those of us parenting with ACEs (which she also does brilliantly in the powerful documentary, Wrestling Ghosts , which is about parenting and healing from ACEs). This handout can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is...
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In North Carolina, a new Civil War memorial honors Black Union soldiers (Washingtonpost.com)
By Kevin Maurer November 1, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT In the early 1900s, two Civil War memorials — both honoring the Confederacy — were erected in the busy downtown district of Wilmington, N.C. They were meant largely to send a message of intimidation to African Americans and “carpetbaggers,” Northerners who came to the South during reconstruction — and there they stood for a century. Five miles away, Heather Wilson, the deputy director of the Cameron Art Museum, wanted to tell a different...
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Examples of Current Trauma-Informed Judicial Systems
Please join us for a new series entitled: Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice. This monthly virtual Zoom series will feature conversations facilitated by Porter Jennings-McGarity, PACEs Connection’s criminal justice consultant, with special guests to discuss the need for trauma-informed criminal justice system reform. Using a PACEs-science lens, this series will examine the relationship between trauma and the criminal justice system, what needs changing, and strategies being used in this area...
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2021 ACEs Awareness Campaign in Charlotte County, FL
Monday, November 15 th , 2021 marks the launch of Charlotte County’s ACEs awareness week to raise awareness about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and to highlight the importance of fostering Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) in the lives of our children and youth. Last year, the Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners granted an ACEs awareness county proclamation; however, still in the throws of COVID-19 precautions and response, our community was unable to celebrate the...
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Resilient Georgia Twenty-third Edition: Preventing ACEs, Healing Adversity, Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: First, some announcements: We are incredibly grateful to everyone who attended Resilient Georgia's General Meeting on October 28th with special guests, U.S. Olympian and American Track & Field Champion Kenny Selmon and Storyteller Chrishaunda Lee Perez! Kenny Selmon knows how to overcome hurdles in the race of life. We encourage you to watch the interview if you have not already...
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Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice with Special Guest, Becky Haas, Pioneer in Developing Trauma-Informed Judicial Initiatives
Please join us for our new series entitled: Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice. This monthly virtual Zoom series will feature conversations facilitated by Dr. Porter Jennings-McGarity, PhD/LCSW, PACEs Connection’s criminal justice consultant, with special guests to discuss the need for trauma-informed criminal justice system reform. Using a PACEs-science lens, this series will examine the relationship between trauma and the criminal justice system, what needs changing, and strategies being...
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Nourishing a Brain Wounded by Childhood Adversity
The right mix of nutrients revitalizes the brain that's been wounded by ACEs. Good nutrition can quickly improve mood and functioning in the present, while improving the potential to rewire disturbing memories imprinted in childhood.
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Need to fund your resilience initiative? Here’s how.
Chart is sample page from county-by-county funding allocated as part of ARPA. Information is available by clicking here. This is the first of several articles on the importance of any resilience-focused entity, including your PACEs Connection community, seeking out the people in your area allocating ARPA funding and asking for money. Organizations do not necessarily have to be 501 C-3 nonprofits to receive funding. Thanks to federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to states in April...