Tagged With "Chief Justice’s Task Force"
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Healthy Blue builds on community relationships in PACEs Connection initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of caregivers, children, and families in the foster care system.
What: Multi-county initiative in North Carolina funded by Healthy Blue involves resiliency initiatives in the PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities in hopes of improving the health and wellbeing of foster children and families, as well as caregivers. A large part of this work will be to make available trainings about the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) and a skills-based stabilization program, the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) ® , which helps users...
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Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection!
Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.
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Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection!
Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.
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January 19th CTIPP CAN Call - Trauma-Informed Initiatives in Baltimore and Maryland
Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...
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January 19th CTIPP CAN Call - Trauma-Informed Initiatives in Baltimore and Maryland
Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...
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New Hanover Resiliency Task Force sends Hopeful Message to Ukrainians Learning Community Resiliency Model Skills
In support of Ukrainians aligned with EdCamp Ukraine, members of the New Hanover Resiliency Task Force met Sunday afternoon to create a banner and a video to be shared during daily Zoom Support Meetings offered to the Ukrainians; by the Trauma Resource Institute (TRI). An international volunteer team led by TRI’s executive team members, Elaine Miller-Karas and Michael Sapp have offered daily Zoom Support Meetings reinforcing the skills of the Community Resiliency Model. Since the beginning...
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Arts Subcommittee Collaborating
The New Hanover Resiliency Task Force Arts Subcommittee collaborating about upcoming events.
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Register now for "Building the Movement with Coalitions", presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, PACEs Connection, and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...
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Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience Workshop Series Session 2 - January 21st, 2022 from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Education and Health Care
Lee Johnson III PhD and Sandra Bloom MD to lead discussion on emerging trauma-informed policies and practices in the education and health care fields. What are ways that these fields are taking PACEs, Prevention, and Trauma science into consideration, and what can advocates do to help further advance these and other promising practices? It's free to join, so sign up at this link today! You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement in Education and Health Care , the second of eight...
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Register now for "Building the Movement with Coalitions", presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, PACEs Connection, and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...
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Register now for "Building the Movement with Coalitions", presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, PACEs Connection, and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...
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February 18, 2022 - Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities
Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities February 18, 2022 - 1pm to 5pm ET/10am to 2pm PT Panel 1: Transformative Justice Grant-funded workshop provided by Mazzoni Center and WOAR. This workshop will give a foundational look at transformative justice with the goal of better understanding how to support people who have experienced violence through community-based approaches. The audience will learn about the core tenets of transformative...
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Workshop REMINDER: Building the Movement with Populations with High Prevalence of Trauma - Friday @ 1pm EST/10am PST [npscoaliton.org]
We are excited to present the fifth workshop session this Friday and hope you can join us live! Of note, we are now offering participation certificates to those who can be with us live on Friday afternoons and to make that easier we have also decided to shorten this workshop session to 3 hours ! Please help us in #BuildingTheMovement by sharing this workshop series with colleagues and help us reach our next milestone of 3K registered. Day 5 - Building the Movement with Populations with High...
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Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience Workshop Series Session 2 - January 21st, 2022 from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Education and Health Care
Lee Johnson III PhD and Sandra Bloom MD to lead discussion on emerging trauma-informed policies and practices in the education and health care fields. What are ways that these fields are taking PACEs, Prevention, and Trauma science into consideration, and what can advocates do to help further advance these and other promising practices? It's free to join, so sign up at this link today! You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement in Education and Health Care , the second of eight...
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Register now! Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems February 4, 2022
February 4th, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems Making these sectors trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered You’re invited to participate in the third of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience”. This half-day workshop will occur virtually and focus on promising practices in the child welfare and justice systems, as well as teach...
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FREE virtual screening of the film Resilience and panel discussion! Flyer to print and share!
Please share this flier on our Resilience documentary screenings on February 7! We invite you to join the Resilient Brunswick Task Force for a FREE virtual screening and panel discussion of the film Resilience on Monday, February 7 at 9:00-10:30 a.m. and 2:00-3:30 p.m. The Zoom link is below. Please see the flier for even more details. Topic: Virtual Screening of Resilience Time: Monday, February 7, 2022 09:00-10:30 a.m. and 2:00-3:30 p.m. Join Zoom Meeting...
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Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience Workshop Series Session 2 - January 21st, 2022 from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Education and Health Care
Lee Johnson III PhD and Sandra Bloom MD to lead discussion on emerging trauma-informed policies and practices in the education and health care fields. What are ways that these fields are taking PACEs, Prevention, and Trauma science into consideration, and what can advocates do to help further advance these and other promising practices? It's free to join, so sign up at this link today! You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement in Education and Health Care , the second of eight...
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Workshop REMINDER: Building the Movement with Populations with High Prevalence of Trauma - Friday @ 1pm EST/10am PST [npscoaliton.org]
We are excited to present the fifth workshop session this Friday and hope you can join us live! Of note, we are now offering participation certificates to those who can be with us live on Friday afternoons and to make that easier we have also decided to shorten this workshop session to 3 hours ! Please help us in #BuildingTheMovement by sharing this workshop series with colleagues and help us reach our next milestone of 3K registered. Day 5 - Building the Movement with Populations with High...
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Third Workshop in the National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience
The focus of this week’s workshop in the Building A National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience Series is Justice Systems and Child Welfare. Our very own, Ben David is on the Justice Systems panel. There is still time to register if you would like to attend: To Register: https://www.npscoalition.org/p...auma-workshop-series . They do make the recordings available after the sessions. Panel 1: Justice Systems Moderator: Becky Haas, Advocate and Trainer Chief Christopher Leusner,...
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January 6, 2022 Task Force Meeting
The Resilient Brunswick Task Force met on Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Bonnie Jordan welcomed folks and shared the agenda for the meeting and introduced Jamie Fox, who will be taking the place of Morgan King at 4-H and with the Resilient Brunswick Task Force. After that Kelly Purcell, shared the Help Now skill from the Community Resiliency Model. Jamie Fox is the local representative for 4-H and the Health Rocks contact person shared the Health Rocks program that is used in...
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Film Screening of the movie Resilience
On Monday, February 7, 2022, the Resilient Brunswick Task Force will host an in-person screening of the film Resilience. The event will take place at Odell Williamson Auditorium at Brunswick Community College in Bolivia on Monday, February 7, 2022. Screening Times 9:00-10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m 2:00-3:30 p.m. While this is currently scheduled as an in-person program due to factors out of our control, we may have to adjust this plan. Social distancing, mask wearing and hand washing will...
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Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection!
Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.
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Cape Fear Film Screening of Resilience
Join the Cape Fear Resiliency Initiative leaders to learn more about how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact our local community. Thursday, April 28, 2022 12:00-2:00. Register Here .
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Resilient Brunswick County Task Force March Meeting
In case you missed the meeting here are some upcoming events to share with your organizations! Tri-County Resiliency Task Force Collaboration - Bonnie shared updates from the monthly collaboration meeting between the leaders of Resilient Brunswick, the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force, and the Pender County Resiliency Task Force. She noted that their goal is to offer regional film screenings and follow up CRM training in addition to local efforts within each county. These two tiers...
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Trauma Resource Institute 2021 Ambassadors of the Year
Please join us in honoring the Trauma Resource Institute's 2021 Ambassadors of the Year, Magdalena Sunshine Serrano, LCSW, and New Hanover County, North Carolina!
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March Monthly Meeting
Reverend Clifford Barnett, one of our co-chairs served as our host. Turning the Wheel led our resiliency skills practice today. I hope that inspires you to take advantage of one of their Creative Play Pop-Ups in the future! We are excited to announce that we will be co-hosting a virtual screening of Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope with Resilient Brunswick and the Pender County Resiliency Task Force on April 28, 12:00-2:00 pm. Nick Pylipyw from Cape Fear Collective...
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Agenda and Meeting notes from 4/13/22
The Healthy Blue Initiative Leadership Team was joined by a young man who was recently adopted to share his insights about learning resiliency skills and how we can reach more youth in foster care and youth in high schools. HBI Team Meeting Date: 4/13/22 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Attendees: Zyante, Carey, Amy, Kelly Purcell, Kristy Blackwell Goals: Discussing/creating plan for paying CRM trainers in HBI counties Explain how to input presentations in presentations tracker Presentations Tracker Provide...
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Resiliency Initiatives Come Together to Create Awareness about ACEs and Resources
Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender County resiliency initiative leaders Cape Fear Collection and came together to show a screening of the film Resilience and collectively share about efforts being done to prevent and heal ACEs at an individual and systems level as well as data to demonstrated the need for these efforts and task forces. J'vanete Skiba shared about the Realms of ACEs and their impacts as it relates to the film as well as the impacts on individuals in our community. Nicholas...
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Join us in Recognizing a “Resilient & Thriving Communities Week” across North Carolina’s Local Communities June 6-12, 2022
Resilient & Thriving Communities Week June 6-12, 2022 Boone, NC: June 8, 2022: A voluntary statewide coalition of people from local community collaboratives, interested staff from North Carolina non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies has organized and are facilitating the first ever “Resilient & Thriving Communities Week” in North Carolina, June 6-12, 2022! This special week is the result of discussions that began two years ago. A volunteer leader of a local North...
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June 15, 2022 Advisory Team Meeting Notes
Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda June 15, 2022 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Kelly Purcell, Carey Sipp, Kristy Blackwell, Melanie Garner Note Taker: Kelly Purcell Celebrations: ROAR Meeting, Connecting leaders- Robeson County, Items to Discuss: June 7th Meeting - Reflections, next steps Brainstorm ideas for getting it directly to children and families and parents Community Leaders/members trained CRM Teacher Trainings Potential to add in other NC folks 12-15 Folks to get trained, hoping to...
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Join us for the JUNE 2022 round of Creating Resilient Communities!
June event dates listed for the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. JOIN US!!!
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June Strategic Planning Meeting
Brunswick County had a successful strategic planning meeting on June 20, 2022 where 14 members got together in 3 work groups to collaborate, create goals, and connect to move Resilient Brunswick forward. The next continuation for strategic planning will be on July 18 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the 4H Cooperative Extension.
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Justice System Panel Discussion
RESILIENCE FILM SCREENING ON-DEMAND June 17-30 and PANEL DISCUSSION JUNE 29 Please be sure to share the upcoming free opportunity to watch the movie “ Resilience ” with your court partners and networks. Registrants will receive instructions for streaming the movie on-demand during the week of June 17-30 and attend a panel discussion at 12:45 pm on June 29 hosted by the NC Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. Task Force members Chief Jennings and DA David will both be featured in...
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Potluck for Peace- YOUTH EDITION!
Wilmington, NC - YWCA Lower Cape Fear will host a community art event as part of its signature event Potluck for Peace. The event is for children, teens, and their caregivers and will be held at YWCA Lower Cape Fear (2815 South College Road) on Thursday, July 21 at 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. YWCA’s Potluck for Peace Youth Edition is a chance to bring our community’s youth together to collectively work towards inclusion, equity, and justice through conversation and collaboration. Participants will...
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Join us for the JULY 2022 round of the Creating Resilient Communities webinar series!
Join the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Accelerator Program to create a resilient community in your own neighborhood, town or city! It’s free!
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Updates! The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative!
The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative leverages Smart Start’s deep roots in local communities across North Carolina and honors the powerful work of local ACEs and resilience collaboratives. In collaboration with state and local partners, the initiative fosters a common understanding and shared approach for local collaboratives to support the health and well-being of children, families, and community members across the lifespan in North Carolina—in a way that broadens the...
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NCFASD Informed Conference
Target Audience: This project has been planned for medical professionals (physicians, mental health professionals, and allied health), parents, provider agencies, MCO/LMEs, educators, attorneys, and other legal system professionals. Program Description This virtual conference will discuss how exposure to alcohol is the leading cause of intellectual and other developmental disabilities in the US and results in a variety of developmental disability diagnoses collectively referred to as Fetal...
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Healthy Blue pilots innovative collaboration to improve health of foster care community in six NC PACEs Connection “Coop” communities
For the last eight months the Medicaid plan provider has engaged community resiliency-building experts and organizers to help children, families, and caseworkers in the state’s foster care program to boost resilience and better manage stress. The innovative project is called the Healthy Blue Initiative . “We all know kids in foster care have higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than most children. They are often in foster care due to loss of a parent from death, illness —...
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North Carolina moves closer to creating nation's first ACEs-informed courts system
(l-r) Judge J. Corpening; Ben David, district attorney, New Hanover County; Chief Justice Paul Newby; Judge Andrew Heath, executive director, Administrative Office of the Courts of the Chief Justice's ACEs Informed Courts Task Force. David and Heath serve as Task Force co-chairs . “There is not any more important work going on in the State of North Carolina,” said Ben David, District Attorney for New Hanover County and co-chair of the Chief Justice’s ACEs-Informed Task Force . The Task force...
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How much would the NAS poverty reduction packages reduce referrals to CPS and foster care placements? Would they reduce racial disproportionality in child welfare? (nasonline.org).
Because of a collaboration with Columbia University and UW-Madison, we have answers to these questions. By Peter Peter Pecora, Casey Family Programs, March 17, 2023 - Overview The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently released a “ roadmap ” to reduce child poverty by as much as half through the implementation of a series of social policy packages. The aim of this study was to simulate the reductions in Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement and foster care placements that are...
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Register Now for Inaugural Statewide Summit: Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Childhood Trauma — Virtually & In Raleigh April 27-28!
Information from Summit Brochure and registration site available here . North Carolina’s first Statewide Trauma Summit – a virtual and in-person summit – will beheld Thursday and Friday, April 27-28, in Raleigh, at The McKimmon Conference and Training Center, Summit leaders announced recently. “Momentum is growing in NC for building trauma-informed systems that strengthen resilience and weed out systemic and often intergenerational sources of child trauma. To advance this work, it is...
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The 2023 Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program is now Open For Registration
PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.
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North Carolina Is “Primed and Ready” to Institute Reforms To Protect Children from Harm, say Co-Chairs Following First Statewide Trauma Summit
More than 550 researchers, advocates, educators, community stakeholders, clinical and practitioner groups, persons with lived experience, legislators, and representatives from state agencies, among others, attended a statewide summit in Raleigh, North Carolina—“Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma,” April 27-28. Diana Fishbein, Ph.D., senior scientist in the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG), University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, and the...
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The 2023 Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program is now Open For Registration
PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.
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“Going Way Upstream” - Panelists at Resilient Pender County Conference report on current trauma prevention and healing efforts; look to future
Amy Read of Coastal Horizons introduces the panel following a viewing of "Resilience: The Biology of Stress, The Science of Hope", at the Pender Resiliency Task Force Mini Conference Thursday, June 8 ,at Heide Trask High School in Rocky Point. A "dream team" of subject-matter expert panelists (L-R) were Ryan Estes of Coastal Horizons, Ben David, district attorney for Pender and New Hanover counties, Judge J. H. Corpening, district court judge for New Hanover and Pender counties, Taylor...