"A Better Normal" Community Discussion Series- Our Reckoning with Race and Equity at ACEs Connection
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October 2020
ACEs Connection Survey Results: "A Pattern of Remarkable Strength"
By Loren McCullough and Dr. Robert Sege Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) National Resource Center In this blog, we report the results of a survey of ACEs Connection members that shows that positive childhood experiences appear to counteract the long-term effects of childhood adversity. In the face of worldwide changes in childcare and schooling, researchers have become even more invested in understanding the impact of PCEs on health and how they interact with ACEs. Within...
Back to the Basics of HOPE [positiveexperience.org/blog]
By Dr. Bob Sege, 10/22/20, positiveexperience.org/blog [...] The spirit of HOPE is simple: children are not products to be graded, sorted, and labeled, and parents are complex human beings who love their children and do everything in their power to care for them. This sounds simple. However, we live in an age where accountability has been translated into systematic evaluation–including children’s physical and developmental progress, parents’ and caretakers’ mental health education and...
Making the Case for Love, Compassion, and Positive Childhood Experiences [positiveexperience.org/blog]
Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand and Chloe Yang, 10/14/20, positiveexperience.org/blog A growing body of work recognizes the important health effects of highlighting and creating positive childhood experiences. Today’s blog post makes the scientific case for this, based off of an interview with Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, professor of pediatrics and anesthesiology at Stanford School of Medicine. Below, Dr. Anand details how positive childhood experiences buffer against adverse ones and explains the biological...
New HOPE Resources and Photo Contest [positiveexperience.org/blog]
Chloe Yang, 10/7/20, positiveexperience.org/blog These past few months have been very busy for HOPE, with digital workshops reaching hundreds of providers and frontline workers across the country, research projects under way, and more. For a comprehensive update of what we’ve accomplished in September, check out this month’s newsletter at this link . You can keep up with HOPE by clicking here to subscribe to our newsletter . Recently, HOPE developed new resources for you to learn from and...