Please share here if you are from Iowa and attending the 2015 Midwest Regional Summit on Adverse Childhood Experiences in Chicago. We have a small group attending from Central Iowa, as well as a few other locations that we know of. For more on the...

Sarah and Lisa,    I have been impressed for sometime about how Iowa has moved on ACEs work. I lived in Carroll in 2012 and there wasn't this much movement at that time, I think you were all getting ready to take off  but there has been...

As knowledge on ACEs spreads across Iowa, we are receiving an increased number of training and presentation requests through the Iowa ACEs 360 website. Many of the requests are coming from regions of the state where speakers are not readily available...

Hi Sarah- first of all-I am excited that Iowa has joined the ACEs connection forum! I've been utilizing this site on my own for awhile now and am glad that my colleagues in eastern Iowa now have a way to link to the rest of the state, and the nation, to learn from each other and mobilize our resources. to respond to your question about who to target in outreach efforts, my thinking continues to be targeted on educating public schools, preferably pre-K through 12, but if that's too much than...

Central Iowa ACEs developed standard presentation materials for our efforts in 2013. Here is a link to the page: http://www.iowaaces360.org/training.html . In addition to the slides, we also have guides to lead facilitated discussions. I have been finding that as more people have heard an ACEs presentation or completed online learning modules (available at the same link), we are having more and more requests for facilitated discussions. I think this is a great tool for people to take...

Hi George, Welcome to ACEs Connection and our Iowa ACEs Action group! We look forward to learning from you and sharing with you George. Please find a couple of links below for your perusal. https://www.pacesconnection.com/...of-east-central-iowa https://www.pacesconnection.com/...a-ideas-symposiums-7 Please consider joining Iowa Ideas on June 7th in Cedar Rapids should you have the time availability to do so. Your voice matters. Please know too I'll peruse through our membership for...