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...

I would love to see our state develop a "standard" 20 to 30 minute ACE presentation that interested people could get trained in for disseminating a consistent message through out our state. I am wondering if there is already a web-based training, or a packaged presentation like United Way does, that we may be able to access to help develop such an informal speakers group.