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Sounds like a good networking opportunity. It's a little far ahead to plan for me at this point but I am interested. Keep us informed.

Wanted to alert Maryland service providers to a new COMAR 3.1 Therapeutic Sexual Abuse Trauma Recovery House opening July 1, 2014 in Landover, MD!  I am on the Advisory Board for "Affirming All Women House of Healing, Inc."  7600 Willow Drive, Landover, MD 20785 -- There will be an Open House on Saturday, June 28th from 9:30am - 2:30pm for touring, opening remarks, meeting staff and supporters, public officials, etc.  It's an 8-bed facility with an 8 week program (60 days), 24/7 staff supervision, Evidence-based three phase trauma recovery centered around Judith Herman's Trauma Model.  If you want to attend the open house, I will add an event to the ACEs Connection Event schedule.  I WILL be in attendance!  I met the founder and executive director, Fatou Nelson, at the October, 2013 Trauma Conference.  She's terrific!  Let me know if you have any questions.

Hello MD group.

Open invitation to DCers and Marylanders  to meet and network for ACEs at the conference in Annapolis. Message me and I will send you a copy of my workshop proposal

Here's the link to the Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Conference, to be held at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Annapolis, MD from 8:30am until 4:30pm.

http://mnadv.org/?featured=statewide-conference 

Yes!  Any one from this Maryland ACES Group could meet up there!  I will be staying overnight on May 12th at the DoubleTree in Annapolis.  My email is: brenda@usermail.com  -- if we can at least get together and start talking strategy, that would be worth it to me.

Thanks for your input Jen. At Brenda's suggestion I plan to attend the statewide conference she mentions below. I sent the conveners a workshop proposal -haven't heard yet if it was accepted but I will attend anyway. Brenda is planning also to be there. Why not look into it and that could be one place we could meet. Might be a good opportunity to network for ACEs awareness.

From Brenda:

Here's the link to the Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Conference, to be held at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Annapolis, MD from 8:30am until 4:30pm.

http://mnadv.org/?featured=statewide-conference 

I'd love to attend a local meeting. I live in Baltimore and work in DC, so I could meet in person in either of those places or I could call in.

Wondering if we might have a local meeting somewhere of the DC and Maryland contingent to brainstorm and share resources, parcel out parts of a presentation we might be able to prepare.  So Marylanders,  Robert Hull, Jen Parker, Eric Rossen and Brenda Yuen--what to you think? Maybe the DCers, Elizabeth P  and Chery Sharp could also join us??  Does any one of us have the resources and experience to work out a phone conference?

Hi Brenda,

Let's see if we can get something together on this. I have been out of the loop for a while dealing with family health issues, but his is an extremely fortuitous opportunity. Let's see what we can do. I will send you an email with some ideas later today.

There is a Statewide Conference which has just been announced today, focusing on "cutting edge best practices" and is geared toward Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault advocates, law enforcement, therapists, health care professionals, and anyone who is interested in DV or SA issues.

Here's the link to the Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Conference, to be held at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Annapolis, MD from 8:30am until 4:30pm.

http://mnadv.org/?featured=statewide-conference

I'm wondering if ANYONE from this group would be interested in working with me to submit a proposal for a Workshop on Trauma-Informed Care and ACEs education?  Our State DESPERATELY needs to get this information and educate all who help traumatized people?  Let me know!  The deadline for workshop proposal submission is February 14, 2014 -- and here is that website info:

http://mnadv.org/submit-a-workshop-proposal/

Brenda Yuen

Link to Georgia's ACE Summit info:  https://sites.google.com/site/gatraumasummits/

With Kennedy Krieger Institute and SAMHSA right in Maryland's backyard, can we pull together a Maryland ACES Summit? Here's a prototype (via Washington ACE Group) -- all the legwork already done!  Comments?

Welcome Cheryl Sharp!  If there would be an opportunity to get together and forge some kind of plan to reach out to  not only Maryland lawmakers, but Montgomery County lawmakers & social service system leaders to educate them on ACEs, collecting ACE data on their BRFSS intake forms, understand the need for prevention policies and laws to keep us all safer, healthier, happier, I would LOVE the opportunity! Meanwhile, if you have an idea for the group, please put it out there.  I'm all ears! :) Brenda

This group is unusually quiet!  Don't know if everyone is busy with projects, but would love to see us put Maryland in the cross-hairs of ACE information & pressure to change the way they "care" for its citizens! :)

Dennis, I wanted to report back to you after the Trauma Conference:  It was a wonderful experience for me personally.  I did get an opportunity to speak to many individuals who work in the field of trauma and social services.  I passed out my business card often, talked to  many about ACEs, and about our group here.  Many said they were interested.  I did NOT get any business cards back, and I hope people follow-through and join us.  So MANY knew about TIC practices, and a few did know about ACEs, but there's a lot of education to be done.  So, I'm sitting on the fence, waiting for something good to happen in Maryland.  Perhaps the thing to do is to reach out to Montgomery County systems - like Public Health, elected County officials, etc. with our message?  Would it be worthwhile to try to put together a workshop on ACEs in Montgomery County and invite these people who make decisions for us in our State?

Give me your thoughts.  Brenda

I've put out a request on Twitter to use the hashtag #KK4BTC for the conference convo. Fingers crossed it gets used. Follow there.

Thanks Chris.

I have alot to learn.

I follow folks who are posting on the conference hashtag. Some folks on Twitter will follow back once they see I'm a new follower of theirs. I run a M-F newsfeed on Twitter for Jane. The conference folks I follow will follow if me if they are interested and learn more about her sites via the profile page.

>Brenda, Is there a hashtag for this conference? If so can you please pass it on? >Thanks. That way I can work on recruitment from this end. -- chris

So Chris, how are you going to work on recruitment with Twitter? I really haven't got with Twitter yet--I guess I need to.

So  I guess if there is a hashtag I can watch you at work, eh?

(Glad you like the pictures--I have an irrepressible interior middle schooler who sometimes pops out in serious exchanges--will try to keep him within the boundaries of propriety).

Brenda, Is there a hashtag for this conference? If so can you please pass it on? Thanks. That way I can work on recruitment from this end. -- chris

Love the pic, Dennis! :)