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First-year medical student Sean Sweat "didn't want to tiptoe around" issues of race when she sat down with 11 of her classmates to write a new version of the medical profession's venerable Hippocratic oath. "We start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery," begins the alternate version of the oath, rewritten for the class of 2024 at the University of Pittsburgh...

By Emma Dill, December 3, 2020, Wilmington Star News. A new resiliency task force aims to make Pender County a stronger and more trauma-informed community. The task force will focus on educating community members and local providers about the lasting impact of childhood traumas. It will also provide training that helps residents recognize and respond to signs of trauma. [ Please click here to read more ]

Please see the attached pdf as it discusses events we are going to have during Red Ribbon Week from October 23 to October 31. We are working hard to build protective factors up in our community for our youth!

Volume 18, Issue 1 Spring 2022 CCPC Introduces New Programs! Ready & Resilient Children funded by NC Community Foundation Through the Ready & Resilient Program families will participate in activities, trainings, and workshops that promote early education and awareness of resilience. Families will learn the importance of early education as well as the types of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and they will learn how to work together to identify, address and ultimately reduce ACEs...

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.

Bo Dean with New Hanover area Community Resiliency Model trainers Audry Hart, the late Chris Johnson, and J'vanete Skiba. Bo Dean answered the call for monthly donations to PACEs Connection more than a year ago for many reasons, one of the main ones being that PACEs Connection and the work it supports helps us “live into our humanity.” In addition to his supporting learning and development for some 2200 employees in New Hanover County, North Carolina, Dean also co-chairs the County’s...

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

By Sharon Hirsch, Prevent Child Abuse NC President & CEO What a paradox — NC is among the best states in which to do business in the country — and the worst to be a working parent . Perhaps we need to recalibrate our metrics for how we analyze what is “best” for business. It’s hard to recruit employees to work and move to the Tar Heel State if we make it hard to raise our children. We need to change the narrative about how policies, systems and employers support families! NC is the 5 th...