Ohio ACEs Action (OH)

The purpose of this group is to connect people and organizations in Ohio who are working to address issues related to trauma and ACEs

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First comprehensive briefing on trauma held in the U.S. House of Representatives

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 8/3/173:01 PM

Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), Wendy Ellis, Olga Acosta Price (obscured), Monica Battle, Kathryn Larin, and Whitney Gilliard ______________________________________________________ The first comprehensive trauma briefing in the U.S. House of Representatives was held on July 26 to an audience of Hill staff, interns, and advocates. The briefing included substantive content from a variety of perspectives—academia, government, education—and unexpected moments of moving personal testimony. Rep. Danny...

Briefing in Support of ACEs Legislation - WATCH LIVE

Wendy Ellis · 7/25/172:11 PM

Tomorrow (July 26), Building Community Resilience will co-host a briefing on childhood trauma-- The Need to Address Childhood Trauma: Implications for Child Welfare and Education-- at the U.S. House of Representatives. Honorary Co-Hosts are Rep. Danny K. Davis (IL-7) and the Congressional Foster Youth Caucus. Featured speakers include Wendy Ellis , Milken Scholar, doctoral candidate and BCR Project Director, Olga Price , Director of the National Center for Health and Health Care in Schools.

Best Selling Memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” tells an inspiring story of overcoming ACEs

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 10/5/161:49 PM

In search of insight into the country’s stark cultural divides in preparation for a week of potentially difficult conversations in Kentucky where I’d be attending family reunion and 50-year high school reunion, I dove into “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance . Throughout this mesmerizing, painful, and hilarious memoir, I kept wondering if the author might know about the ACE study. The answer was found on page 226 when “ACEs” jumps out at me and...

Ohio Correctional Educators Conference focuses on Trauma informed Education

robert hull · 8/4/165:03 PM

In case any of you are not connected with the Correctional Educators Associations in your state you might want to get connected with them. The Ohio Correctional Educators Conference is Sept 12-14 and will focus on moving to trauma informed education in correctional environments. I am focusing the Wednesday keynote presentation on moving from stable maladaptive functioning to post traumatic growth. http://cea-ohio.org/conference.aspx Correctional educators are a fun group and I always have a...

Submit a Presentation Proposal for the Midwest ACE Summit!

Kate Bailey · 7/12/1611:02 AM

The Midwest ACE Summit will take place in Minnesota on November 10th and 11th. We hope that you will join us for this opportunity to connect and learn with others across the state and region! We are currently inviting presentation proposals from folks across the Midwest who would like to facilitate workshop (breakout) sessions. The deadline for submissions is August 1st . For more information, please see the attached RFP form. Please share this form across your networks! For more information...

Building Community Resilience: South Dallas [Moving Health Care Upstream]

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 4/8/1610:06 AM

An exciting initiative—Building Community Resilience collaborative established by Nemours (part of Moving Health Care Upstream )— is underway in five communities across the country to help child health systems connect with community-based resources to address social determinants (e.g., housing and access to public transportation) in places where children live, learn and play. This post by ACEs Connection member Wendy Ellis includes a short video (less than 3 minutes) about the initiative and...

ACEs primer -- great five-minute video that explains ACE Study

Jane Stevens · 4/6/162:16 PM

This was produced by KPJR Films, and edited by Jen Bradwell.

How a school is transforming not only its students, but its community [PBS News Hour]

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 6/23/154:31 PM

Drive west from downtown Cincinnati, over the railroad tracks that snake beneath the 8th Street Viaduct, and you’ll find a little slice of Appalachia, nestled between the Ohio River and the steep slopes of Price Hill. When coal mining jobs in...

For Students In Ohio, A Crib Sheet For Interacting With Police

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 2/20/159:57 AM

This article about an initiative in Akron, Ohio to bridge the community and law enforcement concludes with the observation by Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson of Gary, IN., who chairs the U.S. Conference of Mayors Working Group of Mayors and Police Chiefs,...

Cleveland area ACE initiatives?

Jennifer Boyle-King · 2/6/158:52 AM

Hi all, I was born and raised in Cleveland and recently returned to the area after living Philadelphia for 4 years while working on my doctorate at UPenn. I studied clinical social work and complex trauma in children. I was involved in...

Resources

Joanna Weill · 10/19/148:12 PM

Trauma-Informed Care Regional Collaboratives (Ohio Counties)...

Greetings Ohio - with Love from Washington

Steven Dahl · 9/30/145:09 PM

I am hoping there is room for another voice in Ohio's effort to create a culture of compassionate action that transcends any of the professional or societal delineation of groups working in the same general direction....even if that voice is from...

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