Hi Cathy, I completely agree. I had this article from the RWJF taped to the cork board at my desk and looked at it everyday wondering how I could get these services for the parents of my pediatric patients. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $16 Million to Health Leads to Help Health Care Providers Address Social Factors Boston– Health Leads , an organization which enables physicians and other health care providers to prescribe basic resources such as food and heat for their low-income...

This is the first page of the West Virginia Public Health Survey Monkey. It has a link typed in to a video of Dr. Felitti on ACEs and the ACE study How Childhood Trauma can make you a Sick Adult. You have to cut and past this link into your browser. At the end of survey in a pick box, it allows you to choose which county you live in and there is an "other" option --- I chose other and put in Tuscola, Michigan. I think that is actually great because this would allow the Health Department to...

Maybe even a link to the handout on ACEs/Toxic Stress/Resilience that people can print out and have with them???

Tina, I would be interested in having further conversations about having you present for my Board and Community Collaboratives. Let me get some dates together to send you. I am thinking it would be September or October sometime. Here is a link to all of the Great Start Collaborative Director < http://greatstartforkids.org/c...start-your-community >s. I know that Clare/Gladwin County is in the process of developing a plan to incorporate ACEs and Strengthening Families Protective Factors...

I love this by the Philadelphia ACE Task Force -- So I am copying it here: This Post is by Leslie Lieberman - Philadelphia ACE Task Force. Thanks Leslie!!! Last year the Philadelphia ACE Task Force created a work group to focus on how to educate...

Hello Everyone,  We have a group of incredibly varied and diverse members in our Northern Michigan Trauma-Informed Community Action Group.     Many of you have links to others outside of work that may also be interested in learning more...

Do you have MiTeam in your community? Have you heard about MiTeam? In my community in a rural MI county, our trauma-informed efforts have been directed to MiTeam. I have found it difficult to work grass roots through this route. What have you experienced? I wanted to introduce other members of Northern Michigan ACEs to MiTeam and get feedback on how it is working in building Trauma Informed Communities in your community? How can we improve MiTeam efforts throughout the state? Here is a MDHHS...

  Which counties would be interested in putting the ACE survey on their Health Department Websites as was done recently in a West Virginia county mentioned in today's Daily Digest?     The Alpena/Presque Isle Child Abuse and Neglect...