May 2022

Resilience Roundtable: A Time to Learn and Connect

Kelly Purcell · 5/27/224:18 AM

Join us the second Wednesday of each month for an opportunity to connect and learn with others in our community!!! Resilience Roundtable sessions have been developed to provide a "space" for anyone who has attended a Resilience training to connect with others, continue learning about topics like trauma, ACEs, protective factors, disaster recovery, brain science, and wellness. These sessions also offer time to practice resilience skills and have conversation. We want to correspond with those...

May Monthly Meeting

Kelly Purcell · 5/27/224:01 AM

The Pender County Task Force met on Tuesday, May 26 for the monthly meeting. Carey Sipp presented the second part of the PACEs Science 101 Presentation. Amy Read shared exciting news that Pender and Brunswick county received a grant to help continue to support the sustainability of the task force as well as continue to provide resiliency training. Meeting Agenda and Notes June 4th Long Term Recovery Group Event

Register now! Dr. Bruce Perry to discuss historical trauma and help launch new "Connecting Communities One Book at a Time" book study with his best-seller, "What Happened to You?"

Carey Sipp · 5/26/221:01 PM

Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...

May is Foster Care Awareness Month

Kelly Purcell · 5/12/225:42 AM

Key Facts and Statistics from Childwelfare.gov Include these key points in your messaging to demonstrate the important role relative and kinship caregivers play in supporting family connections that are essential to a child’s health and well-being. There are over 407,000 children and youth in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin. The term kin encompasses both relatives (those related by blood or marriage) and fictive kin (those who are unrelated but have such a...

Resiliency Initiatives Come Together to Create Awareness about ACEs and Resources

Kelly Purcell · 5/2/225:58 PM

Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender County resiliency initiative leaders Cape Fear Collection and came together to show a screening of the film Resilience and collectively share about efforts being done to prevent and heal ACEs at an individual and systems level as well as data to demonstrated the need for these efforts and task forces. J'vanete Skiba shared about the Realms of ACEs and their impacts as it relates to the film as well as the impacts on individuals in our community. Nicholas...

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