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Register now! Author 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?"

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...

AECF: Pediatric Organization Calls for Juvenile Justice Reforms

A new resource looks at the preva­lence of trau­ma among youth in the juve­nile jus­tice sys­tem and out­lines ways to pro­tect their men­tal and emo­tion­al well-being. The fact sheet , pro­duced by the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics (AAP), is part of a grow­ing call from child and ado­les­cent health experts to reform long­stand­ing juve­nile jus­tice poli­cies and practices. “Efforts aimed at improv­ing our juve­nile jus­tice sys­tem must extend beyond issues relat­ed to youth arrest...

The Mirroring Between Individual and Collective Trauma Healing

Remembering past trauma begins the “re-membering” process of taking our fragmented pieces and putting them back together. This applies to individuals with trauma, as well as the collective traumas we experience in societies and our world. Remembering trauma is a growth process because the memories open the door to putting all the pieces together which leads to our healing. We know that our physiological reactions to trauma are held in our bodies and DNA. As individuals, before we can begin...

Oklahoma State Lawmakers Declare April 7, 2022 ACEs & PACEs Awareness Day

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma lawmakers are set to bring awareness to ACEs, known as Adverse Childhood Experiences and PACEs, Positive and Compensatory Experiences. Both the House and Senate have simple resolutions naming April 7 th ACEs and PACEs Awareness Day in Oklahoma. In the House, the resolution's primary sponsor is Rep. Carol Bush with many co-sponsors. In the Senate, co-sponsors are Sen. Brenda Stanley and Sen. Carri Hicks. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially...

My Shift from Trauma Integration to Collective Well-Being

The landscape and language about childhood adversity and trauma have morphed and changed over the past few years. We began talking about adverse childhood experiences, expanded to talk about adverse community experiences and now include adversities within the environment at large including historical trauma. People are searching for ways to ensure that we are identifying positive experiences that help shape and build resilience as well as the adversities impacting long-term health and social...

2022 Chautauqua Conference on Family Resilience, Identity as Resilience

Hello Friends, Colleagues, & Fellow Advocates! The Center for Family Resilience and the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University annually host the Chautauqua Conference on Family Resilience. With a focus on individual and family resilience, the event brings together researchers, service providers and policy makers around a series of research presentations around a common theme. The ultimate goal is for resilience research to pave the way for...

What Seems Reasonable.....

THIS IS A RE-POST OF A BLOG FROM THE paceSCONNECTION MAIN SITE. THE CONTENT IS CONSISTENT WITH RESEARCH. IT COMES FROM LIVED EXPERIENCE.... WRITTEN BY: RON ARNOLD 3/14/221:55 PM (The following is an email I sent out to staff.) So, in the work we do, what’s our fundamental challenge? I think it has a lot to do with directing peoples’ attention. In social work, we want people to make changes toward ensuring safety, relationship permanence, and well-being for themselves, and, in the case of...

University of Illinois: How Toddler-Mother Attachment Impacts Adolescent Brain and Behavior

Interpersonal trust is a crucial component of healthy relationships. When we interact with strangers, we quickly gage whether we can trust them. And those important social skills may be shaped by our earliest relationship with caregivers. Adolescents who had an insecure attachment to their mothers as toddlers are more likely to overestimate the trustworthiness of strangers, according to a new study from the University of Illinois. “The idea is to understand whether early attachment...

Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice Zoom: Successful Multi-sector Coalitions

Below is a great opportunity for Oklahoma coalitions to hear the strengths and lessons learned from other state's successful coalitions. Below, I have copied and pasted an email I received about this event: There is significant energy in North Carolina around multi-sector coalitions as a tool to address the four realms of ACEs and trauma in the state. The Winer Family Foundation, Kellin Foundation, and NC Partnership for Children will present on wonderful work going on throughout the state.

Nonprofit director: Child abuse prevention efforts begin with parental resilience [enidnews.com]

By Kat Jeanne, Photo: Billy Hefton/Enid News & Eagle, Enid News & Eagle, February 28, 2022 Child abuse prevention is a national and statewide effort for organizations like Parent Promise/Prevent Child Abuse Oklahoma, whose executive director spoke to Enid Rotary Club members Monday on how her organization is impacting families and children through their work. While creating thriving families and children is the goal, the challenge is in preventing adverse childhood experiences that...

Building Relationship with Ourselves and Others

I recently listened to an interview featuring David Richo. He wrote a book several years ago, How to be An Adult in Relationships , in which he explained what he calls the Five A’s that help relationships flourish. What he said made so much sense, and I saw applications beyond individual relationships. I believe we can use the Five A’s to better understand relationships with others and ourselves and even apply it to other contexts. He explained that the Five A’s are what we need as infants...

Inside the ACE Score: Strengths, Limitations and Misapplications with Dr. Robert Anda

This video clip explains why ACE scores should not be used as a screener. Dr. Anda, one of the co-principal investigators of the ACE Study, discusses his concerns about misuses of ACE scores and how the 10 question ACE survey was developed simply as an activity for one of his presentations. It was never intended to be used in isolation or as a screener to rule in or rule out interventions. For the full 22 minute video, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfx5vOHFfxs

Scholarships now available for Mind Matters Now!

Has the pandemic stressed you out? Want to learn the self-soothing skills of Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience directly from the author, Dr. Carolyn Curtis? Good news! The Dibble Institute has received generous funding for scholarships to the online, full 12-lesson series, Mind Matters Now . The course helps teachers, social workers, medical professionals, and others manage their stress by building resilience skills and practices for mental well-being. (CEU’s are...

All Inclusive Trauma Healing

Healing from trauma requires a multi-faceted process. Bessel van der Kolk, Dan Siegel, Bruce Perry, Stephen Porges, Laura Porter and The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University all incorporate the felt sense of safety and belonging and strengthening capabilities in their protocol or frameworks for healing from trauma. All three concepts, when interconnected, create a synergy for personal and community growth and healing. Creating safety and belonging are important first steps in...

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