March 2021

A Better Normal Friday, March 26, 2021: PACEs and HOPE with Dr. Christina Bethell

Jane Stevens · 3/24/2110:03 AM

Please join us for our next installment of A Better Normal, our live webinar series in which we imagine and create our society as trauma-informed! You may have seen we changed our name recently from ACEs Connection to PACEs Connection. Please join us to learn all about the groundbreaking research of Positive Childhood Experiences and how this is going to transform the work we are all doing. >>Click here to register<< PACEs and HOPE Live Event Friday, March 26, 2021 Noon PT / 1pm...

Promoting the Positive: The importance of supporting positive childhood experiences and healing in families, schools and communities [RiseMagazine.org]

Lauren Clark · 3/23/2111:11 AM

Research links adverse childhood experiences, known as ACEs, such as abuse, neglect or experiencing or witnessing violence, to health and well-being challenges in adulthood. But in her research, Dr. Christina Bethell, director of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that many people who experienced ACEs also had positive experiences as children that made a difference in adulthood.

Four New Communities Join ACEs Connection / March 2021

Jenna Quinn (PACEs Connection Staff) · 3/12/217:59 AM

Please welcome these four new communities to the ACEsConnection.com network! ACEs Caribbean Community American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapters RAISE [Resilience Alexandria: Inform. Support. Elevate.] (VA) Resilient Brunswick County (NC) Details about each of them are below as is information about starting and growing your community initiatives and joining the Cooperative of Communities . ACEs Caribbean Community : We are the ACEs Community Initiative for the Caribbean. We educate...

Reminder: You Can Stream Whole People on ACEs Connection and/or Join Rev. Abernathy for a Zoom Discussion

Christine Cissy White · 3/10/211:57 PM

ACEs Connection , the CTIPP (The Campaign for Trauma -Informed Policy & Practice), and the Relentless School Nurse , are co-hosing the Transform Trauma with ACEs Sciences Film Festival and Zoom discussion series. These are our next two events and we hope you will join us: 1. Weekend Streaming of Whole People from March 12th - March 14th, 2021): We will be streaming of parts 4 and 5 of the Whole People documentary series on the weekend of M arch 12th through March 14th, 2021 in the...

North Carolina to infuse ACEs science into state judiciary system

Carey Sipp · 3/5/219:16 AM

Plans to integrate practices and policies based on the science of adverse childhood experiences in North Carolina’s 4,000-person,100-county statewide judiciary were announced today. Jon David, district attorney for North Carolina’s 15th District, and District Court Judge Quintin McGee of the same district revealed plans to work with North Carolina Chief Justice Paul Newby and Administrative Office of the Courts Director Andrew Heath to create a statewide commission focusing on the science of...

One Year In: Optimism, Advice for Dealing with Stress and Anxiety From the Pandemic [today.duke.edu]

Lauren Clark · 3/4/2111:32 AM

By Eric Ferreri, Duke Today, March 3, 2021 The mental health challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have overwhelmed many Americans. The stress and anxiety from sickness, lost employment and a pivot for children and parents to isolated, virtual schooling has had a devastating cumulative effect. As the first anniversary of the pandemic approaches, three Duke experts reflected Wednesday on the impact it has had on various aspects of mental health during University Communications’...

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