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Dear Friends, We plan to vote on adopting the attached working guidelines at our September 28, 2016 ACEs Connection Meeting. We are looking for folks to respond with specific edits for text changes by September 12, 2016. Please feel free to use track changes, notes, or simply to send an email with suggested edits and page numbers. Thank you!

Looking for a great infographic to use to show the impact of ACEs on chronic health issues? Check out the interactive ACEs chart in the section "How do ACEs affect our lives" on this website: http://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/apps/phl/resource_center_infographic.html Do you have other favorite videos, websites, or handouts you use in your ACEs presentations?

Please join us for our next Sonoma County ACES Meeting and Focus Group on Wednesday 2/24/16: Sonoma County ACES Connection Meeting 12:30 – 2:00, 625 5 th Street Santa Rosa, CA 95404 in City View Rooms Focus Group with Mobilizing for Resilient Communities Evaluators – if you can stay and answer questions about our partnerships and local efforts we’d be grateful! Attached is our meeting agenda.

St. Joseph Health (Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital) is conducting its triennial Community Health Needs Assessment in alignment with their mission to improve the health and quality of life of the people and communities they serve. As part of the assessment, they want to hear from community residents throughout the county about what matters to them and their families’ health, about what they see as the biggest needs for the community in making our home towns as healthy as they can be. This is a...

Hi Nick, I think you may be looking for the report the was produced following the interventions that were highlighted in the Paper Tiger film? Please see the attached document and see if it is what you were looking for. Thanks, Karen

This is such a great opportunity to ensure that all perspectives are considered during for the Community Needs Assessment that is conducted every 3 years. Bringing ACEs, trauma informed, and resilience building constructs to this important discussion - which will influence community priorities and funding for the next 3 years. Please offer to be a part of the discussion!

Hi Holly, I completely agree that discipline is not the answer to treating or healing trauma. Another example of this is when administrators take recess away from children who have 'behavior issues'. As we know, when we punish children by taking away recess for example, they negative behavior increases. Children, adolescents, and even adults need someone supportive to talk to, especially after a traumatic event. I love hearing new positive methods like this and I do believe some of these...

Intertwined with considering whether something is an ACE or not is the consideration of how that ACE might cause toxic stress/affect brain development.. I think many are still trying to figure out the answer about how poverty might directly affect brain development. I bring this up because on May 3rd, 2018, The Economist published an article detailing a new study to ask this exact question: Does growing up poor harm brain development? See article here:...

Hi there, Have these been officially adopted?

Hello Jenni, I am so glad you reached out and posted the ask! Such a wonderful program, as I mentioned to you I was a participant and it was such a powerfully positive experience for me. I'd love to have more discussion with you around offering to children. Perhaps contact the Gravenstein Health Action Coalition, as I know they had played a part when I participated. Sandra Bodley would be a good contact for you: sdbodley@sonic.net . As would Celosia Moon: celosiamae@gmail.com , she was my...