Tagged With "Connecting Skills for Family Resilience"

Kia ora from Auckland, NZ. My name is Adriana. I am the community manager of trauma-informed NZ with ACES CONNECTION. ACES CONNECTION, is based in the States, far from New Zealand, and our way of life, yet, I am the community manager of a community with ACES CONNECTION Today, I am going to share with you, my reasons for joining ACES CONNECTION. I will make a call for action at the end of my talk, so please stay to the end Why did I join ACES CONNECTION? Here is my story. I live in NZ, always...

RFQ ANNOUCEMENT: Celebrating Families! California Expansion Project – Cohort 2 Invitation to Expand Celebrating Families! Statewide The California State Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP) recognizing the effectiveness of Celebrating Families! (CF!), has awarded Prevention Partnership International (PPI) a $158,333, 3- year challenge grant to (1) Identify, train and support agencies in California to provide CF! to children and families at high risk for abuse and neglect and (2) Establish...

The Community of Practice (C of P) is an interdisciplinary, online platform for adults who are important to children. Among other topics, we explore how systems, environments, and documentation shape early childhood learning and wellness. We grow our ability to be curious about children's full-being, inherent wisdom by being curious about our own ways of knowing and inquiring. We are peer accompaniment with each other - support for the supporters of children, families, and communities. Join...

Post by Dwana Young of the NJ Resiliency Coalition: Silence gives consent. Choosing a story of silence raises our chances of mortality rates when ACEs are involved. ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences. If silence is a killer then why do we do nothing? How can community help? Dr. Allison Jackson is a Trauma Informed Care Specialist. She makes a compelling case for, “connection as a cure” to counter a lot of damage done by trauma. https://youtu.be/-HG8H4n2j9I This talk was given at a...

I recently read a quote that @Christine Cissy White (ACEsConnection) shared that says, "Trauma informed care isn't trauma informed, without the trauma survivor." No matter what degree, training, or book you acquire you can never really know how it feels to experience trauma unless you go through it. I remember when I first discovered I had an ACE score of 7; I had been serving the community by supporting resiliency, self-healing, and breaking stigmas around mental health. I came across the...

As we approach another Easter without the excitement of community Easter egg hunts, school activities, and all the things that make the holidays special for community and especially our children- their POSITIVE Childhood experiences. Last year I coordinated a Easter Egg Hunt To-Go and have ran with the idea again this year. With the support of almost 20 organizations, it is coming together nicely. Inside the Easter Egg Hunt To-Go bags will be a dozen eggs including one golden egg with a...

The pandemic has had a lasting effect on youth mental health. Moved by a desire to reduce youth’s toxic stress and increase their resilience, The Dibble Institute, in partnership with a team of students and alumni from ArtCenter College of Design and author Carolyn Curtis, PhD, is releasing Me & My Emotions —a new, free adaptation of our beloved Mind Matters Curriculum. The mobile-friendly Me & My Emotions website features engaging graphics and bite-sized lessons teens can access and...

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Sonoma County [California] ACES Connection was one of 30 organizations to come together and take part in Sebastopol's Peacetown Family Village to provide children and families opportunities to make positive social connections, promote awareness/outreach, and share resources and programming. This led to maximizing resources, building community, and exposing children to Positive Childhood Experiences. Enjoy the video and please feel free to share:

Join us for this monthly Sonoma County ACES Connection meeting, all are welcome. ALL voices are valued and appreciated. Thursday via Zoom from 3-4PM Agenda items: *Mindful Moment *PACES Presentation *Policy & Practice follow-up CTIPP (Campaign for Trauma informed policy & practice) *Resilience for all act endorsement *Holiday meeting *Focus for 2022 Join Zoom Meeting ID: 91864522660 Password: 557951

You are invited to a Sonoma County PACES Connection Holiday Social on December 3rd from 5-7PM at Region, located in Sebastopol's Barlow. Optional to bring a White Elephant Gift under $25. All are welcome to join. RSVP to: elizabeth@projectwholechild.com Let's come together to celebrate the wonderful ways all of you PACES Champions are making Sonoma County a better place for all of us.

Inviting you to come volunteer at the Redwood Empire Foodbank on November 22nd from 2-4PM. There are 10 slots available, if they fill up and you would like to volunteer please let me know and I will have you added. This is a great way for us to support programs that positively impact the communities and regions where we live and work and provides an opportunity for us to connect and build on our relationships while doing something that warms the heart. You can sign up here: Sonoma County...

Elizabeth! What an incredible way to bring the community together! Thank you so much for organizing - I have it on my calendar and am looking forward to working with everyone! Karen

Looking forward to attending! I wonder if we might want to bring a gift that could be given to a child who is receiving family support services through Family, Youth & Children's Services ? This is a group of kiddos and families who are in need of support to stay as an intact family. When toys and gifts are donated to FY&C they are often given to the foster youth programs (which is great!) but kiddos and families who are receiving supportive services are sort of an outlier and not...

Please share and enjoy the 2nd Annual Sebastopol Snowflake Hunt. Print the map and use the clues to walk around Sebastopol to find the snowflakes. Sonoma County PACEs Connection is providing this activity as a way to enjoy community traditions, make memories, and get outside.

COST: $150 - General Registration F REE - Cooperative of Communities Network Members using code P CCOOP22 Register here and use code PCCOOP22 J oin the RYSE Center and PACEs Connection on July 12. 2022 from 10 am-1 pm PT / 12 pm-3 pm CT / 1 pm-4 pm ET to examine how conventional social science research often produces and replicates unjust and harmful narratives about Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIPOC) capacities, priorities, dreams, and needs. At the same time, research upholds and...

The work Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) has been doing in collaboration with Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos to support professional development for school staff with trauma-informed practices recently captured the attention of ACEs Aware. Take a look at the storytelling video that illustrates how ACEs science and trauma-informed practices are being applied in Sonoma County schools to help students and educators! ACEs Storytelling Video

Our speaker for the August PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities meeting will share ways of building community connections we may not have thought of before – starting with trust in the earliest and most important relationships – as well as some challenging news, exciting resources, and timely inspiration. Cooperative of Communities members and members of their communities are invited to join us tomorrow, August 8, 2023, at 10 a.m. PT, Noon CT, and 1 p.m. ET when we welcome Deborah...

Awareness about health outcomes are as much about the long-term impact caused by adverse childhood experiences as they are by positive childhood experiences. By providing education on trauma-informed awareness and resilience building frameworks, the CRC Accelerator certification is a tool for both.

Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principle author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...

Something amazing keeps happening in our CRC Accelerator program that we want to shout out from the rooftops this December. Thanks to our committed participants, the number of CRC graduates keeps increasing! The number of graduates has increased by 15x this year. As we head into a new year, w e are grateful for the unique role CRC Accelerator participants have played in expanding the PACEs movement through the willingness to explore healing-centered practices through a PACEs science lens.

To prepare for the year ahead, we have a few very special announcements we’re excited to share. First, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the 700+ community champions, facilitators, managers, and advocates in our COOP and Growing Resilient Communities program for your commitment.

As we head into our full CRC curriculum this January, we invite current and future CRC Accelerator participants to join us with collective care and self care in mind.