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February 4th, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems Making these sectors trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered You’re invited to participate in the third of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience”. This half-day workshop will occur virtually and focus on promising practices in the child welfare and justice systems, as well as teach...

Lee Johnson III PhD and Sandra Bloom MD to lead discussion on emerging trauma-informed policies and practices in the education and health care fields. What are ways that these fields are taking PACEs, Prevention, and Trauma science into consideration, and what can advocates do to help further advance these and other promising practices? It's free to join, so sign up at this link today! You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement in Education and Health Care , the second of eight...

Join live on YouTube at 3:00 EST/Noon PST on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 for the 6th Annual National Day of Racial Healing THE WORK STARTS HERE Creating a brighter future for everyone starts with racial healing. We have an opportunity to transform the systems that disrupt so many lives. It’s about bringing communities together to create new ones built on foundations of: Relationship-building, truth-telling and racial equity; Healing and solidarity; Transformative action. That work begins with...

Below is a message from Cat Parker, Program Coordinator, at Resources for Resilience about a special opportunity for our First Responders!: Happy New Year! I hope you had a restful holiday season. I am writing to share an opportunity with you for First Responders who live or work in the Eastpointe region (see list of included counties below). In partnership with Eastpointe, Edgecombe Community College, and the NC Department of Health and Human Services we are offering a specialized Reconnect...

Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...

We are looking forward to our next mini-conference, “The Power of Collective Healing ” on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 from 9am-11am . If you haven’t already, register today for a calendar invitation and zoom link. In this mini-conference, we will focus on the concept of resilience and strengths within ourselves and communities. We’ll discuss adversity with an intersectional lens and share specific skills and strategies that individuals, communities, and organizations can implement in the...

You are invited to a free webinar on Wednesday, January 12 from 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. to learn about the brain science of opioid addiction. Register Here Register Here

Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) is a set of trauma-informed skills that can help people monitor their bodily sensations and ground themselves towards their Resilient Zone. CRM is supporting individuals towards resilience in Georgia and across the nation. To read more about the basis of CRM and how it's being used today, check out our newest blog post here .

Center for Child Counseling’s Lead the Fight Against ACEs to feature an exclusive international book reading and conversation on February 22, 2022. Lead the Fight, Giving Children with Trauma a Voice , will take place Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM. The event will feature a virtual, international book reading of “Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows: A Story about ACEs and Hope” and conversation with author Juleus Ghunta, as well as the keynote address given by Benjamin Perks, Head...

Chart is sample page from county-by-county funding allocated as part of ARPA. Information is available by clicking here. This is the first of several articles on the importance of any resilience-focused entity, including your PACEs Connection community, seeking out the people in your area allocating ARPA funding and asking for money. Organizations do not necessarily have to be 501 C-3 nonprofits to receive funding. Thanks to federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to states in April...

Register today for the NC Trauma-Informed Communities Mini-Conference scheduled for Friday, December 3. Meeting Registration - Zoom In this mini-conference, we’ll explore the ripple effects of trauma on individuals and communities. Building on foundational trauma 101 knowledge, we’ll dive deeper into the impact of trauma on individual’s physical, emotional, and behavioral experiences. We’ll further explore traumatic stress symptoms to be able to recognize signs that someone might be...