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Times in our community have been challenging and traumatic recently. Shining a light on how we can come together and support one another is vital during this time, and is just what Kwabi Amoah-Forson is doing with The Peace Bus. This is incredible work and reflects the importance of connectivity at this time. Please consider supporting the work Kwabi is doing, and share with others to spread the word! Per his recent Facebook post: "Fear, division, and safety have been the reoccuring themes...

Click here for more info. Each year the President delivers a State of the Union Address, in which they tout their achievements and vision for the future. But we the people know that true democracy is a conversation, not a monologue. We know that in order to journey toward “a more perfect union,” we have to root out and rectify the same enmeshed evils that have kept people down for centuries: racism, anti-immigrant policies, environmental destruction, militarism, and a profit-driven economy...

ACE’s and Resilience Learning Network: Creating Safe, Stable and Nurturing Relationships and Environments for All Kids We are excited to announce Washington State Essentials for Childhood is launching a series of lunchtime webinar series. The first two Webinars are: Trauma-Informed Workplaces: Practice Applications in Equity, Empathy, and Employee Development Presented by : Delena Meyer and Toby Lucich Building a more compassionate workplace can feel overwhelming. After researching best...

From Child Trends, March 6, 2020 Child Trends’ new project with MDRC, “ Reconnecting Youth: Putting Out-of-School, Out-of-Work Youth on a Path to Self-Sufficiency ,” is seeking information about programs that provide services to help young people ages 16 to 24 advance on education and employment pathways. This project is focused on the population of young people who are out of work and out of school, sometimes called disconnected or opportunity youth. The information gathered will result in...

CRI is the nation’s first Resilience community network and a national leader in the effort to create and support inclusive, equitable and healthy communities who understand, model and promote the common language of safety, connection and love. Contextual community resilience is our emphasis and helping to share that message is our passion. Why did CRI create a national resiliency award? Malcolm Gladwell defined a tipping point as ‘the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling...

Last month, we officially launched the ACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities. We are SO excited about this! And the communities that are part of the handful of ACEs initiatives that are piloting the Cooperative are, too! Before describing the Cooperative, I want to reassure our 40,000+ members and 277 ACEs initiatives (plus another 100 in development) that have communities on ACEs Connection that nothing on ACEsConnection.com changes! Membership is and remains free ! And it will remain...

Please see the attached flyer with details on the upcoming Course 1 Trauma-Informed training from Community Resilience Initiative! On February 22nd from 9am-4pm at Graduate Tacoma. Register online at the link or by calling the phone number in the flyer! Only 40 spaces are available.

Join Meaningful Movies Tacoma on January 24th at 6:30PM at the Center for Spiritual Living (206 N "J" Street, Tacoma, WA 98403) for a film screening of the 2019 documentary Shattered Dreams. See below for a synopsis: Reports of sex trafficking continue to grow at alarming rates in all corners of the country, affecting American citizens of every race, gender, age, and socioeconomic class. Experts and law enforcement struggle to combat this underground criminal enterprise as it expands online.

Dr. Melissa Merrick, president & CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America, provides four key takeaways from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest Vital Signs/ACEs report , of which she is the lead author. Merrick also identifies several practical solutions for creating the conditions for safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments for all children, families and communities, which are fundamental to preventing ACEs. Among these solutions is strengthening economic...

Tickets are still available to see the moving documentary, Paper Tigers! The movie will be shown on December 17th at 7:30pm at the Cinemark Point Ruston & XD. Click here to reserve your seat. Event Info Join us for a screening of an amazing documentary that captures insights about the hidden epidemic of childhood trauma plaguing our schools and communities. Watch how one school systematically tackled this very challenging problem by understanding [how] "trauma threatens brain...

Come attend our free monthly Meet Up Group on Wednesdays near Wright Park from 5:30 to 7:00 pm This group is for individuals with low energy, mental fog or anxiety that slows them from what they would really like in their life. If you want to hear about new approaches to achieve mental clarity… Join us . If you already know what you eat impacts your sense of wellness and would like support, new ideas, and community… Join us . If you want the big or small challenges in life to feel more...

A HAPPIER FAMILY LIFE STARTS NOW “Triple P has been a life saver for me.” Shalini, mother of two Now, with Triple P available online, you can log in to your personal parenting course whenever and wherever it suits you. Simple! WHY TRIPLE P WORKS Great parents do great parenting programs. And the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program is one of the world’s best. Triple P gives you proven parenting strategies that will help you set up your child or teen for life— so they’ll be happy, confident...