Tagged With "Impact of Trauma"
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Trauma Informed DC Brown Bag Lunch
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Wounded Places Screening and Community Discussion
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Re: Transforming Trauma, DC Institute - a workshop
Thanks for alerting me about the conference! If I had known about it well in advance, I might have been able to arrange to go. I'm definitely interested in what is going on in my metro community. FYI, there is a Maryland Counselor's Association Annual Meeting scheduled for November 12 and 13, 2015 in Annapolis, Maryland (The Historic Inns of Annapolis, 58 Circle Street, Annapolis, Maryland) and the conference is centered around "Trauma-Informed Counseling". I'm hoping to attend. Keynote...
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Re: Trauma Informed DC Brown Bag Lunch
Hi Brenda, thanks for your feedback. I admit I am not so good with this interface, but here it is attached as a Word announcement. When I saved it as a PDF the registration link kept failing for me. Technical difficulties! Originally Posted by Brenda Yuen: Is it possible, as a future goal, to ask that these events be available in .pdf form so ACESConnection members can forward them on to others who may not be ACESConnection members yet, but potentially interested in the meeting (and then...
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Re: Trauma Glasses Message!
Jane Evans, a great trauma therapist in England, created this visual, to help build the movement towards seeing everything through a trauma lens! I loved it - thought it was catchy and wanted to share here.
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Re: Wounded Places Screening and Community Discussion
Attached is the flyer for this event. Please share with others who might be interested in attending. Elizabeth
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Re: Washington, DC, forum examines trauma-informed approaches to end school-to-prison pipeline
Elizabeth, Thank you so much for this rich update! I am meeting with three members of my children's public school in Montgomery County to talk about Trauma-Informed Practices in mid-November. I'd like to invite them to contact and/or join this group. We have SOME PBIS-program schools, but most schools (and teachers) are uneducated about childhood adversity and all the trauma they bring inside the classroom. These three Board members seem very emotionally intelligent. I know it will be a slow...
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Prevention is Essential: Collective Impact Coalition Promotes Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments for All Maryland’s Children
When members of Maryland’s State Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (SCCAN) began in 2006 to examine what their state was doing in the realm of prevention, they discovered a gaping hole. Many participants in the 23-member Council—people working in child welfare, mental health, law enforcement and advocacy groups—knew about ACEs and about the corrosive effects of early childhood maltreatment. But they discovered, through informational interviews across different sectors and an environmental...
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Youth-Led Advocacy Creates Healing Opportunities in Baltimore City
After a shooting at a historic Baltimore high school in February 2019—a 25-year-old man, angry about the school’s treatment of his sister, who was a student there, shot a special education assistant with a Smith and Wesson handgun—conversation in the city centered on whether school resource officers should be armed. Students said that was the wrong question. When City Council’s education and youth committee, chaired by council member Zeke Cohen, held hearings on school violence following the...
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FREE WEBINAR - The Impact of Mind Matters: Preliminary Evidence of Effectiveness in a Community-Based Sample
Becky Antle, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work and esteemed University Scholar at the University of Louisville, won The Dibble Institute’s national competition to evaluate Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience in 2019. As a result, Dr. Antle and her colleagues have conducted a randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of Mind Matters on a host of outcomes related to trauma symptoms, emotional regulation, coping and resiliency, and interpersonal skills for at-risk...
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Supporting Mental Well-Being through Child Care Settings - 9/30, 1:30-3:00 ET
A webinar offered by the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) Thursday, September 30, 1:30 - 3:00 pm EDT Register today . Addressing the mental health needs of child care providers and children in care is vital in the face of the pandemic, a population-level traumatic event. CTIPP is offering a "plug and play" framework to ease the process of developing a continuum of training, reflective coaching, and consultation to build the capacity for supporting relational health...
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A football player couldn’t find a therapist who understood Black, urban trauma. So, he decided to become one [Washington Post]
Fellonte Misher was a standout football player at his D.C. high school and at Old Dominion University. (Theresa Vargas/The Washington Post) If you had met Fellonte Misher a decade ago, you would have encountered a teenager who believed the only way he could help his family was through football. While other students worried about their GPAs, he focused on different numbers. As a student at D.C.’s Coolidge High School, the 6-foot-2 wide receiver made 13 touchdowns in a season and 17 tackles in...
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The 2023 Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program is now Open For Registration
PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.
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Don't Miss CRI's Conference 2023: Pathways to Resilience
Community Resilience Initiative (CRI) is presenting its first in-person conference after gathering online over the past three years due to COVID restrictions. This year’s conference takes place from July 20 to 21, 2023 at the beautiful Hotel Roanoke Conference Center in Roanoke, VA. Entitled Pathways to Resilience , the conferenc e offers a multitude of talks, presentations, activities and workshops focused on processing the collective trauma we all have lived through over the past few years...
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Pathways to Resilience
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Call to Action & Toolkit: Urge Congress to Support Trauma-Informed Legislation
It’s time to take action and make our voices heard to build healthy, resilient communities! The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is organizing trauma-informed advocates, activists, and stakeholders to urge their U.S. Senators and Representatives to support two bipartisan, bicameral bills that would significantly help prevent, address, and mitigate the negative impacts of trauma through community-based/led initiatives.
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Plans afoot to bring stability to PACEs Connection
To all of you, who, like me, love this website and want to see it and its communities flourish as we work to prevent and heal trauma; build resiliency: please know there is a move afoot by a small group of strategic partners to find a suitable host for PACEs Connection. More will be announced in the coming days. In the meantime, friends, we are figuring out email addresses and other communications logistics and opportunities. PEACE! Carey Sipp, former director of strategic partnerships ...
