Tagged With "Adverse Childhood Experiences"
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Middle Childhood Health and Wellness Summit
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Oprah to discuss ACEs and trauma on 60 Minutes this Sunday!
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Paper Tigers screening
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"Resilience" Documentary at Kamiak High School
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Re: Webinar Learning Series begins tomorrow: State Policy Approaches to Addressing Childhood Adversity, Wednesday, January 10, 10am PST (1:00 PM EST)
I hope you find this new book helpful: Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and maltreatment www.AnnaAgeEight.org -It was developed based our team of developers of the Data Leaders for Child Welfare program --Best---Dom
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Re: Community Voices: Creating a Just, Healthy and Resilient World
Thank you for the informative post. I would greatly appreciate discussing your vital work. Our non-profit is focused on promoting a data-driven, cross-sector and systemic strategy for the prevention of ACEs and maltreatment. This is based on our Data Leaders for Child Welfare program funded by Casey Family Programs---using the framework of continuous quality improvement. You can also learn about our cross-sector approach by reading our book Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of...
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Re: Using State Administrative Data to Identify Social Complexity Risk Factors for Children [annfammed.org]
Thank you for sharing this. You may find the new book Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and prevention useful. www.AnnaAgeEight.org Keep up the good work--D
![Personal and Parental Reflections on Adverse Childhood Experiences [8 minutes, Pam Wessel-Estes]](https://www.pacesconnection.com/g/washington-state-ace-s-group/fileSendAction/fcType/5/fcOid/465321300868548164/primaryPicture/true/fodoid/465321300868548180/imageType/LARGE_SQUARE_THUMBNAIL/inlineImage/true/thumbnail.jpg "Personal and Parental Reflections on Adverse Childhood Experiences [8 minutes, Pam Wessel-Estes]")
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Re: ACEs Connection Communities (on the website) - Washington State
Joanna - Thanks for your comment. This is a list of communities on ACEs Connection (on the website). There's a list of live communities here that includes Skamania Klickitat Community Network. https://www.pacesconnection.com...oups-and-initiatives I'll edit the other post - hopefully to make it clearer. I'll add this link to it as well. If you are interested in starting a community on ACEs Connection, contact Karen Clemmer, ACEs Connection Staff Washington State contact: ...
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Re: ACEs Connection Communities (on the website) - Washington State
Skamania Klickitat Community Network *Skamania Klickitat Community Network is a non-profit incorporated in the State of Washington. Since 1996 our work has focused on connecting our rural communities with resources and services in order to strengthen and support resilience in families and reduce Adverse Childhood Experiences.* On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:31 AM ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: ACEs Connection Communities (on the website) - Washington State
Sorry, did not catch that! Hope you are doing OK. Thanks as always for all you do. Johanna *Skamania Klickitat Community Network is a non-profit incorporated in the State of Washington. Since 1996 our work has focused on connecting our rural communities with resources and services in order to strengthen and support resilience in families and reduce Adverse Childhood Experiences.* On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:47 PM ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Now archived! Empowering Parents with the Brain Science and VROOM
Thank you to all who were able to participate on our recent webinar on “Empowering Parents with the Brain Science and Vroom” . For those that were not able to participate we have r ecorded the full webina r for you to watch. Webinar: Empowering Parents with the Brain Science and VROOM Presented by: Marilyn Gisser Hosted by: Essentials for Childhood, Washington State Department of Health; and Emerging Wisdom Click here to watch the pre-recorded webinar (YouTube) For more information (click...
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Free Materials: Get Started Brain Building with Vroom
The Washington State Department of Health, Essentials for Childhood Program is offering “starter sets” of Vroom print materials and technical assistance on how to use Vroom. This is suitable for any organization that serves or reaches families of young children (from prenatal through age five) in Washington State, even if early learning isn’t your primary focus. Vroom Materials are intended to raise awareness about the importance of brain building and the simplicity and fun of Vroom. These...
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Cracked Up, The Evolving Conversation: Generational Trauma - Breaking the Cycle [crackedupmovie.com]
CRACKED UP THE EVOLVING CONVERSATION Episode 4: Generational Trauma - Breaking the Cycle with Darrell Hammond, Comedian, actor, SNL Legend Michelle Esrick, Filmmaker, activist Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Author of The Body Keeps the Score Jane Stevens, Founder of ACES Connection and special guest Jane Fonda Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author and activist Thursday June 25th at 1pm PDT / 2p MT / 3p CT / 4pm EDT Hosted by ACEs Connection THE PRICE OF THIS LIVE EVENT IS $12.50 We have...
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Re: "Addiction begins with solving a problem, the problem of human pain, emotional pain"
For most people with serious substance use disorders, understanding the connection between our habits and our histories of childhood trauma is essential to recovery. In a perfect world (hell, in a halfway decent world) drug treatment would be trauma-informed, yet some 90 percent of treatment facilities still operate as they did in the 1980s, marching every patient through the first five steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. For those who don't know, that means filling notebooks with self-lacerating...
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"Addiction begins with solving a problem, the problem of human pain, emotional pain"
In his groundbreaking book , In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction , trauma and addiction expert Dr. Gabor Maté writes, “There are almost as many addictions as there are people.” ACEs Connection founder and publisher Jane Stevens read that quote as a springboard to asking Maté to define addiction and explain whether or not it is always rooted in adverse childhood experiences. Maté, along with filmmaker Michelle Esrick and Saturday Night Live star Darrell Hammond,...
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ACEs screening is about building relationships, says early adopter
Whether or not to screen for ACEs in primary care is an important debate—and I hear and respect the passion from both sides of the argument. I fall in the “pro-ACE assessments” camp, but with some important caveats. I think that assessments for ACEs are dramatically different from screening for autism or developmental delays. In my opinion, assessments for ACEs in primary care should be primarily about building relationships.
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Reimagining Healthcare as a Community Investment
At this point, COVID-19 has been a part of our lives for nearly six months now. While the most recent current events are not unfamiliar social problems, this pandemic has provided us with a stronger lens with which to see many of the underlying inequities within our communities. This article, “The Moral Determinants of Health,” explores these inequities by illustrating the systemic imbalances within the field of medicine and the amount of resources we allocate to solving problems as opposed...
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ACEs and Resilience Local Groups and Initiatives
This document provides a list of county-wide (mostly) groups and initiatives in Washington State addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma-informed approaches, toxic stress, and resilience. In many communities there are other local ACEs-related groups and initiatives. In most cases, the contact people listed can provide information about the work throughout their county. The purpose of this list is to encourage connections to and across the groups and initiatives, in order to:...
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Inside Girls Court, Washington State’s first therapeutic court model for girls (KUOW)
By Lila Shroff, July 2, 2020, KUOW. Over the past two decades, while juvenile incarceration rates have been decreasing, rates of incarcerated girls have either stayed the same, or increased . In response, the Kitsap County Girls Court opened in June 2019 as Washington state’s first court system providing service just for girls. A few months ago, I went to see Girls Court in action. [ Please click here to read more. ]
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Health and Wellness Town Hall: How ACEs Impact the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other Communities of Color
Health and Wellness Town Hall - August 5th, 2020 3-4:30PM PDT Adverse Childhood Experiences 101 Class How ACEs Impact the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other Communities of Color This event will be led by Alfred White. Alfred is the founder of The League of Extraordinary People. After nearly 40 years experiencing homelessness, Alfred swallowed a 1/4 ounce of crack cocaine in 2004 and nearly died. He awoke paralyzed and that is when he made the decision to seek help for his history of...
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California reaches milestone with ACEs initiatives pulsing in all 58 counties. Next: All CA cities.
Karen Clemmer, the Northwest community facilitator with ACEs Connection, was already deeply interested in the CDC/Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study when she and a colleague from the Child Parent Institute were invited to lunch by ACEs Connection founder and publisher Jane Stevens in 2012. But that lunch meeting changed everything. Karen Clemmer “Jane helped us see a bigger world,” says Clemmer. “She came with a much wider lens. She didn’t look only at Sonoma County, she...
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New Resource: Trauma-Informed Nutrition Factsheet
A newly developed factsheet, “Trauma-Informed Nutrition: Recognizing the Relationship between Adversity, Chronic Disease, and Nutritional Health” has just been released. This factsheet is intended for Registered Dietitians (RDs) and was designed to support and describe the connection between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), the impacts of trauma and its relationship to chronic disease, and trauma-informed nutrition practices. This factsheet was developed through a collaborative...
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Re: Health and Wellness Town Hall: How ACEs Impact the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other Communities of Color
I'm looking forward to this
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Congress urged to address trauma in the 4th COVID bill
Now that the July 4 th congressional recess has ended, negotiations around the fourth major COVID relief bill are underway between the Congress and the Administration. How the chasm between Congress and the White House will be bridged is a path uncertain, with massive differences between the House and Senate complicating the work. As the pandemic rages across the U.S., there is now at least a consensus that action is needed. But no agreement exists on a payroll tax cut, unemployment...
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Why the dean of early childhood experts wants to get beyond the brain [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
By Ryan White, Center for Health Journalism, July 23, 2020 Harvard’s Jack Shonkoff, a luminary in the field of early childhood, has spent years showing that events in the earliest years of life have profound implications for how budding brains develop, and in turn, shape a child’s later potential at school and work. Now, Shonkoff says it’s time to connect the brain to the rest of the body. “The message now is to say that there is a revolution going on in molecular biology and genomics and in...
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Greater Richmond Trauma Informed Community Network, first to join ACEs Cooperative of Communities, shows what it means to ROCK!
In 2012, Greater Richmond SCAN and five other community partners hatched a one-year plan to educate the Richmond, Virginia, community about ACEs science and to embed trauma-informed practices. Eight years later, the original group has evolved into the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network (GRTICN) with 495 people and 170 organizations. And they're just scratching the surface.
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Recording available for Health and Wellness Town Hall: How ACEs Impact Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other Communities of Color
If you missed The League of Extraordinary People's first Town Hall, or would like to watch it again, it is available here ! Health and Wellness Town Hall: Adverse Childhood Experiences 101 Class How ACEs Impact the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other Communities of Color This event will be led by Alfred White. Alfred is the founder of The League of Extraordinary People. After nearly 40 years experiencing homelessness, Alfred swallowed a 1/4 ounce of crack cocaine in 2004 and nearly died. He...
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Ann Penn-Charles casts a wide net to reduce generational trauma in Washington State coastal tribes
You could say that Ann Penn-Charles, a native of La Push, Washington, was a natural resilience builder even before there was an ACE Study. La Push is a Native American reservation on the western edge of Olympic National Park, where the Quileute Nation ancestors of “Miss Ann”, as she is known, have lived for generations. Although she faced hardships growing up on the reservation, including having her first child when she was a junior in high school, she was able to graduate with the support...
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Does VP Candidate Kamala Harris know about ACEs? You bet!
Nadine Burke Harris, California’s Surgeon General, has a lot in common with the vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris—Jamaican heritage, surname, home state—and a commitment to addressing ACEs and toxic stress. As reported in the New Yorker article by Paul Tough, “The Poverty Clinic,” Dr. Harris told Kamala Harris, then San Francisco district attorney, about ACEs in 2008 and in response, she offered to help. District Attorney Harris then introduced her to professor of child and...
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National Governors Association Chooses Delaware to Participate in Adverse Childhood Experiences Learning Collaborative [Delaware.gov]
Department of Services for Children, Youth and their Families | Featured Posts | Date Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 WILMINGTON, Del. – Governor John Carney on Wednesday announced Delaware was one of four states chosen by the National Governors Association to participate in a learning collaborative focused on recognizing and responding to adverse childhood experiences. The State of Delaware will join teams from Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wyoming in the Improving Well-being and Success of...
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ACE Impact Team Aligns Efforts to Help Newark Residents Reach Greatest Potential
Five years of convening Newark’s ACE Impact Team has taught Keri Logosso-Misurell a crucial lesson: Fight the urge to reinvent the wheel.
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Pathway for Trauma is Pathway for Resilience: Fresno Network's Message Inspires Hope
In Fresno, volunteers from local churches were already working with the schools, mentoring kids and running weekend recreation programs. Community-based non-profits were in conversation with educators; pastors were talking to social-service providers. The problems were clear: nearly 30% of Fresno’s residents living in poverty (the rate tops 40% for Black residents), with a 20-year gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest parts of this sharply segregated city. For several years,...