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Women of the PACEs science movement featured for Women's History Month! In consideration of Women's History Month, the entire month of March is dedicated to the women creating a legacy in the worldwide PACEs movement. In this episode, we will talk with Dr. Sandra Bloom. For the past 40 years, Bloom has done pioneering work in the field of traumatic stress studies. From 1980-2001, Bloom served as founder and executive director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the...

Dig deeper into strategies for making the most of the American Rescue Plan's money for school districts, students and families.

Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.

By Helen Branswell, Image: NIAID, STAT, March 7, 2022 A new report released Monday charts a path for the transition out of the Covid-19 pandemic, one that outlines both how the country can deal with the challenge of endemic Covid disease and how to prepare for future biosecurity threats. The report plots a course to what its authors call the “next normal” — living with the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a continuing threat that needs to be managed. Doing so will require improvements on a number of...

By Greater Good Editors, Photo: Mike Maguire/CC BY 2.0, Greater Good Magazine, March 7, 2022 Here at the Greater Good Science Center, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is provoking a range of emotions: sadness, anger, fear, and more. We’re reading the news every day and wishing that there were more we could do to help. As an educational nonprofit, the best we can do, perhaps, is to remind ourselves and our readers that peace is always possible , the vast majority of people resist killing , even...

By Dylan Matthews, Image: Leemage/Universal Images Group/Getty Images, Vox, March 6, 2022 The Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I and establishing a new postwar order, began with a charter for a new organization. Called the Covenant of the League of Nations , the new body was meant to resolve international disputes peaceably — and, crucially, it committed members to “respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political...

By Patrice Worthy, Photo: Oakland Avenue Urban Farms, The Guardian, March 5, 2022 For the last 10 years, residents in the south Baltimore neighborhood of Cherry Hill who struggled to access affordable food had a reliable place to go. Visitors to the Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden, a 1.5-acre urban farm, would find cheap, fresh vegetables and a strong sense of community. But in the spring of 2021, the farm received an eviction notice. For Eric Jackson, servant director of the Black Yield...

We at PACEs Connection are excited to announce our new director of communities, Mathew Portell. Portell has officially joined this week and will now be leading our Growing Resilient Communities and Cooperative of Communities programs. Portell has dedicated a decade and a half to education in his role as a teacher, instructional coach, teacher mentor, and school administrator. Before accepting the role of director of communities, Portell was the principal of Fall-Hamilton Elementary, an...

Proper nutrition is a key ingredient in rewiring your client's traumatized neural pathways. Yet, research shows that nutrition is not part of trauma treatment. In fact, Nutrition and trauma are on two different planets. This webinar is free to all registered participants.

Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is one of the most well-known and successful family therapy evidence-based models in the world. Historically, the model has only been made available with grants or other governmental funding through the Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, or larger behavioral health providers. FFT Partners, one of only two authorized FFT training organizations in the world, is making available for the first time, FFT for the Private Practitioner . FFT is listed on most major...

I believe my world is connected to your world, and together we can co-create the world we wish to see by acknowledging our lives, feelings and consciously deciding to put our energy on what we want instead of ruminating in what we don’t want and past issues. Re-framing situations is so powerful.

The new PACEs Science 101 summarizes only part of the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences. It leaves out much of the social epidemiology and social science of positive and adverse childhood experiences that, along with neuroscience, are at the heart of PACEs science. As a result, it largely fails to address primary prevention through policies that can diminish inequities in the distribution of adverse and positive childhood experiences in a population.