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I am Selena Rowell, director of the Columbus County Partnership for Children in North Carolina. The reason why I support ACEs Connection is because of the great potential to promote healing and hope to individuals and even to the entire community. We value the work of ACEs Connection and its entire support team. ACEs Connection provides free guidance for any agency seeking to promote a more inclusive community. The guidance is also available for individuals who may be struggling or trying to...

WestEd recently created three infographics related to workforce issues and access following screening of young children that were developed by the California State Screening Collaborative , with funding from California Department of Public Health and California Department of Developmental Services, Early Start . Please consider reviewing and sharing with your networks. The infographics are attached below.

photo courtesy of Diana Rivas Diana Rivas had studied child development as an undergraduate, but it wasn’t until she joined a parenting group in 2019 in Davis, California, that she began to reflect on the way she herself was raised — and punished. Diana Rivas “My dad had experienced a lot of abuse,” she recalls. “He was raised in a small town in Mexico, and his father had used heavy corporal punishment against him. He did the same with me, because he thought that was the way discipline...

The Potts Family Foundation through its Raising Resilient Oklahomans initiative partnered this past week with the Ardmore Behavioral Health Collaborative and Ardmore Literacy Leadership to host a very successful virtual screening and discussion of the award-winning documentary Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope. As we always do, the weekend screening period was followed by a moderated panel discussion of professionals, mostly local, who frequently work with children...

If you are finding it hard to keep track of all the Executive Orders, presidential directives, and release of plans by the Biden-Harris Administration and you’re interested in the key elements that hold promise for strengthening families and improving the lives of children, you might find the succinct 19-page document on the American Rescue Plan (the $1.9 trillion relief plan) valuable in an ever more complicated policy and political landscape. The recommendations in this document (also...

Dr. David Corwin, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, told me an astonishing fact recently: 61 countries around the world have banned spanking and hitting children, with another 50 pledging to do so. But the United States is far behind in addressing this kind of physical violence toward children. And that was just one of three amazing elements of my recent three-hour interview with him. No. 2: It was the longest interview I’ve ever conducted for this site.

By Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 26, 2021 Great strides were made after the 1995 release of “Falling Through the Net,” the first empirical study of the Digital Divide. Yet COVID-19 has highlighted the ongoing and widening gap between those withand those without the ability to access, accumulate, and assimilate digital information. Socially and economically disenfranchised, millions of people globally still lack access to broadband internet and a computer to work, learn, or shop...

Now’s the time to make your donation to ACEs Connection, as we’re just $15,000 away from meeting the requirement to earn a matching grant for $50,000 during our ACEs Connection Changemaker Matching Grant campaign. If you work for a company that matches charitable donations, the incentive to give is even greater, as your gift will be “double-matched”! “During our Changemaker Matching Grant campaign, your donation, when matched by your employer’s corporate match, turns a $250 gift into a $1000...

Introducing Resilient Georgia's 8 Regional ACEs/TIC Coalitions Resilient Georgia , in partnership with the Pittulloch Foundation, has been working with 8 cities across Georgia and the surrounding counties to provide a regional emphasis on trauma informed awareness and care, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and child sexual abuse prevention training as a basis to transform systems and procedures crossing both public and private sectors. Resilient Georgia serves as a supportive and guiding...

"SEL and Mental Health" is a critical conversation for all of us, especially in the school context. Please join me and the other panelists on this opportunity hosted by Aperture Education. We will be covering topics spanning school-based mental health services, how educator and student SEL supports learning outcomes, and more. Join us on February 2nd, 1:00 pm PST/4:00 EST SEL and Mental Health Webinar Registration

We want a movement, not a moment. Imagine you are in front of a large crowd, gathered to hear your words about possibilities and hope, and there is that second in time that washes over you. For some, that second can feel like a dry mouth and a tickle creeping up in the back of your throat. Others can feel themselves rise up in that moment, excited to share their knowledge about trauma informed practices and the foundational language of change. If you have waited until this second hits you to...

Note: Please find content below, published with permission of the author, @Wendy Ellis DrPH, MPH, Assistant Professor, Global Health and Director of the Center for Community , Summer Redstone Global Center for Prevention & Wellness, School of Public Health, George Washington University.