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ACEs Aware in Action Welcome to the first issue of the ACEs Aware monthly newsletter, ACEs Aware in Action . Our goal is to keep you up to date on all the important work being done by providers, ACEs Aware partners, and the community to make sure everyone is ACEs Aware. Please share this with your colleagues and constituents and encourage them to visit www.ACEsAware.org to join the mailing list. Like many of you, we have watched as the events of the last weeks have brought renewed attention...

Guest Author, 6/17/20, positiveexperience.org Today’s post is based on an interview with Rev. Darrell Armstrong, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church of Trenton, NJ for the past 20 years. He is considered a national leader on issues pertaining to child welfare and family strengthening. Most questions contain links to video excerpts of the original interview. To watch, click the link on the corresponding question. Introduce yourself to our blog readers? My name is Darrell Armstrong. I’m in my...

By Michael Gerson, The Washington Post, June 8, 2020 On the theory that decency and sanity are rare enough these days that they should be recognized, let us praise Kay Coles James, the president of the Heritage Foundation. James — the first African American and the first woman to head the conservative think tank — reacted to the “horrific and needless death” of George Floyd in Minneapolis by recalling the reality of racism in her own story, in a Facebook post that appeared directly after the...

By Eli Hager and Weihua Li, The Marshall Project, June 10, 2020 The president of Minneapolis’s police union called George Floyd a “violent criminal” and those protesting his killing by a police officer a “terrorist movement.” A union chief in Baltimore once said Black Lives Matter activists were a “lynch mob ”; one in Philadelphia referred to them as “a pack of rabid animals.” Another has labeled St. Louis’s democratically elected prosecutor, who is black and supports police reform, a...

By Gustave Axelson, All About Birds, June 6, 2020 Birder Christian Cooper’s “happy place,” as he calls it, is New York City’s Central Park in spring. He remembers how he fell in love with it. “One moment, there was a Blackburnian Warbler at eye level, about arm’s length from me … just throwing its head back and belting out the song,” Cooper recalled on a Facebook livestream discussion on June 4. “I was paralyzed. I couldn’t move.” Just last week, on May 25, Cooper’s right to safely go...

By John Blake, CNN, June 12, 2020 The activist with the salt and pepper goatee who stood before me couldn't contain his euphoria. He had watched a video of four police officers brutalizing a black man pinned to the ground. The video had grabbed headlines and sparked widespread protests. Police departments vowed reform. Sure, these types of protests had happened before, he said, but this one felt different. "The balance of the power has shifted from the police to the populace," Donald Bakeer...

By Elizabeth Hlavinka, MedPage Today, June 15, 2020 LGBTQ students attending schools with gay-straight alliance programs in place reported experiencing less bullying and better health outcomes than their LGBTQ peers whose schools lacked such programs, according to a national survey. Among 17,112 LGBTQ high school respondents, 91% reported at least one experience with bullying of any type, and in fact most bullying was for "stigmatized identities" unrelated to gender identity or sexual...

Register Now for This Free Trauma Awareness and Trauma Responsive Care Symposium The Collaboration As neighboring Healthy Start partners providing maternal and child health services for Metro Atlanta, the Atlanta Healthy Start Initiative (AHSI) of the Center for Black Women’s Wellness, Inc. and the Healthier Generations Project (HGP) of the Clayton County Health District collaborate on several initiatives to improve perinatal outcomes in the region. The “A Call to Action, A Call to Heal:...

Explore the Resilient Wisconsin website! Understanding resilience Trauma-informed practices Trauma and toxic stress Risk and protective factors Social determinants of health Adverse childhood experiences Promote the Resilient Wisconsin initiative! Visit the Resilient Wisconsin: Partner Resources webpage for social media posts and more. ACEs, adversity's impact American Academy of Pediatrics says racism is a threat to kids of all ages The association between exposure to childhood maltreatment...

Supporting Black LGBTQ Mental Health via the Trevor Project - also comes in a printable PDF . 32 Black-Led Queer & Trans Organizations to Support from the Audre Lorde Project to the Trans Women of Color Collective . Organization Development for Social Change: An Integrated Approach to Community Transformation via Racial Equity Tools includes information for sustainability when doing this long-term work. Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice; in partnership with...

By Austin R. Ramsey and Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post, June 15, 2020 As calls to defund law enforcement reach a fever pitch nationwide, New Mexico’s largest city is answering concerns about its police department by forming an alternative. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (D) announced on Monday the formation of a new public safety department designed to relieve stress on the city’s police. Instead of the police or fire departments responding to 911 calls related to inebriation,...

photo courtesy of EJUSA/Ron Holtz Studio Forty-seven-year-old Al-Tariq Best, founder and executive director of the HUBB , an arts and healing organization for youth, recalls the rage, humiliation and fear he felt as a 17-year-old when he and three other Black friends were pulled over by police in Newark, N.J. Al-Tariq Best “[There were] all these people around us. They search the car. They strip the car down. They make us pull our pants down in broad daylight. And I'm, I'm upset. And I'm...