Maine Resilience Building Network To promote resilience in all people by increasing and improving our understanding of traumas and stressors such as ACEs and why they matter. NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) The National...
NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) Create a common language informed by robust data and brought to life by compelling stories of healing and recovery. Use key messages to inform and inspire policymakers, practitioners, funders,...
NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) Inclusivity: We believe that community voices, alongside those of policy-makers, practitioners and researchers, should contribute to dialogue and change. Equity: We believe that every...
Working document, 3/20/15 Walla Walla, Washington MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between the Children’s Resilience Initiative and Community Partners PREAMBLE VISION: All young people thrive and parents raise their children with...
Recommended Roles Facilitator: See draft agenda below Note taker: Type notes on laptop at meeting Uploader and photographer: Upload notes to ACEs Connection group as a blog for comment by group, populate ACEs Connection group with content from...
What are ACEs? ACEs are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains so profoundly that the effects show up decades later; they cause much of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence. ...
As part of their involvement with the Change in Mind Initiative, a project of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the Palix Foundation in Alberta, CUPs reframed their entire organization’s theory of change to align with brain science research and developed an integrated care model for families and adults living in adverse conditions. The integrated care process is designed to build clients’ executive functioning by helping clients prioritize the problems to be addressed,...
Parents also have the power to prevent bullying by changing family dynamics. They may not know it, and they may not know how to do it.
By Michael H. Keller and Gabriel J.X. Dance, The New York Times, September 29, 2019 The images are horrific. Children, some just 3 or 4 years old, being sexually abused and in some cases tortured. Pictures of child sexual abuse have long been produced and shared to satisfy twisted adult obsessions. But it has never been like this: Technology companies reported a record 45 million online photos and videos of the abuse last year. More than a decade ago, when the reported number was less than a...
By Megan Olsen, Standard-Examiner, September 28, 2019 A partnership of health organizations in Davis County started holding an annual mental health screening event for junior high and high school students two years ago. This year, the group planned a mental health screening event for elementary- and preschool-age children. The event will offer appointments over the course of two hours on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 1, at Davis Behavioral Health — but all appointment slots had filled two...
Creator and Master of Badass Trainer Bootcamp and Teach Like Their Lives Depend On It, Leah has 25 years of experience empowering those in education, government, law enforcement, and business through training and consulting. She's committed to providing the very best tools to create change in the teaching of adults and children. All of her work supports resiliency building and increasing professional and individual toolboxes to ensure equity and respect for all.
By Benedict Carey, The New York Times, September 29, 2019 Images of child sex abuse have reached a crisis point on the internet, spreading at unprecedented rates in part because tech platforms and law enforcement agencies have failed to keep pace with the problem. But less is understood about the issue underlying it all: What drives people to sexually abuse children? Science in recent years has begun to provide some answers. One thing most pedophiles have in common: They discover, usually as...
By Eric W. Dolan, PsyPost, September 28, 2019 Facing adversity in childhood is associated with psychopathology in adolescence, but this risk is lower in families with less parent-child conflict, according to new research. The study, published in The British Journal of Psychiatry, highlights the importance of the parent-child relationship. “Adversity is common in childhood, affecting roughly 1-in-4 children. There is now a lot of evidence indicating that adversity is major risk factor for...
By L.A. Parker, The Trentonian, September 28, 2019 On Wednesday, Oct. 2, Kimme Carlos, founder and executive director of Urban Mental Health Alliance. hosts a forum on The Art & Science of Healing as it relates to childhood trauma. Guests should make their way to George Washington Ballroom at the Trenton War Memorial located at 1 Memorial Drive. Doors open at 5 p.m. A light dinner is planned followed by remarks by Mayor Reed Gusciora. Film screening starts at 5:30 p.m. with a discussion...
By Pam Powers, VolumeOne, September 27, 2019 The K-12 Healthy Minds Summit held at UW-Stout in July and focused on fostering emotional health and resiliency in schools. About 75 people attended. It was the first program of the Initiative to Create the UW-Stout Center for the Study and Promotion of Health and Wellbeing. The two speakers were spouses John Klem, professor and program director of the clinical mental health counseling program, and Tonya Klem, school psychologist for the Ellsworth...