Growing Resilient Communities Blog Posts

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between Tarpon Springs Community Trauma Informed Community Initiative And Community Partners/Members   PREAMBLE:   VISION: Tarpon Springs is a community where children and families are safe, healthy, cared for and...

Handouts that provide an ACEs overview, and handouts for parents, providers and members of the business community.

Here are elevator pitches, from several sources:   From our friends at Fenton Communications:   60-second version As you probably know, if bad things happen to you to as a child, it can impact your health for the rest of your life.  ...

Peace4Tarpon, Tarpon Springs, FL -- Peace4Tarpon....O ffer the peace/piece you can.   Children's Resilience Initiative, Walla Walla, WA --  Resilience Trumps ACEs and Empowering community understanding of the forces that shape us and our...

NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience)   We envision a just world in which individuals and communities have the power, resources and support to create and take part in robust systems of care. Those systems—health,...

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...

PACEs Connection Presentations Tracker is an extremely useful tool for local PACEs initiatives to measure their progress as they educate their community about PACEs science. It maps PACEs Science presentations that your PACEs initiative has made. It tracks: who did the presentation, to what organization, when the presentation took place, how many people attended identifies the sector and subsector of those attending. Your initiative can make sure it's tailoring its outreach efforts across...

The PACEs Connection Milestones Tracker is a good starting point to assess your organization and particularly your community’s progress in integrating policies and practices based on PACEs science. Less an assessment tool and more of a checklist or roadmap, it identifies the general steps that any organization can use to determine if it’s on the right track, whether a school, police department, business, healthcare facility, or social services agency. We chose the 14 milestones based on an...