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Ben David, co-chair of the North Carolina Chief Justice's Task Force on ACEs-Informed Courts, shares plans to sustain the work done during the two-year term of the Task Force, to "care for our own" speaking of North Carolina's children, youth, families, communities, victims of crimes, members of law enforcement, the judiciary and court officers and staffers. He also shared Chief Justice Paul Newby's hopes of "getting ACEs-informed courts" into the culture, and said a national conference for...

More than 550 researchers, advocates, educators, community stakeholders, clinical and practitioner groups, persons with lived experience, legislators, and representatives from state agencies, among others, attended a statewide summit in Raleigh, North Carolina—“Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma,” April 27-28. Diana Fishbein, Ph.D., senior scientist in the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG), University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, and the...

RALEIGH- Resilient North Carolina , a website created by the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative (NCH&RCI), has launched. Resilient North Carolina is intended for all North Carolinians, with the goal of sharing best practices and connecting individuals and organizations building resilience and reducing trauma statewide. NCH&RCI works to build healthy and resilient communities for young children and families, creating resilience across each generation by bringing...

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

Information from Summit Brochure and registration site available here . North Carolina’s first Statewide Trauma Summit – a virtual and in-person summit – will beheld Thursday and Friday, April 27-28, in Raleigh, at The McKimmon Conference and Training Center, Summit leaders announced recently. “Momentum is growing in NC for building trauma-informed systems that strengthen resilience and weed out systemic and often intergenerational sources of child trauma. To advance this work, it is...

(l-r) Judge J. Corpening; Ben David, district attorney, New Hanover County; Chief Justice Paul Newby; Judge Andrew Heath, executive director, Administrative Office of the Courts of the Chief Justice's ACEs Informed Courts Task Force. David and Heath serve as Task Force co-chairs . “There is not any more important work going on in the State of North Carolina,” said Ben David, District Attorney for New Hanover County and co-chair of the Chief Justice’s ACEs-Informed Task Force . The Task force...

Resilient Guilford Network: Trauma Provider Network Action Work Group Notes From October 5, 2022, from 12:00pm-1:00pm Meeting Notes: Thank you to all who joined our October 2022 RGN/Trauma Provider Network Meeting, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Trauma Provider Network (TPN) action team of Resilient Guilford focuses on direct service coordination, education, and outreach. A Huge Thank You to our speakers Iris Sunshine, Executive Director Children’s Law Center of Central...

New Bern, NC – The Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness & Prevention (CCSAP) will be hosting the 2022 Resilience Symposium: Building Hope on Friday, September 30 th from 8am-5pm at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center. This in-person event is only $40, features internationally-respected leader and speaker in the PACEs science movement Becky Haas, and includes lunch and snacks catered by Posh Nosh. The past two years have been stressful, even traumatic form many, helping us...

QPR: Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Thursday, September 15, 2022 5:00 PM 7:00 PM Kellin Foundation 2110 Golden Gate Drive Greensboro, NC, 27405 QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer Kellin Foundation offers suicide prevention instruction and resources through QPR , a nationally recognized best-practices program offering training in suicide/ crisis aversion. Gatekeepers can be anyone, but include parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, nurses, office...

Journey to Brave , Kellin Foundation's annual fundraising event returns on September 22nd! Join us at Center City Park from 6-8pm for a free concert featuring the folk-rock new grass music of Gipsy Danger ! Check them out, they're really fun! Our host for the evening, Tanya Rivera of WFMY news will help us celebrate our merger this year with Mental Health Greensboro, a non-profit that provided free behavioral health services in our community for 82 years! This is a family friendly event and...