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We are so excited for you to be part of the Resilient Bladen efforts to create a more trauma-informed and healing centered community. We invite you to review and sign the Memorandum of Understanding and email it to carra.osborne@gmail.com and resilientsenc@gmail.com .

Bladen County met for their monthly meeting on Monday, May 23 with 16 people in attendance. The focus was about wellness and mental health awareness. Leader, Carra, shared successes that were happening in Bladen County. Carra and Kelly Purcell shared ideas for supporting mental and physical well-being. Holly from Trillium shared the very exciting news about receiving the grant for Sensory Parks in Bladen County. Learn more Information about PACEs Connection and how to stay connected! Next...

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Key Facts and Statistics from Childwelfare.gov Include these key points in your messaging to demonstrate the important role relative and kinship caregivers play in supporting family connections that are essential to a child’s health and well-being. There are over 407,000 children and youth in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin. The term kin encompasses both relatives (those related by blood or marriage) and fictive kin (those who are unrelated but have such a...

Dr. Wanda Boone, CEO of Durham TRY (Together for Resilient Youth) was our guest speaker for this meeting. Key takeaways from the presentation: “Children thrive when the adults around them are thriving”- Dr. Boone Individual Humility- Understanding that we are all different, have different likes, dislikes, these are based on who we were around as children and our peers as adults. Connection between the social determinates of health and adverse childhood experience Ask the community,...

Resilient Bladen Coalition April 25, 2022 @ 11 AM 15 people present Meeting Minutes Meeting recorded via zoom, recording below Dr. Wanda Boone, CEO of Durham TRY (Together for Resilient Youth) was our guest speaker for this meeting. Key takeaways from the presentation: “Children thrive when the adults around them are thriving”- Dr. Boone Individual Humility- Understanding that we are all different, have different likes, dislikes, these are based on who we were around as children and our...

Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection! DONIELLE PRINCE (PACES CONNECTION STAFF) 3/8/223:01 PM PACES CONNECTION IS EXCITED TO INTRODUCE OUR NEW CREATING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES (CRC) ACCELERATOR PROGRAM. (CLICK HERE TO REVIEW A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH EVENT. SEE BELOW FOR APRIL EVENT TIMES). THE 16 HOUR CRC ACCELERATOR IS FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING AND DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL ACTIVISTS AND ADVOCATES IN TRANSFORMING THEIR COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS...

Motheread Story Exploring Training Saturday-April 23 rd from 9am-12pm (3 CHC) (See Story Exploring Training Description Attachment) Please Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfY8QHX0HkRsn6q2ngvs0D46unNP_VFl9Vz-1VpiT-hN8bi2w/viewform?usp=sf_link The Story Exploring program is designed for use with children from birth through age 11 and incorporates more than 100 multicultural children’s books to build reading and critical thinking skills. The program includes targeted reading,...

Don't miss the next Resilient Bladen meeting which will be on Monday, April 25, at 11 am . Our guest presenter this month will be Dr. Wanda Boone from Durham Together for Resilient Youth . This meeting will be extended till 12:30 pm to allow for her presentation and Q&A. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 85399183180?pwd= TGYzc2tXVHdMVzFPTmVvdUhZOFVWZz 09 TRY- Together for Resilient Youth https://try4resilience.org/about

Join the Bladen County DSS for a Butterfly Release Ceremony in honor or Child Abuse Prevention Month on April 28th at 12:00 p.m.

Please join Blue Collar Consulting this Thursday, April 14 th from 5:30-6:30 pm (ET) , for a Webinar & Conversation on "Change & the Trauma-Informed Lens: Know Better, Do Better." Directions for registering (using the ROI Discount Code & to invoice ticket(s) to ROI), click here .

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