The city of Chicago, in partnership and with input from hundreds of key stakeholders, unveiled their strategic plan, Healthy Chicago 2.0 which will guide it's work through 2020. One key outcome is to become a trauma-informed city. Our collaborative has been working closely with the health department and will continue to collaborate and maximize resources to make this vision a reality. We are grateful for the support of all our partners and the department in particular for naming this...

In a talk titled “The Magnitude of the Solution: Building Self-Healing Communities,” Laura Porter, a national expert on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), addressed an audience of over 200 clinicians, researchers, teachers, service providers and other community members on April 27, 2016 about the importance of understanding the impact of trauma on health. The talk was hosted by the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative at Northwestern University’s Chicago Campus through generous support of...