Profile Information
Location
Warren, OH
Country
United States
Postal Code
44484
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Program Coordinator for our county's Family & Children First Council
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I learned about ACEs a few years ago when I was the director of our county domestic violence program. TIC was integral and at the center of how DV programs, especially shelters, provided services. Our DV staff became active on our area Childhood Trauma Informed Care Committee. The Committee's key focus was collecting ACEs data on local children particularly those involved with programs like ours. The Committee met monthly to review the data but also to provide training, to members and to the community, and education about what we were learning from the data we collected from our kids. I left the DV world in November to take on my new position with our Family & Children First Council. Part of my role includes oversight of the TIC Committee.