Profile Information
Location
New Orleans, LA
Country
United States
Postal Code
70131
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Leader/Executive Director of a quasi governmental entity purposed to improve youth outcomes in New Orleans.
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
New Orleans Children & Youth Planning Board
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
Attention must be paid to root causes rather than continuing to admire symptoms; solving for symptoms wastes resources and may cause systems to further traumatize youth. ACEs propels work toward root cause solutions and factors in any long term impacts, effects.
Heard about ACEs at a child welfare conference years ago. Have been hearing more about ACEs every since, with varying degrees of depth.