This is just a quick note to thank ACEs Connection for the incredible resources that are offered simply as a result of joining the website. In Vermont we are busy with our "Building Flourishing Communities" initiative, built on Laura Porter's Self-Healing Communities model. We are 18 months into our work and have just secured a second round of funding by being part of a federal grant that our Child Development Division won. We are very small, and have very little bandwidth for anything other...

It was a full house last at the Savoy Theater, in Montpelier VT), to see Kim Pierce's video, "Faces of ACEs." They had a second showing since not everyone who had come out on a windy, snowy Sunday evening could get in for the first showing. The video is a very moving account of Kim's work screening her patients at the Plainfield Health Center for ACEs, and their responses to the screening. It is clear that the discussions about ACEs and their connections to life patterns is transformative...

Untreated Trauma and Chronic Disease Network - background information for April, 2012 meeting   The Interface between Mental Health and Medical Care   Background:   Vermont’s Blueprint for Health is “a state-led initiative...

Untreated Trauma and Chronic Disease Network  Agenda – April 18 th , 1pm -3 pm   Meeting objectives: 1)      agree on a primary goal for the network 2)      agree on some “first...

In the fall of 2011, I founded a state-wide network to bring together those entities working on trauma. I thought I would post the rationale for the network I wrote last fall, and then the agenda for our next meeting, and maybe minutes and such. If...