Dear PACEs Community Members, In 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, DCF launched the Office of Resilience to lead our work in responding to and raising awareness around Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs). Since then, the office has continued to make progress supporting healing-engaged communities through local partnerships with law enforcement, educators, public officials, and non-profit organizations, with the intention to build up the capacity for...

It was a Thursday evening around 6pm, and the youth center at UrbanPromise Ministries in Camden, NJ was a hive of activity. Kids buzzed with energy as parents signed in at the greeter table, while down the hall a line of eager possibly people were being served a hot meal before finding seats in the main room. Further down the hall was the childcare room bright with colors and activities awaiting little hands to use them. Welcome to the Be Inc. Collective Family Café! Brainchild of Siomara...

(Washington, NJ) Tracey Wilson Heisler, MA is known for many things in our community: child advocate, trauma educator, and protector of farmland from warehouse development. She now has a new identity: local author. Her inaugural book, The Shadow in Our Lives : One family’s recovery from child sexual abuse , was recently released. “It’s never been a secret,” says Heisler, “but my first husband molested one of our children. She disclosed the abuse to me 20 years ago, and we have worked hard...

The NJ Office of Resilience wants to connect with you, in your community, to introduce or advance information and programs that help to prevent and heal the trauma that affects people’s ability to thrive! While traumatic experiences can occur at any age, I’m primarily referring to ACEs, Adverse Childhood Experiences, that happen to children and can have lasting effects into adulthood, especially if not countered with Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs). Together, positive, and adverse...

PACEs Family, The Office of Resilience is hiring an Assistant Director for the NJ Resilience Institute. Attached you will find the job posting or you can click here . Please share with your networks!

Come join The Riverside Trauma Center, a service of Riverside Community Care, Inc., for its 12 th annual virtual conference on February 2, 2023. We’d love to see you and your community there! The Rise of Resilience: Living Through Trauma and Disruptive Events ,’ will bring together leaders, employers, health and human service workers, educators, and government officials to discuss how trauma intersects topics such as diversity, equity, productivity, growth, and the humanization of work;...