March 2017

As the nation’s capital continued to clean up from a historic blizzard last winter, five immigrant students—unaccompanied minors who had recently arrived from Central America—walked through almost two feet of snow to Montgomery Blair High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, a close-in Washington, D.C., suburb. Montgomery County Public Schools had canceled classes for students during the weather emergency. But the teens didn’t speak English and, coming from a tropical climate, didn’t know...

The following 11 milestones can be used by any organization, such as volunteer, advocacy, neighborhood association, parent association, small business, health clinic, faith-based, recreation, arts...any group of people that organize around a goal or mission and who want to measure their progress in integrating ACEs science into their work. ACEs science presentations to a volunteer or staff member of an organization — someone in the organization has attended a workshop or presentation about...