It's been two decades since the groundbreaking ACEs Study and we now face epidemic rates of childhood trauma and maltreatment. Everything we have done has led us to a very distressing status quo with millions of families in peril. We have have an excellent opportunity to do things differently. We can look at family systems and then expand our vision to include community systems of care and safety.
We can ensure that every child and parent has access to behavioral health care, parent supports, early childhood learning programs, safe shelter, transport, family-centered schools, job training, youth mentors and food. This is roll-up-your-sleeves work and we are thrilled to be doing it in a state with one of the nation's highest poverty rates.
In New Mexico we are implementing the nation's first data-driven, cross-sector and systemic prevention program focused on ending childhood trauma, abuse and neglect. The Resilience Leaders program is a first-of-its-kind, guided by a socially-engaged non-profit collective. We are not guided by hunches or what's been done before, we are guided by data and committed to collaboration across our pilot site in Santa Fe. www.ResilienceLeaders.org
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