Elevator pitches
Here are elevator pitches, from several sources: From our friends at Fenton Communications: 60-second version As you probably know, if bad things happen to you to as a child, it can impact your health for the rest of your life. ...
Growing Resilient Communities Blog Posts
Slogans/tag lines
Peace4Tarpon, Tarpon Springs, FL -- Peace4Tarpon....O ffer the peace/piece you can. Children's Resilience Initiative, Walla Walla, WA -- Resilience Trumps ACEs and Empowering community understanding of the forces that shape us and our...
Vision statements
NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) We envision a just world in which individuals and communities have the power, resources and support to create and take part in robust systems of care. Those systems—health,...
Mission statements
Maine Resilience Building Network To promote resilience in all people by increasing and improving our understanding of traumas and stressors such as ACEs and why they matter. NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) The National...
Strategic Goals
NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) Create a common language informed by robust data and brought to life by compelling stories of healing and recovery. Use key messages to inform and inspire policymakers, practitioners, funders,...
Principles
NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) Inclusivity: We believe that community voices, alongside those of policy-makers, practitioners and researchers, should contribute to dialogue and change. Equity: We believe that every...
Letter of Commitment -- Walla Walla, WA
Working document, 3/20/15 Walla Walla, Washington MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between the Children’s Resilience Initiative and Community Partners PREAMBLE VISION: All young people thrive and parents raise their children with...
Meeting Agendas: Community Meetings, Steering Group, Strategic Planning Meeting
Recommended Roles Facilitator: See draft agenda below Note taker: Type notes on laptop at meeting Uploader and photographer: Upload notes to ACEs Connection group as a blog for comment by group, populate ACEs Connection group with content from...
The ACEs Connection Community Tracker — Presentations Tracker
ACEs Connection Community Tracker is an extremely useful tool for local ACEs initiatives to measure their progress as they educate their community about ACEs science. Here's a link to Northeast Tennessee's Community Tracker . It maps the presentations that your ACEs initiative has made. It tracks: who did the presentation, to what organization, when the presentation took place, how many people attended identifies the sector and subsector of those attending. To accompany the presentations...
ACEs Connection Community Resilience Tracker — Milestones Tracker
The ACEs Connection Community Resilience Tracker has two parts: The Milestones Tracker and Sector Pages. The Milestones Tracker helps track how many steps towards becoming trauma-informed that organizations in a community have taken. These milestones were chosen by ACEs Connection based on an extensive literature review of evidence-based self assessments by organizations. Here's a link to Northeast Tennessee's Community Resilience Tracker , which includes the Milestones Tracker . (Please...