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Elaine:

I know that Benchmarks PFE (Partnering for Excellence) has a pilot program going. They are working with researchers from Duke to help measure and assess. They are doing a few things I think are pretty cool:

  • Making sure therapists and clinicians are trauma-informed and ACEs aware.
  • Making sure Child Welfare and Family Services is trauma-informed and ACEs aware.
  • Making sure medical insurers they work with are as well.
  • But they are also doing some innovative things such as working with and listening to adults who were in foster care and asking for their ideas, having them present at conferences and in meetings. They are looking at the fact that they have had generations of families in the system and clearly it's not working. They bring in speakers like Tonier Cain who speaks from having been in the system.

Private message me if you'd like me to help get you in touch with them. Here are a few links to their work. They have an ACEs Connection site

Here's the Duke Univ. link:.

The Benchmarks PFE website.

Finally, Rise Magazine has some of the best writing and reporting on this topic by mostly parents but some social workers/staff as well who have been involved with the system and have insights, advice, experiences to share.

I recommend posting on the home page as well.

GREAT and important question/topic!

Cissy

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