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AR ACEs Workgroup Hosts Planning Workshop

 

About 40 members of the Arkansas Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience Workgroup attended a planning workshop July 25 at the Hillary Clinton Children's Library in Little Rock. The workshop was facilitated by Mike Craw, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas - Little Rock School of Public Affairs and coordinator of UA-Little Rock's Center for Public Collaboration. 

The workgroup has adopted the Collective Impact framework for change, and the workshop is the group's latest step toward developing its common agenda. After a series of round table discussions, group decided by vote on three major goals: raising awareness about ACEs, resilience, and trauma-informed care; developing legislative champions; and preventing ACEs. The group also worked on developing one strategy for each goal. 

The workgroup will continue to collect input from the community and others through a series of future events, including the upcoming AR ACEs and Resilience Summit: Every Child, in Every Community, scheduled for Sept. 25-26 in Little Rock. 

 

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2018 AR ACEs/Resilience Summit: Every Child, in Every Community

Camp Aldersgate

Save the date for the 2018 AR ACEs/Resilience Summit: Every Child, in Every Community, scheduled for Sept. 25-26 in Little Rock. 

The focus for this year’s summit is on incorporating equity into efforts to prevent, identify and mitigate ACEs. 

Howard Pinderhughes, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, will be our morning keynote speaker. His research includes the intersection of historical and community trauma and ACEs.

Renee Boynton Jarrett, MD, ScD, is the afternoon plenary speaker. She is a practicing primary care pediatrician at Boston Medical Center, a social epidemiologist and the founding director of the Vital Village Community Engagement Network. Through the Vital Village Network, she is supporting the development of community-based strategies to promote child well-being in three Boston neighborhoods. She joined the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine in 2007 and is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics.

Her work focuses on the role of early-life adversities as life course social determinants of health. She has a specific interest in the intersection of community violence, intimate partner violence, and child abuse and neglect and neighborhood characteristics that influence these patterns.

Breakout session topics include: 

  • Information about ACEs and their effects on a child’s health and well-being
  • Ways organizations can become trauma-informed
  • How safe, positive, equitable, and nurturing communities can prevent ACEs and build resilience
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