Reply to "Feedback for Building a Resilient Community"

Hi Everyone:

I love seeing all the new communities bubbling up. A few ways to explore what other communities have done and are doing to consider below though lots of great stuff has already been shared above: 

• Check all the ACEs Connection Communities. Please know most are based around a geographic area and have counterpart on the ground efforts as well as site presence. Others are organized by topic and don't meet in person but connect across sectors and geographies, online. All are welcome to all.
• For the more visual types, check out Mapping the Movement, here. 
• Our webinars are great places to learn more about what specific initiatives, individuals, and sectors are doing & for sharing some general principles when starting and growing communities. 
  • “Strategic Advocacy: Winning Policy Change without Crossing the Lobbying Line,” co-hosted by CTIPP, third in the series: Thursday, March 14, 2019
  • Self-Healing Communities Model, co hosted with CTIPP, second in the series: Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019
  • New Alaska statute directs state policy to incorporate principles of brain development, co-hosted with CTIPP, first in the series: Friday, Jan. 11, 2019
  • The trauma toll on pediatric immigrants, refugees and their families: Friday, December 14, 2018
  • Jim Sporleder on Trauma-informed Schools: November 19, 2018
  • Teaching trauma-informed practices to students and residents in health care fields: May 14, 2018
  • The State of Childhood Adversity Legislation: Lessons from a National Scan of State Policies and Legislator Experience: May 10, 2018
• The state profiles can give a high level overview. Please use the comments to make sure to add your initiative if you don't see it listed. 
• There's lots and LOTS of stories on ACEsTooHigh as well as on the MARC website with mpre details and examples. 
• For a brief article about some different frameworks and approaches, guidelines, tips, this might be helpful. It includes our own GRC 2.0 framework created by @Jane Stevens, as well as links to the Pair of ACEs, Self-Healing Communities, etc. An updated version isn't yet available (as we just finished presenting on that for the Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conference) but it's got the basics. 
• One of the things that @Robin Saenger of Peace4Tarpon generously shared with a few of us here at ACEs Connection as we spoke of Creating Trauma Sensitive Communities at the Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conference is the importance of this quote (also, isn't Robin's art in this slide amazing?)
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I hope some of that is helpful. 

And hello - @David Cote: Let me know when you want to take next step RE: Maine. 

Cissy