PACEs Connection is a social network that recognizes the impact of a wide variety of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and that promotes trauma-informed, healing-centered and resilience-building practices and policies in all families, organizations, systems, and communities.
We support communities to accelerate the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences to solve our most intractable problems. During the past year we have focused attention on each of our core areas: Prevention, Support, Community and Tools.
For established initiatives, as part of our Sustaining Resilient Communities program, our Cooperative of Communities is able to access more advanced tools and services. These communities are in it for the long haul. As those of you who have been involved in spreading the word about PACEs science and in integrating practices and policies based on PACEs science, the transition to healing-centered cultures is not a three- or four-year endeavor. Depending on the community, it can be a 20-year endeavor.
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