CRC: Back in Action with Trauma Informed Prevention, Comprehensive Strategies, and Heart Centered Response

As we head into the fall, it’s abundantly clear that whether we like it or not, we have entered a paradigm shift. There’s no way to deny the devastating fallout from racism, the denial of human rights, and social injustice issues are at an all time high. If we could wish away economic uncertainty, fires and natural disasters caused by global warming, and an all-but-promised pandemic surge, we probably would. These reminders are at an all-too-real pique this time of year, especially for educators, schools and parents.

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Here’s what we can do about it: educate ourselves and mobilize as a community, which is exactly what we've been doing together in the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator certification program.

Since the launch of our Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Accelerator certification program last year, we’ve focused on trauma informed awareness and prevention through the education of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs). Our entry-level, virtual 16-hour interactive program is a vehicle for transformative change across sectors that establishes the shared language we need to bridge gaps in social, economic, political, criminal, and environmental justice. Thanks to the generosity of grants, Genentech sponsorship, and partners, the CRC is free to the general public.?

It’s time to mobilize. Access global, healing centered solutions by becoming a member of PACEs Connection and register for Introduction to PACEs Connection, the program prerequisite. Membership and the CRC program are both free.

CRC Program Summary

The PACEs 16-hour Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) accelerator certification program is focused on supporting and developing individual advocates and organizational agents of change in transforming their communities and organizations using PACEs science, trauma-informed awareness and resilience frameworks.

The CRC accelerator will cover fundamental topics such as understanding PACEs science, community organizing, multi-sector collaboration, and strategic planning; as well as several timely topics. Participants who complete all events in the series will receive a Certificate of Completion and will qualify for PACEs Connection fall 2023 fellowship program.

What’s new in September

We’re thrilled that guest CRC facilitators are back in action this fall to give us the latest in education, social justice, the arts, and organizing resilient communities.

We’ll be joined by guest facilitator Nikole Barnes Tejada, co-founder of The Ryder | Talbutt Group, for PACEs Science and Social Justice. Genesis Fisher, Esq., founder and principal attorney of Fisher Law Practice, P.C., will join us as a guest facilitator of Organizing for Resilient Communities.

With shootings and violence at an all time high in schools, we’re thrilled bilingual/bicultural school psychologist, educational consultant, and professional development facilitator Lourdes Alvarez-Ortiz, PhD, will facilitate Introduction to PACEs in Education. In Introduction to Art as Healing a Community, facilitated by Erika Sage Kelley, CEO and principal consultant at Sage Horizons, participants will learn how poetry promotes healing from racial trauma by discovering the connections between poetry and the brain and the links between writing and emotional processing.

This fall, the CRC will announce the application and enrollment process for the CRC Fellowship for program participants who have completed the certification. The learning collaborative aims to support deeper understanding that carries participants from creating resilient communities, to growing them.

It’s time to mobilize?

? Access global, healing centered solutions by becoming a member of PACEs Connection (free).

? Register for Introduction to PACEs Connection, the CRC program prerequisite (free)—there are several event dates available and you only need to attend ONE time.?

? Review a brief description of each self-paced event that repeats monthly and this certification overview.

About PACEs Connection

PACEs Connection is an organization that is fiscally sponsored by TSNE, a 501c3 dedicated to social change. PACEs Connection was originally founded as ACEs Connection by Jane Stevens in 2012 to reshape social, economic, political, criminal, and environmental justice through the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs science). PACEs Connection amplifies and supports the worldwide PACEs movement through free and fee-based trauma-informed education and awareness, healing-centered solutions and science, resilience-building frameworks, antiracism, and social justice advocacy. With a growing membership of 60K members and 430 global communities, PACEs Connection has become the hub and main information resource for the PACEs movement. Our vision is to create, grow, and sustain healing communities in an interconnected, resilient world where all people thrive.?