Strength Through Unity: Nurturing Trauma-informed Resilience in Families Displaced by Violence Through the CRC & the PACEs Movement

PACEs science is for everyone. If we’ve learned anything since we founded our organization, we’ve learned that our purpose-driven members that participate in the Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Accelerator certification program are known for having a deep affinity for humanitarian, philanthropic, and educational causes. Beyond Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), our members seek to deeply understand strengths-based insights embedded in the remaining ACEs quadrant: Adverse Community Environments, Adverse Climate Experiences, and Atrocious Cultural Experiences.?

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The same can be said for our body of 60K PACEs Connection members across 430 global communities who seek to ameliorate gaps in understanding about social, economic, political, criminal, and environmental justice and historic trauma—including the politicization of human rights issues and the importance of avoiding retraumatization—in order to transform their organizations and communities through the development of trauma-informed (TI) awareness and resilience building frameworks through the evidence of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs).

“Privilege is, by the social justice definition, the advantages people have that they don't think about because they never have to experience the oppressive side. Understanding it requires an active effort to see things from the perspective of other, underprivileged people." -Cate Harpool

We remind current and future members, including those just beginning to learn about the negative short and long term health outcomes of toxic stress, that Children and Families Displaced by War & Violence is a well researched resource that is free and available to the general public. Join the CRC Accelerator to learn healing centered practices alongside like minded members across a variety of sectors.

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 November?

We’re thrilled that guest CRC facilitators are back in action this November to give us the latest in social justice, the arts, and organizing resilient communities. We’ll be joined by Nikole Barnes, LICSW, co-founder of The Ryder | Talbutt Group, who will join as a guest facilitator 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.?

Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW , author of The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals, will join as a guest facilitator of CRC: Introduction to Arts as Healing a Community to offer creative ways to promote healing.?Lara Kain, founder of Lara Kain Consulting, Coordinator, Education consultant, facilitator, and national speaker on implementing school system transformation and trauma-informed practices into schools, will facilitate Introduction to PACEs in Education.

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 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.

? Complete the CRC Accelerator certification and join the CRC Fellowship program.

Join the PACEs Movement & Become a Sponsor

PACEs Connection is the information resource for the evidence of Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences and has become the hub of the PACEs movement. Thanks to the generosity of grants, Genentech sponsorship, partners, funders, and donors, the CRC is free to the general public and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support we can continue to share, create, grow, and sustain healing communities. To become a partner, please contact Carey Sipp, Director of Strategic Partnerships. We encourage and welcome your support of our work. If you represent a corporation, or community foundation and have questions, please email me at [email protected] to apply. Partners agree with our Vision, Mission, Equity & Inclusion Statement, Values and Values statements, and sign a “Memorandum of Partnership” to that effect.

As a Part of the PACEs Movement, It’s Raining Gratitude!

PACEs Connection is grateful that you’re as passionate about trauma-informed awareness and heart-centered resilience building through a PACEs lens as we are. Our science is for everyone who wants to create, grow, and sustain resilient communities. We also know access matters. Thanks to the generosity of grants, Genentech sponsorship, and partners, the CRC Accelerator certification program is FREE. Pay it forward through this Click-to-Tweet link we created to make it easier to promote the CRC or share the CRC with your communities and workplaces.

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.?