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These resources are built on the foundation of positive and adverse childhood experiences science, which includes the:
Our approach is to curate carefully, not catalogue. If you have resources to add or suggestions to improve, contact Rafael Maravilla or Natalie Audage.
Jane Stevens, PACEs Connection publisher
If we want to prevent mass shootings, using motive as a way to prevent mass shootings will just get you a useless answer to the wrong question.
Jane Stevens, PACEs Connection publisher
He was there only two years, but he, his team and community made great strides.
Christine Cowart, PACEs Connection member
The project will use a trauma-informed approach,to develop design recommendations intended to lower stress levels.
Janie Lancaster, PACEs Connection member
The book help build a bridge between the deaf and hearing worlds.
The Building Better Childhoods Toolkit (2022) is intended to support organizations in their interaction with media, the general public, and other stakeholders when speaking about childhood adversity. Top line recommendations include the following:
1) At a high level, child adversity must be framed as a public issue, a preventable problem, and a solvable problem.
2) To position child adversity as a public issue:
3) To help people see where prevention efforts would make a difference:
4) To make it clear that solutions exist and are worth pursuing:
The toolkit is based on the February 2021 framing brief titled “Reframing Childhood Adversity: Promoting Upstream Approaches” developed by the FrameWorks Institute, in partnership with Prevent Child Abuse America and Social Current (formerly the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities-Council on Accreditation).