From 2020-2021, Tend Collective’s founder, Alison Cebulla, produced and hosted “A Better Normal” at PACEs Connection, a live Zoom event series with experts in trauma-informed (TI) care, TI community development, and adverse childhood experiences science.
Tend Collective’s Donielle Prince is featured in many of these episodes.
Community Resiliency Model with Elaine Miller-Karas.
Elaine Miller Karas, founder of the Trauma Resources Institute and one of the key creators of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM), an ACES-science based biological model for helping individuals become emotionally regulated during natural disasters and other dysregulating times, will join ACEs Connection SE regional community facilitator Carey Sipp. Elaine will discuss how to use the CRM for yourself, your family, and your community during the current pandemic. Anyone can be trained to go from despair to hope by using simple skills-based interventions such as resourcing, grounding, and becoming present so that they can get unstuck from fear and flight, fight, freeze.
Systems Transformation with Kanwarpal Dhaliwal.
Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, associate director of RYSE Youth Center in Richmond, CA, is leading a cross-sector emergency pandemic response community initiative called West Contra Costa Covid Community Care, which puts in practice policy action that helps build the "better normal" right now — a time when the gaps in the social safety net have never been so glaring. Hosted by Donielle Prince, PhD, and facilitated by Alison Cebulla.
The Power of Discord with Dr. Ed Tronick and Dr. Claudia Gold.
A community discussion with Ed Tronick, PhD and Claudia Gold, MD. They discuss the work in their new book The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience, and Trust, which they co-wrote. This discussion was hosted by Cissy White and moderated by Alison Cebulla.
Ed Tronick, Ph.D., is a developmental neuroscientist and clinical psychologist and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he is chief faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program. He is a research associate in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the author of five books and more than 450 scientific papers. His current research focuses on the behavior and physiology of infants’ and mothers’ coping with stress, infant memory for stress and its relation to trauma, epigenetic processes affecting infants’ and parents’ behavior, and the factors leading to relapse in new mothers with opioid use disorder.
Claudia M. Gold, MD, is a pediatrician and writer who has practiced general and behavioral pediatrics for more than twenty years and currently specializes in infant-parent mental health. She is the author of The Developmental Science of Early Childhood, The Silenced Child, and Keeping Your Child in Mind. Dr. Gold is a pediatrician, infant-family specialist, and the director of The Hello It's Me Project. She is on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Program. To find more about Dr. Gold and her books and work, or to read her blog, writes regularly for her blog Child in Mind, please visit her website: www.claudiamgoldmd.com
Racial Trauma & How to be Anti-Racist with Ingrid Cockhren.
Protests and riots across the country--and even worldwide--are making it impossible to ignore the racial trauma of police brutality and historical trauma embedded within our society. Many of us are grappling with complex feelings of helplessness and righteous anger. In response to this pandemic of racism in America, "A Better Normal" will hold space for an authentic discussion concerning the recent racially charged murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. Please join for a discussion with Ingrid Cockhren, M.Ed, CEO of PACEs Connection, Dana Brown, and Agnes Woodward, moderated by Alison Cebulla.
Reinterpreting American Identity with Donielle Prince and Alison Cebulla.
Alison Cebulla and Donielle Prince discuss racial and historical trauma in the United States. Facilitated by Jenna Quinn.
Building a Resilient Workforce with Pam Black and Karen Johnson.
How do we build a resilient workforce that can thrive in the face of adversity? And how do we sort out which resources and supports are most needed when building a staff support plan? These are burning questions for leadership, especially during this time of COVID-19. Gail Kennedy of PACEs Connection will talk with Pam Black of Trauma-Sensitive Education, and Karen Johnson of Trauma-Informed Lens Consulting, about the Workforce Resilience Framework, a trauma-informed approach for supporting staff across a wide continuum of needs. The framework is built on trauma-informed principles and practices and focuses on supporting the entire workforce while responding to smaller groups of staff and specific individuals who need more targeted support.
Trauma-Informed Systems of Care with Danette Glass and Becky Haas.
ACEs champions Danette Glass of Alpharetta, Georgia, and Becky Haas, of Johnson City, Tennessee, work in different—yet similar—ways to see systems of care change to help prevent and heal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and to help individuals and communities increase resilience. Haas has worked from the inside out, most recently as the ACEs educator for a regional healthcare system and previously in a similar role with local law enforcement. Glass has often worked from the outside in, to improve systems of care or create her own to effect change. Haas, the author of a toolkit shared in ACEs Connection Growing Resilient Communities (Building a Trauma-Informed System of Care), learned about ACEs in 2014, while working with police to reduce drug-related and violent crime. Hosted by Carey Sipp and facilitated by Alison Cebulla.
Community, Poverty, & Parenting with ACEs with Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz.
Featured guest is Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz, hosted by Cissy White and facilitated by Alison Cebulla about building community, ending poverty, and parenting with ACEs. Rebecca shares her personal story as well as her work with families, schools, and communities.
Building a Trauma-Informed Culture with Lori Chelius and Andi Fetzner.
Origins’ mission is to support the development of leaders in their journey to build more resilient organizations and communities through the integration of a trauma-informed approach. Hosted by Gail Kennedy and facilitated by Jenna Quinn.
Positive Childhood Experiences with Dr. Christine Bethell.
Dr. Christina Bethell, Jennifer Jones, Dr. Narangerel Gombojav, Dr. Jeff Linkenbach, and Dr. Robert Sege researched positive childhood experiences and published their findings in 2019. They used data from Wisconsin’s ACE study to look at seven positive childhood experiences (PCEs) and found that positive childhood experiences show a dose-response association with depression and poor mental health, just as ACEs show a dose-response. The more PCEs, the less depression; the more ACEs, the more depression. But here’s Bethell’s important conclusion: “Joint assessment of PCEs and ACEs may better target needs and interventions and enable a focus on building strengths to promote well-being.”
Dr. Bethell is a Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health and in the JHU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics’ Division of General Pediatrics. Her research, education, and service work focuses on building and translating the science of healthy development and the advancement of a new integrated Science of Thriving to promote early and lifelong health of children, youth, families and communities.
