1. Starting & Growing Resilient Communities Session 2: Organizing Your ACEs Initiative

2. Join ACEs Connection: Starting & Growing Resilient Communities:
Organizing Your ACEs Initiative Panelists
ABOUT US
Ingrid Cockhren, TN & Midwest Community Facilitator
Karen Clemmer, Northern CA & Northwest Community Facilitator
Lara Kain, Southern CA Community Facilitator
Join ACEs Connection:
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ACEs Connection is a social network. Some people call it Facebook for the ACEs movement…with more bells and whistles. ACEs Connection was launched in 2012 by Jane Stevens, a health, science and technology journalist who realized a need to educate the public about ACEs science and to create a social network for people interested in this newly emerging field.
Over the last SIX years, membership in ACEs Connection has grown to 24,000 people from more than 40 countries. About 150 city, county, regions and states with ACEs initiatives have community sites on ACEs Connection, and that number also continues to grow.
We receive generous funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The California Endowment so that the tools, resources and support on ACEs Connection are free to members.

3. Join ACEs Connection: Starting & Growing Resilient Communities:
Housekeeping
ABOUT US
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Questions will be answers at the end of the presentation
This session is being recorded and will be available for future viewing
Any questions or concerns not addressed during this webinar will be answered via ACEsConnection.com
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4. ACEs Connection: Supporting Communities to Accelerate
ACEs Science and Solve Our Most Intractable Problems
ABOUT US
ACEs 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 and resilience-building practices and policies in all families, organizations, systems and communities.
Join ACEs Connection:
Go to acesconnection.com
Click Join!
ACEs Connection is a social network. Some people call it Facebook for the ACEs movement…with more bells and whistles. ACEs Connection was launched in 2012 by Jane Stevens, a health, science and technology journalist who realized a need to educate the public about ACEs science and to create a social network for people interested in this newly emerging field.
Over the last SIX years, membership in ACEs Connection has grown to 24,000 people from more than 40 countries. About 150 city, county, regions and states with ACEs initiatives have community sites on ACEs Connection, and that number also continues to grow.
We receive generous funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The California Endowment so that the tools, resources and support on ACEs Connection are free to members.

5. Call-to-Action
These are all the cities, counties or states that have communities on ACEs Connection. We plan on growing this to about 300 by the end of March.

6. Organizing Your ACEs Initiative: Agenda
Series Overview
Mission & Value Statements
Creating Norms
Strategic Planning
Tips for Organizing an Initiative

9. Mission & Value Statements

10. But all this is not happening fast enough, and, in some places, it’s happening in fits and starts. Over the last couple of years, we could see where communities were hitting some brick walls, especially in figuring out how to launch their ACEs initiatives, and how to measure their progress. 
So, we developed Growing Resilient Communities 2.0, guidelines and tools for communities. 

11. Mission Statements What does your initiative plan to do? And how?
Why does your initiative exist?
Who does your initiative serve?

12. American Red Cross
“To prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.”

13. But all this is not happening fast enough, and, in some places, it’s happening in fits and starts. Over the last couple of years, we could see where communities were hitting some brick walls, especially in figuring out how to launch their ACEs initiatives, and how to measure their progress. 
So, we developed Growing Resilient Communities 2.0, guidelines and tools for communities. 

14. Value Statements What does your initiative envision for the future?
What is the “Big Picture”?
What does your initiative aim to accomplish?

15. Alzheimer’s Association
“A world without Alzheimer’s disease.”

16. Creating Norms

17. Creating Norms Rules of Engagement Operating Norms Code of Conduct
By Laws

18. Creating Norms Should align with goals
Should allow for all members to participate
Should increase productivity & effectiveness
Should increase efficiency

19. Creating Norms: Examples
Respect One Another
All Voices Should Be Heard
No Triangulation
No Assumptions, Ask for Clarification

20. Strategic Planning

23. AC Tool for assessing engagement with sectors and subsectors assessment - sectors - subsectors
Example El Dorado County ACEs Connection for a robust example - using a spreadsheet - functioning as the backbone organization and nudging folks towards shared goals and or conceptualizing “issues”

24. Next, the embedded Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) - integrated plan - shows how targeted funding can drive specific areas of work (behavioral health) through targeted collaboration. You will see that they work with early childhood folks, law enforcement, education, transitional age youth, and more .... it is through these strategic collaborations (usually they chair the meeting and set the agenda, so they can move the discussion in a specific way - as informed by their local community needs assessment findings indicate. 

25. Tips for Organizing an Initiative

26. Some challenges groups face:
Lack of trust
Power struggles
Can't’ agree on goals
Challenged to stick to the priorities
The benefits of a facilitator
Neutral party
No stake in the game
Can focus on the process
Can keep group focused on the agreed goals

27. Working visually, coming together, rowing in the same direction

28. Any Questions?

29. Join ACEs Connection: Join Your Local ACEs Initiative! ABOUT US
ACEs Connection Community Facilitators
ABOUT US
Gail Kennedy, Western States & Central CA
Ingrid Cockhren, TN & Midwest
Cissy White, Northeast
Carey Sipp, Southeast
Karen Clemmer, Northwest & Northern CA
Donielle Prince, San Francisco Bay Area CA
Lara Kain, Southern CA
Join ACEs Connection:
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Click Join!
Thank you!!

31. Starting/Growing an ACEs Initiative ACEs Connection Contacts
Karen Clemmer
Northern California, or West
Ingrid Cockhren
Northern Midwest
Cissy White
Northeast
Donielle Prince
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Karen Clemmer
Northern Western States
Lara Kain
Southern California
Gail Kennedy
Central California
Donielle Prince
San Francisco
Bay Area, CA
Gail Kennedy
Western States
Cissy White
Northeast
Lara Kain
Southern CA
Carey Sipp
Southeast
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Carey Sipp
Southeast
Ingrid Cockhren
Northern Midwest
For International Communities, contact: Gail Kennedy
DECEMBER 2018