Collaborative of Communities

The ACEs Coalition of West Virginia is member of PACEs Connection Collaborative of Communities. 

PACEs Connection, an ever-growing social network, connects those who are implementing trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on ACEs science. The network’s 40,000+ members share their best practices, while inspiring each other to grow the PACEs movement.

GROW THE PACEs INITIATIVE!

This Growing Resilient Communities framework provides the basics for growing any PACEs initiative, and supports incorporating any other approach to growing PACEs initiatives in a community, including PACE Interface’s Self-Healing Communities, Northeast


Tennessee's Trauma-Informed System of Care, and the Building Community Resilience Collaborative. Although there are many different ways to accomplish the five parts of Growing Resilient Communities, all of these five parts are critical to the success of any local PACEs initiative. For the detailed version of these guidelines, go to Grow Your PACEs Initiative!

Five basics of growing a city or county PACEs initiative

Educate

Every person and every organization about PACEs science, and how people and organizations integrate trauma-informed and resilience-building practices in themselves, their families, their organizations, their systems, and the communities in which they live. 

Aggregate

Gather data, such as the number of PACEs science presentations, the number of organizations that are becoming trauma-informed, the resulting outcomes in organizations and sectors, such as higher grades, less absenteeism, and less teacher turnover in schools.

Engage

People and organizations to join the local PACEs initiative. A little bit or a lot...any involvement is good.

Activate

People and organizations to commit to integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices in their personal, family, volunteer, work and community lives. This heals systems and communities!

Celebrate

Any accomplishment! PACEs summits, community resilience days, proclamations. Post anything, large or small, that your community is doing on PACEsConnection.com and other social media.

Cooperative of Communities 

Is a program of PACEs Connection that provides special tools and services for PACEs initiatives in neighborhoods, towns, cities, counties, regions, states and countries. It’s affiliate-driven, which means that PACEs initiatives steer the course of the cooperative.

ACEs Coalition of West Virginia receives the following benefits


  • Data-gathering tools and guidelines, including a Community Resilience Tracker. (Here’s the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network community site and a direct link to their tracker) 
  • Pop-up learning collaboratives, training, and think-tanks, including such topics as the intersectionality of ACEs, racism and inequity; network leadership; and PACEs-science informed capitalism. 
  • Eligibility for participation in cooperative committees and advisory committees.
  • Jobs bank
  • Fiscal pass-through for qualifying funds /activities

PACEs Connection launched this Cooperative because they understand that making the transition to healing-centered cultures based on PACEs science is not a three- or four-year endeavor. Depending on the community, it’s at least a 20-year transition, and more likely, a 30- to 40-year transition, and we all want to be here for the duration of the transition.

The ACEs Coalition of West Virginia wants to contribute to the PACEs movement to grow and support people, families, organizations, systems and communities for as long as it takes to create a state and ultimately worldwide healing-centered culture based on PACEs science. We want that to take hold in this world in the same way electricity has — we only notice it if it isn’t there. 

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Don’t tell someone to get over it. Help them get through it.

Sue Fitzmaurice

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