Community partners working together
to build health and resilience
January 2022
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Coalition Announcements and Meetings |
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PACEs Action Alliance *
*Positive over Adverse Childhood Experiences
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The ACEs Action Alliance is adding something positive to our name!
ACEs Action Alliance is changing its name to PACEs Action Alliance (Positive Over Adverse Experiences). Positive experiences help children develop the resilience needed to overcome the effects of adverse experiences, so we are prioritizing "P" for "positive" in our name. Our logo and website updates are still in progress. Thank you for your patience, and please reach out if you would like to help.
The healing power of positivity, hope and connection suggests we build on our community's foundations of strength and work together to increase opportunities for relationships, equity, skill-building, fun and health. That is what we will do more of this year.
Meetings will begin again at 9 am on Friday, Feb. 11. Hope you will be able to join us via Zoom to discuss projects and systems that can help us connect to one another and form the healing network needed by families in Clark County.
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Trauma-Informed Schools Workgroup |
Click on the button below or connect manually:
When: 1 pm on Thursday, January 13
- Meeting ID: 827 1340 7436
- One tap mobile
+12532158782,,82713407436# US (Tacoma)
+13462487799,,82713407436# US (Houston)
- Dial up: +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
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Faith-Based Coffee meetings are on pause due to COVID-related demands on our schools as well as zoom fatigue. Our schools are extremely appreciative of the support from their partner faith communities. See below for contact information if you want to connect your faith community to a school partner.
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SW WA Healthy Families is collaborating with community partners to update the 2022-2023 strategic plan. Please join us at noon on Jan. 24 to participate in a facilitated activity that will help guide the strategic plan.
Click button below to register:
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Safe Kids Worldwide will send monthly product safety and recall announcements directly to your inbox. Sign up here.
Recall notice: Adult bed rails. In December, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled nearly 377,000 adult bed rails linked to four entrapment deaths. The recall applies to four models of Endurance Hand Bed Rails marketed by Essential Medical Supply Inc. of Orlando, FL.
Teaching your kids to cook? Give yourself a break and enable your kids to be more self-sufficient by teaching them how to operate safely in the kitchen. Safe Kids Worldwide offers a handout for Cooking Safety that can be posted on the refrigerator as your children are taught to make their own meals or snacks.
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Providence Children's Center and Help Me Grow Oregon will teach parents how to help their kids with disabilities to set goals at 6 pm on Jan. 19. |
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Learn how sibling relationships can enrich family life - especially for children living with disabilities. This is a two-part series at 6 pm on Jan. 12 and 26. |
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Attend this webinar to learn more about the Safe Babies Court program coming to Clark County Superior Court. Noon on Wednesday, Jan. 12. |
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Are you 60 or better?
The Clark County Commission on Aging (COA) recognizes that organizations and individuals who support our community have had to be flexible during the pandemic in order to connect people to vital resources and information.
This short survey will help the Commission better understand the ways in which Clark County residents (60 years and older), service providers, caregivers and organizations have been successful in the reaching out to one another, and where there are gaps in these connections. The information we gain will help the Commission strengthen partnerships with foundations, service providers and businesses to better connect you to resources.
This survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Your personal responses will remain anonymous.
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This training, provided by PAVE and PEACE NW, will cover student rights, tips for family advocates, how to write accommodations, modifications and goals. There will be time for questions. 6 pm on Jan. 11. Zoom link will be sent to those who register. Click on flier above for more information or click below to register. |
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Cafe con Peace is an informal group that meets at 7 pm on Fridays via Zoom. Topics include resource sharing, self-care, training opportunities and other topics of conversation with parents and caregivers who have experience raising a child with a disability. For more info, call Tanya English at 360-487-0776 or email culturaloutreach2@peacenw.org.
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Shelters are open. Let your contacts know. Call the Council for the Homeless Hotline at 360.695.9677 for more information or referral. |
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The doctor's pointers:
- Follow a Mediterranean diet, high in veggies, fruit and omega-3 fats, but low in processed foods and sugar.
- Drink plenty of water.
- Mind your microbiome (see article for more).
- Limit caffeine-containing beverages to one or two cups per day.
- Consider probiotics and supplements if necessary.
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Trauma not only impacts students, it can flavor the relationships between students and teachers. Register to attend a special session of the Miss Kendra Webinar Series to learn how to re-animate student-teacher relationships that have been impacted by trauma. 1 pm, Jan. 11.
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A child's reading proficiency by third grade is the most important predictor of high school graduation and career success. Yet every year, more than 80 percent of low-income children miss this crucial milestone.
The Campaign for Grade Level Reading (GLR) offers frequent online webinars to educate parents, communities and educators on how to promote reading achievement by creating positive supports and reducing childhood adversity and inequity.
GLR also maintains a YouTube channel where you can find their webinar recordings, including a recent session about the New Jersey Tutoring Corps, a collaborative small-group summer reading program that is making a difference for K-5 students.
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Yes! Solutions Magazine talks to trauma expert, Gabor Mate, and explores whether tracing addiction to childhood trauma can inspire compassion. The article by Travis Lupic is available here.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a report on Health Equity. At this site you can download the full report, which includes clear guidelines and measurable steps to ensure your work supports equity for all.
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More about our coalitions and community groups |
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PACEs Action Alliance is: |
A multi-sector collaborative of public and private organizations and individuals. We raise awareness about positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) and their long-term impact. We promote trauma-informed approaches and policies to support resilience and healing for people of all ages. All are welcome at our meetings.
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PACEs Action Alliance Learning Collaborative supports learning and awareness about childhood trauma and resilience.
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The Community Alliance Network meetings foster connections between community-serving agencies to enable potential collaboration and group problem-solving;
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The Trauma-Informed Schools Workgroup is for people who work in or with schools in Clark County. We meet monthly during the school year to explore tools, resources and applications of trauma-informed principles for schools.
Five key functions served by the PACEs Alliance:
- Support a healing community through policies, systems and environments that create and support safety, inclusion and positive childhood experiences;
- Educate the community about the causes, lifelong impact and ways of preventing and mitigating childhood trauma and toxic stress;
- Facilitate opportunities for community mobilization;
- Promote and facilitate cross-sector connection and collaboration;
- Collect, evaluate and share data that helps our community to identify and address root causes of adversity and to measure our efforts to increase resilience.
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This group provides a non-denominational bridge that joins faith partners, communities and local schools to share learning, meet the needs of children, families and neighborhoods, and address emergent needs that arise in our community. All are welcome. Participants maintain the separation of church and state at meetings and when fulfilling needs by serving from the heart without promoting personal religious beliefs or engaging in religious recruitment.
Meetings are on pause for the remainder of the 2021-22 school year. If you represent a faith community or community partner looking for a school partner, please contact:
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Southwest Washington Healthy Families: |
(Formerly Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition) works collaboratively to improve the health of our community by promoting, protecting and supporting breast/chestfeeding so families have the support they need to continue infant feeding. Our mission is to create an environment that supports breast/chestfeeding as the cultural norm for infant feeding. For more information, contact Yasmina Aknin.
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The Healthy Communities Newsletter is published the first week of each month.
To submit announcements or share information, please send complete information or attach a
All submissions will be screened and may be edited prior to publication.
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For other formats, contact the Clark County ADA Office
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