ACEs & Resilience:
Mobilizing Communities around a Comprehensive Strategy

Even though there is growing awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), brain science, and trauma-informed practices, many coalitions struggle with how to develop and implement a multi-faceted strategy for such a complex issue.

This webinar will introduce a high-value online resource hub—the ACEs & Resilience Resource Commons for Communities, which is called the ARRCC. You’ll learn about a comprehensive strategy map template that helps tame the complexity of all the strategies that can be a part of preventing and addressing trauma.

The webinar will also introduce a case study that was recently featured in a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Change Management called “Leading Social Transformations: Creating Public Value and Advancing the Common Good.”

Participants will also learn about a 6-month program to help accelerate and enhance the work of coalitions striving to reduce ACEs and become trauma-informed communities. This program, called the ARRCC Action Network, includes extensive training on how to achieve collaborative success at scale—even when resources are tight.

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SPEAKERS:

Bill Barberg, a co-founder of the Population Health Learning Collaborative, is the President and Founder of InsightFormation, Inc., a Minnesota-based consulting and technology company that helps communities, regions, and states address complex social and health issues that require multi-stakeholder collaboration. His deep background in strategy implementation has been featured in dozens of conference presentations and webinars, and he both organized and hosted the recent virtual summit on Innovations in Naturally Affordable Housing. He has been a pioneer in many projects that have pushed forward the practices for achieving Collective Impact on a wide range of issues—from addressing the opioid crisis to transforming housing re-developments into Communities of Hope in Detroit.

Bill was selected to write the chapter on “Implementing Population Health Strategies” for the book, “Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration” (Routledge, 2017). His recommendations for using strategy maps is featured as a core recommendation in the new report by the National Academy of Public Administration. Bill recently co-authored a paper for the Journal of Change Management on “Leading Social Transformations to Create Public Value and Advance the Common Good”.

Diana Lowe, QC is a lawyer with 35 years of experience which includes legal practice, research, and reform of the civil and family justice systems in Canada, and most recently as Executive Counsel to the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta. Diana has been appointed to the Queen’s Council (QC), an appointment of honor for having demonstrated exceptional merit and exemplary service to the Canadian justice system through her work in the federal public service. Diana recently retired from the Court and established a consulting practice - “Re-imagining Justice”. She continues to support the Reforming the Family Justice System (RFJS) initiative in Alberta, and also works with other jurisdictions interested in justice system transformation.

The RFJS is a multi-year, multi-sector collaboration, designed to effect system-wide change in the family justice system in Alberta, based on brain science and Adverse Childhood Experiences. The RFJS is seeking to shift the focus in family justice matters away from adversarial, legal responses, to making supports available to assist families with the social, relationship, parenting, and financial issues that arise in family matters. The outcome collaborators are seeking is family well-being, which they define as “Helping Families Thrive”.

Joslyn Kuchinski. Joslyn works for the United Way of Greater Nashua as the coordinator for the Greater Nashua Smart Start Coalition. As the leader of a Collective Impact initiative that includes the local health department and other community stakeholders, she works to support the co-creation and implementation of strategies to support healthy, thriving children and families.