Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) – Where Do We Go From Here?
APR 27
12:00-1:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CT / 10:00-11:00 a.m. MT / 9:00-10:00 a.m. PT / 8:00-9:00 a.m. AKT / 6:00-7:00 a.m. HT
DESCRIPTION
There is growing recognition that unaddressed Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can greatly impact young people’s development and their future well-being. However, what is less well-known is that racism, oppression, and historical trauma have an enormous impact on ACEs and how they perpetuate in families and communities. If we truly want to promote healing from ACEs now and prevent ACEs in the future, then we must address the root causes of ACEs, including racism and oppression.
Please join us for an upcoming session that explores preventing ACEs from an equitable and antiracist lens. This panel is co-hosted with PACEsConnection and honors lived experience.
Joining in this session will be a young adult with lived experience, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a community organizer. Together, the panelists will bring their varying perspectives to discuss the connection between ACEs and oppression and effective strategies for taking action. The panelists will explore barriers that make it challenging to address racism as a root cause of ACEs, and solutions for overcoming these challenges.
Meet the Facilitators
Dr. Dionne Smith Coker-Appiah is an Associate Professor and Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Coker-Appiah has also engaged in a focused program of research that has focused on Rural Adolescent Dating Violence Prevention and Rural Adolescent Mental Health. Her research program has enabled her to build a comprehensive, domestic and international, Adolescent Dating Violence (ADV) Prevention research program, utilizing community-based participatory research approaches.
Dr. Sarah Y. Vinson is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, triple board certified in Child and Adolescent, Adult, and Forensic Psychiatry. She is the Program Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Morehouse School of Medicine, a Medical Advisor for African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence and the Interim Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Morehouse School of Medicine.
Brandon Jones is the Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health Executive Director. He has a consulting and therapy background in addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Historical and Intergenerational trauma, Social/Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Leadership, and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Brandon holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, a master’s in Community Psychology from Metropolitan State University, and a master’s in Psychotherapy (MFT) from Adler Graduate School. Brandon is also a 2013 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow.
He lives by the motto of “Live life with Purpose on Purpose.”
Alexis Davis is an enrolled member of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa located in northern North Dakota and has lived on the reservation her whole life. Alexis has graduated with a Bachelor’s in Ojibwe (oh-jib-way) Language, Culture and History from Turtle Mountain Community College. With her degree she works with schools, programs, entities within her community to help them incorporate the culture within their systems and everyday life. She hopes this will help generationally heal her people. Alexis is also a mother of two boys and loves to increase her traditional knowledge whenever she can.
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