Goals for Community Support

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According to the CDC there are four main goals for creating a safe, stable, and nurturing community to help prevent ACE occurrences:

#1

Raise Awareness and Commitment to Promote Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments and Prevent Child Maltreatment.

• Adopt the vision of “assuring safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments to protect children from child maltreatment”
• Raise awareness in support of the vision
• Partner with others to unite behind the vision

#2

Use Data to Inform Actions.

• Build a partnership to gather and synthesize relevant data
• Take stock of existing data
• Identify and fill critical data gaps
• Use the data to support other action steps

#3

Create the Context for Healthy Children and Families through Norms Change and Programs.

• Promote the community norm that we all share responsibility for the well-being of children
• Promote positive community norms about parenting programs and acceptable parenting behaviors
• Implement evidence-based programs for parents and caregivers

#4

Create the Context for Healthy Children and Families through Policies. 

• Identify and assess which policies may positively impact the lives of children and families in your community
• Provide decision-makers and community leaders with information on the benefits of evidence based strategies and rigorous evaluation

For detailed information: Essentials for Childhood:  Steps to Create Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments, by the CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/EfC_onepager-a.pdf

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1. Course Agenda
2. Stress Mountain
3. Kinds of Stress
4. Effects of Stress
5. Comparing Stress (1/7)
6. Support Systems
7. Tightrope Walker (2/7)
8. The Brain
9. Brain Architecture
10. ACEs in Early Childhood

11. Blueprint for Brain Dev.
12. Nature vs Nurture ACEs (3/7)
13. Brain Growth and ACEs
14. Myelination
15. Brain Development (4/7)
16. Behavior and Brain 
17. Social and Emotional ACEs
18. Cognitive Function
19 ACEs and Development (5/7)
20. Where do we go from here?

21. Supportive Communities
22. Goals for Community Support
23. Supportive People
24. Supportive Families
25. Community Resources​ (6/7)
26. Building Resiliency
27. Trauma Informed Practice
28. Moving Forward
29. Quiz (7/7)
30. Evaluation Form​
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