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Mayra Diaz
Policy Analyst, Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative mdiaz@hmprg.org


Hannah Shevrin
Training and Capacity Building Manager, Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hshevrin@hmprg.org


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The Collaborative’s webinar series connects our members with innovative and evidence-informed policies and practices related to childhood adversity from across the country. To be notified about upcoming webinars, join our mailing list.

2022
Building a Healing Centered Illinois: On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a virtual event in honor of Illinois’ fourth annual Trauma-Informed Awareness Day. Building a Healing Centered Illinois served as a call for meaningful action to translate awareness about trauma into resilience-building and healing-centered transformative policies and practices across the state.

2021
Building a More Resilient and Just Illinois: On Tuesday, May 25th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a virtual event, “Building a More Resilient and Just Illinois,” with leaders from around the state in honor of Illinois’ third annual Trauma-Informed Awareness Day. The webinar featured a panel of state and local policymakers and community organizers from across Illinois who shared how they are advancing trauma-informed policies and practices, as well as their vision for a trauma-informed and resilient Illinois.
Chicago’s Trauma-Informed Hospital Working Group: Lessons from Collaboration and Organizational Transformation: On Wednesday, January 27th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Chicago’s Trauma-Informed Hospital Working Group: Lessons from Collaboration and Organizational Transformation. This webinar highlighted the formation and successes of the Working Group, with presentations from member institutions, such as Cook County Health and Hospitals Systems and Northwestern Medicine, on how they’ve integrated trauma-informed principles into their work, organizations, and communities; as well as plans for the Working Group’s future in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
2020 
Cross-Sector Collaboration for Police Free Schools: On Friday, July 24th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Cross-Sector Collaboration for Police Free Schools, to explore the consequences of policing in all schools, with a focus on Chicago Public Schools. This webinar featured a panel of experts, including pediatricians and adolescent health physicians from Chicago hospitals and youth-led advocacy organization Voices of Chicago Youth in Education (VOYCE).
Launch of the Statewide Working Group to Address Childhood Adversity in Illinois: On Wednesday, July 22nd, the Collaborative launched the Working Group to Address Childhood Adversity in Illinois, a statewide group of leaders committed to preventing and healing from trauma. The launch meeting included a presentation from Collaborative Director Lara Altman on the origins and context of the Working Group, a presentation from Equity Intern Mary Cleary on other states’ initiatives working to address trauma, and a presentation from Senior Policy Analyst Madison Hammett on the Collaborative’s recently published policy scan of state-level trauma-informed legislation from across the U.S.
Policy Approaches to Creating Trauma-Informed Change: The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice’s National Campaign and Other Opportunities for Advocacy in Illinois: On Tuesday, April 28th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Policy Approaches to Creating Trauma-Informed Change: The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice’s National Campaign and Other Opportunities for Advocacy in Illinois, to hear from the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) on their National Trauma Campaign, its goal of a trauma-informed nation, and applications to policy in Illinois.
Yoga as a Practice for Cultivating Resilience and Well-Being: On Thursday, April 9th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Yoga as a Practice for Cultivating Resilience and Well-Being, as part III of their webinar series on preventing burnout in healthcare, in which yoga therapist Aggie Stewart discussed how yoga can be utilized as a self-care and employee wellness practice.
Community Resiliency Model: An Innovative Approach to Addressing Burnout: On Thursday, March 12th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Community Resiliency Model: An Innovative Approach to Addressing Burnout. Ms. Miller-Karas and Dr. Grabbe highlighted the development of the Community Resilience Model, how it was utilized with nurses and shared their exciting results from a recently published article. They also discussed ways the model can be utilized in a variety of organizational settings.
Clinician Burnout or Wellness: Care Team Well-being and the Health of the Nation: On Thursday, February 6th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Clinician Burnout or Wellness: Care Team Well-being and the Health of the Nation. The presentation included an overview of the history and current definitions surrounding clinician burnout, as well as an introduction to multi-level strategies for prevention and intervention.
2019
Advocacy and Action to Address ACEs in Rural Appalachia: Multi-Sector Partners in the Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative: On Wednesday, December 18th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Advocacy and Action to Address ACEs in Rural Appalachia: Multi-Sector Partners in the Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative. This presentation detailed the Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative’s numerous initiatives, including cross-sector meetings and events focused on educating the community about ACEs and the development of an interprofessional course at Appalachian State University focused on training health professional students in trauma-informed practices.
Shifting the Focus: Prioritizing the Developmental Needs of Infants and Toddlers through Early Childhood Court Teams: On Tuesday, September 17th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Shifting the Focus: Prioritizing the Developmental Needs of Infants and Toddlers through Early Childhood Court Teams, featuring Dr. Kimberly Mann of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. This webinar described the strategies used to develop skills, knowledge, and values of the staff to enhance their capacity to respond more effectively to the developmental needs of young children, as well as the successful outcomes of the Early Childhood Court Team.
Trauma-Informed Policymaking: Leading Change in Illinois: On Monday, July 29th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar, Trauma-Informed Policymaking: Leading Change in Illinois Increasingly used in organizational transformation and service delivery contexts, the trauma-informed framework is equally as important for policymaking and budget/resource allocation—especially given that policies have caused significant trauma to, and continue to traumatize, families and communities.  We talked about our new Trauma-Informed Policymaking Tool and learned from Cabrini Green Legal Aid and VOYCE about their use of TI practices in their policy and advocacy work.
Trauma-Informed Health Departments: Cross-Sector Collaboration: On Thursday, June 27th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted an interactive webinar about cross-sector collaboration as part of its virtual learning series for trauma-informed health departments. Attendees heard from leaders in two communities—Cicero, IL and Tarpon Springs, FL—on the unique ways they have integrated trauma-informed practices into their organizations and created relationships across sectors.
Segregation Stress Syndrome: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: On Wednesday, May 29th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted an important webinar with sociologist Dr. Ruth Thompson-Miller to discuss the enduring traumatic legacy of Jim Crow and how this trauma is reflected in the United States today. Dr. Thompson-Miller discussed her idea of “Segregation Stress Syndrome”–the chronic, enduring, and extremely painful responses to collective trauma that occurred during Jim Crow, the effects of which are still felt today.
The Power of Play: Theraplay’s Approach to Trauma-Informed Intervention: On Thursday, March 28th, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative hosted a free webinar with Andrea Bushala from the Theraplay Institute. Bushala discussed the role of everyday play in preventing and responding to trauma, as well as how Theraplay has utilized this practice with numerous partners in education, health, and child development.

Creating School-Health-Community Partnerships to Improve the Lives of Children: In this webinar, Andrea Ortez of Partnership for Resilience discusses how organizers, educators, and clinicians can utilize community partnerships to provide trauma-informed support to both teachers and students. Ortez addressed the early lessons of the Partnership and the types of relationships that practitioners, educators, and advocates must foster together to ensure the needs of the whole child are met.

2018 
Trauma-Informed Advocacy: Practical Tools for Working with Vulnerable Populations: Working at the intersection of trauma, health equity, and law, attorney Sarah Hess joined the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative for this webinar to talk about ways advocates from all disciplines can use a trauma-informed approach to help their clients thrive.
Trauma-Informed Health Departments Environmental Scan Virtual Panel Discussion: Learn how health departments across the country and in Illinois are engaging in trauma-informed work. Brenda Bannor of Millennia Consulting presenta the results of the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative’s recent environmental scan of health departments doing this work nationally. The webinar concludes with a panel discussion featuring local health departments to hear successes and lessons learned from implementation.
Making the Connections: Understanding the Impact of the Opioid Epidemic and the Implications for our Work: In this webinar, Dr. Carole Warshaw, of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health, and Gwendolyn Packard of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center discuss the intersection between opioid usage and intergenerational trauma.
Transformation: The Department of Veteran Affairs Healing Environment Design Guideline: How can the built environment help support a trauma-informed organization? In this webinar architect Paul Alt, AIA and psychologist Jim Munroe Ed.D. describe their work on the Department of Veteran Affairs Healing Environment Design Guideline–a project that used architecture and design to create environments that promote healing of the mind, body, and spirit.
Trauma-Informed Systems Initiative with the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health: Organizations, like people, are susceptible to negative effects of trauma, including fragmentation, numbing, reactivity and impaired relationships. These effects in turn prevent staff from responding effectively to each other and to the people they serve. In this webinar, Dr. Kenneth Epstein of the San Francisco Department of Public Health outlines the Trauma-Informed Systems Initiative (TISI) which is working to make SFDPH a more trauma-informed, safe, and supportive work environment and system of care.
The Buffering Role of Community Resilience against Adverse Childhood Experiences: On June 20, the Collaborative hosted this webinar led by Suzette Fromm Reed, PhD, discussing foundational research on the important buffering role that community resilience plays in mitigating the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on adult and youth health, school/work, and coping behaviors. Additionally, recent research on how to build community resilience was presented as well as implications for practice and policy.

Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Pediatric Primary Care Setting: Practical Considerations and Lessons Learned: This webinar–presented by  Kavitha Selvaraj, MD, MPH, MAEd, FAAP with Audrey Stillerman, MD, and Stan Sonu, MD–explores lessons learned from Universal Screening for Toxic Stress During Well-Child Visits, a multi-site ACE screening project.

Triple P: Helping Parents Become the Parents That They Are Meant To Be: Marjorie Fujara, MD, shares lessons learned from the recent implementation of an evidence-based parenting intervention, Triple P, as well as the importance of a broad based public awareness campaign on parenting.

2017

Creating A Trauma-Informed Hospital-Lessons from the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin: The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin has been at the forefront of the movement to create trauma-informed hospitals. Using the Sanctuary Model and the will of many champions within the hospital, this medical system is several years into a 10-year process to become trauma-informed. During the webinar, Dr. Heather Paradis (Medical Director, Community Services) and Jennifer Hammel (Early Childhood Development and Trauma Informed Care Director) explain the genesis of this major systems change movement.

Creating Healing Communities: In this webinar, Lynn Todman, Ph.D., M.P.C. and Collaborative member Elena Quintana, Ph.D. discuss the link between the social determinants of health, wide spread trauma and emotional unrest, and inequality in Southwest Michigan.

Treating Trauma & Reducing Poverty to Address Violence: Heartland Alliance’s Social Impact Center 2017 Poverty Report explores the relationship between poverty, violence, and trauma and, through its findings, argues that addressing Illinois’s violence crisis must involve investing in reducing poverty and treating trauma. Webinar speakers Katie Buitrago and Samantha Tuttle of the Social Impact Center uplift data related to trauma as well as present policy recommendations based on the report.

Using a Mindfulness-Based Social Emotional Learning Program with K-2 Students, Teachers, and Parents in CPS: This webinar examines the intersection of trauma and the educational system. Dr. Amanda Moreno and Erikson Institute doctoral student Kandace Thomas present on features of the Calm Classroom K-2 project, a large randomized controlled trial of mindfulness and related strategies taking place in 30 high-poverty Chicago Public Schools.

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