ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND ADOLESCENT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT: CREATING A PATH TOWARD COMMUNITY WELLNESS AND SAFETY

Explore how community stakeholders can better identify those who have been exposed to ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and learn how to implement a community- wide approach to provide protective factors. It is becoming increasingly clear that exposure to ACEs, such as witnessing domestic violence, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, community violence and trauma, experiencing the death of a loved one, witnessing a parent arrested, and more can negatively affect the mental and physiological well-being of a person. These negative outcomes can contribute to delinquency, violence, crime, victimization, and poor health. Community stakeholders such as police officers, educators, mental health professionals, and child protective service providers must work together in identifying these young people and develop effective community wide plans involving sustainable protective factors. Participants will learn the benefits of establishing a “Juvenile Huddle,” in combination with specific tools that can successfully provide protective factors to this critically at-risk population.

Presented by: (Ret.) Chief Harry Earle, Gloucester Township Police Dept. & Michelle Selfridge, LCSW

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