What is Peace4Gainesville?
Trauma occurs when stressful events overwhelm the normal human coping response. Trauma in the absence of resilience leads to serious long term effects on physical, mental, and emotional health and social functioning. Our goal is to reduce trauma and enhance resilience in Gainesville and beyond.
Peace4Gainesville is an initiative to build resilience and wellness in individuals, families, organizations, agencies, and our Alachua County community. This includes developments in education, child development, juvenile justice, criminal justice, public health, medicine, mental health, personal safety and social services.
Our Mission: To Advocate, Coordinate and Educate to build resilience, aimed at reducing the effect of trauma on the individual, family, and community.
Peace4Gainesville is an initiative to build resilience and wellness in individuals, families, organizations, agencies, and our Alachua County community. This includes developments in education, child development, juvenile justice, criminal justice, public health, medicine, mental health, personal safety and social services.
Our Mission: To Advocate, Coordinate and Educate to build resilience, aimed at reducing the effect of trauma on the individual, family, and community.
What Can Peace4Gainesville Do For You?
One of Peace4Gainesville’s goals is to spread the word about adverse childhood experiences and resiliency. Peace4Gainesville offers three programs:
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs 101): Effects on the Body and Brain, and the Good News About Resiliency
Foundational Strengths: Building Wellness and Resiliency In Your Organization's Structure, Policies, Services, & Workforce
Community Resiliency Model (CRM): Simple Evidence-Based Wellness Skills to Practice and Share
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs 101): Effects on the Body and Brain, and the Good News About Resiliency
Foundational Strengths: Building Wellness and Resiliency In Your Organization's Structure, Policies, Services, & Workforce
Community Resiliency Model (CRM): Simple Evidence-Based Wellness Skills to Practice and Share
CRM trainings we have recently offered were collaborated with:
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Recent Events
Community Resilience: A Panel and Community Discussion
Over 50 Alachua County, FL community members joined together on March 12 to raise awareness and plans around resiliency-
building.
Riding the wave of Oprah Winfrey's 60 Minutes segment on childhood trauma, panelists Will Halvosa, Retired Captain and Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Coordinator of the Gainesville Police Department, Veita Jackson-Carter, Director of the System of Care for Alachua County Schools, and Jhody Polk, Community Outreach Specialist with RPCP and Executive Director of the Florida Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, discussed their programs, their successes, and their "bumps".
Community members discussed families in trauma and ways to support them including PSAs, Resiliency First Aid programs, Resilience Health Fairs, and train-the-trainer programs for staff of organizations that serve these families.
Over 50 Alachua County, FL community members joined together on March 12 to raise awareness and plans around resiliency-
building.
Riding the wave of Oprah Winfrey's 60 Minutes segment on childhood trauma, panelists Will Halvosa, Retired Captain and Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Coordinator of the Gainesville Police Department, Veita Jackson-Carter, Director of the System of Care for Alachua County Schools, and Jhody Polk, Community Outreach Specialist with RPCP and Executive Director of the Florida Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, discussed their programs, their successes, and their "bumps".
Community members discussed families in trauma and ways to support them including PSAs, Resiliency First Aid programs, Resilience Health Fairs, and train-the-trainer programs for staff of organizations that serve these families.
Updates
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Highlighted Resources
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In the News
Treating Childhood Trauma by Oprah Winfrey
Treating Childhood Trauma, Overtime: The "life-changing" story Oprah reports this week
Oprah Winfrey reports on how trauma plays a role in childhood development and what new methods are being used to help kids who have experienced it.
For more information visit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oprah-winfrey-treating-childhood-trauma/
Oprah Winfrey reports on how trauma plays a role in childhood development and what new methods are being used to help kids who have experienced it.
For more information visit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oprah-winfrey-treating-childhood-trauma/
Dr. Nancy Hardt and Jane Stevens: Consider trauma in providing services
"An excellent example of ACEs-informed service provision in our community is the Mobile Outreach Clinic. In that clinic, patients walk in on a convenient day for them. Services are offered in neighborhoods free of charge to avoid cost and transportation barriers."
Read More to find out how we are helping our community:
www.gainesville.com/opinion/20171128/nancy-hardt-and-jane-stevens-consider-trauma-in-providing-services
Read More to find out how we are helping our community:
www.gainesville.com/opinion/20171128/nancy-hardt-and-jane-stevens-consider-trauma-in-providing-services
Check it Out, Dr. Nancy Hardt Speaks at the United Nations!
Recently this past September Dr. Nancy Hardt was given an amazing opportunity to speak at the UN highlighting our local peace building efforts.
"In order to make peacebuilders we need to start at home within our most important relationships with our life partner and our children. New brain research tells us that resilience to stress can be developed at any time in the life course, and efforts to build the resilience of individuals in the community can pay big dividends, especially when the benefactors of such efforts are children and their young parents. Tara Brach, psychologist, says 'Resilience grows when we become intentional about bringing our best to difficult life seasons'.”
ctipp.org/News-And-Resources/ArticleID/17/Talk-given-recently-at-the-UN-by-Dr-Nancy-Hardt
"In order to make peacebuilders we need to start at home within our most important relationships with our life partner and our children. New brain research tells us that resilience to stress can be developed at any time in the life course, and efforts to build the resilience of individuals in the community can pay big dividends, especially when the benefactors of such efforts are children and their young parents. Tara Brach, psychologist, says 'Resilience grows when we become intentional about bringing our best to difficult life seasons'.”
ctipp.org/News-And-Resources/ArticleID/17/Talk-given-recently-at-the-UN-by-Dr-Nancy-Hardt
Alachua County Seeing Success In Lowering Its High Rates Of Child Abuse
The Southwest Advocacy Group Family Resource Center in Gainesville. The center has played a role in the dramatic decrease in child abuse cases in Alachua County since 2008. (Victoria Pavlock/WUFT News)
Click the link to read more about the changes being made...
www.wuft.org/news/2017/11/16/alachua-county-seeing-success-in-lowering-its-high-rate-of-child-abuse/
Click the link to read more about the changes being made...
www.wuft.org/news/2017/11/16/alachua-county-seeing-success-in-lowering-its-high-rate-of-child-abuse/
A Series on ACEs in The Gainesville Sun
A multi-part series on the lifelong effects of adverse childhood experiences and how the community can respond.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
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Listen to the NPR Story on All Things Considered discussing the partnership between Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell and Dr. Nancy Hardt
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Read the article by Jane Ellen Stevens discussing adverse childhood experiences and their long term effects on health. The article is sponsored by Peace4Gainesville and Gainesville For All.
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“Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.”
--Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005) was a pioneer in studying the behavior of children in their natural life space of family, school, peer group, and community. His concept of the ecology of human development is transforming practice for effective work with children and youth. Bronfenbrenner’s research highlights the power of human relationships to propel children on pathways to problematic or positive life outcomes.
--Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005) was a pioneer in studying the behavior of children in their natural life space of family, school, peer group, and community. His concept of the ecology of human development is transforming practice for effective work with children and youth. Bronfenbrenner’s research highlights the power of human relationships to propel children on pathways to problematic or positive life outcomes.
Peace4Gainesville was modeled after Peace4Tarpon.
