The Resilience Challenge
Are you a community champion or want your community to be made aware of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
Why not run the Resilience Challenge in your community?
The Resilience Challenge offers groups in different communities in the UK, the possibility to
show the award-winning film ‘Resilience’ free of charge to parents, health and social workers, educators, police and local government representatives in their community and initiate discussions with those present on the effect of ACEs and what, as a community, can be done to prevent and reduce them.
Reaction from latest screenings;
"Extremely powerful.", "So informative.", "Really informative and lots to consider.", "Eye-opening - I learnt a lot.", "Absolutely amazing session, powerful.", "Really enjoyed this.", "Fantastic and thought provoking."
ACEs have been found to have lifelong impacts on health and behaviour and they are relevant to all sectors and involve all of us in society. You can
help prevent and reduce ACEs by encouraging wider awareness and understanding about ACEs and their impact on health and behaviour, supporting parents and families and building resilience in children and wider communities.
Therefore becoming a trauma-aware community.
One community pursued the question of
"What information, if it were flowing through the people of their community, would start them on a journey together toward really strong, healthy living?".
They discovered the ACE Study and, for 10 years, they navigated an explosion of education, of dialogue, of community-building, etc. This was to shift the way they looked at children - from
"what's wrong with this child" to
"what has this child gone through?"
With this knowledge, community agencies began to create new solutions to address problems like; crime, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, chronic disease, integrating the principles and these ideas into the good work that they were already doing.
After several years, the community have seen:
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33% reduction in domestic violence
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59% decrease in youth suicide attempts
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62% decrease in secondary school drop-outs
Could you be the catalyst in your community to do something similar?