ACEs COMMITTEES
ACEs Consortium Executive Committee
Purpose: To provide support, guidance and oversight of the ACE Consortium.
Meetings/Location: 4th Monday of each month, 9:00 – 11:00
Arizona Trauma Informed Faith Community Network (AZTIFC)
Purpose: To build resilient faith-based organizations to facilitate sensitive care, training, resource sharing, advocacy, and social movement, not compromising own faith tradition, but multiplying collaboration for the greater good.
Meetings/Location: 2nd Tuesday of each month, 10:00 -11:30am. Location varies.
Committee Chair:
Rev. Sanghoon Yoo, MSW, MDiv ASU
The Faithful City
Creating Trauma Sensitive AZ Schools
Purpose: To network, gather resources, information and knowledge, spread awareness of the impact of trauma, and increase support to ensure that children traumatized by ACEs succeed in school.
Meetings/Location: 1st Wed. of each month 4:00- 5:30. Location TBD.
Committee Chairs:
Rebecca Leimkuehler
Principal, Holiday Park Elementary
Healing Historical Trauma
Purpose: The Historical Trauma work group is dedicated to integrating information about intergenerational trauma into the many facets of society. We seek to cultivate unity, compassion and equity through the exploration of history’s impact on various ethnic and religious groups. It is our mission to create a movement that recognizes the importance of Culturally Competent Trauma-Informed Practices in every aspect of community interaction. All people from all sectors are embraced in the Historical Trauma work group!
Meetings/Location: Third Fridays of the month; 10:00am-11:30am; 3300 N Central Ave, 16th floor, Phoenix, AZ 85012
Committee Chair:
Iya Affo, Family Support Specialist,
Red Mountain Behavioral Health
ACEs Prevention: Parenting and Early Childhood Workgroup
Purpose: To identify and develop strategies and resources for prevention of ACEs by focusing on the needs of children, parents and families.
Meetings/Location: Monthly, every 1st Friday, 9:30am-10:30am. Zoom Meeting Link: https://asu.zoom.us/j/390394275 and locations TBD
Committee Chair:
Gordon Freeman Brown, Regional Coordinator, Arizona PBS Education and Community Impact and the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Registry
Southern Arizona Trauma Informed Network
Purpose: SATIN provides an action oriented framework for a trauma responsive community in Southern Arizona through training and connection.
Meetings/Location: Monthly
Committee Chair:
Serena Samaniego MS, LAC, IMH-E®
ACEs Training Work Group
Purpose: To develop a community of ACE Trainers statewide, and create a dynamic training portfolio that is flexible to meet the needs of a variety of audiences. This workgroup is currently closed to adding new workgroup members.
Meetings/Location: Third Monday of the Month, 10am-12pm at First Things First Phoenix office.
Committee Chair:
Kavita Bernstein
kbernstein@firstthingsfirst.org
First Things First Program Manager, Children’s Health
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The Arizona ACEs Consortium is a collaboration of more than one hundred individuals, state, county, and private organizations working together.
We are made up of professionals from all walks of life, united by a desire to help Arizona’s children.
It’s a big group, and we’re committed to making sure that all families have the opportunity to raise healthy children from the start, so that every child has the opportunity to thrive.
