ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

We are delighted to invite you to participate in the ACEs Awareness Foundation and Essie B. & William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living’s 4th Annual ACEs and Trauma and Awareness Symposium on Thursday, April 20, 2023. To recognize National Minority Health Month, this year’s symposium, The Movement to Build Positive Childhood, Adult, and Community Experiences: Preventing and Mitigating Environmental Trauma and ACEs, will focus on environmental and political determinants of health that cause intergenerational trauma. The Movement to Build Positive Childhood, Adult, and Community Experiences will address these realities and highlight communities throughout the country that have been gravely impacted by poor environmental factors. In addition, the symposium will underscore the scope of environmental traumas, with a focus on building protective factors to sustain human health—physical, mental, and economic health in children, adults and their communities.

• Environmental Factors

Outline the impacts of environmental factors/conditions (natural disasters and poor water and air quality) on physical health, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences

• Political Determinants

Understand the political determinants of health and how historical oppression and racism impact health equity and healthcare access

• Policy & Strategies

Develop strategies and policy actions to prevent and mitigate health disparities to promote thriving communities