Explore these links to learn more about NEAR sciences, content experts, and the work of our colleagues.

Washington State

• Kitsap Strong

• Community Resilience Initiative (CRI)

• The Washington State ACEs Public-Private Initiative

• Reducing ACE by Building Community Capacity: A Summary of Washington Family Policy Council Research Findings

• Transforming and Advancing the Social Determinants of Health on the Olympic Region

National

• ACE Interface

• ACEs Too High

• ACEs Connection

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• CDC/Kaiser ACE Study

• NEA, Teaching Children from Poverty and Trauma Handbook

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network

• Harvard University’s Center on Developing Child

• Alberta Family Wellness

• Strengthening Families and Protective Factors

• Trauma Informed Oregon

• SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma Informed Approach

Resilience

• Resilience Trumps ACEs

• 20 Powerful Ways to Build Resiliency

Movies:

• Paper Tigers (available at our local library)

• Resilience (available at our local library)

Books:

• The Age of Overwhelm (available at our local library)

• The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog by Dr. Bruce Perry

• Trauma Stewardship (available at our local library)

• Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators (available at our local library)

TED Talks:

• How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

• The happy secret to better by Shawn Achor 

• Flow, the secret of happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• The surprising science of happy happiness by Dan Gilbert

• The new era of positive psychology by Martin Seligman

• Validation by Kurt Kuenne

• Jessica’s “Daily Affirmation” by Jessica

• The power of vulnerability by Brene Brown

• Listening to shame by Brene Brown

• How Stress Can Cause Disease by Gabor Mate