[WEBINAR] Adverse Childhood Experiences, Trauma, and Resilience: New Findings for Trauma-Informed Communities
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Join us to hear about new and emerging findings around individual Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)/wider trauma and the global need for trauma informed communities to assist in building and strengthening resilience.

Our honourable speaker – Wendy Ellis Dr. P.H., Assistant Professor and Center Director, Milken Institute School of Public Health – will discuss how to apply a community resilience framework with a public health perspective to foster a sense of belonging (social cohesion) using the BCR process as an ‘operating system’ for coalition building to prevent violence and improve community and police relations.

Using the concept of the “Pair of ACEs” – adverse childhood experiences in the context of adverse community environments—Dr. Ellis will share concrete examples of how multiple sectors including housing, public education, law enforcement and criminal justice are collaborating to address many of the antecedents that contribute to maladaptive behaviours, criminality and negative health outcomes.
Attendees will learn how to identify key community assets and resources, promote upstream efforts to address social determinants and build community resilience.

WEBINAR DETAILS

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Trauma, and Resilience: New Findings for Trauma-Informed Communities

🌐 Online via Zoom
📆 Date: Monday 1st December 2025
⏰ Time: 9-11am EDT

🔗 Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SrTjmlEVRqqqMg-lQvD7Zg

AGENDA

  1. Introduction from Moderator: Justin Srivastava, Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary, England | Co-convenor of GLEPHA’s Special Interest Group on Trauma-Informed Policing
  2. Main presentation by Wendy R. Ellis Dr. P.H., Assistant Professor and Center Director, Milken Institute School of Public Health
  3. Q&A

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This webinar is vital for public health professionals, law enforcement, educators, social workers, community leaders, and anyone committed to fostering healthier, safer, and more resilient communities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Introduction of a community resilience framework to foster equity, a sense of belonging and shifting power in community, particularly as a violence reduction initiative.
  • Learn to apply the concept of the “Pair of ACE’ (Adverse Childhood Experiences in the context of Adverse Community Environments) to understand root causes of community violence.
  • Apply the concept of community resilience as a platform for coalition building and goal setting to improve community and policing relations.
  • Identification of key community assets and resources, advocacy messaging and policy topics to promote upstream efforts to address social determinants, build community resilience as a violence reduction strategy

This webinar is proudly organised by GLEPHA’s Special Interest Group on Trauma-Informed Policing.