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Program teaches how to build community resilience

The Heart of New Ulm Brown County Mental Health and Wellbeing Action Team, in collaboration with the Families First Collaborative of Brown County, will be offering an “Understanding NEAR Science: Building Self-Healing Communities” presentation on May 3.

This presentation addresses the science of neurobiology & epigenetics, the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, and moves toward how, as a community, we can build resilience in our residents.

In 1998, an article was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that showed the relationship between health risks and behaviors to exposure to adverse childhood experiences.

This study was groundbreaking in the fact that it proved that people who experienced abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction as a child were more likely to have increased risks of chronic health conditions and death, as well as increase participation in risky behaviors.

Since the original adverse childhood experiences study was done, additional research has shown that experiences like racism, neighborhood safety, community violence, bullying and living in foster care can increase the likelihood for increased health risks.

Over the last few decades, research has expanded on what can be done to prevent adverse childhood experiences and how people with affected by them can move past their experiences to live healthy and safe lives. Building resiliency — the ability to adapt, recover, or “bounce back” from change, trauma or tragedy — is the key to changing the futures of those with trauma filled pasts. The hope of this presentation is to start an ongoing communitywide conversation between professionals, law enforcement, parents, faith leaders, educators, and neighbors about how we can change the narrative of the future of our communities.

This presentation is free and open to the public; however, space is limited and registration is required. For information and to register, visit https://tinyurl.com/NEARscience.

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