ResilientGeorgia

BREAKING NEWS: The Mental Health Parity Act Is Heading To The Governor’s Desk The Georgia House gives final passage to House Bill 1013, which significantly changes how mental healthcare and substance abuse services are handled in Georgia, specifically insurance coverage. #gapol

@GeorgiaVoices A7: Resilient Georgia has been working with 12 regions across Georgia to provide an emphasis on trauma informed awareness and care & ACEs prevention training as a basis to transform systems and procedures. …5-42fd-80e4-744fd2c385d6.filesusr.com/ugd/43685b_51b… #DebriefTraumaGrief

Q7: What are some of the investments Georgia has made to increase trauma awareness and the availability of trauma-informed care?

@GeorgiaVoices A6: The more positive experiences, the stronger a child's resilience muscle becomes. Positive experiences can offset ACEs #DebriefTraumaGrief resilientga.org/positive-child…

Q6: Can trauma be prevented, or the negative impacts of trauma be undone or lessened? If so, how?

@GeorgiaVoices A5: Exposure to trauma during childhood can dramatically increase people's risk for 7 out of 10 of the leading causes of death in the U.S #NadineBurkeHarris #DebriefTraumaGrief

Q5: What are some of the impacts of trauma?

@GeorgiaVoices We recently evaluated available ACEs data sets. Hope this is helpful! resilientga.org/national-scan-… #DebriefTraumaGrief

Q4: How prevalent is trauma and what type of data is available to confirm?

@GeorgiaVoices A3: This article from Harvard really resonated with me! hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-t… #DebriefTraumaGrief

Q3: Can a parent’s traumatic experience have an impact on their child/children?

@GeorgiaVoices A2: Teen Dating Violence affects millions of young people each year but is often dismissed #DebriefTraumaGrief

Q2: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are often mentioned when defining trauma but what are some sources of trauma that are not classified as an ACE?

@GeorgiaVoices A1: Trauma is any experience that is extremely frightening, harmful, or threatening, either emotionally, physically, or both #DebriefTraumaGrief resilientga.org/videos

Q1: What is trauma? #DebriefTraumaGrief

@GeorgiaVoices Emily Anne Vall, Resilient Georgia #DebriefTraumaGrief resilientga.org/about

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