Providing education about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and encouraging resilience so our West Michigan community can thrive.

Providing education about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and encouraging resilience so our West Michigan community can thrive.

Thrive Ottawa County is a group of West Michigan organizations and individuals dedicated to informing our community about the importance of understanding the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), providing local ACEs data, and linking people to resilience resources.

Learn More About ACEs

ACEs stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences, which is a group of negative experiences or trauma that a child may experience while growing up. These can include things like physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, neglect, mental illness in the home, and more. Even witnessing distressing events can have a huge negative impact, and it can continue from generation to generation if the cycle isn’t broken.

Learn More About Resilience

If you’ve experienced any kind of ACE in your life, that’s not the end of the story. Anyone can develop resilience, which is the ability to bounce back and return to being healthy and hopeful after bad things happen. It takes work, but there are steps you can take to develop resilience in your life after experiencing trauma.

Learn More About ACEs

ACEs stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences, which is a group of negative experiences or trauma that a child may experience while growing up. These can include things like physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, neglect, mental illness in the home, and more. Even witnessing distressing events can have a huge negative impact, and it can continue from generation to generation if the cycle isn’t broken.

Learn More About Resilience

If you’ve experienced any kind of ACE in your life, that’s not the end of the story. Anyone can develop resilience, which is the ability to bounce back and return to being healthy and hopeful after bad things happen. It takes work, but there are steps you can take to develop resilience in your life after experiencing trauma.

ACEs In Ottawa County

Do you have questions about ACEs but aren’t sure where to start? Learn more about local data and helpful links.

ACEs Community Presentations

During this time of social distancing, Community Champions are available to do virtual presentations to help a group or team learn more about ACEs and resilience.

Film Screenings

The films Resilience and Paper Tigers are films that can increase your understanding of ACEs and resiliency. Unfortunately, we are unable to screen them online currently. As soon as we are able to do in-person screenings, we will make this available.

Stories of Thriving

We’ve interviewed some people in our community about ACEs and what they’ve learned about resilience. We hope some of their stories will resonate and connect with you and offer encouragement and hope.

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