MARK YOUR CALENDARS and plan to join us for the statewide Summit, “Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma”.

Momentum is growing in North Carolina for building trauma-informed systems that strengthen resilience and weed out systemic and often intergenerational sources of child trauma. Installing multilevel solution-based strategies into mindsets, practices, and policies is essential to the health, development, and wellbeing of NC's most important asset―our children.

It is critical that community-research-policy partnerships are forged to promote the widespread adoption of science-based strategies and encourage a transformational shift from a reactive to a preventative approach. To meet this moment, the Summit will stimulate dialogue between community stakeholders and members, researchers, practitioners, clinicians, and legislators and agency officials.

We will open with a virtual roundtable the evening of April 26th, where community representatives, clinicians, researchers, and agency officials define trauma through their own lens and begin discussing their approach to its prevention. The next two days—April 27-28th—the Summit take place both online and at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center at NC State University.

Stay tuned for more details and please contact us with any questions!

Diana “Denni” Fishbein, PhD, FRONTIER Director dfishbein@unc.edu

Melissa Clepper-Faith, MD, MPH, FRONTIER Research Program and Policy Coordinator mclepperfaith@unc.edu

This event is part of the Carolina Seminar Series, UNC. Contributors include: The Duke Endowment, Child Trust, HopeStar Foundation, K.B. Reynolds Trust, Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina (PCANC), Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP), and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC).

This three-day educational conference will provide an opportunity for judges and staff who work in family court to learn about current issues affecting domestic and juvenile abuse/neglect/dependency court. This opportunity will also include time to network with Judicial Branch officials and staff from family court districts and non-family court districts.

All district court judges, chief district court judges, and court management staff who work with domestic and juvenile abuse/neglect/dependency cases are welcome to attend.

Approval for CLE and CJE credit is pending.

When: Wednesday, April 26 - Friday, April 28, 2023

Training Location: Great Wolf Lodge, 10175 Weddington Road, Concord, NC 28027

Every child has tremendous promise and we all share in the responsibility to nurture this potential. We can do so by supporting families in achieving their goals and developing their capacities to nurture positive childhoods.

Join us on March 27-28th for Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina’s 2023 Learning and Leadership Summit. This event will enhance participants’ practice and leadership skills through presentations and educational workshops designed to help us all support and strengthen families throughout NC and activate support for effective prevention practice. Sessions will offer insight into the latest research, strategies for increasing protective factors and building resilience, effective implementation, public awareness and advocacy.

This is a closed meeting for the BYE Foundation Board of Directors.