Kids & Family
In this episode, we discuss the powerful impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on individuals' health and well-being, and how trauma-informed care can help those who have experienced ACEs heal and reach their full potential. Our guest expert for this conversation is Angie Burleson.Angie Burleson, APP, CHt, is a Community Development Specialist and Polarity Therapist committed to changing the conversation surrounding substance use and mental health by empowering individuals and connecting communities to become recovery ready through a trauma informed lens. Angie’s own struggle with addiction, family experiences, and education gives her a multi-faceted and unique perspective which has inspired her to lobby for public health focused addiction policy, expand peer support, advocate for parents, those in active addiction and recovery alike, and organize educational events.Angie is Founder of Arizona Recovers, a recovery community organization, which provides harm reduction based peer support, community, and prevention and also Project Director of AZ Adverse Childhood Experiences Consortium.Links mentioned on the show:AZ ACEs Consortium PACEs ConnectionACEs Too HighCenter on the Developing Child - HarvardArizona RecoversThe Original ACEs Study - CDCBehavioral/mental health resources:National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255Crisis Text Line: Text "Listen" to 741741Community Information and Referral Services: Dial 211 or visit 211.orgSAMHSA Behavioral Health Treatment Locator: https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/notMYkid Website: https://notmykid.org/notMYkid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notMYkid/notMYkid Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notmykiddotorg/notMYkid Twitter: https://twitter.com/notmykidtweetsnotMYkid YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/notMYkidVidsWin This Year show email: WinThisYear@notmykid.org