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CFAAC SPEAKER SERIES
Community Impact and Strengthening Nonprofits —
Becoming a Trauma Informed County Speaker Series
CFAAC's Community Impact Speaker Series and its Strengthening Nonprofits Speakers Series each
deliver presentations meant to increase awareness, educate, and provide insight into the key issues
impacting Anne Arundel County. The presentations are targeted to a variety of audiences —
CFAAC
fundholders, county nonprofits, and the community. In 2021, many of CFAAC’s Speaker Series
webinars focused on Becoming a Trauma Informed County. Here is a brief summary of each event:
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ACES, Trauma and the Pandemic —
Becoming a Trauma Informed County
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), often
created by economic distress, poverty, and
racism, and occurring before the age of 18
years, are a major public health problem in
the county, state, and nation. This one-hour
virtual interaction, led by Pamela Brown,
Ph.D., Executive Director of the Anne Arundel
County Partnership for Children, Youth and
Families (AACPCYF), helped participants
understand the impact of ACES, discussed
intergenerational trauma in communities,
shared new research related to ACES and the
pandemic, and reflected how we can become a
trauma responsive county.
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A Framework for Understanding,
Addressing, and Preventing
Neighborhood Trauma
Neighborhood or collective trauma is the
product of decades of economic, political,
social, and racial isolation. In this seminar
with Pamela Brown, Ph.D., Executive Director
of AACPCYF, participants learned to recognize
the symptoms of neighborhood trauma and
the three spheres to measure a healthy
community: the social-cultural environment,
the physical/built environment, and the
opportunities afforded in the economic and
educational environment.
2021 CFAAC ANNUAL REPORT