Welcome to acecommittee.com
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Our Mission
Facilitating healing to Dauphin County communities through trauma-informed education to increase resiliency and enhance overall well-being.
Our Vision
Dauphin County and the surrounding areas are trauma-informed communities that realize, recognize, and respond to the needs of a healing and vibrant community.
Our Values
- Strength-based
- Trauma-informed
- Mutual respect
- Excellence
- Inclusion
What is Trauma?
Trauma is the result of an individual’s experience with an event that causes emotional distress that overwhelms their ability to cope, and has a lasting effect that disrupts their ability to function productively in there everyday life.
unresolved trauma can impact your health and life expectancy.
Having someone to share your trauma experience with helps to heal the trauma.
Everyone experiences some type of trauma in their life at one time or another.
What may be traumatic to one person may not be traumatic to another.
Healing Circles
What is a healing circle?
Connecting with others to:
· Share feelings and to support each group member
· Honor and respect each group member
· Create community
· Give voice to all
How does it work?
· Small groups: 10—12 people
· Meet for 1—1.5 hours
· Meet in community settings
· Facilitated by members of the ACE Committee