Northern ACEs Collaborative
NAC brings together rural Northern California champions to address trauma and promote resilience in the region through a collaborative approach by building relationships and sharing, learning, examining, and generating new ideas.
2024 Annual Summit: Bridges to Belonging
On March 5, 2024, partners from across Northern California gathered in Anderson, CA for NAC’s third summit, Bridges to Belonging: Rural Innovations and Best Practices to Address Trauma and Build Resilience.
The summit hosted two insightful keynote speakers and featured multiple partners highlighting innovations they’ve employed to address trauma and promote resilience in their communities.
We’re so grateful to those who could attend- you truly made the event a success with your thoughtful engagement and dialogue. Visit our event webpage to learn more and access materials.
About the Northern ACEs Collaborative (NAC)
Many Northern California Counties are disproportionately affected by high ACE scores relative to other regions in California. Domestic violence is an indicator in the ACE spectrum along with other Social Determinants of Health, which play a critical role in healthy families. A group of partners from six northern California counties —Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity—have come together to form a multisector collaborative to identify and address opportunities for systems change that mitigate issues of trauma and domestic violence using the Life-Course Model.
With funding from Blue Shield Foundation of California as part of Leveraging Collaboration to End Domestic Violence (LCDV), PHIL supported the formation of a Northern California collaborative and acts as the backbone, to support and enhance current activities in the six counties. Given the similar demographic nature of the participating rural counties and acknowledging the fluidity of the population, we proposed a regional approach that built on existing long-standing partnerships to address trauma and domestic violence in the region.
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Project Impacts
One of the key impacts has been the establishment of a shared language and understanding of ACEs and domestic violence across partners and across sectors. This common ground has strengthened partnerships across the six counties.
NAC has assembled data and evidence for the six-county region that highlight the unique needs of the region and focus on data related to ACEs and its long-term impacts on ACE-associated health conditions in the region. Partners utilize this data in their work.
NAC is a trusted curator and disseminator of regionally relevant resources (information, trainings, events, funding opportunities) to partners and their networks. Partners report that resources shared by NAC are credible and of value for NAC partners.
Vision: All Northern California residents have everything they need to live resilient and happy, healthy lives.
County-Level Data for the NAC Region
The graphs below showcase county-level data specifically for the NAC region. Dive deeper into county-specific rates of domestic violence, poverty, ACEs, health conditions, and more.
