DESCRIPTION

The mission of the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) is to improve access to and quality of health and human services for underserved and vulnerable populations. Our purpose is to build capacity and connection within and across public health and human service systems and between the service sector and communities. HFP activities and accomplishments of greatest relevance for our proposed symposium—which features community-based, cross-sector collaboratives organized around the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma, and resilience (“ATR networks”) advocating for policy and systems change—include our capacity for providing trauma-informed and resilience-building training and consultation; our ongoing role as the backbone organization of the Philadelphia ACE Task Force (PATF); and our successful creation and coordination of the national initiative Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC). Third-party evaluation findings of MARC indicate that HFP’s consultation and technical assistance offerings were successful in supporting the uptake of policy and advocacy activities among the participating collaborative networks. Our strategies and resources for ATR networks engaging in policy and advocacy work are documented in Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities through Policy and Advocacy: A Toolkit for Trauma-Informed, Cross-Sector Networks, which will be provided as background reading. We have also recently analyzed data from our national survey of ATR networks, conducted in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago, which is providing us information about the activities, accomplishments, goals, and technical assistance needs of hundreds of collaborative networks across the country.

OBJECTIVES

1. Articulate defining aspects of collaborative, cross-sector “ACEs, trauma, and resilience (ATR)” networks.

2. Identify network roles in advocating for policy and system change.

3. Provide examples of network-led change, including around recognizing and addressing secondary traumatic stress and building resilience among the workforce.

4. Envision ways in which networks can help communities address collective trauma resulting from the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and structural racism as well as the support necessary for them to be successful.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY:

Natalie Levkovich is CEO of Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP). Under her leadership, HFP has led the development and dissemination of innovative and sustainable practices and system change including the integration of behavioral health in primary care, coordinated engagement of community health centers in public health initiatives, launch of Multiplying Connections as the initial framework for local capacity building for trauma-informed care, and development of novel strategies to address chronic and infectious diseases, among other examples.

Leslie Lieberman, MSW, is the Senior Director of Training and Organizational Development at the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP). Leslie has been at HFP since 2007 establishing and growing the organization’s ACE, trauma and resilience portfolio, which includes initiatives like Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC), Multiplying Connections, the Enhanced Home Visitation Project, and the Regional Partnership Project. She is also a leader in the Philadelphia ACE Task Force. Prior to joining HFP, Leslie developed perinatal substance use integrated models of care at Kaiser Permanente and Contra Costa County Health Department.

Clare Reidy, RN, MPH, is the Director of Collaborative Partnerships at the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP). The focus of her current work is Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC), which supports community-based, cross-sector networks organized around the science of adverse childhood experiences and trauma as they advocate for policies and practices that contribute to a more just, healthy, and resilient world. Before joining HFP, Clare was a health scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she worked on health equity initiatives.

WORKSHOP SUMMARY

Over the past decade, the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma, and resilience (collectively “ATR”) has increasingly been adopted as an organizing framework, bringing people and organizations together to form cross-sector, community collaboratives (“ATR networks”). Our research indicates that hundreds of these ATR networks exist nationally, with more in the process of forming. By providing the infrastructure to a) amplify the voice of those most affected by trauma and lived experience with health and human service systems and b) facilitate collaboration among practitioners and systems engaged in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of trauma, these ATR networks are well positioned—with the right supports—to be powerful agents of change.

Using lessons learned from Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC), a national multi-site initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this workshop will explore the many roles that ATR networks have in advocating for policy and system change and the ways in which technical assistance providers and funders can best support them. Presenters will provide a case study focused on secondary traumatic stress in the workforce from the Philadelphia ACE Task Force, a local ATR network for which HFP serves as the backbone organization and a nationally recognized exemplar among this growing movement.

ACEs, Trauma, and Resilience Networks

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