Quick Wins

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Infant and Early Childhood ACEs Prevention Action Team for Palm Beach County Create Infant and Early Childhood ( IEC) ACES Prevention Action Team with a Public Health Framework (birth through elementary age)

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Palm Beach County IEC Action Plan

Develop a work plan prioritizing sector levers of change quick wins, targeting universal strategies for largest community impact

Quick Win 1: Infant and Early Childhood ACEs Prevention Action Team for Palm Beach County

It is through the knowledge and acceptance of the research on Adverse Childhood Experiences, unbuffered trauma and toxic stress, brain development, neurobiology of stress, and the intergenerational transmission of ACEs through epigenetics, that the Fighting ACEs initiative recommends this call to action:

To organize and develop a Palm Beach County Infant and Early Childhood Action Plan, prenatal to 10, to fight ACEs through a public health approach.

It is recommended that this action plan for Palm Beach County represent a cross-sector continuum of universal, selected, and indicated actions, targeting a prenatal-to-10 population and their caregivers, engaging multiple community voices to integrate services, and creating a trauma-informed approach

Palm Beach County Levers of Change for Infant and Early Childhood Public Health Approach to Fight ACEs Potential Key "Backbone" Cross-System Partners to lead action planning:

Center for Child Counseling's Fighting ACEs Initiative: Public health approach to fighting ACEs, source for expert content and training

Children Services Council of Palm Beach County: Trauma-informed prevention and early intervention funder Palm Beach County Youth Services Department: County planning, potential action plan coordinator

Birth to 22's "Becoming a Trauma Sensitive Community Action Team": Key county system and cross-sector team which could be the first layer to inform the plan for strategic actionable approaches for targeted age groups

BeWellPBC: Local initiative, weaving together behavioral health approaches in the county and amplifying community perspective and solutions. This initiative could be engaged to inform the Birth to 10 Action Plan