REGISTER HERE   Join host chapter CMSA Chattanooga and the Southeast Education Coalition to learn about Building Strong Brains: Tennessee ACEs. This initiative is a major statewide effort to establish Tennessee as a national model for how a state can promote culture change in early childhood based on a philosophy that preventing and mitigating adverse childhood experiences, and their impact, is the most promising approach to helping Tennessee children lead productive, healthy lives and ensure the future prosperity of the state. Objectives: Increase the potential that every child born in Tennessee has the opportunity to lead a healthy,  productive life. Raise public knowledge about ACEs. Impact public policy in Tennessee to support the prevention of ACEs and to reduce community conditions that contribute to them. Support innovative local and state projects that offer fresh thinking and precise measurement of impact in addressing ACEs and toxic stress in children. Seek sustainable funding to ensure the state maintains a long-term commitment to reducing the impact of adverse childhood experiences. Embrace open, responsive governance through statewide planning groups and the Three Branches Institute, comprised of leadership from the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government, who were invited by the Governor to form […]