Save the date for a showing of the documentary, Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope.
Orange County Strong and coalition partners will be showing this film on Thursday, January 25 at the Whitted Building (300 West Tryon Street) in Hillsborough. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the film starts at 6 p.m. A panel discussion will follow.
This film is about creating "trauma informed" programs in schools and communities...meaning that everyone in the community is informed of the signs and symptoms of trauma, which is defined as including divorce, death in the family, drug addiction, abuse, and more.
Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope chronicles the birth of a new movement among pediatricians,
therapists, educators and communities who are using cutting-edge
brain science to disrupt cycles of violence, addiction
and disease.
“The child may not remember, but the body remembers.”
The original research was controversial, but the findings revealed
the most important public health findings of a generation.
RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into
the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the
birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress.
Now understood to be one of the leading causes of everything
from heart disease and cancer to substance abuse and
depression, extremely stressful experiences in childhood can
alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health
and behavior.
However, as experts and practitioners profiled in RESILIENCE
are proving, what’s predictable is preventable. These physicians,
educators, social workers and communities are daring
to talk about the effects of divorce, abuse and neglect. And
they’re using cutting edge science to help the next generation
break the cycles of adversity and disease.
