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Protecting Their Future: Protecting Their Future: Finding and Helping Stressed Children & Finding and Helping Stressed Children & Families Families Annual Statewide Conference on Annual Statewide Conference on Traumatic Stress in Children and Families Traumatic Stress in Children and Families Closing Remarks Closing Remarks Ellen Gerrity, PhD NCCTS Associate Director and Senior Policy Advisor Duke University Medical Center June 1, 2012

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Protecting Their Future:Protecting Their Future:Finding and Helping Stressed Children & Finding and Helping Stressed Children &

FamiliesFamiliesAnnual Statewide Conference onAnnual Statewide Conference on

Traumatic Stress in Children and FamiliesTraumatic Stress in Children and Families

Closing RemarksClosing Remarks

Ellen Gerrity, PhDNCCTS Associate Director and Senior Policy

AdvisorDuke University Medical Center

June 1, 2012

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Never Separate The Life You Live From the Words You Speak.

---Senator Paul Wellstone

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Where You Can Make (And Are Making) A

Difference:

The Life of a ChildFamily

Program Community

State National, International

Body of Knowledge

Add your voice in shared collaboration. Examples from today

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Importance of CollaborationImportance of CollaborationExamples From TodayExamples From Today

Politics and policyFamily AdvocacyResearchService Settings:

Military FamiliesSchoolsHealth care

Finding Your Voice

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National Child Traumatic National Child Traumatic Stress NStress Network Mission Statement etwork Mission Statement

The mission of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States.

For more information: www.nctsn.org

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A Message of HopeA Message of Hope

With appropriate resources and support, children and families can recover after exposure to traumatic life events.

They – and you -- are not alone.

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Thank YouThank You

Protecting Their Future:Finding and Helping Stressed Children &

FamiliesAnnual Statewide Conference on

Traumatic Stress in Children and FamiliesJune 1, 2012

University of Minnesota, Ambit Network

Website: http://www.ambitnetwork.orgEmail Contact: [email protected]