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Dr. Wendy Ellis MPH- “Building Community Resilience”
May 21, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
We invite you to join Lane Kids and the Lane Early Learning Alliance for an evening with Wendy Ellis, DrPH, MPH. Dr. Ellis will share information and lessons learned from the Building Community Resilience (BCR) initiative and the community based efforts to address adverse childhood experiences and adverse community environments, which Dr. Ellis has coined the “Pair of ACEs.”
About Wendy Ellis, DrPH, MPH
Seating is limited so please register in advance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-community-resilience-a-call-to-action-registration-55728236656
Wendy Ellis is the Project Director of the Building Community Resilience at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Dr. Ellis has spent the last decade developing and working to grow a ‘resilience movement’ to address systemic
inequities that contribute to social and health disparities that are often transmitted in families and communities from generation to
generation.
Cost: FREE
Please feel free to share with your networks (English & Spanish flyers attached here). Certificates of attendance will be available immediately after the event. Please note that we will have Spanish translation available for the event, if requested in advance. To do so, please contact Claire Hambly (chambly@unitedwaylane.org).