Resilient Lamoille

Building Resilient Communities
for a Healthy Lamoille Valley

Building Resilience Helps You Withstand Life’s Challenges.

Healing Can Happen at Any Age.

We Can Prevent ACEs From Passing on to the Next Generation

Adverse Childhood Experience
Create Toxic Stress

  • Emotional, sexual, or physical abuse
  • Physical or emotional neglect
  • Violence at home or in the community
  • Parental substance misuse or mental illness.
  • Parental separation, divorce, or loss of a parent
  • Incarcerated family member
  • Bullying (by another child or adult)
  • Racial discrimination and sexism
  • Homelessness and hunger
  • Natural disasters and war

ACE Can Have a Lasting Effect On…

  • Chronic Health Conditions
    obesity, diabetes, depression, cancer, etc.
  • Risky behaviors
    smoking, alcoholism, drug use
  • Life Potential
    school and job success
  • Relationships
    family, co-workers & friends

Positive and Tolerable Stress Helps Build Resilience; Toxic Stress is Harmful

Retrain Your Brain

Small Changes Can Have a Big Effect

 

Practicing positive and often simple activities can help retrain ones brain, at any age, to handle stressful situations in a new way. This helps the brain to heal itself!

› Enjoy Music

› Create Art

› Exercise

› Eat Healthy Meals

› Find Supportive Relationships

› Smile

› Talk About Feelings

› Walk in the Woods

› Feel Gratitude

› Think Positively

› Get Quality Sleep

› Be Hopeful

› Be Mindful

› Volunteer

› Acknowledge Trauma

› Seek Support

› Identify Emotional Triggers

› Get Mental Health & Substance Use Treatment

› Play

› Find Safe & Stable Nurturing Environments

› Identify Positive Role Models

› Breathe Deeply

› Practice Yoga

› Garden

› Interact

› Laugh

Your Lamoille Valley Network of Support

United Way of Lamoille County – Lamoille Area and State Resources

Website: https://uwlamoille.org/get-help

Help Lines

Crisis Text Line -TEXT VT to 741741

Clarina Howard Nichols Center -Hotline, 802-888-5256 / Business 802-888-2584

AWARE Domestic & Sexual Violence Services,  802-472-6463, awarevt.org

VT 2-1-1, Call 2-1-1 for 24/7 information and referral or text your zip code to 898211 (M-F 8am to 8pm)

VT State Police Anonymous Tipline, text “CRIMES” (274637) to Keyword: VTIPS

Vermont Family Network, 802-888-8888, vermontfamilynetwork.org

Meeting Basic Needs

Capstone Community Action, 802-888-7993 or 800-639-8710, capstonevt.org

UVM Extension EFNEP (Food & Nutrition Education), 802-888-4972 Ext. 401 www.uvm.edu/extension/efnep

Women, Infant & Children, 802-888-7447, healthvermont.gov/family/wic

Reach Up, 800-479-61518, dcf.vermont.gov/benefits/reachup

United Way of Lamoille County 802-888-3252, uwlamoille.org

Rural Community Transportation, 855-811-6360, riderct.org

Lamoille Community Food Share, 802-888-6550, lcfoodshare.org

Hardwick Food Pantry 802-472-5940, facebook.com/hardwickfoodpantry

Meals on Wheels 802-888-5011, mowlc.org

Supporting Families

Lamoille County Child Advocacy Center, 802-851-8116, lamoillesiu.org

Lamoille Family Center, 802-888-5229, lamoillefamilycenter.org

Capstone Community Action (Headstart), 802-888-7993 or 1-800-639-8710, capstonevt.org

Resilience Beyond Incarceration, 802-888-5871, lrcvt.org/resilience-beyond-incarceration

Laraway Youth and Family Services, 802-635-2805, laraway.org

Building Stronger Communities

Healthy Lamoille Valley (Prevention Coalition), 802-730-6599, healthylamoillevally.org

Lamoille Restorative Center, 802-888-5871, lrcvt.org

Hardwick Area Justice Center, 802-644-1960, cjnvt.org/center/hardwick-area-community-justice-center/

Recovering and Thriving

North Central Vermont Recovery Center, 802-851-8120, ncvrc.com

Medication Assisted Treatment @CHSLV, 802-888-8320, chslv.org

Treatment Associates, 802-888-0079, treatmentassociatesinc.com

VT Dept. of Health Substance Prevention Consultant, 802-888-2581, healthvermont.gov/local/morrisville

802 QUITS, 800-QUIT-NOW, 802quits.org

Enhancing Mental and Physical Health

Behavioral Health and Wellness Center, 802-888-8320, chslv.org/our-services/behavioral

Copley Hospital, 802-888-8888, copleyvt.org

Community Health Services of the Lamoille Valley, 802-888-0895, chslv.org

Lamoille County Mental Health Services, 802-888-5026, lamoille.org

Hardwick Health Center, 802-472-3300, nchcvt.org/locations-providers/hardwick-area-health-center

Aiding Youth and Young Adults

Lamoille Valley Youth Center, 802-888-2990, morrisvilleucc.org/youth-rocks

E=MC2 Community Center, 802-521-7948, mo.resilient@gmail.com

Jump On Board for Success, 802-888-0656, lrcvt.org/youth-programs

Youth Development Program, 802-888-1377, lrcvt.org/youth-programs

VocRehab, 888-400-5976, vocrehab.vermont.gov/young-adults/transition-counselor-morrisville

Lamoille Interagency Network for Kids – LINK, 802-888-5229 Ext 137, lamoillefamilycenter.org

Top Ten Resilience Videos on Resilience

Watch these short videos to get a better understanding of resilience and share with others.

1 – ACES Primer (a short overview of Adverse Childhood Experiences)
KPJR FILMS LLC
Watch Time: 5 minutes.

2 – Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
TED Talk
Watch Time: 16:02 minutes

3 – Three Core Concepts in Early Development
Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
Watch Time: 2 minutes for each video (3 Videos)

4 – We Can Prevent ACEs
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Watch Time: 4.5 minutes

5 – How Brains are Built: The Core Story of Brain Development
Alberta Family Wellness
Watch Time: 4:05 minutes

6 – Neuroplasticity
Sentis Brain Animation Series
Watch Time: 2 minutes

7 – Presenting a Hand Model of the Brain
Dr. Daniel Siegel, UCLA School of Medicine
Watch Time: 2.5 minutes.

8 – Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought
Minute Earth Videos
Watch Time: 3 minutes

9 – The Science of Resilience
Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Watch Time: 2:30 minutes

10 – Building Resilience
Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Watch Time: 2:30 minutes