The Lifelong Impacts of Adverse Experiences in the Early Years /

I wish to thank all the participants who gave of their valuable time to attend this workshop, and whose enthusiasm infected the proceedings! I wish in particular to thank those participants who volunteered to continue the work of addressing the issue of childhood adverse experiences beyond the workshop. [...] Together we learned important information about epigenetics, brain development, resilience and other topics, and then spent the rest of our morning talking with each other about the issues that brought us into the room, ways that the community might be able to work on what matters, and who should be involved in the development and implementation of community-driven solutions. [...] The organizers of this event were pleasantly surprised by the level of interest in the event; initially we were to meet at the Johnson GEO Centre, but within two weeks of opening registration, we had already reached the 85-person capacity of that room and had to switch locations, to The Lantern. [...] The event, this document, the meetings and planning and work that will follow all belong to the community and the Harris Centre is honoured to play a supporting role in the development of this community of practice. [...] Event Delivery and Data Analysis Of the 188 people who registered for the second take at the event, 150 people showed up to the Lantern on June 1. The morning was opened by Associate Director of the Harris Centre, Mike Clair, and continued with four presentations: Dr.