Another non-profit rolls out a deceptive community training project for ACEs: Thunder Bay, Ontario

CATEGORY: CONTROL OF LANGUAGE AND IDEAS

Rene Monsma (left) and Diane Walker (right), leaders of Children’s Centre Thunder Bay

Source: TBnewswatch.com
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This Happened
In October 2024, Children’s Centre Thunder Bay announced the launch of a new education campaign on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
 
Who Did This?
Children's Centre Thunder Bay is a non-profit organization funded by the Canadian national government, Ontario government, and charitable foundations. It is a multi-service organization that provides mental health, child development and parenting services to children and their families living in the Thunder Bay District.
The two-year campaign received $200,000 in funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
 
The Premise
The aim of the project is to spread the narrative of ACEs to the community by raising awareness and provide resources to mitigate the alleged impacts of ACEs. They launched the project with a training session for several social service agencies. They taught the usual ACE pedagogy that the effects of stressful childhood events can cause adulthood severe physical disease, mental health disorders, and dysfunctional quality of life.
One method of instilling the pedagogy is the interactive Brain Architecture Game in which participants construct brain models with colorful pipe cleaners. This is “a fun, interactive, and engaging way” to learn, said Rene Monsma, project lead. (pictured above). They plan to roll out more of these trainings to schools and business communities.
 
Analysis
This project is another example of the international effort to promote ACEs as a diagnosis of many of society’s ills and a blueprint for Leftist progressive social policies.

The primary purpose of these trainings is to install an intellectual framework that humans are highly fragile, oppression is the cause of every disadvantaged group, and a revolution is needed in how we raise our children.

​ACEs are mostly potentially stressful experiences (i.e., parental divorce), not traumas. But to achieve maximum urgency, they conflate stress with trauma. Traumas, per research, are the events capable of causing posttraumatic stress disorder, and they must be life-threatening, and typically sudden and unexpected.

In addition, a central tenet of this non-profit’s philosophy appears to be the paradigm that children do not fully belong to families. 

“It is about acknowledging that parenting and caregiving and raising kids is a community job,” said Diane Walker, CEO of Children’s Centre Thunder Bay (picture above). That could be a helpful philosophy if it didn’t so often mean liberal progressive programs that tend to undermine the nuclear family and other traditional concepts.
 
Why Is This Happening?
Events like this promoting ACEs have been happening for the past fifteen years around the United States nearly every week in the form of conferences, workshops, and professional development trainings. Trauma Dispatch has documented some of their content here, here, and here, and the lack of scientific evidence for the ACEs theory here.
Non-profit organizations often act as quasi-governmental extensions to accomplish political projects that  governments can’t do as easily and that were never voted on by the public. Government funds can be funneled to non-profits under humanitarian objectives with little debate or citizen input.