Free Movie Screening: RESILIENCE

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A Look at the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Wednesday, June 10
5:15 pm
Upstate Midtown  | 591 Broadway | Kingston 

Join Family of Woodstock at the new Upstate Midtown theater adjacent to the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston for a special, free screening of the award-winning documentary, RESILIENCE: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope. The film explores the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study. 

The original research was controversial, but the findings revealed the most important public health findings of a generation. RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress. Now understood to be one of the leading causes of everything from heart disease and cancer to substance abuse and depression, extremely stressful experiences in childhood can alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health and behavior.

However, as experts and practitioners profiled in RESILIENCE are proving, what’s predictable is preventable. These physicians, educators, social workers, and communities are daring to talk about the effects of divorce, abuse, and neglect. And they’re using cutting-edge science to help the next generation break the cycles of adversity and disease.

WATCH THE TRAILER: Resilience Movie Trailer

Panel Discussion

Stay after the film screening for a panel that will discuss how the issues raised in the film affect area youth. Family of Woodstock childcare, adolescent and adult services program leaders will be joined by local professionals who work with area youth. The panel will be moderated by Family of Woodstock’s Executive Director Michael Berg and Deputy Director Paul Rakov with questions from the audience encouraged to create a lively, informed discussion. 

 

The film is part of Upstate Midtown’s Neighborhood Watch series and is presented by Family of Woodstock. While the event is free, securing right to screen the movie resulted in some cost for Family of Woodstock. If you would like to help offset that cost, please make a donation here: Help Fund the Screening