Everyone has a shared responsibility to foster children's potential and
build family and community resilience
The Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience Framework is a call for
collective action across sectors to work together to develop innovative and
meaningful solutions to prevent adversity, strengthen protective factors,
build resilience, and support healing in families and communities.
Focus Areas:
- Socially Connected, Equitable, and Inclusive Communities
- Social and Emotional Development and Resilience
- Reproductive Health and Parenting/Caregiving Readiness
- Responsive and Culturally Safe Parenting/Caregiving
For the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience Framework, please click here.
For the condensed graphic summary of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience Framework, please click here.
Who we are
The Ontario ACEs and Resilience Framework was compiled by a working group of
the ACEs and Resilience Community of Practice (ACER CoP), convened by Public
Health Ontario. The ACER CoP is made up of Public Health practitioners,
community partners, and leaders from across Ontario who are involved in
Healthy Growth and Development, Child and Family Health, Healthy Babies
Healthy Children programs, and other work related to early adversity or
resilience initiatives.
This framework supports communities and decision-makers in Ontario by:
- Promoting evidence-based strategies to prevent adversity and promote
resilience.
- Explaining complex concepts to make them more accessible and easier
to understand.
- Building shared understanding and a common language around the
drivers and impacts of adversity, and ways to build community
resilience.
- Encouraging community action that fosters collective responsibility
and cross-sector partnerships.
- Increasing impact to strengthen the effectiveness of initiatives
that address adversity and resilience.
For questions about the framework, please contact the Co-chairs of the PHO
ACEs and Resilience Community of Practice:
Emily Martyn and
Becky Mann
