Resilience: the Science of Stress and the Biology of Hope

Alaska Behavioral Health and the Bear Tooth Theatre Pub are pleased to present a free screening of Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month and Children’s Mental Health Week. 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 every- thing 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.