Developed in partnership with KCC Public Health and Health Education England, ACE Ambassadors is a programme to support organisations and individuals to help prevent and reduce the impact of ACEs and trauma. The programme encourages participants towards co-creating innovative services and solutions which recognise and respond to trauma and provide additional support where it is chosen.

Funded by Kent & Medway Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and together with Tonbridge & Malling Community Safety Partnership, the ‘Policing and Early Health’ project built upon Public Health England’s landscape review ‘Policing and Health Collaboration in England and Wales’. Bringing together policing, early years health, the voluntary sector and communities themselves in open dialogue to generate innovative prevention-focused solutions.

A partnership between Angel Lane CIC, Sanctuary Group and Kent Housing Group, the project engaged providers of social homes across Kent & Medway in raising awareness of trauma and its impact through a series of events and programmes. Assisting providers and local authorities to form deeper, trauma-informed connections with communities and households leading to greater understanding of childhood adversity as a cause of violence.

Seeking to bridge the gap between those young people and young adults who are involved or at risk of becoming involved in serious violence, and the positive, healthy, skills- and relationship-building activities which support and, we hope, divert them. Promoting opportunities to form meaningful trusting relationships with individuals, groups and organisations at work in our communities through peer-led and strengths-based activities.