Researchers have recently discovered a dangerous biological syndrome caused by abuse and neglect during childhood. As the new documentary Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time, and early death. While the broader impacts of poverty worsen the risk, no segment of society is immune. Resilience, however, also chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fight back. Trailblazers in pediatrics, education, and social welfare are using cutting-edge science and field-tested therapies to protect children from the insidious effects of toxic stress—and the dark legacy of a childhood that no child would choose.
The Parenting Place has been serving Missoula County since 1981 as a nonprofit dedicated to helping prevent child abuse and neglect both by strengthening healthy parent-child relationships and by providing frontline professionals with the trauma-informed tools to deal with individuals and families in crisis. Toward this end, our priorities are to offer the best possible parenting classes (in the community as well as incarceration settings), trauma-informed training (in fields of mental health, law enforcement, social work and education), respite care, home aide visits, and timely networking and referrals.
Doors open at 7:00, film begins at 7:15. Q&A to follow the film. All tickets are $5 - no membership discounts apply to this screening.