; (9) the city of Walla Walla, Washington, which, together with community members, launched the Children’s Resilience Initiative to mobilize neighborhoods and Washington State agencies to tackle ACEs; (10) the State of Oregon, which passed the first State law in the United States to promote— (A) trauma-informed approaches in order to decrease rates of school absenteeism and increase understanding of ACEs and trauma; and (B) best practices to leverage community resources to support youth; (11) the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which passed a law to promote whole-school efforts to implement trauma-informed care approaches to support the social, emotional, and academic well-being of all students, including both preventive and intensive services and support depending on the needs of students; and (12) the State of Washington, which implemented the ACEs Public-Private Initiative, a collaboration among private, public, and community organizations to research and inform policies to prevent childhood trauma and reduce the negative emotional, social, and health effects of childhood trauma; Whereas the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides substantial resources to better engage individuals and communities across the United States to implement trauma-informed care; Whereas numerous Federal agencies have integrated trauma-informed approaches into programs and grants that those agencies administer, and those agencies could benefit from closer collaboration; and Whereas national recognition through a trauma-focused awareness month would help to deepen the understanding of the nature and impact of trauma, the importance of prevention, the impact that ACEs can have on brain development, and the benefits of trauma-informed care: Now, therefore, be it