Awareness & Training Videos
Awareness Videos
We invite you to take advantage of this menu of awareness videos led by Dr. Sharon W. Cooper. A new selection of videos will be offered on a bi-weekly basis (second and fourth Thursday of each month).
Please share our mission and work with your circle of influence, family, medical and health care providers.
FPC with MACE Founder Dr. Sharon W. Cooper
Lisa C. Williams talks with Sharon Cooper, MD, about her extraordinary life as a healthcare practitioner for almost a half-century, her Armed Forces service as a Colonel and retired veteran of the United States Army, and her philanthropy in terms of her newly established nonprofit, The MACE Foundation.
Mother Milestone Pt. 1
Dr. Cooper speaks to the importance of nurturing and attentive parents for healthy child development.
Mother Milestone Pt. 2
Dr. Cooper cautions parents about the overuse and overexposure to digital devices for their infants and toddlers.
Military Maternal Outcomes Pt. 1
Dr. Cooper highlights the necessity of providing mental health resources to pregnant enlisted and veteran women to decrease the risk of unhealthy child development.
Military Maternal Outcomes Pt. 2
Dr. Cooper highlights the health care services available to active military mothers.
Military Trauma
Dr. Cooper speaks to sexual assault in the military, its trauma upon the victims, and how the trauma can increase the likelihood of difficulties in a subsequent pregnancy.
understanding Identifying ACEs
Dr. Cooper explains adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the expanded Philadelphia model, which included a greater representation of families of color and community and social determinants in its study.
Uncharted Waters
Dr. Cooper sheds light on commercial sexual exploitation as sexual assault and how the stress of this type of victimization can impede a healthy pregnancy.
Educational Interruption Motherhood
Dr. Cooper speaks to the developmental delays that occur with a child when a mother has experienced high levels of adversity in her life.
Practice Anti Racism
Dr. Cooper addresses systemic racism and its negative impact on a mother’s ability to have a healthy baby.
Understanding ACEs
Dr. Cooper addresses the need for health care providers to recognize the impact of childhood adversities on maternal health.
Mothering Away Adversity
Dr. Cooper reflects on the importance of healthy parenting skills to break the generational cycle of adverse childhood experiences.
Inflictions Affliction
Dr. Cooper explains the link between adverse childhood experiences, the development of unhealthy coping mechanisms, and the onset of chronic diseases--from childhood to adulthood.
Adversities During Childbearing
Dr. Cooper illustrates how a mother’s attachment to unhealthy relationships during pregnancy can cause developmental issues in the unborn fetus.
Recognizing Resolving Trauma (caregivers) Pt. 1
Dr. Cooper talks about the onset of intimate partner violence during pregnancy and the toxic health-related developments for the mother and the unborn fetus.
Recognizing Resolving Trauma (caregivers) Pt. 2
Dr. Cooper advises health care providers about the need to recognize that undiagnosed autoimmune disorders that manifest during pregnancy could be linked to adverse childhood experiences.
Recognizing Resolving Trauma (Women) Pt. 1
Dr. Cooper informs specialty health care providers about adverse childhood experiences and the necessity of asking the right questions.
Recognizing Resolving Trauma (Women) Pt. 2
Dr. Cooper expresses the importance of taking the online Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) screen to expectant mothers.
Impact Generational Racism
Dr. Cooper outlines generational trauma in families of color and indigenous families due to the adverse impact of racism and discriminatory practices.
Physical Abuse Brain Disruptor
Dr. Cooper explains the different types of adverse childhood experiences and their potential impact on brain development during childhood.
Identifying Implicit and Explicit bias - Racism Pt. 1
Dr. Cooper defines implicit and explicit bias in the context of systemic racism, generational trauma, and disparate health care treatment.
Identifying Implicit and Explicit bias - Racism Pt. 2
Dr. Cooper defines implicit and explicit bias in the context of systemic racism, generational trauma, and disparate health care treatment.
Self-Concept Obesity
Dr. Cooper explores the link between adverse childhood experiences and obesity.
Nourishing Inside Out
Dr. Cooper speaks to the MACE Foundation’s goal to advocate for safe and nurturing environments for all children.