Economic hardship, neighborhood violence, split-up parents and substance abuse. Any one of those conditions can make for problems that follow a kid through childhood and beyond.
A new report based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health found that Ohio is among five states with the highest share of children — as many as one in seven — who had faced three or more of the potential trauma measures known to researchers as adverse childhood experiences
Resource Topic: Community
ACEs Connections Network: ACEs in Pediatrics
An open community that allows individuals to share resources and best practices in pediatrics to address ACEs in children and their parents or caregivers.
We Can Prevent ACEs (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. As such, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are an important public health issue. Learn how everyone can help prevent ACEs by using strategies to create safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for all children.
The Resilience Effect
The Resilience Effect is our philanthropic initiative to take on childhood adversity in the Bay Area and build lifelong health. Together with our partners, we hope to design, test and scale the most effective ways to address childhood adversity and strengthen resilience — so that all children can have healthy and vibrant futures
What Do Asthma, Heart Disease And Cancer Have In Common? Maybe Childhood Trauma
A discussion with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician and founder/CEO of the Center For Youth Wellness, who works to raise awareness about the dangers of childhood toxic stress.
How Schools Use Brain Science To Help Traumatized Kids Heal and Learn
MyPre-K (in Kentucky)
My Pre-K is for parents, caregivers, and anyone in Kentucky looking for an easy way to find programs and opportunities in their community before entering Kindergarten.
Trauma Informed Community Building Evaluation
At its core, Trauma Informed Community Building (TICB) aims to increase the readiness of the community to sustain personal and
neighborhood change. TICB strives to promote social cohesion and foster resiliency so that residents will have the capacity to adjust to changing circumstances, including the transition to a mixed-income neighborhood. Informed by the socio-ecological model, TICB acknowledges the interplay of
individual, interpersonal, community and system level factors on residents’ experiences, and aims to simultaneously target each of these levels in all aspects of community building efforts (Weinstein, Wolin, & Rose, 2014).
Trauma Informed Community Building
Pervasive current and historical trauma demands a community building approach that takes into account residents’ emotional needs and avoids
re-traumatization triggers, which “traditional” models of community building may ignore or exacerbate. Just as a “trauma informed approach” is now
accepted as essential for effective service delivery to many individuals living in these communities (SAMHSA, 2012), a trauma informed approach to
community building is required to create sustainable improvements to their social and physical environment.
Embedding the Brain Story: To Catalyze Sustainable Change For Children And Families
The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative has targeted key leverage points across all the major systems, addressing early childhood development and its connection to later physical and mental health outcomes, including addiction.