ACEs, Trauma, & Resiliency Training

Name: Children's Home Society of South Dakota
Price range: $

Prevention and Education > Training Events > ACEs, Trauma, & Resiliency Training

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic childhood events that can create dangerous levels of stress and can negatively impact the development of a child's brain and body. In partnership with the Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment, Children's Home Society has implemented the ACE Interface Program to provide information and understanding of ACEs, trauma, and resilience for communities statewide.

1. Understanding ACEs: Building Self-Healing Communities

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are the most powerful determinant of the public's health. Learn more about what you can do to help stop the cycle of abuse and create a healthier society for generations to come.

Impact of Trauma
ACE study
Building Trauma-Informed Communities

Audience: Community members, Professionals, Parents, College Students

Trainer: Presented by an ACE Interface Presenter or Master Trainer.

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2. Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope

Resilience is a film that chronicles the birth of a new movement among pediatricians, therapists, educators, and communities who are using cutting-edge brain science to disrupt cycles of violence, addiction, and disease.

Film Screening
Facilitated Discussion
Application to Our Community

Audience: Community members, Professionals, Parents, College Students

Trainer: Presented by an ACE Interface Presenter or Master Trainer.

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3. Paper Tigers: One High School's Unlikely Success Story

Paper Tigers is a film that chronicles a year in the life of an alternative high school whose students have a history of truancy, behavioral problems, and substance abuse. Upon learning about ACEs, their principal radically changes the school's approach to discipline.