ACEs, Trauma, & Resiliency Training
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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.
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.
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.
- 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.
4. Vicarious Trauma
This training is designed for professionals who work with children or adults who have experienced trauma.
- Understanding Vicarious Trauma (VT)
- How VT Happens
- Recognizing the Signs of VT
- Impact of VT on the Brain
- Building Your Resiliency
- Practical Application for Implementing Resiliency
Audience: Professionals
Trainer: Presented by a CHS Prevention and Education Trainer.
5. Building Resiliency
This training is designed for professionals who work with children or adults who have experienced trauma.
- Understanding Trauma
- Resilience Basics
- Building Your Resiliency
- Practical Application for Implementing Resiliency
Audience: Professionals
Trainer: Presented by a CHS Prevention and Education Trainer.
ACEs are common, but they don't have to define your future.
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