Handouts for parents about Understanding ACEs, toxic stress, resilience & Parenting with ACEs

Jane Stevens 2/5/152:57 PM

Updated November, 11, 2021

Please see the main post for these parent handouts in the ACEs Connection Resources Center.

These two flyers can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely.

Parenting to Prevent and Heal ACEs

This handout is based on the work of Donna Jackson Nakazawa, who worked with us and generously allowed us to paraphrase content from her book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology & How You Can Heal. Donna's book specifically addresses those of us parenting with ACEs (which she also does brilliantly in the powerful documentary, Wrestling Ghosts, which is about parenting and healing from ACEs).

This handout can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is available in the following languages:

English
Spanish
Dari

Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow, provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this flyer.

Understanding ACEs

This is an updated version of the popular hand-out created and shared by the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District. The original version has been downloaded thousands and thousands of times and has been used by both individuals and organizations.

The updated flyer can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is available in the following languages:

English
Spanish
Arabic
Dari
Farsi

Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow, provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this flyer. This resource was reviewed by the California Collaborative ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) Patient Community Advisory Board. CALQIC also supported translation of the document.

PAST Post: Thanks to the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District for putting together this handout for parents.

I found out about it when while doing a story about the trauma-informed elementary schools in Spokane, WA. Public health nurse Melissa Charbonneau mentioned that she'd been giving this to parents while working in neighborhoods near Whitman Elementary School in Spokane.

We've updated it. Feel free to download and distribute.

Our hope is that these can be shared with parents, teachers, survivors, medical professionals, and others.

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Jane StevensPublisher, ACEsTooHigh; founder, PACEs Connection

Hi, Melle:

Not yet, but we're working on it.

Cheers, Jane

2/11/1510:32 PM

Melle BrowningMember

These are great. Any that are in Spanish?

2/11/151:02 PM

Jane StevensPublisher, ACEsTooHigh; founder, PACEs Connection

Hi, Nicky: Try again with Firefox...it's working for us and others. If you have a slow connection, it might take a while to download.

Cheers, Jane

2/10/154:46 PM

Sue Mackey AndrewsMember

Hi All,

I didn't have any difficulty downloading these - I use Chrome, but Jane says that Foxfire works as well. They are .pdf files. I am not the most technically astute person to help anyone, honestly!!!!

2/10/154:27 PM

Jennifer HosslerMember

These are great! I've shared them with our 5 Supercommunities around the country! Thank you

2/10/153:57 PM

Nicky MacCallum LMFT, NCCMember

I love them but cannot download them I get an error message on google and the document is not complete when I try to use Firefox. Any help greatly appreciated.

2/10/153:21 PM

Vicki LunghoferMember

Jane thank you for sharing this resource. I can't wait to share this with our early learning linkages group this week as well as our early learning coalition

2/9/1512:59 PM

Ava AshleyMember

These Materials are wonderful and very user friendly. thanks! Ava

2/9/157:22 AM

Jane StevensPublisher, ACEsTooHigh; founder, PACEs Connection

Hi, Cissy:

If you open the PDFs in Firefox, you can download them.

Cheers, J.

2/8/153:15 PM

Sue Mackey AndrewsMember

Great materials and very timely for us in Maine. Am meeting with parent reps this coming week!!!! Thanks!

2/7/1510:03 AM

Christine Cissy WhiteIt's not trauma-informed unless it's informed by trauma survivors.

Is there any way to get these as a Word doc. I can open the files while in Aces Connection but when I try to save or download and then open them it says that there's an error. Anyone else have this issue?

Cissy

2/7/156:26 AM

Christine Cissy WhiteIt's not trauma-informed unless it's informed by trauma survivors.

These are so fantastic. They are wonderful. We're having an ACE educational event at Mobius in Boston next month and I'm going to share these. Thank you for making these available. They are fantastic. Such good work.

Cissy

2/7/155:13 AM

Diane GreenMember

Hi Jane! Thank you so, so much for these wonderful handouts!! I cannot express how grateful I am to have had all this important information put in to such an easy to understand format. There are a lot of people I come into contact with who will truly benefit from these pages!

Thank you again!

~Diane

2/6/154:12 PM

Jane StevensPublisher, ACEsTooHigh; founder, PACEs Connection

Linda -- Yes, please make as many copies as you like and distribute them anywhere and everywhere. I'm glad they're useful.

Tina -- That's really good to hear, that the parents you worked with are using them.

Brenda -- I'd be interested to what your classmates think!

-- J.

2/6/1511:15 AM

cynthia tanakaMember

Thank you for sharing these Jane!

2/6/158:45 AM

Brenda YuenMember

Jane,

These are wonderful! I'm SO glad to see the sexism removed from the issue. These are ideal for parents of elementary school-aged children (and younger). I'm going to take copies to my Couple & Family Counseling course next Thursday night. I was talking about ACEs in class and I know there were many cohorts who had never heard of it. Thanks also goes to Spokane's Community & Family Division for putting these together. It really helps.

Brenda Gregory Yuen

2/6/157:13 AM

Robert OlcottMember

Tina Faber posted:
Well, I thought I got this image from this handout but at second glance, maybe I didn't. Anyone know where this image originally came from?

Might these have come from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child-which has published a 'position paper' on "Toxic Stress" ? ? ?

9/12/1911:45 AM

Robert OlcottMember

Brianne Twombly posted:
Does anyone know if the understanding ACEs handout has been translated into Arabic or if there is a similar handout available in Arabic? Thanks.

The World Health Organization's 'WHO ACE International Questionnaire' was available in 'over 100 languages' on the WHO website. WHO did have a ' User's guide-book' to accompany it. I can't specifically say about the 'Understanding ACEs' handout.

9/12/1911:42 AM