1. WHO?
Those who believe every child deserves to grow up safe, healthy and empowered to succeed in school.
2. SAYS WHAT?
Our students and families are traumatized. They need family-friendly services to survive, heal and thrive. We need a strategic plan at the state, county, city and school board levels to prevent and treat high rates of ACEs and trauma. We must look at the root causes of ACEs in order to make measurable and meaningful progress.
3. TO WHOM?
- School board members and superintendents
- County managers and commissioners
- City mayors and council members
- College presidents and department heads
- State lawmakers
4. WITH WHAT SCHOOL ACTIONS?
- School staff/board members read up on ACEs prevention
- Schools form an ACEs Awareness Committee
- School Boards develop ACEs School Policy
- Schools research “community schools” models
- Schools research school-based family counseling models
- Schools offer a “Parents Guide to ACEs”
- Schools offer staff training on ACEs
- Schools develop protocols to help students with ACEs
- Schools ensure that students with ACEs are not marginalized
5.WITH WHAT CITY ACTIONS?
- We send research on ACEs prevention to elected officials
- We write editorials and articles and use social media
- We facilitate community forums to engage all residents
- We mobilize to create City-sponsored ACEs prevention
- We promote data-driven and cross sector ACEs prevention
- We vote in leaders who commit to ACEs prevention
- We disrupt a status quo that asks children to suffer in silence
6.WITH WHAT RESULTS?
With the right policies, programs and funding in place:
- Increase in children’s safety, healthy and resilience
- Increase in student’s capacity to succeed in school
- Increase in parent’s capacity to heal
- Decrease in ACEs and maltreatment
- Decrease in ACEs-related health challenges
- Increase in school/city/county partnerships
- Increase in public awareness of ACEs
- Increase in city and state ACEs prevention departments
For more information about ACEs prevention please download a free copy of Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and maltreatment. www.AnnaAgeEight.org
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