Working Ranch Integrates ACEs, Animals Into Treatment for Teens [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/22/1612:00 PM

This story originally appeared in ACES Too High.

Although it’s too soon to tell if integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) sciences is making a difference for the teens living at Home on the Range, a residential treatment center in Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, it’s made a huge difference for the people who work there. They now understand that kids aren’t born bad.

“ACEs has enlightened us,” says Mike Gooch, clinical program director for the center, which is located on a 1,600-acre cattle ranch. “We knew kids had trauma, and once we administered ACEs, it all started to make sense. They’re not really born a certain way.”

Indeed, it’s what happens after these kids are born, as their average ACE score of 5 indicates.

[For more of this story, written by Sylvia Paull, go to http://jjie.org/working-ranch-...nt-for-teens/262647/]

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