Thank you for your reply, Cissy! I appreciate the perspective you shared. What we ended up doing at the first evening of the event was sending the parents home with a folder that had the ACEs and Resilience surveys, in addition to some other brief documents about Resilience, Serve and Return, etc. On the second evening, we did ask parents to reflect on their experience if they had done the survey at home. I especially like the point you made about acknowledging that often, we don't necessarily consider the ACEs to be trauma because it became "normal".
We are planning to do the event for families annually, so we will definitely be taking your thoughts and suggestions into consideration when we plan for next school year! The parents also were interested in continuing to meet so we are organizing some Parent Cafes before the end of the year 