Resilience Tools for Adults
Most experts in the field of ACEs and resilience will tell you that it's critical to take a two- and sometimes three-generational approach when working to prevent and address ACEs: children don't live in a vacuum, and their adult family members more often than not had similar experiences during childhood. Also, those of us working with children and families affected by adversity and trauma need to ensure we have our own stores of resilience.
The Devereux Center for Resilient Children has a variety of free tools and webinars focused on adult resilience, including the Devereux Adult Resilience Survey (attached), a 23-item reflective checklist that provides adults information about their personal strengths. This tool is different from the resilience questionnaire the ACEs workgroup uses at events because it focuses on current resilience and not on resilience factors during childhood.
Other tools include the Devereux Resilient Leadership Survey, and two December webinars: "Key Strategies to Resilient Leadership" and "Building Your Bounce: Simple Strategies for a Resilient You."
Visit their website to find out more.
In Case You Missed It
ARBEST's August webinar covered the following topics:
- ACEs in Arkansas
- A UAMS-developed tool to screen families for child ACEs from ages 0 to 5
- How screening is associated with child outcomes in a sample population
- Considerations for implementing ACEs screening
Workgroup steering committee member Lorraine McKelvey, PhD, an associate professor in the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, is the presenter. You can watch a recording of the webinar here.
Annie E. Casey Foundation Releases Report on How to Support Young Parents
A new KIDS COUNT® policy report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation describes the issues young parents face and identifies policy improvements and investments that can enable more young families to succeed.
You can read and download a copy of the report here.
Events
Trauma and the Opioid Epidemic: This is Your Brain on Drugs. This is Your Brain on Trauma. (webinar)
2-3 p.m. Oct. 18
Register here.
Substance Use, Trauma and Domestic Violence: Critical Issues, Promising Approaches (webinar)
2-3 p.m. Central, Oct. 23
Register here.
Collective Impact 101 Training
8:30-11 a.m. Oct. 24
The Jones Center, Springdale
Register here.
Articles
A Family Systems Approach to Treating Intergenerational Trauma (Family Trauma Institute)
A Really Good Thing Happening in America (NYT)
This school replaced detention with meditation and the results are phenomenal (ACEs Connection)
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