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By ACEs Aware, June 2020 As you likely know, ACEs Aware offers a free, online training for providers interested in learning more about screening for ACEs and responding with trauma-informed care. The training provides two Continuing Medical Education and Maintenance of Certification credits. The training is case-based, including cases for pediatric, internal medicine, family medicine, and women’s health providers. Medi-Cal providers who take this training and complete the simple attestation...

From ACEs Aware, July 1, 2020 ACEs Aware hosted a webinar on June 24th – “ Fundamentals of ACE Screening and Response in Pediatrics. ” You can watch the webinar at ACEsAware.org . Dr. Burke Harris and three other health care providers walked through two case studies to show how ACE screening can impact their clinical decision-making. Panelists: Nadine Burke Harris, MD, MPH, FAAP – California Surgeon General Lisa Gutiérrez Wang, PhD – Director of Children’s Behavioral Health, Santa Cruz...

A patient came into the Goleta location of the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics pleading with people at the front desk to speak to Mayra Garcia, a wellness navigator at the clinic, despite not having an appointment. The clinic is part of a network of four clinics in the Santa Barbara region of California that serve mainly patients on Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, or patients who are uninsured. Mayra Garcia “She was crying. Her husband had been deported. She couldn’t pay the rent,...

Save the date for the next ACEs Aware webinar: "Assessing Readiness and Building Resilience in the Clinical Workforce: A Foundation for ACEs Screening Integration." Wednesday, September 30, 2020 [Registration link to come.]

This story is part of an occasional series about California-based pediatricians who are incorporating ACEs screening into their practices. In the first installment published in May, which you can find here , Dr. Amy Shekarchi and other team members had just launched their ACEs screening by phone. A community health worker from a clinic affiliated with Los Angeles County’s Department of Health Care Services recently called a teenage patient to find out if she ever felt unsafe in her home or...

Can universal ACEs screening be equitable? A conversation about concerns and solutions. When: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2-3:30 pm PDT/5-6:30 pm EDT This webinar explores what it takes to ensure that equity is built into the process of screening and providing support for families who have experienced trauma and want help. REGISTER HERE Background At the beginning of this year, California, through the ACEs Aware initiative began rolling out universal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs),...

This story is part of an occasional series where we check in with physicians who are launching ACEs screening in California. This is the first snapshot of the Solano County Family Health Service’s pilot in its Vacaville Clinic. In 2017, Dr. Shandi Fuller, a pediatrician at the Solano County Family Health Services in Northern California, was inspired by the groundbreaking film Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope , which reinforced her belief in the importance of...

Dr. Shandi Fuller recalls that when she first assembled an all-staff meeting at the Solano County Family Health Services to show how equity and ACEs screening should go hand in hand, some staff members were bewildered. “Why are we talking about equity?” they asked. As Fuller explained to attendees at “A Better Normal,” an ACEs Connection webinar on Oct. 13, the question led her and a colleague to develop training for medical providers on this concept. The webinar was also based on extensive...

The heart of medicine is healing. Ultimately, the goal of working with patients (and their families) is to support, encourage and move toward healing, together. Just as in all professions, as we become more aware of new information we have to adapt, continuing to keep the larger mission at the forefront of practice. “A consensus of scientific research demonstrates that cumulative adversity, especially when experienced during critical and sensitive periods of development, is a root cause to...

ACE Overcomers and The Family Resource Center of Merced County are collaborating to inform the community and medical providers about resources to identify and treat adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). A total of $14.3 million was awarded to 100 organizations throughout the state to extend the reach and impact of the ACEs Aware initiative, with nearly $200,000 awarded to the two Merced County agencies. ACEs Aware seeks to change and save lives by helping Medi-Cal providers understand the...

Criticizing ACEs in Peer Reviewed Professional Journals Impairs Child Abuse Treatment Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH May 23, 2021 As a family doc practicing in San Diego I was privileged to hear Dr. Vincent Felitti talk about his inspired development of the ACEs questionnaire and its association with many adult mental and physical diseases directly from him only a few years after his original insight. Yet, although I had a lively clinic and learned how to manage a vast array of medical...

Dear Kings County, We are resilient! We have faced storm after storm, but we did not give up and we have not lost hope. In fact, we continue to confront challenges. Through it all, we stand united in building healthy futures and we plan to make this happen with your support. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress represent a public health crisis that has been, until recently, largely unrecognized by our state’s health care system and society. A consensus of scientific research...

This film was made possible through a grant from ACEs Aware and with the support of Owen’s Valley Career Development Center. This project is an attempt to unpack the question “how do we heal from trauma?” The film draws on the lived and professional experience of three women in the rural community of Bishop, California. The subjects of the film are all mothers who have found their calling in the helping professions. Heather is a nurse responding to the opioid epidemic, Tawni is a social...

Despite the growing recognition that ACEs screening of parents of young children is valuable, only a small number of pediatricians routinely screen parents. The Idaho ACEs Learning Collaborative is seeking to connect with people who are screening parents or interested in this topic.