Tagged With "ACEs"

By the end of March, Oklahoma will have 30 certified Master Trainers prepared to canvass our state and engage and motivate individuals and communities to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and improve well-being. The Master Trainer program is facilitated by Dr. Robert Anda and Laura Porter of ACE Interface , a company that provides education, analysis, process design, facilitation, and products designed to increase networks of trainers to disseminate education across communities.

As we sit amidst a pandemic, I marvel at the difference in how each person is navigating this shared traumatic space. What makes some of us carry on with little impact on our mental health and wellness, while others struggle to get through life’s daily tasks? I believe it is Resilience. Resilience isn’t something you are born with. It is complex and developed over time, through personal experiences and environments, through parenting and opportunities, through responses from those who are...

Education about promoting positive experiences and using simple brain science to help emphasize the importance of positive experiences in building healthy brains (hence bodies) are the keys to both preventing negative impact and building capacities after experiencing adversity.

Below is an excerpt from an email from the director of National Children's Alliance in May of 2021 describing this file. As important as it is for us, as professionals in the field, to have a greater understanding of the benefits and limitations of ACE screening and scoring, that cannot be the end goal—the next step must be to take that understanding and find effective ways to communicate that to the public at large, and to use that as the basis for policies that create long-lasting...

Thank you, Rhonda Hudson, for sharing this!

Excellent resource! We're so lucky that Frameworks makes their briefs available for free. They are always useful!

Cheryl do you know if there are copyright laws with this?

Thank you for posting, Cheryl! This adds to the discussions we've had about corporal punishment in schools and spanking in general.

Child welfare services could be more effective — and less expensive — if they were more proactive than reactive, an Oklahoma House of Representatives subcommittee was told Tuesday. “Sixty percent of child protective services responses nationally are for neglect only, … but our interventions have been predominantly focused on addressing … physical abuse,” said Clare Anderson, a senior policy advisor with the Chapin Hall child welfare research center at the University of Chicago. The result,...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma lawmakers are set to bring awareness to ACEs, known as Adverse Childhood Experiences and PACEs, Positive and Compensatory Experiences. Both the House and Senate have simple resolutions naming April 7 th ACEs and PACEs Awareness Day in Oklahoma. In the House, the resolution's primary sponsor is Rep. Carol Bush with many co-sponsors. In the Senate, co-sponsors are Sen. Brenda Stanley and Sen. Carri Hicks. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially...

I find great comfort in articles like this, Dr. Block. Thank you for sharing your perspective! I have spent most of my adult life trying to overcome the shame I felt about my constantly tumultuous emotional state. Learning about ACEs was life-changing for me, and I have been in hot pursuit of my recovery since I learned that although I was emotionally fragile, I was actually fragmented, and not fickle!! I feel extremely validated by the new information that is being released about the impact...