Corinna West posted:A lot of this is because the disease model "treat depression with drugs to prevent suicide" approach works even less in that community than in white America. Which means that the ACES Connection people shouldn't go in there in push their message either. The junk on this site of "You have a broken brain, trauma has screwed you up for life, build some resiliency but we won't tell you how to build resiliency or address the root cause of oppression."
SAMHSA has some concrete reccommendations.
Corinna,
I "liked" your comment for your emphasis on addressing the root cause of oppression. It is institutions rather than only parents or only children of parents; It is adult capacity building, overall. Your comment reinforces my understanding that the major "intractable" risk factors for ACEs are indeed able to be addressed IF and only IF decision makers, thought leaders, advocates, and policy makers get real about the How and Now of actually changing the social constructs and inter-generational teachings and institutional practices that put some folk at purely discretionary risk for ACEs that (thus far) require a steady diet of inter-generational "resilience" and "patience."
I am specifically speaking of inter-generational poverty of Black folks in America (a systemic impoverishment that has clearly determinable lines of socio-political and sociocultural cause). Sociocultural practices and socio-political cause being federal, state, local policies/practices that continue to disproportionately dehumanize and circumscribe the participation, achievement, longevity, and opportunities of engagement for said population.
While discussion of ACEs adds to the dialogue of advocacy and "progress", I become increasingly concerned that we can talk much about ACEs and still miss the ongoing call for "transformative change" which will only be properly imparted by putting action behind three How/Now prongs of transformation: cause, accountability, and capacity building.