I'm so excited to see this discussion! Our community collaborative, the Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative (WCCI) (like others' collaboratives), is comprised of school personnel, local mental health public and private providers, department of social services staff, non-profit staff, public health staff, university faculty and students, first responders, members of the faith community, and interested community members decided that we wanted to assess our own ACE scores as well as assess resiliency at our August 2018 monthly meeting. We sought university Institutional Review Board approval, and distributed the ACE questionnaire, the Brief Thriving Scale (Smith, Erickson & Guzman, n.d.) and the Brief Resilience Scale (Smith, Dalen, Wiggins, Tooley, Christopher, & Bernard (2008) in Nov. 2018, and we just presented the findings to the WCCI last month. While our "sample" was not large (n=48), the most dramatic comparison was to the Felitti et al., 1998 findings regarding 4 or more ACEs. A total of 29.7% reported experiencing 4 or more ACEs in our study compared to 6.2% for the Felitti et al. study (1998, p. 251). Also exciting were our findings on the BTS. Our sample (n=48) had a mean score of 4.91 (out of 5 possible--higher scores indicate greater resiliency), compared to the mean score of 3.34 for the sample of undergraduate students that the scaled was first normed with. We're hoping to present further at some national conferences as well as submit an article on our study--we're very excited to have this work expanded upon! Research by Strait & Bolman (2017) in their study of health profession graduate students who completed an ACEs questionnaire, those who chose to complete a questionnaire in comparison to those who did not reported a better understanding of the concepts, and greater likelihood to incorporate trauma-informed care into their future health practice--I think that this says alot for we current professionals as well!