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Reply to "Are you screening for ACEs in schools? How are you responding?"

Hi, Leslie -- This health clinic that's part of a high school in Santa Rosa is giving the ACE survey to every teen who visits the clinic. Apparently, it's produced a huge change in their understanding of these kids and how they help them. Here's the story -- https://acestoohigh.com/2015/10/06/customizing-the-aces-screen-for-the-specific-experiences-of-high-school-students/ 

I believe that there was some thought to screening kids for ACEs in some schools in New Haven, CT, but that idea was abandoned. In the trauma-informed schools that I've done stories on, the general feeling is that if the administration, staff & teachers have been thoroughly trained in being trauma-informed, that kids don't need to be screened because the teaches, staff & admins are so attuned to their kids, and their own stress responses, that they don't need it, and it might stigmatize a kid.

There have been some suggestions that a better way to get at understanding what kids are experiencing, and as a first necessary step to helping the entire family, is to have their parents or caregivers fill out ACEs and resilience  surveys. 

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