Susan Smith posted:Kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand! I don't often log in as I tend to rely on the Digest, but interest in ACES is well alive in NZ.
that's very interesting, Susan. What evidence have you got for that.
I'm in close contact with someone in the Health sector there, and he can't find ANY evidence for it in Health, especially in Dunedin, the home of the University of Otago, the self-proclaimed "Premier" university in New Zealand. He's tried for a couple of years to get an ACEs group set up in New Zealand, to no avail -- apart from him, who no longer seems to be active in this group, he found very very few (2-3) people active on ACEsC who were from New Zealand. New Zealand's Te Pou -- the foreemost agency active in mental health training in NZ -- has tried a few times to get something started up for trauma informed care in mental health, with no success.
Certainly, though, the Resilience film attracted a great deal of attention, but again not in Dunedin. And perhaps restricted to the vulnerable children sector, like your own Barnardo's group.
So, as with "ACEs" everywhere, it tends to be very patchy -- certainly, that is the case in Australia ---- there was a talk for A&D workers in Queensland about patients' experience of early trauma, and the speaker didn't even know of the Dore, Mills et al (2012) research from UNSW's NDARC.