When we talk about ACEs science, Katie, we include trauma-informed and resilience-building practices as the fifth part of five parts. The other four parts are the the original ACE Study and subsequent surveys that add more types of ACEs (epidemiology); how toxic stress from ACEs affects the brain, especially children's developing brains; how toxic stress from ACEs affects short- and long-term health; and how toxic stress from ACEs can be passed from generation to generation (historical trauma) through changes in how genes function.
All these parts work together to tell the entire story of this new understanding of why we respond the way we do to adverse experiences in our lives, and how our traditional approach of using blame, shame and punishment to change people's behavior doesn't work. What does is understanding, nurturing and helping people heal themselves. Our goal is to institutionalize that approach in all of our organizations and systems.