Jane Stevens posted:NEAR@Home was designed for home visitors and provides that training, Russell. Since there isn't a sector that can't use trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on ACEs science, I expect that a wide variety of standards will be developed for each sector and sub-sector. e.g., although there will be overlap, there will likely be a different set of standards for ER nurses than for ICU nurses. There will be different standards for substance abuse counselors who work with youth than there will be for those who work with adults or seniors. And, the standards are likely to be flexible so that, as we learn more, we'll refine them more, and refine them for different populations (ethnicities, gender, geographic area, economic level, religion, nationality, disability, etc.).
yes, thank you, granted all that, and it's a matter of verb tense -- I was asking about what IS, as opposed to WILL BE.
So, certainly, the future looks bright and exciting (that is, except for people in New Zealand). But, in the meantime, pretty frustrating. One area that's especially relevant, perhaps most in need, is suicide prevention. I recently was in some discussion (BRIEF "discussion") with people from a new "suicide prevention" service here, "Life Matters") who "closed down" their thinking as soon as some of the research was mentioned concerning ACEs and suicide risk -- perhaps because they felt they were being blamed for things they had done, or not done, as parents -- and that of course was the last thing on my mind.
I was once in a residential treatment service years ago where, roughly, at least 80% had experienced a variety of ACEs but that service had no component where ACEs were addressed systematically -- imho it could have made for a very useful treatment component -- I'm in favour of addressing such things using both individual and group therapy (one standard I'd like to see implemented in such treatment services). I don't know how it came to be but even some victims of most heinous offences (repeated anal rape; being sexually abused by one's father, in a group of men, and being passed around to the others for her to be abused again and again) might have hated men, but were very understanding and compassionate towards their father, say, because he had gone through such experiences as a child himself. So, we don't judge parents, but see broader opportunities for change. (providing the abuse stops).
"I dream of things that never were and ask why not".