Ben Rosen posted:What're your goals here?
As a former educator and current Youth Advocate, I'd highly recommend a 2 gen approach to addressing ACES in your student population. The growing research surrounding ACES increasingly suggests that children who have high ACE scores (4 or more) have parents/caregivers with high ACE scores. Best practice is, now, commonly thought to be a 2 gen approach.
This may be daunting based upon your enrollment (2,050 students). I'd suggest trying to partner with your local children's hospital and/or local government health department in order to reach scale. Toward this end, an anonymous survey may help you "sell" this to your administration, parents, local partners, etc.
You'll find this link and YouTube talks by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris extremely helpful.
This is super important I think. Press on!
Ben.
Thanks, Ben! I agree re: importance. The goal is to clarify how high-need our students and their families are in order to augment the services and training available. Also, it would be very helpful in being able to show administration how integral being a trauma-informed school is to our students' success, in both their education and their futures!