Jane Stevens (ACEs Connection staff) posted:In my experience, Strengthening Families doesn't include education about ACEs science, which can set up a parent for feeling like a failure if they're triggered by their child and don't know why.
A great toolkit to add to Strengthening Families is NEAR@Home, which bills itself as a resource for home visitors to respectfully and effectively address ACEs with families. But LOTS of people use NEAR@Home's materials to educate families, including other social service agencies, physicians, nurses, etc.
The NEAR@Home (NEAR = Neurobiology, Epigenetics, ACEs and Resilience) Toolkit provides detailed information on how to talk with families, including dialogue scripts for providers to use. The toolkit is free to download.
Definitely true depending on the trainer, its very important to get that whole picture look but in a constructive way for the family and I think since Strengthening Families is not a curriculum but a framework it is very adaptive and open to interpretation which could leave potential room for missing that qualitative approach.