Administering ACE questionnaire in a clinical setting

Hi, Keith: I'm sure you'll have some useful replies to your request, and you can check out the group Taking an ACEs History -- Who's Doing IT and How? for some short articles we've done on organizations that are integrating an ACE survey into their work.
Cheers, J.

Hello Keith,

i have much to share in this topic.  Could we have a call?  Maybe others would like to join as well.  You raise all the right questions.  One thing is to think of this as an assessment to open a healing and health promotion dialogue vs screening.  The frame is one of empowerment and self care and development- much more!  Christy 

I would like very much to join in on that call.

Yes, let's make a call happen. I'm wondering if we could use some kind of web-based teleconferencing tool. Can we have multiple callers on Skype? I've also used Zoom in the past, but am not sure if this is free.

I would also like to join the call.

We can use the chat function on ACEsConnection. It's a little different than audio conversation....there's a moderator, and it's a great way to package a lot of information into a short time. People type in their questions, the host answers, but so does everyone else, if they have information to contribute. It's archived in a way that you can quickly scroll through the text to retrieve useful information. And it's great way for two people to connect with each other without interrupting the flow of the conversation.

What do you think?

Hi all,

RegroupTherapy is a free, encrypted platform. (I use it for teletherapy sessions.) It's easy to sign up and, unlike Skype, is private and protected. I have it and could facilitate a call Friday morning sometime between 11 and 1 PST, if you would like. I would need your emails and names. You would get an email with instructions to download a simple plug-in and a code to sign in to the call. I use the ACE questionnaire frequently when working with a variety of clients in private practice. Please feel free to email me at cathyharris@traumainformedpro.com if this sounds good to you.

http://www.regrouptherapy.com

I would really like to participate as well. I can offer to host the meeting in a web conferencing tool as my company subscribes to such.

When would you guys like it to happen? I'm in the Central European timezone (PST+9, EST+6), but I have no problems staying up late to participate.

Keith Haas posted:

Yes, let's make a call happen. I'm wondering if we could use some kind of web-based teleconferencing tool. Can we have multiple callers on Skype? I've also used Zoom in the past, but am not sure if this is free.

Just realized that we use Zoom as well. :-)

I'm going to lobby again for having this chat on ACEsConnection, so that we can alert other members who aren't going to be able to join but want to, so that they can benefit from the information provided by those that participate.

A reminder: since the chat will take place in the Taking an ACE History group, the content would be available only to people who are members of ACEsConnection.

This is getting exciting! I like being able to see people's faces, and I've had positive experiences with teleconferencing in the past. Fridays typically don't work well for me, but anytime during the day Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm would work. I am on Eastern Standard Time.

I am fine to use the ACEsConnection chat function, in order to benefit the community as a whole.

Yeah, using the site chat would be fine as well.

As a free (as in beer) alternative, Google Hangouts has a free group feature with up to 10 video participants (or 150 chat participants) for free: https://support.google.com/han...answer/3111943?hl=en.

And if people wanted to do a teleconference at some point, we could simply record it and publish it here (via YouTube), so that the rest of the community could enjoy it as well.

Sounds good, Thomas. I expect that this will be pretty popular, as our one about trauma-informed schools was. So having 20-30 people in a text chat might be more manageable than 20 people in a video chat or a conference call. I expect that we'll have quite a few ideas to follow up on, and some of those may be smaller, which lend themselves to better participation in a video chat.

Ack. I'm booked tomorrow. Can we do this next week so that we can let a few more people know about it? I can announce it in the Monday's daily digest. If that works, are you available on Tuesday at 9 am PT or 2 pm PT, or Wednesday 9 am PT, or Thursday 9 am PT, 10 am PT, or 1:30 pm PT?

I'll want to connect prior to show you how the chat works, too, so that it goes smoothly. It's easy.

I could do Thursday 9am PT.

I coordinate a jail based substance abuse program and we use ACE for both our substance use disorder program and our trauma, addiction and mental health program.   We use the ACE in the individual assessment for people entering our SUD program and in a group orientation for our TAMAR Project.

We discuss the research finding with the group as a whole, without asking individual members to disclose their score. Very useful tool in looking at who may need a more in-depth assessment for trauma.  Individuals are surprised to see some of the correlations between behavioral health issues and their scores- in a way, normalizing (not the best word) their reactions/behaviors.   

Great way to get the conversation started as well. 

Very interested in participating. Amy Bryant and I have developed a flyer we are distributing to local pediatricians that offers a resiliency questionnaire and also offers a free online webinar, free closed parenting Facebook groups, and an online parenting class that they may want to sign up for. The idea is to help prevent ACEs by teaching parents about their own resiliency and how to parent using co-regulation which helps regulate both the parent and child.

Many parents' lives are too hectic to find a sitter and drive somewhere once a week, so we are offering it online. I'm attaching our flyers.