Looking for Advice: Resiliency Focus in an ACE conversation

Hello friends,

I have developed a small group activity to facilitate/introduce conversations about the NEAR sciences (neuroscience, epigenetices, ACEs, & resiliency). I am an ACEInterface certified speaker in WA State and I love how adaptive and flexible the curriculum is to facilitate powerful conversations. I also believe that having stories/metaphors are powerful and important for communicating the science, so I adapted the "Tipping the Scales" game from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child website to be an interactive group activity. 

NEAR Teeter-Totter Activity - video; vimeo link

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Vimeo link: vimeo.com/252719982

Kody - that's awesome!

Thanks, I hope it is useful. Feel free to reach out if you have questions about the activity. 

Jane Stevens posted:

Hey, Bob -- We have a link to the WHO ACE questionnaire, but I can't find a link to it in other languages. Do you have a link to the WHO ACE survey in other languages besides English?

Jane, I was just on the WHO website tonight, and I had to 'Search' for it, as it, and the link to both the ACE IQ, and 'User's Guide' were no longer where I'd found them on the lower right quadrant of their main webpage. A copy of a report on the ACE-IQ, which I printed from the website, didn't come with their web address on the bottom left line of the page. It reported on the 'Field Testing', between May 2009 and March 2011, of the draft ACE-IQ having been tested in China, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Phillipines, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Vietnam. I do recall David Finkelhor's 'cautionary article'-last year  having the web addresses of documents he cited in his article in his references, but I don't recall him differentiating between the WHO and CDC versions of the ACE questionaires. I'll try to get back to this later.

Thanks, Bob!

Hi Jane, I've spent 15 yrs working in the homes of low income women. If I can be of assistance please let me know! 6105068298.

ALL you need to know...

Ask, Listen, Learn 😄 with honesty, authenticity, vulnerability, interest. Just be real. 

Oops, sorry..meant Katie

Also, the NEAR@Home toolkit for home visitors has some fabulous scripts for conversations that include resilience & ACEs.