"Rules" or practical suggestions when working with children short term who have a lot of ACE's?

@Jane Stevens mine does.  It's too important to leave out!

Thanks, @Theresa Fry !

Heather Mantsch posted:

Lediya Dumessa posted:

Hi Heather,

We actually have developed a skills workshop (Adversity & Resilience Training), which was piloted last year with undergraduate students from Mississippi State University to inform the development of a region-specific trauma-awareness program. The training was well-received by MSU students from different majors and we adapted the training based on how each training session's outcomes and participant feedback.  Currently, we are working on implementing the training with students who are specifically entering child-serving professions. One of the main goals is raising the trainees’ awareness about core concepts in traumatic stress response, both to improve their effectiveness in their jobs, and also to reduce their risk of frustration and secondary traumatization. The actual training is a 3-hour group workshop that involves applied examples, discussion, and assisting trainees to generate an individual self-care plan. Trainees are also offered a check-in/follow-up 1-2 weeks later, which could be by phone or email survey, to assess to what extent trainees are applying their self-care plan.  Please let me know if any of the work that you do or groups with whom you work would have an interest in this type of free training ( we travel to nearby areas to provide the workshop if there are enough people interested). We would also be happy to meet to discuss the project further. Feel free to email me at lad199@msstate.edu.

This sounds fantastic. Unfortunately, I live on the other end of the country (for the moment), but will certainly keep you and this option in mind for my connections in the south. Have you thought of creating an online training or recording one of them?

I have thought about that but I am trying to figure out how to incorporate the interactive aspect of the training in a web platform. Participants are expected to interact in small groups for most of the learning activities. 

Jane Stevens (ACEs Connection staff) posted:

Lediya: Does the training include information about ACEs and resilience science, including having the participants do their own ACEs and resilience questionnaires?

Yes, it does. It becomes especially important when we discuss secondary traumatization and explore risk and protective factors. 

PACE as part of DDP.  HERE you will find an interview with Kim Golding and Dan Hughes about using PACE

"Each component has a special contribution but only together will PACE work to its maximum.  

Playfulness = brings the other components to life

Curiosity = the mind: contributing to thinking and understanding.  

Empathy = the heart: focused around feeling.  

Acceptance = the key that allows mind and heart to work together. " _{Kim Golding (2018)}