ACE's Support (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that can happen to children.:
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Violence, abuse, or neglect
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Witnessing violence in the home or community
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A family member attempting or dying by suicide
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Growing up in a household with substance use or mental health problems
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Parental separation or divorce
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A household member being incarcerated
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Not having enough food to eat
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Experiencing homelessness or unstable housing
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Experiencing discrimination
ACEs can have a lasting impact on a person's health, opportunities, and stability. They can lead to chronic health problems, mental illness, and substance misuse in adulthood.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ) is a tool that can be used to measure ACEs and their association with risk behaviors later in life.
It’s important to remember that your ACEs score does not define you. Instead it informs you and provides you the opportunity to make decisions about your health and overall well-being. It’s also helpful to take the Resilience Screener to help better understand how relational health prevents, mitigates and helps to heal trauma from ACEs.” Then you could delete the parentheses after the Resilience link.
Shasta Strengthening Families -website with local ACEs data
Resilience Survey Questions (Your ACEs scores informs you, yet it does not define you)
Available to Schools
ACE/Resilience workshops for educators and/or parents
