Handout from ACEs Aware grantee the Kyer Group that uses scuba diving as a useful metaphor for practicing and building resiliency.

News and information on ACEs and how to connect to networks of ACE resources.

This center will focus on resilience in children and families for long-term health.

The resilience project is dedicated to helping and protecting today’s youth. This site describes the science of ACEs, toxic stress; becoming a trauma-informed medical home; screening for and responding to trauma symptoms; integration with early brain development; handouts for parents.

The training toolkit is an education tool for pediatricians, residents, medical home teams, and others to better understand the effects of exposure to violence and how to approach the issue in the pediatric medical home setting.

These 4 ads can be used to educate pediatricians and other health care professionals about the important role they play in identifying children who have been exposed to violence or are experiencing toxic stress. They’re ideal for physically hanging in staff lounges, hallways, or other high-traffic areas. They can also be used for newsletters and other promotional pieces.

Webinars on toxic stress and resilience.

Handout for parents about caring for themselves and children.

A number of AAP policy statements and clinical reports that can help guide pediatricians and the medical home in identifying and treating children exposed to violence.

This document provides pediatricians and other health care providers with prevention and intervention resources.

4CA is a cross-sector advocacy organization that includes child welfare, early childhood, education, health, and youth justice collaboration in joint advocacy towards resolving ACEs.

Webinars on state-level policy approaches to addressing childhood adversity.

A handout that includes tips for providers that promote their resilience and prevent burnout.

Patient handout that provides tips on ways to reduce children’s effects of toxic stress.

The Science Behind the Skills Adults Need to Succeed in Parenting and in the Workplace. This document details the science behind prolonged stress impacts and rebuilding skills to succeed in adulthood, oriented towards any service provider.

This document details the science behind prolonged stress impacts and rebuilding skills to succeed in adulthood, oriented towards any service provider.

This brief is part of a series that summarizes essential scientific findings from Center publications.

This interactive feature shows how the choices we make can help children and the community as a whole become more resilient in the face of serious challenges.

This document describes a framework to guide communities’ (“community” refers to any group with shared interests such as neighborhoods, counties, states, and professional groups) activities that will support the types of relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive members of their communities so that they, in turn, can build stronger and safer families and communities for their children.

Helpful tips for positive and effective parenting at different ages.

Press release regarding ACEs having been linked to at least 5 of the top 10 leading causes of death.

The Public Health Leadership (PHL) Initiative believes public health agencies can make great strides in preventing child maltreatment. From 2010-2013, the PHL Initiative worked with national and state public health leaders to better understand successes and challenges of public health efforts to address child maltreatment.

Helpful tips for positive and effective parenting at different ages.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed technical packages to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent violence.

“How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime.”

Families Thrive is a Contra Costa, CA-based cross-sectoral partnership to address needs of children and families impacted by trauma, including intimate partner violence.

A Carpinteria Children’s Project handout for adults on how to lower toxic stress.

The Let’s Get Healthy California Task Force, created in 2012, is comprised of health leaders who came together to create key priorities and data indicators in a ten-year plan to make California the healthiest state in the nation.

MARC is a learning collaborative of 14 communities across the US engaged in building a movement for a just, healthy, and resilient world, in which they share best practices and receive financial and technical assistance in advancing ACEs-informed work across sectors, including early childhood education, aging, healthcare, and juvenile justice.

Overview of treatments and practices for healing from trauma.

The National Council is the nation’s voice of mental health and addiction providers who care for 10 million adults and children. To better address trauma in primary care, Kaiser Permanente and the National Council for Behavioral Health (National Council) launched the Trauma-Informed Care Primary Care: Fostering Resilience and Recovery initiative to develop, test, disseminate and scale a field-informed Change Package.

This site provides practical tips on how to incorporate building blocks into a kid’s day to help them bounce back.

This 2019 report describes New Jersey’s statewide effort to address ACEs.

Positive Parenting Program—tips for caregiving through 16 years, with additional, formal (paid) online and in-person courses.

Tips on positive parenting.