Handouts: Understanding ACEs & Parenting to Prevent & Heal ACEs

Natalie Audage 10/10/187:15 AM

Please see the main post for these parent h andouts in the PACEs Connection Resources Center.

We are excited to share two handouts which can be downloaded, distributed, or used freely.

Parenting to Prevent and Heal ACEs

This handout is based on the work of Donna Jackson Nakazawa, who worked with us and generously allowed us to paraphrase content from her book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology & How You Can Heal. Donna's book specifically addresses those of us parenting with ACEs (which she also does brilliantly in the powerful documentary, Wrestling Ghosts, which is about parenting and healing from ACEs).

This handout can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is available in the following languages:

English
Spanish
Dari

Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow, provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this flyer.

Understanding ACEs

This is an updated version of the popular hand-out created and shared by the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District. The original version has been downloaded thousands and thousands of times and has been used by both individuals and organizations.

The updated flyer can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is available in the following languages:

English
Spanish
Arabic
Dari
Farsi

Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow, provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this flyer. This resource was reviewed by the California Collaborative ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) Patient Community Advisory Board. CALQIC also supported translation of the document.

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Robyn Brickel, M.A., LMFTMember

Love these! I will be printing them and hanging up in my office! Thank you!

10/12/181:32 PM

Christine Cissy WhiteIt's not trauma-informed unless it's informed by trauma survivors.

Teri:

Sammie Bundkes (and visits) are an amazing idea!!! And perfect with these flyers for explaining how and why managing toxic stress matters at any age!

lesrning, knowing, remembering and doing so regular as a mom and survivor = never ending! Thanks for comment!

Cis

10/10/1812:47 PM

Teri WellbrockMember

Wow! Wow! and Wow! I have been looking for something like this for our caregiver folders for our Sammie's Bundles of Hope project. So exciting. Thank you for this and your willingness to share them.

Sammie is our registered therapy dog through Pet Partners. We work with children in school settings, addressing anxiety and calming strategies. My daughter (now twelve) and her friends came up with the idea of creating "bags of hope" filled with anxiety-reducing fidgets and coping tools to give to children who have experienced a traumatic event. We have delivered the bags to safe homes housing children who have escaped an abusive home, homeless shelters housing children, and schools who have requested a "bundle of hope" for grieving children after the death of a parent. We have filled the bags with donations from generous individuals and companies . . . stress balls, coloring books, markers, bubbles, painted "worry" rocks (or as we call them "hope" rocks), fidget spinners, a signed copy of our children's book (The Doodle with the Noodle - written about our Sammie Doodle!), hope hearts, journals, and so much more.

My dream is to have every child who has experienced an adverse childhood experience have a Sammie's Bundle of Hope placed in their precious arms. Giving them a collection of anxiety-reducing items to utilize as they process their trauma makes my heart smile. I wish I had had a Sammie Doodle and a bundle of hope when I was struggling as a child.

Providing information to the child's caregiver on preventing/healing ACEs and building resilience in the child . . . priceless! These flyers are a treasured gift.

Thank you!!!

Peace,

Teri

www.teriwellbrock.com

www.sammiethedoodle.com

10/10/1810:39 AM

Christine Cissy WhiteIt's not trauma-informed unless it's informed by trauma survivors.

Carey S. Sipp (ACEs Connection Staff) posted:
These are amazing and will be downloaded, uploaded, posted and reposted, turned into BIG posters and handouts for doctors and therapists and teachers and world leaders. YES. World leaders need to see these. Memorize them.
These are the tools of anti-trauma!
Thank you for your hard word on them. I know it was work that was a joy.

Thank you, Carey!!!! I love the "tools of anti-trauma" and your enthusiasm!

10/10/1810:31 AM

Carey SippFormer Director of Strategic Partnerships

These are amazing and will be downloaded, uploaded, posted and reposted, turned into BIG posters and handouts for doctors and therapists and teachers and world leaders. YES. World leaders need to see these. Memorize them.

These are the tools of anti-trauma!

Thank you for your hard word on them. I know it was work that was a joy.

10/10/189:27 AM

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