Webinar — Moving to universal ACEs screening: Findings from a CA advisory group on screening children for trauma

In response to Bob's post...

It's important to note that unlike what we educators call "screening" which helps us determine academic gaps, the screening here is developed by doctors to be used in pediatric medicine to identify childhood trauma.  I understand from having reached out to the American Academy of Pediatrics, they have been working on developing a reliable tool that all pediatricians could use to reveal childhood trauma for a while now.  The key understanding is, a reliable tool also means having pediatricians who are familiar with ACEs to develop the tool.  According to a 2013 survey by the AAP, there were only about 13% of pediatricians familiar with ACEs then.   The complexities of culture, poverty, developmental growth, and other circumstances have an impact on childhood trauma, thus making it a difficult task to develop a universally-applicable, reliable tool for screening children by pediatricians and provide adequate training to doctors in ACEs. 

Educators need to understand this tool is not being developed for use by educators.  And yes, I agree with Bob - such a use by educators is risky.

There is a needed component of educating and informing school people that "something is going on in that house"... When I visited the homes of my students and part of my job . find out why the child is failing;  where are the parental leaders; who is living in the house.. etc..  Dramatic and eerie in the implications of peeking.. I did this kind of thing within the context of my job in the schools.  Now retired .. How does any state or community think they can even conduct such  intrusion into the "sanctity of the home?"  

       My work in the public schools was that of a behavior specialist. Kids state coded as conduct disordered..  Some license given with that handicapping condition for my visits to the home.  The school social worker can visit based on referrals, etc to the home but a blanket program for screening is risky. 

I would love to arrange for this webinar to be viewed by the professionals in my community.  However, this time is not good for me and many others.  Will this be able to be viewed in it's entirety as an on demand learning module?  Thank you for your help.