This summer, I am interning at the Alaska Resilience Initiative, a program under the Alaska Children’s Trust. To build resilience around the state, ARI has created a training called History and Hope, covering ACEs, Resilience, and trauma-informed practice. The presentation provides a background on healthy development, ACEs, toxic stress, structural trauma, and inequity, based in science and data and walks participants through the best practices for supporting healthy development and reducing toxic stress and its effects.
As well as using the N.E.A.R. (Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACEs, and Resilience) sciences and national best practices, History and Hope draws on Alaskan examples and Alaska Native ancestral knowledge. Drawing on state-specific practices brings relevancy to sections of the training and highlights ways in which ACEs and their effects are already being combatted by Alaskan communities.
Currently, we have three versions of the History and Hope training online: one for educators, one for policymakers, and a one-hour webinar for the general public. In edition, we have a healthcare version of the trained that we have not yet recorded. The version for educators was created collectively by the Alaska Resilience Initiative and is directed at those who work in and around education, with direct applications to a school setting. The version for policymakers is directed at legislators and others who work in policy and has been written about on this website here by Laura Norton-Cruz. Finally, the one-hour version is available as a tool for general knowledge, building awareness of ACEs and trauma-informed practices in an Alaska-specific manner.
For more information about these trainings and/or how to adapt them to your state, you can contact Laura Norton-Cruz or visit our website.
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