ACEs and Education Policy Brief

Former Member 1/20/1710:33 AM

The Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative is pleased to share three policy briefs on the impact of ACEs in the health, justice, and education systems including promising practices and recommended actions for change. These briefs were developed by members of the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative—system leaders in Illinois who are working from an ACEs-informed lens to improve systems to prevent and mitigate trauma across generations.

Rooted in social justice, these briefs are a call to action to move upstream, build resiliency, and recognize how addressing inequity and trauma can improve systems while also building resiliency. Follow the links below to access the documents:

http://www.hmprg.org/Programs/ACEsPolicyBriefs

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Dr. Lee-Anne GrayMember

Dear Maggie,

Thank you for sharing the briefs! Printed out the one on education for even deeper study.

On a related note, please consider the impact of Educational Trauma as an adverse childhood experience all students face to varying degrees. It's a concept I wrote about in Pedagogies of Kindness & Respect: On the Lives and Education of Children, in Self-Compassion for Teens, and in Huffington Post.

Your attention to improving systems while preventing and mitigating trauma across generations is crucial, and most appreciated. To build resiliency, and recognize the impact of inequity and trauma requires an overhaul of educational systems. We need to stop all forms of Educational Trauma in order to truly decrease ACE's in education. In 2014-15, my team at The Connect Group experimented with some strategies which are documented in the publications above.

Thank you for all you do!
Kindly,

Lee-Anne Gray, PsyD

1/20/1710:54 AM

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