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Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General’s Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health
The Office of the California Surgeon General released the first California Surgeon General’s Report - Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General's Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health. The report serves as a blueprint for how communities, states, and nations can recognize and effectively address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress as a root cause to some of the most harmful, persistent, and expensive societal and health challenges facing our world today.
Trauma-Informed Network of Care Roadmap Released for Public Comment
On December 14, 2020, the ACEs Aware initiative released a draft Trauma-Informed Network of Care Roadmap for public comment. The roadmap aims to provide practical steps that health care providers and health and human services organizations can take within their own communities to grow cross-sector networks of care that support children, adults, and families in effectively mitigating the impact of ACEs and toxic stress on health.
The deadline for public comment on the roadmap is January 15, 2021, and comments can be submitted through this survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/
The Opportunity for ACE Screening in Prenatal Care
Lessons Learned from Dr. Tanisha E. Silas-Young
ACE screening offers maternal health care providers a tremendous opportunity to address toxic stress, interrupt the cycle of intergenerational trauma, and set patients on a path to healing. In this month’s ACEs Aware Spotlight, Dr. Tanisha E. Silas-Young of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from Kaiser Permanente in Vacaville shares experiences and lessons learned from implementing ACE screening into her prenatal care practice.
ACEs Aware Grantee Highlights
Since receiving their grant awards in June, ACEs Aware grantees have been hard at work executing a range of activities to inform and educate Medi-Cal providers about the importance of screening for ACEs and responding with trauma-informed care.
Cardea Services, The Raise Foundation, Lake Family Resource Center, and First 5 Contra Costa are in the new Grantee Spotlight for December, and each organization is leading an exciting body of work through provider training, provider engagement, and communications. Read more about each organization on the ACEs Aware blog.
Have You Completed the ACEs Aware Training?
Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and it’s having devastating consequences
PBS NewsHour | December 14
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris discussed adverse childhood experiences and the science of toxic stress in a new series on the PBS NewsHour, “Invisible Scars: America’s Childhood Trauma Crisis." During the program, Dr. Burke Harris emphasizes that early detection and early intervention, including ACE screening, improves health outcomes.
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