There is a high rate of child abuse and neglect in Alachua County, and this school-based intervention will target children ages 5-11 in public elementary schools in Alachua County. The intervention will allow students to: learn more about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), discuss some of their worries, and build their resilience. Trained professionals will facilitate activities, discussions, and reflections among the students (and occasionally the parents) while utilizing five out of the six trauma-informed principles (safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, and empowerment, voice, & choice) and targeting the individual and relationship levels of the socioecological model. Additionally, the intervention will apply a public health framework by incorporating primary and secondary prevention strategies. Overall, the goal of this intervention is to give students the tools they need to protect themselves from the harmful and negative effects of ACEs; this goal will be evaluated through questionnaires given to everyone involved in the intervention.
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