Laura:
Tennessee higher education institutions are doing quite a bit of work on this. I will share information that I have and let you see which ones are of interest to you. Middle Tennessee State University was just awarded a TN Department of Children's Services Innovation grant for MTSU: PEACEâProfessional Educators Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences, a set of active learning activities derived from Building Strong Brains: Tennesseeâs ACEs Initiative and other proven educational resources applied to future childhood educators.
Belmont University also received an Innovation Grant for: Belmont University: Belmont Universityâs Educating Trauma Informed Professionals (BETIP) has two initial aims: 1) develop evidence-based, cross-disciplinary, trauma-informed care curriculum for undergraduate nursing, public health and social work students and 2) identify and address knowledge and training needs of recent graduates and practicing professionals in these disciplines. Community stakeholders have been engaged to identify knowledge gaps about ACEs; work with ACEs content, messaging and curriculum design experts; and support faculty champions to lead development of the new curriculum.
University of Tennessee Martin has created a course regarding ACEs and had their first offering Summer 2018.
East TN State University has infused ACEs information and Trauma Informed Care practices into several of their curricula.
Please reach out in a private message and I will be glad to talk more about this: john.rust@tn.gov
