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Handouts for parents about Understanding ACEs, toxic stress, resilience & Parenting with ACEs

Updated November, 11, 2021

Please see the main post for these parent handouts in the ACEs Connection Resources Center.

These two flyers can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely.


Parenting to Prevent and Heal ACEs

This handout is based on the work of Donna Jackson Nakazawa, who worked with us and generously allowed us to paraphrase content from her book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology & How You Can Heal. Donna's book specifically addresses those of us parenting with ACEs (which she also does brilliantly in the powerful documentary, Wrestling Ghosts, which is about parenting and healing from ACEs).

This handout can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is available in the following languages:

Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow, provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this flyer.


Understanding ACEs

This is an updated version of the popular hand-out created and shared by the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District. The original version has been downloaded thousands and thousands of times and has been used by both individuals and organizations.

The updated flyer can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is available in the following languages:

Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow, provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this flyer. This resource was reviewed by the California Collaborative ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) Patient Community Advisory Board. CALQIC also supported translation of the document.



PAST Post: Thanks to the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District for putting together this handout for parents.

I found out about it when while doing a story about the trauma-informed elementary schools in Spokane, WA. Public health nurse Melissa Charbonneau mentioned that she'd been giving this to parents while working in neighborhoods near Whitman Elementary School in Spokane.

We've updated it. Feel free to download and distribute.

Our hope is that these can be shared with parents, teachers, survivors, medical professionals, and others.

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Hi Jane!  Thank you so, so much for these wonderful handouts!!  I cannot express how grateful I am to have had all this important information put in to such an easy to understand format.  There are a lot of people I come into contact with who will truly benefit from these pages!

 

Thank you again!

     ~Diane

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Wanted to let everyone know. I used the pre-edit handouts in my office. Put 25 up in a folder at the checkin station for pediatric patients and their families and in one week all 25 were gone. I saw three families with the flyer in hand on one day...

 

They get parents asking questions and wanting to hear more on ACEs and adversity in childhood!!!

 

Jane, I love these posters. I am putting together a workshop for children's pastors called "Trauma-Informed Churches" and this will be perfect to use. Is it okay if I copy them, leaving full credits on it, and use for a handout? 

 

They say so much of what is already in my workshop and in a blog post I wrote a while back. 

 

We really need to be educating our churches. I'm on several children's ministry closed Facebook pages and I almost go berserk when I read about bus ministries that kick kids off the bus because they won't behave or respect the adults. Arggggg. Or when a church uses the three strikes and your out policy with kids from single parent home. You know 1 strike your name goes on the board, 2nd strike your parents are called, 3rd strike you can't come back to the class for 2 weeks. Wrote a blog post about that too. 

Thanks for all you do. 

Linda Ranson Jacobs

blog.dc4k.org 

Jane,

These are wonderful!  I'm SO glad to see the sexism removed from the issue.  These are ideal for parents of elementary school-aged children (and younger).  I'm going to take copies to my Couple & Family Counseling course next Thursday night.  I was talking about ACEs in class and I know there were many cohorts who had never heard of it.  Thanks also goes to Spokane's Community & Family Division for putting these together.  It really helps.

 

Brenda Gregory Yuen

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