Trauma Informed Care Trauma Informed Schools Susan Jones Barry Roth San Juan Unified School District ACES Connection Sacramento and Yolo County

 Drs. Vincent Felitti & Dr. Robert Anda  17,000 Kaiser patients in San Diego  Surveyed about childhood maltreatment and family dysfunction  Compared with risk factors that contribute to morbidity and mortality  ACEs surveys have been carried out in 28 states and DC and show very similar findings  Jane Stevens, ACES Connection, ACES Too High The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study

What if our greatest public health problems were actually “symptoms” of a bigger and deeper problem? Health Issues  Obesity  Cancer  Asthma  Heart Disease  Hypertension Social/Behavior Issues  Drug use  Smoking  Poverty  Incarceration  Depression  Unemployment ACEs101.DJUSD.May 14,2015

The CDC ACEs Study: the biggest public health study you’ve never heard of… ACEs101.DJUSD.May 14,2015 The CDC ACEs Study – Video

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 There are doctors, researchers, teachers, nurses, social workers and law enforcement officers that are turning the tide against the cycle of trauma and abuse.  A movement is rising, one that sees aberrant behavior in children as a symptom rather than a moral failing. ACEs101.DJUSD.May 14,2015

 This movement asks not what is wrong with our youth, but rather what has happened to them.  The paradigm is shifting from punishment and blame to a deeper commitment to understanding and healing the underlying causes of aberrant behavior. ACEs101.DJUSD.May 14,2015

 With this shifting paradigm comes the promise of great improvements in many of the society’s costly ills: less crime, less illness, less teen pregnancy, abuse, rape, divorce. ACEs101.DJUSD.May 14,2015