1. YOU GOT AN ACE! IS IT HIGH OR IS IT LOW?
Tammy Wynard
Assistant Professor
of Health Science
Kinesiology Department Chair

2. Project Lead Session Objectives:
-identify at least two new concepts learned about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), the research, and connection to long term health outcomes.
-describe at least two examples in which your role as an educator can be impacted by working with kids from trauma.
-participate in at least one application activity related to how to use Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in an education classroom or other education based learning environment.

3. Trigger Warning
Step Out

4. Start at the End. . . . . School Based Case Examples
How could the educator respond?
What could be set up in the school setting to enable success for the child?

5. Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)
Questionnaire & Scoring
Pass Out ACE Quiz

8. -chronic pulmonary lung disease increases 390%
As your ACE score increases, so does the risk of disease, social and emotional problems.
With an ACE score of 4 or more, things start getting serious.
The likelihood of :
-hepatitis 240%
-chronic pulmonary lung disease increases 390%
-depression 460%
-suicide 1220%

17. Kid’s Can’t Learn Children are overloaded with stress hormones
flight, fright or freeze mode
Difficulty trusting adults or developing healthy relationships with peers
Self-medicate and numb – how???

18. Complexity Complex trauma needs complex solutions
Imperative to recognize the types of involuntary maladaptive behaviors that result from trauma due to brain changes that has occurred
Biologically disrespectfully – Dr. Bruce Perry
asking them to do something they can’t do – what does that look like?

20. One way to perceive it . . . . Chronological age = 12
Developmental age = 6
Street smart age = 36
Individuals from trauma
are experts at survival

21. TBRI Trust Based Relationship Intervention
Abuse was caused by relationships and needs to be healed by relationships
Mr. White

22. Three Pillars of Trauma Informed Care
Trust Base Relational Intervention (TBRI)
Felt Safety = internal
Connection = trust
Self-Regulation = getting out of the amygdala

23. UPSTAIRS - DOWNSTAIRS BRAIN
Dr. Daniel Siegel

24. Trauma Informed Culture
Various settings
Shared language
Same behaviors and expectations from all adults
Specialists / Healers – take the kids back through the missed stages of development & retrain their brains – going through these stages is a must

25. Your Buttons Pushed Now What?

26. Resource Play Ground
tswynard.faculty.noctrl.edu