Resources: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Developmental Adversity

(Last updated November 2022)

• Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Childhood Trauma: Pervasive Public Health Issue that Needs Greater Federal Attention (U.S. House Oversight)

• Heidi Daniel, Pratt Public Library CEO, says librarians need to understand PACEs science (PACEs Connection)

• PACEs in Foster Care

• No Hit Zones: working to end violence against children in spaces where it occurs (End Corporal Punishment)

• Brain Development in the Early Years & the Opportunity to Shape Our World View (Wave Trust)

• The Persistent Impact of Childhood Trauma: Current Mental Health Challenges Faced by Women in Jail (Corrections)

• Trauma-Informed Care in Pediatrics: A Developmental Perspective in Twelve Cases with Narratives (Permanente Journal)

• Parenting to Prevent and Heal ACEs

• ACEs Aware Resources

• Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Connection Matters Congregation

• ACEs and Resiliency in Faith Communities (ARRCC)

• Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina

• PACEs Science 101 (FAQs) – Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs Connection)

• Chief Justice's Task Force on ACEs-Informed Courts (North Carolina)

• Aligning Organizations for Family Resilience and Healing

• Baby courts: A proven approach to stop the multigenerational transmission of ACEs in child welfare; new efforts to establish courts nationwide (PACEs Connection)

• The Starfish Model for ACEs (Ben David)

• Step Inside The Circle (The Compassion Prison Project)

• The Correlation Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Recidivism: Trauma-Induced Recidivism

• Crossnore Communities for Children

• North Carolina launches first-in-the-nation statewide task force on ACEs-informed courts (PACEs Connection)

• ACEs Matter

• Multiplying Connections

• Advancing Parenting

• PACEs in Nursing

• PACEs in Pediatrics

• Adverse Childhood Experiences: What Students and Health professionals Need to Know by Roberta Waite and Ruth Ann Ryan

• Spreading HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences)

• PACEs in Education

• Personal stories from witnesses, U.S. representatives provided an emotional wallop to House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on childhood trauma (PACEs Connection)

• The ACEs & Resilience Resource Commons for Communities (ARRCC)

• Blog Post about Rebecca Lewis Pankratz

• Taming the Dragon (PACEs Connection)

• ACEs and Resiliency Strategy Map

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network

• Preventing Childhood Toxic Stress: Partnering With Families and Communities to Promote Relational Health

• ACES Measurement Tool

• Poor Individual Risk Classification from Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening

• Beyond the ACE Score: Perspectives from the NCTSN on Child Trauma and Adversity Screening and Impact

• Childhood adversity screenings are just one part of an effective policy response to childhood trauma (Child Trends)