Adverse Childhood Experiences

Downloadable Resources 

→ Adverse childhood experiences What we know, what we don’t know, and what should happen next. Summary of Report 2020 

→  ACES one-page summary of key findings and recommendations  

→  The impact of adverse experiences in the home on the health of children and young people, and inequalities in prevalence and effects 

→ Addressing Adversity

→ WHAT IF... IT WAS A SURVIVAL STRATEGY BEHIND THE LABEL?  By Beacon House 

→ ACE's Infographic 

→ Childhood Trauma Infographic 

→ THE SCIENCE OF RESILIENCE. A series of summaries of essential findings from recent scientific publications and presentations by the Centre on the Developing Child at Harvard University. 

→ Adverse Childhood Experiences Infographic 

→ Beacon House is a specialist, innovative and creative therapeutic service for young people, families and adults. 
For lots of excellent trauma-related resources created by the Beacon House - Click here 

→ Using PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy) in School Through PACE, and as they begin to feel safer, children discover they can now do better 

→ Check out Boingboing for free mental health and resilience-building resources, written, co-produced and shared by the Boingboing, Resilience Revolution and CRSJ community. Their resources are aimed at young people, parents and carers, practitioners, school staff, academics and people with lived experience.

Media Links

→ Brighter Worlds Resource. This  ACEs animation could be a useful training tool for schools and settings. Brighter Worlds - Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Resource - KELSI 

→ NHS Health Scotland has pr oduced this short animation to contribute to raising awareness about the impact of childhood adversity 

→ Trauma-informed schools and practices 

→ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Impact on brain, body and behaviour 

→ Presentation on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience and Equity By Public Health, Scotland 

→ How a child's brain develops through early experiences
This is an excellent overall view of brain development for children, the ideals and where it can go wrong with exposure to the toxic stress experienced during early trauma 

→ The Repair of Early Trauma: A Bottom Up Approach by Beacon House

→ The Window Of Tolerance Beacon House 

→ Learning Brain and Survival Brain: How experience shapes behaviour 

→ Brain Basics: Anxiety for Kids - with Lee Constable 

→ We Can Prevent ACEs 

→ 1 minute on ACEs: What we know, what we don't, and what should happen next 

→ Sinking Feeling - PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide 

→ Are you okay? | Award-Winning Short Film 

→ Childhood Trauma: What Every Teacher Needs to Know

Further Information

→ The Wave Trust is dedicated to making the world safer by reducing the root causes of violence, including child abuse, neglect and domestic violence. 

→ Beacon House is a specialist, innovative and creative therapeutic service for young people, families and adults. 
For lots of excellent trauma-related resources created by the Beacon House - Click here 

→ Check out Boingboing for free mental health and resilience building resources, written, co-produced and shared by the Boingboing, Resilience Revolution and CRSJ community. Their resources are aimed at young people, parents and carers, practitioners, school staff, academics and people with lived experience. 
 

Support

→ PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide is a UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people. We believe that no young person should have to struggle alone with thoughts of suicide. 

→ HOPELINEUK, is a free, confidential, non-judgemental space to talk openly about your thoughts of suicide with our trained advisers. We work with young people, concerned others and professionals via phone, text, email and webchat, every day.

→ Place2Be provides mental health support in schools through one-to-one and group counselling using tried and tested methods backed by research. In addition, we also offer expert training and professional qualifications. 

→ Mind - Mental Health Information for young people aged 11-18

→ YoungMinds - Support, resources and training. Supporting the mental health or our young people

Training

→ ACEs - Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences. Early Trauma Online Learning 
Duration: Approximately 50 minutes.
Cost: Free.
This course is for: Practitioners, professionals and volunteers who work with children, young people and their families.

Click here to access the course.  

This resource has been commissioned by the Office for the Police and Crime Commissioner West Midlands and is funded through the Home Office Early Intervention Youth Fund. 

→ The CDC offers a series of free training modules on ACEs. Click here to access the ACEs training.

→ Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences - Introduction CDC

→ CDC's New ACEs Training for Educators and School Staff