Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Getting Started

Educate Yourself

There are also excellent resources available for self- educating or building your knowledge base once you become trained in Building Strong Brains or if you live in a state where this or something similar is not offered. The following are a few recommendations of valuable ACEs resources to help you learn. (Please note, in no way do we gain by recommending any of these resources. There are numerous other sites that contain content about ACEs but these are a few we are the most familiar with and from which we have used materials in creating our system of care.) ACEs Connection 1 ACES Connection is an online learning collaborative including individuals from many different sectors. ACEs Connection is an ever-growing social network connecting those who are implementing trauma informed and resilience building practices based on ACEs science. It was designed to support communities to accelerate the use of ACEs science in solving our greatest challenges. Among the guiding principles of ACEs Connection is to help communities move from managing problems to managing solutions. When you join the ACEs Connection network you create a profile and then select the types of programming you would like to learn more about. Once you do, you will begin receiving email links to articles related to your areas of interest. As your community movement grows you can keep members connected by creating your own group page where you can author blogs, maintain a calendar, and use the system’s community tracker to map progress of your system members movement toward becoming trauma informed.

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https://www.acesconnection.com/

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