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How to use this website.    Translate button located at top right of website. Botón de traducir situado en la parte arriba y derecha de la página titulada "Translate".  Click here to view the Valley's Children 2013 8th CHILDREN'S FORUM Help your kids bounce back with resilience! ACEs can be devastating... Parenting is the hardest job you will ever have. There is no training manual and you may feel lost trying to raise your child. Here's hope and help! Be sure to look for the 5 ROAD SIGNS on the resilience road map where you'll find a WEALTH of information for you. On this site all roads lead to resilience!   Need help now? Scroll through and click on any ACE card.

Scroll through the ACEs by clicking on the arrows. Click on the ACE cards themselves to learn more about each ACE

What are ACEs?
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are significant childhood traumas that result in actual changes in brain development -- changes that affect a child's cognitive, social, and mental health. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control view ACEs as "one of, if not the leading determinant of the health and social well-being of our nation." As a counteracting force, child resilience is one of the most important factors that offset the negative outcomes of ACEs.

Learn more about ACEs: English | Spanish

Resilience Trumps ACEs™, ( Read this first!) calculate your resilience score first, then find out your ACE score. What does this mean?
*Spanish/Espanol: Cuál es mi Puntuación de Experiencias Infantiles Adversas (ACE)?

The ten ACEs are (in no specific order):

• Emotional abuse
• Emotional neglect
• Physical abuse
• Physical neglect
• Sexual abuse
• Drug addicted or alcoholic family member
• Incarceration of a family member
• Loss of a parent due to death, divorce, or abandonment
• Mentally ill, depressed, or suicidal family member
• Witnessing domestic violence

There are additional traumatic events than these ten that can occur in a child’s life, but these ten were the ones studied in the original ACE research.

The good news is, resilience is one of the most important factors that buffer the impact of ACEs, and there are easy ways to build in resilience in our everyday lives! Read on to find out more about resilience!

 

For a great online course in ACEs and Resilience, prepared by the Family Policy
Council, click here. You’ll be able to move through the three- hour course at your own pace as you learn what we can do as a community to reduce the impact of ACEs.