This document discusses trauma informed care and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). It notes that ACEs are very common and can negatively impact students' academic performance, attendance, and behavior in school. The presentation advocates adopting a trauma informed approach that focuses on understanding what happened to students, not just what is wrong with them. It promotes creating safe environments for children and increasing protective factors like self-care, social connections, parenting skills, and emotional competence to build resilience against trauma. Adopting trauma informed practices can help change school culture to better support students impacted by adverse experiences.

1. Trauma Informed Care
Mary Donnelly-Crocker
Executive Director
Young & Healthy
626.795.5166 | www.yhpasadena.org
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4. Adverse Childhood
Experiences
(ACEs)
Kaiser Permanente & the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (1998)
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5. ACEs
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7. Adverse Community
Experiences
(ACEs)

8. ACEs are incredibly common
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9. HUH? Health or Education?
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10. If there was ever
a time to be
inclusive….
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11. It is all of us.
Health Schools Community
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13. How ACEs affect schools
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14. How ACEs affect schools
A student with an ACE score of 3 is:
•3 X more likely to experience academic failure
•5 X as likely to have attendance issues
•6 X as likely to exhibit school behavior problems
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15. ACEs in the Classroom
Acting out in
social
situations
CompassionWithdrawal Demanding
Somatic
complaints
Fear Trouble with
self-regulation
Trouble
learning new
skills
Fight
Flight
Freeze
Lacking
confidence
Poor social
skills
Lack of
executive
function
And many
more…

16. Traumatized Kids
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17. Something to consider:
Is it development?
Is it discipline?
Is it distress?
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18. I know what you’re thinking…
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19. Trauma Informed Care (TIC)
What is
wrong
with that
child?
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20. Trauma Informed Care (TIC)
What is
wrong
with that
child?
What
happened
to that
child? 20

21. How many of you got to choose
your family?
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22. How many of you got to choose
your family?
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23. But how?
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24. In order to feel secure,
children must feel:
-Dan Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Seen Safe Soothed
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25. Adversity is NOT Destiny!
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26. A relationship with just one caring
adult can make all the difference
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27. A relationship with just one caring
adult can make all the difference
You can be the one!
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28. Who believes in modeling?
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29. 35 years later
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30. What you can model
Self Care
Self care
Self
regulation
Compassion
Forgiveness De-escalate,
then discuss
Drop the
mirror
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31. What does self care look like?
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32. What can you do?
Self Care
1) Take care of
yourself
2) Create
Safety
3) Increase
emotional
literacy
4) Create
opportunity for
resilience
5) Increase
protective
factors
6) Be a G.I.C.
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33. 1) Take care of yourself first
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34. Take care of yourself first
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35. What does self care look like?
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36. 2) Create Safety
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37. 3) Give Voice to Feelings
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38. Name it to Tame it!
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39. Emotions are contagious
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40. 4) Create opportunity for resilience
“ Resilience is how we weather the storms
in our lives and rebound
after something difficult”
It is a set of adaptive behaviors.
-Elena Aguilar
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41. 4) Create opportunity for resilience
I HAVE
(external
supports)
I AM
(personal
strengths)
I CAN
(social/life
skills)
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42. Four Tools for Developing Resilience
Self Care1) Be Kind to yourself
(and others- Tend to
the Team)
2) Create an empowering
point of view- aim for
“optimistic realism”
3) Focus energy and efforts
on what you can
control and influence
4) Reconnect to your
sense of purpose.
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43. 5) Increase Protective Factors
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44. Increase Protective Factors
Self Care
Parental
Resilience
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Social
Connections
Knowledge of
Child
Development
Concrete
Support in
time of need
Social-
Emotional
Competence
Bring your
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45. Parental Resilience
2) Create an empowering
point of view- aim for
“optimistic realism”
3) Focus energy and efforts
on what you can
control and influence
4) Reconnect to your
sense of purpose.
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46. Social Connections
2) Create an empowering
point of view- aim for
“optimistic realism”
3) Focus energy and efforts
on what you can
control and influence
4) Reconnect to your
sense of purpose.
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47. Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development
2) Create an empowering
point of view- aim for
“optimistic realism”
4) Reconnect to your
sense of purpose.
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48. Concrete Support in Times of Need
2) Create an empowering
point of view- aim for
“optimistic realism”
4) Reconnect to your
sense of purpose.
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49. Social & Emotional Competence of Children
2) Create an empowering
point of view- aim for
“optimistic realism”
4) Reconnect to your
sense of purpose.
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50. 6) Be a G.I.C.
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51. Grown up
In
Charge
6) Be a G.I.C.
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52. What is your super power?
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53. NO……REALLY
What is your super power?
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54. Be a G.I.C.
Can your super power
be changing a culture?
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55. ACE-impacted children are more common
than seasonal allergy sufferers
WE ARE THE
MEDICINE
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57. 4 – 7 - 8
In Hold Out
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59. Questions?
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61. Mary Donnelly-Crocker
mdc@yhpasadena.org
626.795.5166
136 W Peoria St., Pasadena, CA 91103
www.yhpasadena.org
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