PACEs Science

Documents and Handouts (Documentos y Folletos)

• ACEs Aware Spanish Resources
  This site contains the following resources in Spanish:
  • Infographic: 10 Categories of ACEs
  • Infographic: Stress Busters Wheel
  • ACE-Associated Health Conditions
  • Spectrum of Positive, Tolerable, and Toxic Stress
     
• Antiestresores
  [Stress Busters]
  We all have inner strengths and resilience that can help us deal with challenges and stress. These evidence-based stress buster interventions can help reduce stress, improve health, and build resilience. PACEs Connection and ACEs Aware created a handout based on seven evidence-based stress busters, as described in the Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General’s Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health. The California Virtual Training Academy (VTA) provided support in the creation and translation of this handout. This resource was reviewed by the California Collaborative ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) Patient Community Advisory Board. CALQIC also supported translation of the document.
   
• Ayudando a Niños(as) y Familias a Enfrentarse con el Trauma
  [Helping Young Children and Families Cope with Trauma]
  A guide for families and caregivers to help children exposed to trauma.
   
• Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University Resource Library, Ongoing
  A collection of trauma-related resources translated into Spanish. Sign up for their mailing service to be notified of newly released resources.
   
• Como Ayudar a los Niños… Cuando Ocurren Cosas Malas: Del nacimiento a los 12 años
  [Taming the Dragons: Helping Children Cope: Ages Birth to Twelve Years]
  Taming the Dragons is a training manual for parents, foster parents, and kinship caregivers. It was developed out of a crisis nursery in WA state by Sue Delucchi. Available in English and Spanish.
   
• Cómo comprender las ACE
  [Understanding ACEs]
  This is an updated version of the popular hand-out created and shared by the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District. The first version of this flyer has been downloaded thousands and thousands of times and used by individuals and organizations. Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow, provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this flyer. This resource was reviewed by the California Collaborative ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) Patient Community Advisory Board. CALQIC also supported translation of the document.
   
• Cómo manejar el estrés durante la pandemia de la COVID-19
  [Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic]
  The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP), Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative, PACEs Connection, and the Yolo County Children’s Alliance co-created this resource for Californian families experiencing the severe economic consequences resulting from novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The flyer shares resources and offers supportive information on ways Californians can take care of themselves and their families during the pandemic. Both the English and Spanish versions are accessible (i.e., ADA compliant). Although this was created during the pandemic, much of the advice is applicable for all kinds of stress.
   
• Cómo ser buenos padres para evitar y sanar las ACE, (Experiencias infantiles adversas)
  [Parenting to Prevent & Heal ACEs]
  This flyer is based on the work of Donna Jackson Nakazawa who worked with us and generously allowed us to paraphrase content from her book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology & How You Can Heal. Donna's book specifically addresses those of us parenting with ACEs (which she also does brilliantly in the powerful documentary, Wrestling Ghosts, about parenting and healing from ACEs). Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow, provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this flyer. This flyer can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. Available in English, Spanish, Dari.
   
• Estrés y el Desarrollo Temprano Del Cerebro: Entendiendo las experiencias adversas en la infancia (ACE), 2015
  This handout from the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District describes how adverse childhood experiences produce toxic stress that can damage a child’s brain and affect learning and behavior.
   
• Experiencias Adversas Durante la Niñez
  [Adverse Childhood Experiences]
  Communidades Sólidas Educan Niños Fuertes [Strong Communities Raise Strong Kids] from Arizona Regional Child Abuse Prevention Councils wrote this flyer.
   

• La Historia de tu Número es tu Historial de ACE
  [Number Story]
  Resources for the public interested in learning more about ACEs and their ACE score, healing and prevention, and the science of ACEs. Specific healing and prevention tools are available for individuals, parents, and families and communities. Number Story teamed up with the American Society for the Positive Care of Children to help parents and caregivers understand, prevent, and heal from ACEs. Explore the toolkit, which is designed for caregivers to support the development and positive parenting of babies and children ages 0 to 5. The Number Story campaign, funded through private philanthropy, is a creation of the ACE Resource Network. 
   

• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), Ongoing
  The NCTSN has created and translated many resources on child trauma into Spanish. On this page you can find different materials and resources for parents and caregivers, professionals (educators, therapists, among others), and others who live or work with children and young people who have experienced trauma.
   
• Niños pequeño, retos grandes, 2018
  [Little Children, Big Challenges]
  The toolkits from Sesame Street offer tools to help with the changes a child is going through. Spanish resources can be found by clicking on a toolkit and scrolling to the second half of the webpage "More Kit Components". If the video and webpage are fully available in Spanish, there is an "Español" button on the top right, next to the introduction paragraph.
   
• Power and Control Wheel for Latina Survivors, 2016

  For Latina survivors and our immigrant community, important power and control issues to recognize include racism, isolation, and the use of documentation issues, laws and regulations, employment status, residency, citizenship, children and family as forms of power and control. This webinar will discuss these issues in detail and hear personal stories from Latina survivors on how they navigated leaving their abusers while not having legal status. Presented by Latina Survivors from Proyecto Esperanza and San Diego VOICES. You can find additional webinar materials, including the Power and Control Wheel handout, here. (PACEs Connection Network gratefully acknowledges the Family Justice Center Alliance, a program of Alliance for HOPE International, for allowing us to reproduce, in part or in whole, the Power and Control Wheel for Latina Survivors.)

• You Have the Power, 2019
  You Have the Power, a crime victim's advocacy group in Nashville, TN, has Spanish translations of its resource guides on domestic violence, child sexual abuse, elder abuse, sex trafficking, sexual assault, and the criminal justice process. All these guides are available in PDF format at the hyperlink.