PACEs Connection Resource Center

Child-Serving Organizations

• Building a Multi-System Trauma-Informed Collaborative: A Guide for Adopting a Cross-System, Trauma-Informed Approach Among Child-Serving Agencies and Their Partners, 2020
  This guide is for communities and states interested in planning and implementing trauma-informed care approaches across systems.
   
• Calm and Connected Toolkit
  The Calm and Connected Toolkit trainings help communities and networks grow the adult skills needed and brings in a wealth of wellness practices that are easy to integrate as curriculum in any youth centered programming.
   
• Establishing a Level Foundation for Life: Mental Health Begins in Early Childhood, 2008/2012
  This working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child explains how early childhood experiences can strengthen or disrupt a child’s emotional well-being. It also makes policy suggestions for promoting the kinds of environments and experiences that prevent early difficulties from derailing the developmental process.
   
• Georgia’s Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation Prevention Technical Assistance Resource Guide: Guidance for schools and youth-serving organizations to build their capacity for child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention, 2017
  The Georgia Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force released this guide, which provides details of best practices, principles of prevention, tips to identifying classroom resources for the classroom, tips for developing a prevention plan, age-appropriate teaching suggestions, analysis of specific programs, and guidelines for implementation and evaluation. More information can be found HERE.
   
• NEAR@Home Toolkit: A Guided Process to Talk about Trauma and Resilience in Home Visiting, 2020
  The NEAR@Home toolkit helps home visitors engage parents in using the ACEs questionnaire in a safe, respectful, and effective way for both home visitor and family. The toolkit has five core elements: Preparing, Asking, Listening, Affirming and Remembering. It contains useful scripts for dialogs between a home visitor and a parent, and is designed for home visitors who have some basic knowledge of NEAR science (Neurobiology, Epigenetics, ACEs, and Resilience) and have at least one year of experience in their model home visiting. Click HERE to access the toolkit.
   
• Promising Practices in the Mitigation of the Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) in Children Ages 0 to 6 by Saskatchewan Prevention Institute, 2022
  The purpose of this report is to define ACEs and their impact on development, health, and well-being; describe how ACEs are identified in children ages 0 to 6; and investigate evidence-based practices being used with children ages 0 to 6 and parent/caregiver-child dyads to mitigate (make less severe or harmful) the impacts of ACEs in childhood and beyond.
   
• A Research-Based Question and Answer Resource on Intimate Partner and Teen Dating Violence for Youth-Supporting Professionals by Activate
  This resource provides answers to common questions that youth-supporting professionals may have about intimate partner violence (IPV) and teen dating violence (TDV). This resource can help professionals appropriately respond to the needs of young people who experience the child welfare and/or justice systems, homelessness, and/or disconnection from school and work who are experiencing or at risk for IPV/TDV.
   
• Rites & Rituals: Bringing a Cultural Lens to Positive Youth Development for Black Girls by the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network
  While Positive Youth Development is a great practice in working with youth, it is imperative that we look at all theories, practices, and interventions and reflect on how this will impact targeted youth. Black girls are often forgotten and often feel excluded as the world does not reflect them. Based on this text there are so many additional struggles that society has placed on the shoulders of our Black girls and as providers it is our role to place cultural relevancy at the forefront of these experiences.
   
• A Roadmap for Trauma-Informed Organizations by Resilient Georgia
  ​The implementation of a trauma-informed approach is an ongoing organizational paradigm shift. Trainings on this website are divided into Trauma Aware, Trauma, Sensitive, Trauma Responsive, and Trauma Informed for the following sectors: first responders, healthcare providers, faith-based, juvenile justice, community, early childhood & education, youth-serving organizations, public health/social services, youth, school, parents & caregivers, and business.
   
• Toward a More Equitable Tomorrow: A Landscape Analysis of Early Childhood Leadership by Ascend at the Aspen Institute, 2022
  To transform the early childhood development field, we need bold leadership that is able to chart a new future, one that is grounded in equity and centered in the expertise of families. By investing in the people who will lead the way, we can catalyze economic prosperity, foster an ecosystem marked by radical collaboration, and create a nation that centers children and their families over the next decade. This report shares findings from our landscape assessment and offers insights for integrating these findings into a cross-sector child and family agenda for 2030.
   
• Trauma-Informed Approaches to Domestic Violence Exposure, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resiliency: Opportunities for Early Child Care Providers, 2016
  This session explores the latest thinking about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and childhood exposure to domestic violence. Emphasizing the opportunity for universal education, presenters will discuss strategies for trauma-informed parenting to prevent the intergenerational transmission of ACEs including the implementation of the “Connected Parents, Connected Kids” Safety card. The webinar includes practical skills learning including how to educate families about ACEs and how to promote resiliency through trauma-informed parenting.