Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress are public health crises. ACEs are stressful or traumatic events experienced by age eighteen, identified in the landmark Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente (KP) Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, to be strongly associated with increased health and social risks. Early detection and intervention can help prevent or reduce the health risks associated with ACEs.
Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Healthcare (TIROH) is an organizational culture, structure, and treatment framework built on understanding, recognizing, and responding to all kinds of trauma and places focus on protective, resilience-oriented approaches to the entire organization. Adopting TIROH practices can improve patient engagement, treatment adherence, and health outcomes, as well as provider and staff wellness.
Join a CAFP’s ACEs Practice Inquiry Group!
A collaborative, case-based virtual experience where you’ll learn more about incorporating ACEs and toxic stress work into your practice. Led by a trained ACEs Champion facilitator, we’ll gather online with colleagues to analyze cases, compare screening implementation strategies, share best practices, strategize on staff training and discuss barriers. The emphasis will be on moving from theory to practice, with a special focus on the unique aspects of family medicine.
Our goals include helping you:
Register for one of the three PI Groups below. While we’ve divided groups by region, it’s not a strict division – register for the date that works for you.
For more information contact Laurie Isenberg, Lisenberg@familydocs.org
CAFP deepens our work through a partnership with the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN). Our shared goal is significant growth in ACEs-TIROH awareness throughout California family medicine. This is achieved through a multi-pronged approach including live presentations and workshops, practice inquiry groups, magazine articles, online discussion groups, and more.
Activities available 24/7 include:
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris, former Surgeon General of California, explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.