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Lesson Summary
Lesson Summary
This lesson introduces trauma-informed care and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), how to prevent and respond to them.
Key Understandings
Key Understandings
Parents understand the impact of ACEs on life outcomes.
Parents understand how they can help reduce the effects of ACEs.
BEFORE: Engage in Learning
BEFORE: Engage in Learning
The impact of early adversity on children's development
The impact of early adversity on children's development
The video below shows how adversity in childhood can weaken developing brain architecture and permanently set the body's stress response system on high alert. Reflect on what you've learned about stress in the previous lesson as you watch the video.
DURING: Explore new concepts
DURING: Explore new concepts
What are ACEs?
What are ACEs?
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) refers to traumatic or stressful events that happen to a child before their 18th birthday.
There are three specific kinds of adversity children face in the home environment:
various forms of physical and emotional abuse
neglect, and
household dysfunction, violence, or problems.
Review the handouts below to learn more about ACEs and how they relate to toxic stress.
Handout_ACEs_Infographic.pdfWhat are ACEs?
What are ACEs?
Handout Understanding ACEs.pdfUnderstanding ACEs
Understanding ACEs
We can prevent ACEs!
We can prevent ACEs!
Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on lifelong health and opportunity.
Reflect on the video by answering the following question:
What are some ways to prevent ACEs?
AFTER: Extend your learning
AFTER: Extend your learning
Resilience - Having resilient parents and caregivers help prevent and respond to ACEs.
Resilience - Having resilient parents and caregivers help prevent and respond to ACEs.
“Children with ACEs find ‘resilience’ because an adult provides a safe environment — in which they feel known, validated.”
-Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of Childhood Disrupted
Watch the video below on the science of resilience.
Watch the video below on the science of resilience.
Growth Mindset
Growth Mindset
Watch the video to learn more about a growth mindset, how it compares to a fixed mindset, and how a growth mindset supports resilience.
How does a growth mindset support resilience?
Exit Ticket: Final Reflection
Exit Ticket: Final Reflection
Reflect on what you learned in this lesson.
Answer the questions in the exit ticket:
3 thing you learned
2 ways you will implement or apply what you learned
1 question you still have
Check for Understanding: Unit 6 Assessment
Check for Understanding: Unit 6 Assessment
At the end of every unit of instruction, you will take a few minutes to answer a couple of questions that will check your understanding on the lessons you have completed.
You have completed two lessons in Unit 6:
Lesson 6.1: Reduce Toxic Stress
Lesson 6.2: Trauma-informed care and ACEs
Your instructor will share a link with the 2-3 questions you will answer.
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