From ACEs to Assets

Presenter: Amy Scheel-Jones, Senior Consultant, Coordinated Care Services, Inc.

This session looks at the impact of stress, adversity, and trauma on brains, bodies, and behaviors.  Content can include understanding the human stress response, how stress functions in our lives (positive and negative), the particular impacts of trauma/adversity on social-emotional growth, and academic learning.  Emphasis is placed on the healing factors of resilience development.  Practical resilience frameworks are introduced along with direct actions that all caring adults can take to support resilience development in all youth.