ACEs Building Stronger Brains-Building Strong Brains

Tennessee ACEs Initiative is a major statewide effort to establish Tennessee as a national model for how a state can promote culture change in early childhood based on a philosophy that preventing and mitigating adverse childhood experiences, and their impact, is the most promising approach to helping Tennessee children lead productive, healthy lives and ensure the future prosperity of the state.
Chronic childhood trauma, or what experts call adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), can disrupt a child’s brain-building process. Like building a house in a storm or with below-grade materials and tools, ACEs are toxic to brain development and can compromise the brain’s structural integrity. Left unaddressed, ACEs and their effects make it more difficult for a child to succeed in school, live a healthy life and contribute to the state’s future prosperity — our communities, our workforce, and our civic life. This training will provide participants much needed information about adverse childhood experiences, the impact such experiences have on child development and brain architecture, and ways in which to prevent and address ACEs within our communities.

Learning Objectives

1) Participants will increase their focus, that every child born in Tennessee has the opportunity to lead a healthy, productive life.
2) Participants will learn about ACEs and the impact on child development and brain architecture.
3) This training will also assist participants with raising public knowledge about ACEs.
4) Will learn key skills and terminology as key stakeholders, in order to use these newly learned skills within their own communities and environments to enhance successful outcomes for all.

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