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Know What Works to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences
Explore tools, trainings, and resources to help you prevent early adversity and create positive childhood experiences. Each resource will give you insights and skills to ensure all children and families have safe, stable, and nurturing relationships and environments.
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Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences Trainings
Prevention begins with awareness and knowledge. Find a training below that will give you insights and skills to prevent ACEs and help create healthier, happier childhoods.
This training is for people of all professions and education backgrounds. Learn about risk and protective factors for ACEs, their outcomes, and prevention strategies you can use to stop childhood adversity and address its consequences. Continuing education credits are available.
90 minutes
Published date: October 19, 2018
This training is for education professionals and all adults who work in schools and learning environments across K-12 levels. Learn how school professionals can create positive relationships and environments for children, which can prevent ACEs from happening and lessen their harmful effects when students have already experienced ACEs.
90 minutes
Published date: July 5, 2022
This training is for faith, spiritual, and religious community members, including clergy, leaders, staff, teachers, and youth group leaders. Hear personal stories from ACEs Torchbearers and learn how persons of all faith communities can help prevent ACEs and lessen their effects on the health and well-being of children and families.
90 minutes
Published date: Feb 8, 2023
This training is for professionals who provide mental health care services to children and families and for students in training to provide those services. Learn about the long-term effects of ACEs and strategies to prevent childhood adversity and address its consequences.
60 minutes
Published date: July 8, 2019
This training is for professionals who provide health care and services to children and families and for students in training to provide those services. Learn how ACEs can impact child development and well-being, and how to recognize when ACEs may be happening and prevent them from occurring in the first place. Continuing education credits are available.
70 minutes
Published date: June 30, 2020
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More Resources for Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences
Childhood experiences—good and bad—shape our health, well-being, and livelihoods over a lifetime. This infographic uses data from the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study and recent findings to show how ACEs and prevention can affect people’s lives and society.
10 minutes
Published date: Jun 30, 2021
Las experiencias infantiles—buenas y malas—moldean nuestra salud, bienestar y medios de vida a lo largo de la vida. Esta infografía utiliza datos del Estudio de Experiencias Adversas en la Infancia (ACE) de CDC-Kaiser Permanente y datos actuales para mostrar cómo las ACE y la prevención pueden afectar a las personas y la sociedad.
10 minutes
Published date: Jun 30, 2021
This online toolkit includes messages, images, flyers, videos, and other resources to promote the Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Training for Faith, Spiritual, and Religious Communities. Anyone interested in encouraging others to take the training can download and share these free digital resources.
Published date: May 16, 2024