(9) Social-Emotional Health

Social-Emotional Health & ACEs

Social-Emotional Health

• Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Support Workforce Success, Council for a Stronger America Report
  • A report that examines how character skills formed in early childhood contribute to building a strong workforce
• Mental Health in Education, National Association of State Boards of Education
  • A two-page policy update, including stats on mental health in education
• Social and Emotional Learning Competencies, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
  • This guide is designed to provide educators and out-of-school-time youth service professionals with the essentials for implementing a comprehensive approach to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL).
• The Evidence Base for How We Learn, The Aspen Institute (2017) Report
  • This report examines how the role of the teacher as well as the school environment need to support the social, emotional, and academic dimensions of learning to maximize the outcomes of all students. The consensus statements of practice offer clear guidance for educators, schools, and districts across the country.
• [Webinar] Social Emotional Health: A Critical Building Block for Children’s Learning, NC Early Childhood Foundation (2018)
• Applying an Equity Lens to Social, Emotional, and Academic Development  |  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Identifies five barriers that contribute to inequitable access to a high-quality SEL education and provides five opportunities for overcoming those barriers
• The Heart of Learning and Teaching — Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
• How Teachers Can Use Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Practices to Support their Students, NC Department of Health and Human Services
  • Collection of resources to guide teachers in best supporting and working with traumatized children in the classroom
• Providing Culturally Responsive Mental Health Care for Families, Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc.
  • Issue brief and toolkit that focuses on tackling health disparities and inequities by using the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care.
• From Trauma-Informed to Asset-Informed Care in Early Childhood, The Brookings Institution
  • Article that proposes focusing on narratives and solutions that are rooted in children’s and families’ assets and not just problem and trauma centered concepts.
• Stress and Resilience: How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
  • Video and resources about toxic stress, its effects, and what can be done to deal with it on an individual level and community level.

 

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

• ACEs Connection
  • ACEs Connection is a social network that supports communities to accelerate the global ACEs science movement and promotes trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies in all communities and institutions
• The Truth About ACEs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • One page overview of ACEs, used as a handout at Resilience screening by Prevent Child Abuse NC
• Resilience Screening Resources, Prevent Child Abuse NC
  • 2-page resource guide for Resilience
• Sonoma County ACES Fellowships Best Practices
  • This remarkable program is unique to Sonoma County California. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) & Resiliency Fellowship is a 9-month intensive interdisciplinary program designed for community members who serve as community educators on the topics of toxic stress, trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences, or Adverse Community Experiences.
• [Article] Launching or growing an ACEs initiative? We’ve got an app (& tools & guidelines) for that!!
• “What’s Toxic Stress“, Stress Health
• “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime,” Nadine Burke Harris
  • Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris 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.
• “Brains: Journey to Resilience” — Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
  • Learn about the resilience scale in this scientifically rigorous (and cinematically epic) video created by the AFWI in consultation with the FrameWorks Institute and the Harvard Center on the Developing Child
• “Brain Architecture Game” — Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
  • The Brain Architecture Game is a tabletop game experience that builds an understanding of the powerful role of experiences on early brain development – what promotes it, what derails it, with what consequences for society.
• “ACE Too High”
  • A news site that reports on research about ACEs and research-based initiatives to help children and families.
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network
  • Lots of resources on trauma types, treatments, trauma-informed care, etc.
• “Got Your ACE Score?” — ACEs Too High
  • What’s Your ACE Score? (and, at the end, What’s Your Resilience Score?
• “Got Your ACE Score?” — ACE Response
  • Spanish ACEs Questionnaire
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Trauma in Young Children: What We know and What We Can Do, University of Minnesota Extension, Extension Center for Family Development
  • Report about what is known and not known about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) from the research.

 

NC initiatives

• North Carolina Resilience and Learning Project | Public School Forum of North Carolina
  • The NC Resilience and Learning Project works with high poverty schools across the state where trauma is prevalent in their student population. The model is a whole school, whole child framework to create trauma-sensitive schools that will improve academic, behavioral, and social-emotional outcomes for students.
  • View their one-page infographic Infographic
• The Heart of Learning and Teaching — Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
• Charlotte Resilience Project

 

See related: Resilience (click here)