A C E S T U D Y C O N F E R E N C E

Featuring Dr. Vincent Felitti

Thank you to our generous sponsors for making this event a reality!

! Above the Line ! Cabrillo College !

! California Center of Excellence for Trauma

Informed Care ! CASA of Santa Cruz !

! Commission for the Prevention of Violence

Against Women ! Positive Discipline

Community Resources !

! Santa Cruz County Office of Education !

! Dream Inn ! Dr. Jennifer Hastings ! EDMR

Institute ! Encompass Community Services !

! Front Street, Inc. ! First 5 Santa Cruz County

! Janus of Santa Cruz !

! Lela C. Carney, Lac, SEP !

Monarch Services ! New Families ! New

View Learning ! Santa Cruz County Head Start

! PAPAS ! Santa Cruz Trauma Consortium!

! Somatic Experiencing Trauma Coalition !

St. Francis Catholic Kitchen ! Triple P !

Walnut Avenue Women’s Center !

! 7th Avenue Center

Conference Agenda

8:00 – Sign in and morning refreshments. Networking

9-10:30: The ACE Study

10:30-15 minute break

10:45-12:00: The ACE Study applied

12-1: Lunch (brown bag recommended)

1-1:30: ACE quest ionnaire

1:30-2:00: Q&A with Dr. Feli tt i

2:00: 15 minute break

2:15-2:45 ACEs and the helping professions

2:45-3:45: Using the ACE Questionnaire in clinical practice, research or programming – a local perspect ive

3:45: Sign out for CEUs, evaluations

Trauma-Informed-California.org

T H E C A L I F O R N I A C E N T E R O F E X C E L L E N C E F O R T R A U M A

I N F O R M E D C A R E

This event was organized by

November 7, 2014

9am-4pm

Erica Schilling Forum (Bldg 450)

Cabrillo College

Save the Date!

Janina Fisher, PhD on Trauma and Dissociation

September 11, 2015

An onsite bookstore will be available. Checks and

cash only. Proceeds benefit the Santa Cruz Trauma Consortium.

Trauma Informed Services

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What are trauma-informed services?

The trauma-informed framework delivers services that acknowledge the common and pervasive impact of trauma. Trauma-informed transformation is a shift toward safety-focused, strength-based, consumer-driven, empowerment-rich programming that allows consumers to take charge of their own recovery, addresses unsafe behaviors and strongly prioritizes deep safety as a platform for recovery. Trauma-informed practice and approaches have been shown to increase client outcomes, staff morale, and program effectiveness.

Santa Cruz Trauma Consortium

The SCTC unites local organizations that serve trauma-exposed populations throughout Santa Cruz County. It offers agencies locally-based opportunities to increase trauma-informed practice and strategize on client and system issues in a collective manner. Santa Cruz County agencies that work with trauma-exposed populations and want to increase knowledge and competencies related to trauma are invited to join the Santa Cruz Trauma Consortium.

For more information on the SCTC, visit trauma-informed-california.org.

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Further Research and Reading

www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/

www.centerforyouthwellness.org

www.acesconnection.org

Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley

The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic, Ed. Ruth A. Lanius, et al.

Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence , Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley, with an introduction by Dr. Vincent Felitti

Children and Violence: The World of Defenceless, Einar A. Helander

Trauma and Recovey: The Aftermath of Violence From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Herman, M.D.

Using Trauma Theory to Design Service Systems, Maxine Harris and Roger D. Fallot

The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, My Life, Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Dr. Vincent Felitti & The ACE Study

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study is between Kaiser Permanente and the CDC when more than 17,000 adult Kaiser. The study began in 1995, when more than 17,000 Kaiser patients were asked about childhood maltreatment and family dysfunction, as well as their current health status and behaviors. Results from the study revealed a strong and proportionate relationship between the number of categories of adverse childhood experiences and adult social, biomedical, and emotional outcomes a half-century later.

Renowned physician and researcher, Dr. Felitti is the co-principal investigator of the ACE Study and an expert on childhood trauma. Once focused on infectious disease, he changed direction by founding the Department of Preventative Medicine for Kaiser Permanante in San Diego, which became the largest single-site comprehensive medical evaluation site in the western world.