Categories of Adverse Childhood Experiences

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Refer to the following slideshow below for information about what the categories include.
The slideshow gives a basic definition to types of trauma or abuse that have been found to impact an individual’s ACE score. It is important to understand that these ACEs refer only to events during a person’s childhood which has been defined from birth to age 18.

Click here to download a PDF version of this slideshow

Optional Resources for Further Study

• ​Stop ACEs Awareness, Resiliency, Training & Sustainability
• Take the ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does And Doesn't Mean by Laura Starecheski for NPR
• Creating Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms (May 2015); by Katie Statman-Weil, Young Children, NAEYC

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1. Course Agenda
2. Pre-Discussion: ACEs
3. Discussion: ACEs (1/3)
4. Adverse Childhood Experiences
5. Categories of Adverse Childhood Experiences
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6. ACEs in Your Own Words​ (2/4)
7. The Relationship Between ACEs and Health
8. ACEs Video
9. Quiz (3/3)
10. Evaluation Form​
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