Student Services Update: ACES

Creating College and Career Ready Graduates

Nicole Halabi, Director of Student Services

Marcia Walker, Educational Support Coordinator

September 27, 2016

Overview

• What are ACEs?

• Showing and Film Discussion of Paper Tigers/ACCFC Collaborative Grant

• Save the Date: November 10th

• S.A.F.E./ACCFC Collaborative Grant

• Staff Development: Mark Sander

What are ACEs?

ACEs are experiences in childhood that are unhappy, unpleasant, hurtful.

Sometimes referred to as toxic stress or childhood trauma.

ACEs harm children’s developing brains so profoundly that the effects show up decades later

Adverse Childhood Experiences –(ACE) Study

The largest study of its kind (17,337 participants) toexamine over the lifespan the medical, social and economicconsequences in adults of ACE’s

Why are ACEs Important to Us?

If we don’t look for or acknowledge trauma in the lives of children and adolescents, we end up chasing behaviors and

limiting the possibilities for change.

Trauma affects learning.

Trauma affects behavior.

Changing the question:

What’s wrong with you? What happened to you?TO

Paper TigersA Documentary about Adverse Childhood Experiences

Lincoln Alternative High School in Walla Walla, Washington

• Northeast Metro 916 held a showing and film discussion of Paper Tigers on April 18. Film discussion was led by Dan Porter, social worker for Northeast Metro 916.

• Columbia Heights Public Schools, through an ACCFC collaborative grant, coordinated and purchased the film, Paper Tigers, and licensing for our school district, Spring Lake Park Schools and Fridley Public Schools.

Save the Date:Columbia Heights Public Schools is hosting a public showing and film discussion of Paper Tigers on November 10th in the

Performing Arts Center at 3:30.

S.A.F.E.

Student and Family Engagement

Highland Elementary School

S.A.F.E.

Student and Family Engagement

Goal: To lessen the impact behaviors have on academic learning

ACCFC Grant Training Home Visits with Families

Staff Development

January 17

Mark Sander, PsyD, LPSenior Clinical Psychologist, Hennepin County

Director of School Mental Health, Hennepin County and Minneapolis Public Schools

Visiting Scholar, Wilder Research

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