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CTAT has changed its name to:ACEs Community Resilience Team |
The Childhood Trauma Action Team (CTAT) began as a Healthy Mendocino cross-sector collaboration following the 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment which identified childhood trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as among the most pressing health priorities in the county. CTAT teams were formed on the North Coast coast and Inland regions. Under the purview of Healthy Mendocino, from 2016-2019 the CTATs worked to create a trauma-informed compassionate culture in the county, elevate the urgency for ACEs education and awareness in our communities, and enhance the social environment for children and youth. In 2020, Healthy Mendocino moved away from community health improvement implementation work. The Inland CTAT, which over the course of the last 3 years merged with Mendocino County's Children Action Committee, continues to meet monthly as their an independent collaborative.
The Childhood Trauma Action Team changed their name to ACEs Community Resilience Team to better reflect their work on ACEs.
ACEs Community Resilience Team advocates for Mendocino County’s families and children to prevent and educate about child abuse prevention including Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Resiliency, and building a Trauma Informed Community.
The ACEs Community Resilience Team collaboration is primarily focused on:
•Developing grassroots child abuse prevention support through collaboration with like stakeholders
•Educating & training the public on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
•Building awareness of childhood trauma through a Community Resiliency Model
•Creating ways for our community members to get involved
Contact Information: To find out more about the ACEs Community Resilience Team or to join a meeting, email Sheryn Hildebrand at shildebrand@mendocinocasa.org. For updates, visit their Facebook Page
The Community Resilience Tracker helps communities clearly see their progress as well as their gaps by tracking the journey of organizations as they integrate trauma-informed practices based on PACEs science. The tracker does this in two parts.
To get more information on the PACES Resilience Tracker CLICK HERE.
PACEs Connection, is an ever-growing social network, connecting those who are implementing trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on ACEs science. The network’s 40,000+ members share their best practices, while inspiring each other to grow the PACEs movement.
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Before the pandemic, Sara Buckley, an 8th grade science teacher at Park Middle School in Antioch, California, could handle students who were acting out during class. Understanding that trauma lies beneath disruptive behavior, she didn’t send kids to the principal for punishment. Instead, she’d talk with them to find out what was going on at home or outside of school—and then work out a plan for how to respond differently the next time they were triggered. They could visit the school’s wellness room or take a walk to calm down before returning to class.
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Child abuse is a persistent problem within Mendocino County and the state. Although it is a hidden social ill, its impact is significant. Child abuse impacts not just the child, but the family, the community, and society at large. The impact of abuse not only morally devastates our community, it significantly hurts our economy. The cumulative financial impact to the Mendocino community for the 370 verified child victims in 2018 is $87.1 million. Click the link below to see more facts about the economic impact of child abuse in our county.
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This fact sheet complied by The Inland Childhood Trauma Team, Berkeley Haas School of Business and Safe & Sound shows the cost breakdown of the economic impact of child abuse in Mendocino County in the year 2018. Of the 370 substantiated child abuse victims that year, the cost per child for non-fatal cases equated to $235,376. That's approximately $7,700 higher than the national non-fatal cost per child. Click the link for a detailed cost breakdown and comparison points.
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ACEs, otherwise known as Adverse Childhood Experiences, are a public health crisis. With 31% of our children possessing an ACE score of 2+, Mendocino County has one of the highest percentages of ACEs in the country. An ACE can also include Adverse Childhood Environments such as poor quality housing, discrimination, and lack of economic opportunity. When our community is unhealthy, our children are unhealthy. How do we build resilience in our children? The Childhood Trauma Action Teams (CTAT) are working to transform programs, practices and policies across systems to improve the health and life outcomes of children, families and communities.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente in San Diego studied 17,300 adults and tracked their health outcomes based on childhood ACEs. Read an overview of what ACEs are, the three types of ACEs, the increases in health risks caused by high ACE scores and view the results of the study in this report.
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Beginning in 2020, millions of California children will be voluntarily screened for adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs The results will help doctors determine whether children or adults need mental health counseling or other preventative treatments to help them avoid some of the long-term effects caused by the trauma they have experienced. In addition to mental health counseling, there are also ways that doctors themselves can change the way they treat patients for asthma or other chronic disease, based on their patients’ trauma score.
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An ACE score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. According to the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, the rougher your childhood, the higher your score is likely to be and the higher your risk for later health problems.
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