Preventing ACEs Home Visitor Toolkit
Research demonstrates that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are both widespread and impact long term physical and mental health, parenting, and stress response. Home visiting programs in Michigan have long known many families they are supporting are facing challenges today related to trauma experienced when they were a child, at risk for continuing intergenerational patterns of ACEs, while also wanting better childhoods for their own children. The Preventing ACEs (PACEs) in Home Visiting Toolkit was developed to move knowledge into practice. It provides home visitors and programs with easily actionable supports and resources for the families they serve that are strength-based and inclusive of more recent research on the impacts of positive childhood experiences. Knowing that strategies are most effective when aligned and embedded within existing model practice, model specific versions have been developed for the Maternal Infant Health Program, Parents as Teachers Michigan, and Healthy Families Michigan through funding from the CDC and the Michigan Health Endowment Foundation.
The resources found here contain:
- Preventing ACEs Home Visiting Toolkit:
- Training modules on ACEs and the use the Preventing ACEs Home Visiting Toolkit:
- The Resource List below contains dozens of resources referenced in the PACE Home Visiting Companion Guide (PDF) for home visitors and families to use in conjunction with the other toolkit pieces. You can filter by topic, audience, and language.
The PACE Home Visiting toolkit structure is flexible by design; this is not a tool that you must start in one place and end in another. Each piece can be used whole or in part, you are the experts in the families you support. Resources provided are freely and publicly accessible suggestions that have been reviewed by families and piloted by home visiting providers.
**Model specific versions of this piece of the toolkit are currently available for three models:
- Maternal Infant Health Programs (MIHP)
- Michigan Healthy Families America
- Michigan Parents as Teachers
If you have questions about the Preventing ACEs Home Visiting toolkit please contact us.
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This module provides an overview of ACEs and impacts that we see in home visiting services as we support families. An introduction to the development and contents of PACE Home Visiting Toolkit is provided along with personal experiences from the field.
The second module in the PACEs Home Visiting Tool Training Series provides a deeper look at utilizing the Childhood Experiences Worksheet discussion tool with families as well as the conversation starters in the Companion Guide.
Resource: Module 2: Starting the Conversation
The third module in the PACEs Home Visiting Tool Training Series provides best practice strategies, common challenges experienced, the role of reflective supervision and leadership support in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
Resource: Module 3: Role of Leadership
General tool home visiting staff can use to determine which pieces of the PACE toolkit might be helpful for each family.
Discussion tool for use with families around positive and adverse experiences in caregivers’ past as well as reflection to plan forward for child(ren) in home. This tool is flexible and can be used whole or in parts.
Start with this guide that explains the pieces of the Preventing ACEs (PACEs) in Home Visiting Toolkit. This provides guidance on using the PACE Home Visiting Tool, ChEW, as well as other toolkit resources. The Companion Guide includes an overview, sample discussion starters, and references to resources that can be utilized.
Healthy Families Michigan has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
Healthy Families Michigan has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit for Healthy Families programs utilizing the PAT curriculum.
Michigan Parents as Teachers has developed model specific guidance in implementing the PACE Home Visiting Toolkit.
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Module for home visitors from the Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals.
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