Grays Harbor County Public Health (GHCPH) understands that exposure to trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can alter child development and increase the risk of morbidity and early mortality. Resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity, is not something you are born with or without, it can be developed and strengthened by having a trusted adult or someone you can talk to or turn to for support, learning healthy coping mechanisms (such as social and emotional regulation), and nurturing hope. Through the GHCPH’s Trauma Informed Committee, we’ve developed a resource library to assist our community with information to understand the correlation between trauma and health and offer learning opportunities to build healthy community experiences!

ACEs:

Issaquah School Foundation – https://isfdn.org/aces-research/ (text and video)

Resiliency:

Trauma:

Protective Factors:

Social Determinants of Health:

Parents;

Care Providers:

Educators:

Toolkits: Spokane Regional Health District –  https://srhd.org/1-2-3-care-toolkit

This toolkit has section links about the brain, resilience, attachment, cues, emotions, emotional regulation, behavior, discipline, repair, etc.

Video Library:

• How brains are built:  Introducing the brain story (4:05)

• How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It (3:51)

• The devastating, underdiagnosed toll of toxic stress on children (3:20)

• Childhood Trauma and the Brain (5:10)

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Impact on brain, body, and behavior (6:02)

• Understanding ACEs with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris (7:18)

• First Impressions: Exposure to Violence and a Child's Developing Brain (14:43)

• Wired for Danger:  The effects of childhood trauma on the brain (4:58)

• How the body keeps the score on trauma | Bessel van der Kolk for Big Think+ (8:03)

• The Body Keeps the Score (6:02)