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Apr 2, 2021 · Environments (ACEs) and the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) that form the Pair of Aces (Ellis & Dietz, 2017). The Pair of ACEs can inform communities on ways to frame and address the adversity in their locality or population of interest. For example, children who live in poverty are three times more likely to be abused
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The Pair of ACES Tree. The Pair of ACEs tree illustrates the relationship between adverse childhood experiences, experienced at the individual level within a family, and adverse community environments. The Pair of ACEs tree communicates – in simple terms – the issues we aim to address.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are a collection of potentially traumatic events, such as violence, abuse, or neglect, that occur in childhood (0-17). Childhood exposure to prolonged traumatic events may result in a toxic stress response, negatively affecting a child’s brain development. These disruptions increase the risk of poor ...
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The Pair of ACEs tree illustrates the influence of a community environment on the lives of children and families. It depicts the relationship between adverse community environments (ACEs) – the soil in which the lives of some children and families are rooted – and the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) of their household environment, or the branc...
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access to economic mobility, and/or increased stress and fear associated with unfair policing practice, community violence and systemic racism. The complex nature of inequities experienced in communities can contribute to, and compound, adversities that children and families experience within their homes.
Using the Pair of ACEs image to foster conversation across a range of stakeholders has proven to be a powerful and efective way of geting to the root of our nation’s painful history of racial trauma due to systemic inequity. Our coalition partners have found success in using this tool to tailor conversations with parents and families with lived exp...
Using our Pair of ACEs worksheet to consider the systems and policies at play in their own communities, collaboratives can uncover, describe, and document root causes driving disparate, place-based outcomes on the leaves and branches of their tree. In doing so, the roles of local systems and the specific policies and practices that drive trauma and...
Identifying the Issue – The process of completing the boxes on the leaves and branches of the Pair of ACEs tree can help you focus on a place-based issue you aim to address. Get specific and use both quantitaive and qualitative information – stories and data – to describe the inequities experienced in community. For example, solving ‘food insecurit...
One of the most galvanizing and transformative experiences for coalitions in the resilience journey has been the process of gaining shared understanding of challenges and opportunities using the Pair of ACEs tree. Through honest conversation, coalitions develop a deeper understanding of systemic barriers that contribute to vicious cycles of poverty...
The CCR Resilience tree was born of a need to illustrate the relationship between resilient community environments – a visual means to illustrate the positive outcomes that result from gaining access to equitable, trauma-informed systems and supports. A companion to the Pair of ACEs tree, the Resilience tree ofers a strengths-based approach for coa...
The CCR Resilience framework recognizes that to ensure equity and produce community resilience for children and families, we must shift away from a deficit lens to a strengths-based approach that recognizes, bolsters, and invests in the inherent strengths and assets that make up the community. By doing so, we can shift the narrative to one that rep...
The Pair of ACEs tree depicts a community planted in soil that is steeped in systemic inequities. The cycle of adversity driven by inequity perpetuates and exacerbates trauma, poor health, and negative social outcomes across generations. In contrast, the soil of the Resilience tree is nurtured and cultivated with essential nutrients that yield posi...
Hope is not an intangible emotion that springs independent of context—hope is a direct outcome of an environment and experiences from which individuals feel they can access fairness, safety, equity and justice. Fear is an instinctual emotion wired to our survival as a species. The experience of trauma can generate a fear response that lasts a lifet...
Pictured below, the Resilience tree illustrates the relationship between communities with access to equitable, trauma-informed systems and supports, and the positive health and social outcomes they produce for children and families.
Safe and stable neighborhoods Community advocacy and agency Healthy and supported individuals and families Social and economic mobility Environments that promote social connectedness Access to capital Equitable and trauma-informed systems and supports Health-promoting infrastructure Restorative justice Afordable housing Fair policing practices C...
The soil of a resilient community environment is characterized by a system of supports that nurtures growth and yields positive outcomes. The environment in which this tree is planted also provides bufers that can blunt the efects of trauma, helping children and families bounce back in the face of adversity, and bounce forward to thrive. A critical...
Systemic drivers in the soil that are planted with the intention of closing the equity gap yield healthy, thriving leaves and branches. Acting as a catalyst for equity, systems that promote living wages, fair lending practices and afordable housing will yield a community where families can aford safe and stable housing (an indicator of social and e...
Using the Resilience tree and its accompanying worksheet to envision an equitable future, collaboratives can map existing strengths and assets, while developing measures of accountability that foster hope, equity, and resilience in community. Download the worksheet here: go.gwu.edu/resiliencetreeworksheet.
Leverage Community Strengths (e.g. social networks) – Using a strengths-based approach, identify and describe the positive atributes of community that exist but are likely not supported or bolstered by traditional systems and sectors in any formal or organized way. Example: A trusted network exists that organizes and distributes groceries and meals...
The Pair of ACEs tree illustrates the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences, experienced at the individual level within a family, and Adverse Community Environments. The Pair of ACEs tree communicates – in simple terms – the issues we aim to address.
The more ACEs a child experiences, the more likely he or she is to suffer from things like heart disease and diabetes, poor academic achievement, and substance abuse later in life. To help public health practitioners, policymakers, community leaders and individuals better understand the causes of ACEs, Dr. Wendy Ellis created the Pair of Aces ...
The Pair of ACEs and the 3 Realms of ACEs are two of these enhanced tools: The Pair of ACEs has also been further expanded to reflect the COVID-19 pandemic reality and highlight how inequities and disparities impact chronic adversity, especially when race and poverty are taken into consideration.
