What Are ACEs? A Guide for Judges

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An adult is too under the influence to care for the child.</li> </ul> <h3>Association Between ACEs & Health Outcomes</h3> <h4>Undermining</h4> <p>A child’s sense of safety and stability and exacerbate levels of toxic stress can harm aspects of the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems and lead to disrupted neurodevelopment across the lifespan.</p> <h4>Susceptibility to Mental Health Challenges</h4> <p>Childhood trauma and household challenges correlate to lifetime depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Approx. 2/3 of suicide attempts are attributable to exposure to forms of trauma encompassed in ACEs.</p> <h4>Disruption and Absence of Intervention</h4> <p>Lead to social, emotional, and cognitive impairment, and the adoption of health risk behaviors (e.g. smoking, drug use, disordered eating, unsafe sexual behaviors – often adopted as coping mechanisms).</p> <h4>Likelihood for Diminished life Opportunities</h4> <p>Socioeconomic indicators (e.g. educational attainment, employment, and income) are often interconnected and serve as determinants to subsequent life opportunities, which impact a person’s health and quality of life.</p> <h3>A Guide for Judges</h3> <p>Judges can play a crucial role to mitigate re-traumatization within the carceral system while delivering trauma-sensitive interventions through their courts.</p> <div class="row h-flushBottom"> <div class="col m6"> <h3>Three Major Points</h3> <p>What could an ACEs aware court look like?</p> <ul> <li>Screening of all individuals for ACEs <ul> <li>Using the ACE questionnaire</li> <li>Providing person-centered interventions once ACEs are indicated and working with the individual/family on solutions that aim for the best possible outcome. Once a score is determined, 4 or more is considered serious, a person-centered interventions is imperative – working with that individual or family on solutions that may help them have the best outcome</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col m6"> <figure><img alt="Judge sitting at desk" src="/getmedia/914930ff-49f6-4932-b9d8-07ed9e216f17/Judge-at-Desk.png" /></figure> </div> </div> <ul> <li>Not only focusing on the negative  <ul> <li>Using strength-based, protective questions which can contribute to resilience and can be interspersed with questions about adversity. Including strength based questions contributes toward better solutions in many ways: <ol> <li>It allows the person responding to feel recognized for more than just negative events and problems in their life.</li> <li>It gives a fuller, more accurate picture of the situation, opening more solution options, increasing a sense of manageability, and decreasing the chances of “armoring” by workers faced with client problems that seem insurmountable.</li> <li>It increases the likelihood that the strengths can be used during the service delivery process, providing a source of further skill development for the child that can play a role in increasing positive outcomes.</li> </ol> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Operating with a trauma-informed lens <ul> <li>Realizing that trauma has a widespread impact on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities and has an understanding of paths to recovery;</li> <li>Ability to recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, staff, and others in the system;</li> <li>Integration of trauma knowledge into policies, programs, and practices</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Protective questions include:</p> <ul> <li>“In your childhood, was there a person or persons in your family who took a positive interest in you?”</li> <li>“Did some people in your family look out for and support each other sometimes?”</li> <li>“Were there some things as a family you enjoyed doing together?”</li> <li>“In your childhood was there a person or persons outside the family who supported you? 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