Clinical Pilots
About
The ACEs Aware Clinical Pilots webinar series highlights the work of researchers, health care teams, and community organizations that have received funding from ACEs Aware to advance the field of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress. The series shares innovative strategies to identify, prevent, and respond to ACEs and toxic stress in different settings and patient populations. Each webinar in this series features specific work to address current gaps in evidence and practice, lessons learned, and implications for the field to advance ACE screening and toxic stress treatment. Participants learn about a variety of topics including the identification and prevention of specific ACE-Associated Health Conditions (AAHCs), leveraging toxic stress mitigation strategies, and effective trauma-informed treatments and referrals.
Contents
This series is still active. The most recent or upcoming episode is listed first.
This webinar focuses on the revision of an American College of Surgeons trauma-informed care curriculum that was implemented, tested, and revised to educate Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital health care workers. Trauma-informed care is an approach that considers patients’ lived experience and current circumstances to provide respectful, patient-centered care. Participants will hear about how this team used human-centered design principles to revise the curriculum, train trauma-informed health care workers, and promote a trauma-informed hospital ecosystem.
This webinar will feature a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) pilot project focused on the use of trauma inquiry in family planning sessions. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and traumatic experiences, such as intimate partner violence (IPV), impact health outcomes of people seeking family planning services. IPV and sexual assault are more common among people with sexually transmitted infections and people seeking abortion care, yet trauma is not routinely discussed in family planning settings. Clinical cases will be used to ...
This webinar, part of the Clinical Pilots series, focuses on a trauma-informed diabetes intervention program that screens for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) within a safety net family medicine clinic. Participants will learn about diabetes as an ACE-Associated Health Condition, the methods and findings of this diabetes pilot, and how an ACEs and trauma-informed approach for diabetes management can supplement usual care.
This webinar will describe how and why a family wellness program that provides navigation and care coordination for the children of adult primary care patients was designed and implemented to mitigate intergenerational trauma at the UCSF Women’s HIV Program. Clinical vignettes will be used to illustrate how the program works and impacts the lives of participants. Evaluation data will be shared to demonstrate how the program has been adapted based on patient and provider/staff feedback and experience. Ideas and practices ...
In this webinar, Dr. Laura Figueroa-Phillips, MD, MSCE, will discuss the beneficial effects of mindfulness and meditation for patients suffering from the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Dr. Figueroa-Phillips will give an overview of the existing evidence for these benefits and will share the results from her team’s pilot study, “Virtual Meditation as a Response to Adverse Childhood Events.” Dr. Figueroa-Phillips will conclude by sharing ideas for future projects and resources her team developed to promote mindfulness practices within ...
In this webinar, representatives from Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Futures Without Violence, and Líderes Campesinas will discuss an ACEs Aware pilot project to promote health, leadership, and collaboration between farmworker leaders and community health centers in farmworker communities. Project NACES, built in collaboration with local community health centers and our evaluation partners, aims to increase opportunities for farmworkers to inform health care screening and responses to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), increase ACEs education in farmworker communities, build partnerships between community ...
In this webinar, Dr. Candace Gragnani, MD, MPH, will discuss the evidence base for connecting with nature to mitigate toxic stress and improve physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Attendees will learn how nature can be leveraged as part of a Trauma-Informed Network of Care from two nature-based programs that engage youth at the clinical and community level. Dr. Gragnani will highlight findings from the ACEs Aware pilot project that explored park staff and pediatric health care provider views ...