Supporting Youth with ACEs: Healing Strategies for Response and Connection
About
This webinar focuses on supporting youth with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and equipping them with tools to thrive. Led by ACEs Aware young adult patient advisors and health professionals, this webinar highlights evidence-based approaches and practical techniques to help youth manage stress, build coping skills, and enhance their mental well-being. Whether you're a health care provider, behavioral health clinician, counselor, or advocate for youth well-being, this webinar will provide tools and inspiration to help young people heal from adversity and build a foundation for lifelong resilience.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the role and importance of school-based health centers (SBHC) in supporting youth with ACEs
- Describe and apply trauma-informed communication strategies with youth in SBHCs
- Discuss and apply stress-mitigation strategies with patients and students
- Identify examples of community-based support services for stress-mitigation strategies
Professional Credit
- This activity provides the following types of credit: AMA, AAPA, APA, ANCC, ASWB, ABIM-MOC, ABP-MOC.
- 1.0 credits are available.
- Activity document
Featuring
Chris Bradley is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in clinical work with families who have experienced trauma, and the implementation and training of trauma-informed care and ACE screening in primary care settings. Chris was a practice coach for the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC), where she helped develop an evidence-based framework for ACE screening and response called Trauma Informed inquiry for Adversity, Distress, and Strengths, or TRIADS, led by Dr. Alicia Lieberman. This relational framework helps healthcare team members talk with patients in the context of a trusting healing relationship. She worked with Dr. Lieberman at the Child Trauma Research Program at San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF, and with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris at the Center for Youth Wellness.
As a board-certified general pediatrician, child abuse pediatrician, and integrative medicine specialist, Dr. Gilgoff brings a multidisciplinary approach to ACEs, toxic stress, healing, and well-being. Over the course of her career, she has been a co-investigator of the Pediatric ACEs Screening and Resilience Study (PEARLS), the Medical Director of the Clinical Innovations and Research Team within Center for Youth Wellness, and co-founder of the National Committee on Asthma and Toxic Stress. She co-developed the Resiliency Clinic, a group clinic intervention model to treat toxic stress, and more recently, co-created VITAL: Relational Health, a free, on-line learning series on the science and practice of relational health. Dr. Gilgoff is currently an adviser with the California Aces Aware Initiative, an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a co-PI on Systems-based, Multidisciplinary Assessment of Adversity and Toxic Stress for Individualized Care (The SYSTEMAATIC Project), an ACEs and Precision Medicine research project through the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM). She is dedicated to addressing health issues resulting from child abuse and toxic stress, creating systems of care that incorporate the science of stress biology and wellness, and collaborating across sectors to develop multidisciplinary, integrative, human-centered, and holistic approaches to healing.
Jada Imani Carter is a patient advisor with ACEs Aware, dedicated to advancing trauma-informed care and community healing. With a background in youth development, advocacy, and cultural organizing, she works to address the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) through education, storytelling, and grassroots engagement. Jada integrates lived experience with evidence-based practices to foster resilience, promote health equity, and support community-driven solutions for healing and well-being.