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ACE and the Faith Community

Learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how the faith community can play a vital role in addressing and preventing childhood trauma. Discover practical strategies to create positive experiences, support parents, and foster a compassionate environment. Love is an intervention.

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ACE and the Faith Community

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  1. ACE and the Faith Community Amy Meek MSN, RN IU Health Community Health

  2. Adverse Childhood ExperiencesPhysical abuseSexual abuseEmotional abusePhysical neglectEmotional neglectIntimate partner violenceMother treated violentlySubstance misuse within householdHouse hold mental illnessParental separation or divorceIncarcerated household member

  3. Attachment Theory • “An in-born system in the brain that evolves in ways that influence and organize motivational, emotional and memory processes with respect to significant caregiving figures.” (Bowlby, 1969) • Freud: “The relationship between the mother and child is the prototype for all future relationships” Secure Attachment “Repeated experiences of parents reducing uncomfortable emotions (e.g.,fear, anxiety, sadness), enabling child to feel soothed and safe when upset, become encoded in implicit memory as expectations and then as mental models or schemata of attachment, which serve to help the child feel an internal sense of a secure base in the world.” (Siegel, D.)

  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjOowWxOXCg

  5. What can congregations do? • Become aware or “trauma informed” • Shift the attitude toward compassion • Be a knowledgeable resource and know your local referral systems • Mentor or get involved • Foster care, CASA, Big Brother Big Sister, Boys and Girls clubs, create your own …… • Shift the attitude toward compassion • Create positive experiences to combat epigenetics. • Support parents, especially new parents

  6. Love is an intervention

  7. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” - Benjamin Franklin

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