Beyond ACEs: Building Protective Factors and Promoting Transformation
Purpose: Equipping professionals with tools, knowledge, and strategies to prevent harm, support recovery, and build protective factors for children and families. This program will move beyond awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and into actionable, trauma-responsive practices that promote healing, resilience, and systemic change.
Audience: Professionals and leaders across child- and family-serving systems are welcome to register including: primary care providers, behavioral health clinicians, educators and early childhood providers, child welfare and juvenile justice professionals, home visitors, public health, community health workers, parent peer mentors and family advocates, policy advisors and/or elected officials, multi-disciplinary teams, and juvenile justice.
Sample topics: Early Care, Education, and Caregivers as Partners; Trauma Responsive and Strength-Based School Systems; Envisioning a Transformed Child Welfare System; Judicial System Who Offer Hope & Transformation; Care Systems: Medical Models, Mental Health & Dental Care; Cultural Connectedness in the Healing and Transformation of Trauma
Schedule: 12 sessions. Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., PT., April 8 - June 24, 2026
Faculty
Tabitha Jensen, MBA, Public Health Professional Options Counseling & Family Services
Amy King, Ph.D., Psychologist, Trainer
Elliott Hinkle, BS, Founder Unicorn Solutions
Danica Brown, PhD, MSW, CACIII, Founder White Crane Consulting
