ACE Awareness
Childhood Trauma Impacts, Awareness, Prevention, and Healing
Justice System Reform and Incarceration
ACE Awareness
- Find out your ACE score by taking the ACE Test Here
- Compassion in Action: CPP podcasts hosted by Fritzi Horstman
- ACE’s Connection: ACE science education
- A collection of short videos on ACE, impacts and prevention strategies by the Royal Society of Public Health in the United Kingdom
- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Adverse Childhood Events (ACE) site. Full of ACE research, infographics and videos.
- CDC’s Preventing ACEs Handbook
Childhood Trauma Impacts, Awareness, Prevention, and Healing
- CPP’s Step Inside the Circle video
- Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
- How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime: An excellent TedMed Talk by Nadine Burke Harris
- ACEs Documentaries: Brief information on two documentaries exploring ACEs and the science of resilience.
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Cracked Up – the film: Witnessing the impact ACEs can have across a lifetime through the story of actor, comedian, impressionist and Saturday Night Live veteran, Darrell Hammond.
- The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- Interview: The Body Keeps the Score (1 hr 40 min)
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté
- The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter A. Levine (Free online from Google)
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall Rosenberg. Buy it here.
- A Guide to Toxic Stress: Harvard University – Center on the Developing Child
- Creating Presence: Helping organizations to become trauma-informed, trauma-responsive, and trauma-resilient!
- What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing.
Justice System Reform and Incarceration
- The Sentencing Project
- The Innocence Project
- The Prison Policy Initiative. See also data and infographics from PPI report – Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020.
- NAACP Justice System Fact Sheet
- Criminal Justice Reform Language Guide by The Opportunity Agenda
- National Prison Radio: Featuring prison news from correspondents who are currently or formerly incarcerated and here is the Soundcloud channel.
- Reimagining Prison – a podcast.
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- 13th: Netflix Film by Ava DuVernay – This film is free on YouTube courtesy of Netflix.
- Ear Hustle: The daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration.
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor Rios
- Solitary Confinement Resources
