An introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Early Trauma
Detail:
This eLearning is an introductory level 2 course which explores how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can impact on a child's development.
It will take approximately 50 minutes to complete and involves watching a video and answering some questions. If you answer 90% of the questions correctly, you will be able to print off a certificate of completion at the end.
With thanks to:
- West Midlands Violence Prevention Alliance
- West Midlands Combined Authority
- Home Office
- West Midlands Police
- Barnado's
- Public Health England
- West Midlands police and crime commissioner
Course certificate: This course is provided by OSCB as a link to an external website and the certificate will not appear in your OSCB training account for future use. Upon successfully completing the course, please follow the below steps to save the certificate to your computer:
- click on print certificate
- under printer choose the field 'save as pdf'
- click on the save button and save to your computer
As the course is provided via an external provider, it will not appear as completed in your OSCB training profile and the passed date or certificate will not be available via your OSCB training history, so please ensure you save and/or print your certificate for future reference before you log out of the course!
Course obectives: By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Identify adverse experiences that can impact on a child's development and their response to stress
- Understand the importance of healthy brain development in a child's early years and the impacts of toxic stress
- Understand that experiencing adversity in childhood can have a significant impact over a person's life course resulting in ill health, poor well-being and in some cases premature death
- Understand how building resilience can help mitigate the impact of ACESs
- Understand what it means to look at adverse childhood experiences through a 'trauma informed lens'
- Give examples of key protective factors that can help mitigate the impact of ACEs and different strategies that can help build resilience
It is worth noting that practitioners in Oxfordshire have now moved away from the terms 'in care', 'looked after children' and care leavers', which you may hear being referred to in this video. Instead, we are now thinking about and using language such as 'children we care for' and 'care experienced young people', as suggested by members of Oxfordshire's 'Children in Care Council' (CiCC).