I have been asked to man a booth at a community health fair and bring information about ACEs to the community. Looking for ideas about engagement techniques.
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I always have a "Find your ACE Score" handout available. I also include a questionnaire on the backside for determining resilience factors. As people approach your table, you might ask them something like "Do you know that 2/3 of Americans have been exposed to trauma?" Most will say "no" then you can start explaining some things and hand them the ACE Score handout.
You can try what Montana did with a billboard. http://billingsgazette.com/new...66-7c68f6037f47.html
I have thought of this recently while time spent in the waiting room of a local emergency department. Have a sign "Get Your ACEs Score". Curiosity will get them in for sure. It would be great. I believe most people arriving at an ER have a high ACE score.
Now what do you do. Be brave. I've been asked "Now what do I do next" "Why do you care?". It's the why do you care reply that threw me back in the beginning of offering aces awareness. I would fend off my bewilderment with "I want you to know about ACEs". Then it clicked. No one ever cared before. And now my reply is "I care".
I have a hand out that I use.
The first page is the ACE survey with web addresses for further education. On the back side 14 resilience survey questions. This one here ,I tell parents they can gage how well they are doing with their own children. I tell people if they want to participate in the ACE survey that I only want to know their number. This may be the first time they can say, "Yes, this happened to me" with a number. Don't be shy. Maintain that eye contact. Do warn them of the sensitive nature of the questions and normalize it with some information about how common ACEs are. Tell them they can stop the survey at anytime. Be prepared for triggers with question 3. But this is when you can help someone.
The second page is ;https://pacesconnection.crowdstack.io/...aces-connection-2015 (Both the neurology and resilience.)
The third page consist of list of negative cognitives (I'm still working on the narrative portion) and on the other side the CDCs chart on "How Common Are Aces?"
Looking at your community ranking, you have a good bases about ACEs and you should do well. To bad you're in California, I would be there.
Please let me know how it goes.
