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Overview

The Stanford ACEs Aware ECHO is a 6 month collaborative offering twice-monthly Zoom based meetings to pediatric health care professionals and interagency partners serving children with Medi-Cal at risk for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Mateo Counties in California. The goal is to create a highly interactive interprofessional learning environment to support trauma-informed care within highly vulnerable populations.   

Stanford ACEs Aware ECHO uses the highly interactive Project ECHO® model to allow participants to connect, engage and share valuable knowledge about the ACEs Aware Initiative within a supportive community of clinicians and interagency partners.  Project ECHO® is an innovative tele-education outreach model to gather people and share information.

 

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this series, participants should be able to:

  • Define Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), toxic stress, and their impacts on health, including underlying biological mechanisms.
  • Identify how to introduce and integrate ACE screening into clinical care.
  • Apply a clinical algorithm for ACE screening, identification of ACE-Associated Health Condition(s), and risk assessment for toxic stress in creating a tailored treatment and follow-up plan.
  • Manage the clinical impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental and physical health.
  • Circulate the Pediatric ACEs Screening Clinical Workflow, ACEs and Toxic Stress Risk Assessment Algorithm, and emerging information about the COVID-19 emergency as trauma.

Format
  • These live interactive sessions will be hosted on Zoom.

  • Each session will begin with a short didactic session introducing the science of toxic stress.

  • The majority of each session will be a de-identified discussion about a case, brought to the group by one of our community partners ("spokes").

  • The group will collaborate by sharing solutions and resources with the presenter, as well as by identifying systems barriers that can be addressed to promote trauma-informed care within our community.  

We ask that participants:

  1. Attend as many as possible of 12 virtual sessions

  2. Participate actively in case-based discussions

  3. Share a case for discussion

  4. Share resources to help our patients mitigate toxic stress

Target Audience 

Professionals from Santa Clara, Santa Cruz,
and San Mateo Counties

 

  • Pediatrics primary care clinicians
  • Mental health providers
  • Social workers
  • Physical and occupational therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Pediatrics specialty physicians
  • Educators
  • Representatives of county Medi-Cal managed healthcare plans
  • California Children’s Services representatives
  • Regional Center representatives
  • Nurses
  • Medical Assistants
  • Community health workers
  • Professionals who are part of the support team for children

Faculty

Barbara Bentley, PsyD, MS Ed

Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated)
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Stanford School of Medicine

Christina Buysse, MD

Clinical Associate Professor
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Stanford School of Medicine

Accreditation

The Stanford University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT), Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC), and Licensed Educational Psychologists (LEP). Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Dates and Curriculum

Live interactive meetings from 12:15-1:30pm. 

 

Screen

January 6         

  • Why Screen for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?         


January 20                 

  • How Do You Screen for ACEs? 

February 3

  • How Do You Respond to an ACE Screen?
     

February 17

  • How Do You Support Providers Who Are Doing ACEs Screenings?

 

Treat

March 3

  • How Do You Develop a Trauma-Informed Treatment Plan?
     

March 17

  • What Are Evidence-Based Strategies to Regulate the Stress Response?
     

April 7

  • How Do You Validate Existing Strengths and Protective Factors?
     

April 21

  • What Resources and Referrals Can You Recommend to Address ACEs?

 

Heal

May 5

  • How Do We Cultivate Self-Compassion in Stressful Times?
     

May 19

  • Cultivating Cultural Compassion
     

June 2

  • How Do We Create Trauma-informed Systems of Care in Our Organizations and Communities? Part 1
     

June 16

  • How Do We Create Trauma-informed Systems of Care in Our Organizations and Communities? Part 2

Disclosure

The Stanford University School of Medicine adheres to ACCME Criteria, Standards and Policies regarding industry support of continuing medical education.

There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined commercial interests for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency

The planners and speakers of this CME/CE activity have been encouraged to address cultural issues relevant to their topic area for the purpose of complying with California Assembly Bill 1195.

Moreover, the Stanford University School of Medicine Multicultural Health Portal contains many useful cultural and linguistic competency tools including culture guides, language access information and pertinent state and federal laws. 

You are encouraged to visit the Multicultural Health Portal: http://lane.stanford.edu/portals/cultural.html

Acknowledgment

This ECHO series is supported in part by a grant from the State of California Department of Health Care Services.

Additional Information

Cancellation Policy

Stanford University School of Medicine reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary.

Accessibility Statement

Stanford University School of Medicine is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, please contact the Project Coordinator.

Claim Credit Instructions for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs

LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs must participate in the full 1.25 hours of the session. No partial credit will be issued.

The session evaluation must be completed within two weeks of the date of the session.

ACEs Aware ECHO will email your completion certificate within 30 days of receipt of your evaluation to the email address provided during the course registration process.

Claim Credit Instructions For All Other Participants:

Upon texting the activity ID to 844-560-1904, your attendance will be recorded and your transcript will be updated to reflect your attendance and will be available immediately following the activity in the CE portal.

To view and download your transcript, sign into the Stanford CME homepage at https://stanford.cloud-cme.com/default.aspx. Once signed in, click the gray My CE button, select the Transcripts tile and enter the appropriate date range.

For proof of your participation in an accredited Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education activity for licensure, hospital affiliation, insurance, or tenure/promotion, a transcript is the preferred method.

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