Increasingly, primary care transformation efforts have recognized the importance of trauma-informed care and addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in practice. Numerous efforts have been made to better understand, prevent, and address the associations between ACEs and poor health (CDC, 2014). Ultimately, research has demonstrated that "ACEs are strongly associated with many of the most serious diseases, disorders, and social problems, yet most health providers are ill equipped by their training to help prevent, identify, and to intervene early in the development of these harms" (Anda & Felitti, 2015).
This webinar will draw from the ACE Study findings as well as promising clinical practice to explore how ACEs and Resiliency impact individual and family well-being. Participants will learn how some practices are screening, identifying, and addressing ACEs and Resilience among their patient populations.
Participants will learn:
- About linkages between ACEs and poor health in adulthood
- The importance of assessing ACEs scores in conjunction with Resiliency scores.
- About a primary care approach to incorporating Adverse Childhood Experience knowledge into Practice
Presented By:
RJ Gillespie, MD, MHPE
Pediatrician
The Children's Clinic
Dr. Gillespie is also the Medical Director of OPIP. From 2007 through 2010 he worked as the Medical Director of Quality Improvement for the Children’s Health Alliance, where he designed and implemented QI projects for a network of 110 pediatricians in the Portland metro area. He is actively involved as a member and advisor to a number of local quality improvement initiatives and state policy committees, including the Measurement & Reporting Committee for Q Corp, Community Health and Quality Committee for the OMA, the Patient Centered Primary Care Home Standards Advisory Committee for the Office of Health Policy & Research, and the OHA’s Metrics & Scoring Committee, which decides quality and incentive metrics for CCO's in Oregon.