by Abby | Apr 6, 2025 | Protective Factors
To begin discussing how to promote counter-ACEs in youth ministry and religious education, we need to understand why counter-ACEs are important. In our work with children, whether it be in youth ministry, sacramental preparation, or religious education, it is more...
by Abby | Mar 6, 2025 | Protective Factors
What are positive childhood experiences? To understand positive childhood experiences, we first need to understand adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), a specific type of trauma studied extensively by researchers. Like trauma in general, researchers have found that...
by Abby | Mar 6, 2025 | Protective Factors
As we know, the odds of trauma exposure are high, so many people that we minister to as a Church have faced or will face trauma. Trauma can lead to adverse outcomes, but as we have seen, there is a lot of research showing how protective factors can make these things...
