Policy
- Overview
Overview
Drawing members from diverse sectors, the Collaborative has emerged as an organizing entity for trauma and ACEs work in Illinois. We are uniquely positioned to educate and advocate on key policy issues affecting intergenerational and systemic trauma, community wellbeing, and resilience.
Some of our policy successes include:
- Introducing Senate Bill 646: Task Force to Create a Healing-Centered Illinois
- Releasing the Action Plan to Address Childhood Adversity in Illinois in May 2021
- Informing legislation establishing Illinois’s first Trauma-Informed Awareness Day
- Developing a Trauma-Informed Policymaking Tool
- Petitioning he Illinois Department of Public Health to include an ACE module in the 2013 and 2017 BRFSS
- Providing ongoing guidance and feedback to city, state, and national policymakers
Policymaking Tool
Our Trauma-Informed Policymaking Tool outlines a policy approach to preventing and healing from trauma. The two-page Tool defines trauma-informed principles and describes their application to both the process of policymaking and its outcome. See it here!
Policy Briefs: Health, Justice, and Education
In 2017, the Collaborative released three policy briefs on the impact of ACEs in the health, justice, and education systems including promising practices and recommended actions for change. These briefs were developed by members of the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative—system leaders in Illinois who are working from an ACEs-informed lens to improve systems to prevent and mitigate trauma across generations.
Rooted in social justice, these briefs are a call to action to move upstream, build resiliency, and recognize how addressing inequity and trauma can improve systems while also building resiliency. Follow the links below to access the documents:
