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          Wales Representation at Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference 2025

          Colleagues from ACE Hub Wales, Trauma-Informed Wales, the Violence Prevention Team, Wrexham University and Bangor University will collaboratively host two panel sessions, and two marketplace of ideas sessions will be offered.

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          Pathway to Peace Project

          A new initiative is using digital storytelling to explore and share the lived experiences of forced migrants in Wales. Led by academics from Aberystwyth University, the Welsh Pathway to Peace project has launched the first of its digital stories to mark World Refugee Day - June 20th 2025.

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          Supporting Whole Systems Change for Violence Prevention in Wales

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          “Do You See My Trauma?”

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          Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference 2025

          The Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference provides an opportunity to showcase, share learning and explore innovative partnerships and collaborations between the law enforcement and the public health sector that help to redress inequities and promote healthy, secure and safe communities.

          This will be the 7th International Conference of Law Enforcement and Public Health, the overarching theme being Towards a Healthier and more Equitable State.

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          LEPH 2023

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          Gwent Drug and Alcohol Service (GDAS): A Spotlight Series

          This spotlight report highlights the fantastic work of Gwent Drug and Alcohol Service (GDAS) in implementing the Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (TrACE) - informed Organisational Toolkit. As a consortium organisation, GDAS provide substance use support across Gwent and this spotlight highlights this journey, focussing on their vision, their approach to embedding the TrACE - informed Organisational Toolkit and how the Toolkit has assisted them to make positive changes in their commitment to becoming a TrACE - informed organisation.

          GDAS are committed to applying a trauma-informed lens in all areas of their work and this spotlight can be used as a helpful resource for all organisations embarking on their TrACE journey.

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          Understanding the Health Needs of Women at Risk of Entering the Criminal Justice System in North Wales

          This study investigates the healthcare needs, barriers to access, and the role of unmet health needs for women in, or at risk of entering, the criminal justice system. The research focuses on the first-hand experiences of women in North Wales, prior to any involvement with the criminal justice system in relation to their primary health needs (mental and physical health), using a mixed-methods approach including a focus group, questionnaires, and interviews.

          The report’s recommendations focus on addressing barriers to healthcare access, prioritising early intervention and preventative healthcare, implementing trauma-informed and gender specific areas, expanding and integrating community-based services, streamlining, and improving service pathways and promoting further data collection and research in this area to fill existing gaps in knowledge and understanding in this area.

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          Physical Environment

          The physical environment domain asks organisations to consider all aspects of their physical and social environment and spaces can be TrACE informed and how this will support staff, service users, and anyone else who accesses the organisation.

          This domain is an important source of information for organisations developing their action plans to make their organisations physical environments more TrACE-informed.

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          Creating Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experience (TrACE)- Informed Physical Environments

          This guidance is to support organisations implementing the TrACE Toolkit, ensuring that they consider all aspects of their physical and social environment and the impact that it can have on staff, service users and anyone else who accesses the organisation. It is relevant to all those who are actively seeking to make their organisation’s physical environments more TrACE-informed. It seeks to illustrate that even small changes can have a big impact on how people interact with, and experience, an environment and that all organisations can seek to improve their physical environments regardless of budgetary and other constraints. It emphasises the need for careful planning, design, and implementation to create safety and promote healing and well-being for those who experience the environment and seeks, as far as is possible, to resist re-traumatising people who use the space.

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          Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (TrACE)-informed training for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) practitioners in Wales: Understanding current provision and gaps

          This report explores trauma-informed training availability and needs of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) practitioners in Wales. ESOL learners come from diverse backgrounds, including refugees and asylum seekers who may have experienced complex trauma. It is essential that ESOL providers are trained to provide valuable support to these learners. The report presents findings from interviews with ESOL practitioners across Wales, exploring their training experiences and identifying additional training needs. The report's recommendations focus on enhancing trauma-informed training availability and delivery in Wales. The report is designed for ESOL practitioners and policymakers interested in trauma-informed approaches to teaching.

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          Reflective Practice Starter Kit

          This important resource was co-produced with two of our third sector partner organisations, both Cymorth Cymru and Platfform have extensive expertise and experience of promoting psychologically-informed approaches, including reflective practice, in housing and homelessness, and mental health and wellbeing in a trauma-informed and relational way. The Starter Kit brings together knowledge, wisdom and practical advice, tested with people and organisations across Wales and through the TrACE Space.

          This Reflective Practice Starter Kit is designed to be a practical starting point for these complex conversations and to support the development of a reflective and learning culture within your team, organisation or for yourself. This kit aims to help everyone involved in the TrACE-Informed journey to take steps to include reflective practice in their day-to-day operations. By doing so, the organisation will benefit from a strong learning culture, rooted in continuous improvement that includes not just what was done, but how it was done and how that felt for the people involved so that good practice can be embedded further and areas identified for further review and development.

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          Building a Fairer Gwent – A Spotlight Series

          This report outlines how, through adopting the ’Marmot City’ approach developed by Sir Michael Marmot, at a regional level in Gwent, ‘Building a Fairer Gwent’ seeks to embed a trauma-informed model that tackles health inequalities in a way that is aligned to the principles and ethos of the Wales Trauma-informed Framework. ‘Building a Fairer Gwent’ recognises the inextricable link between the social determinants of health, health inequalities and the risk of adverse childhood experiences and trauma. This work provides an important contribution to knowledge about community level work to tackle root causes.

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          Workforce Training and Support

          This domain relates to developing and supporting people within the organisation to have the knowledge and skills they need to enable trauma and ACE (TrACE)-informed practice to be sustained and embedded. The domain aims to help organisations on their TrACE journey to establish a culture of ongoing supportive, learning cycles that recognize the
          importance of the wellbeing and safety of the workforce and provision of tools and resources to embed this the practice.

          A workforce training and development strategy can set out the priority and communicate the outcomes of this approach to help staff and volunteers to be equipped with skills and knowledge on ACEs, trauma and wider adversities and their potential impact, and to be able to respond to this appropriately in their work, and in support of each other through the provision training and resources at the appropriate practice level of the trauma-informed Wales Framework .The publication of the strategy and communications around it are also an important way to maintain the messages around why the organisation is implementing the TrACE toolkit, how taking a trauma and ACE-informed approach can mitigate against and prevent further harm, and the commitment of the organisation to equipping staff and volunteers with what they need to be able to do this.

          Resources and tools that support this are found in this domain area and consideration should be given to provision of regular supervision and reflective practice opportunities to promote staff wellbeing and foster a culture of continuous learning to embed and sustain the training strategy as part of it.

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          Policies and Procedures

          This domain area considers an organisation's policies and procedures. The commitment to being trauma and ACE informed embedded and sustained by policies and procedures that have been reviewed to ensure that they support this ambition in how they are intended, written and understood.

          On this page you will find resources from ACE Hub Wales exclusively available to the TrACE Space to support you in taking forward your self-assessment and action planning in this domain area. There are also practical examples and learning from organisations who have already implemented change in relation to policies and procedures.

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          Trauma and ACE-Informed Further Education Sector

          An evaluation of the embedding of ACE Hub Wales ‘Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experience (TrACE) Informed Organisation Toolkit’ in Further Education settings across Wales. This evaluation explores the impact of the implementation of the TrACE Toolkit across the Further Education (FE) sector in Wales. The report highlights key findings and insights that demonstrates a strong infrastructure is in place to help the Further Education (FE) sector sustain TrACE-informed practices across Wales.

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          Training

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          Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Trauma-Informed Practice in Wales: e-Learning Course

          Welcome to ACE Hub Wales’ Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Trauma-Informed Practice e-Learning course. In reference to the National Trauma-Informed Wales Framework, this online course is considered to be at the “trauma-aware” level.

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          The Learner Journey

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          Governance, Leadership and Organisational Culture

          This domain relates to the overall support for and investment in implementing and sustaining a trauma- and ACE-informed approach.

          On this page you will find resources from ACE Hub Wales exclusively available to the TrACE Space to support you in taking forward your self assessment and action planning in this domain area. There are also practical examples and learning from organisations who have already implemented change in relation to governance, leadership and organisational culture.

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          A practical guide to creating a Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (TrACE) Statement of Commitment

          The purpose of this guide is to aid organisations to create their own Statement of
          Commitment. This is a key step in co-creating a shared understanding, common
          purpose and responsibility for leadership at all levels, which informs and engages
          with everyone in the organisation. A well-crafted Statement of Commitment can
          help communicate the intention and prioritisation to becoming a TrACE-informed
          organisation to staff, service users and wider stakeholders.

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          Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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          Spotlight on Anglesey: A Trauma-Informed Island

          This poster sets out Anglesey’s journey, starting with looked after children in schools and developing a common language across children’s services, voluntary and statutory agencies and embedded in the communities of the island itself. This journey is founded on a strengths-based approach which builds into the connection, engagement, civic assets and the natural resources of the people and the island itself, to create a positive psychosocial environment and a high level of community resilience. There are exciting developments planned and underway for the future as Anglesey moves forward to realising its vision of a whole system approach, looking beyond behaviours to understand anyone can experience adversity and trauma in their lives, and rooted in empathy and compassion.

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          Home-Start Cymru- A Spotlight Series

          This report outlines the work of Home-Start Cymru; a charity which provides emotional and practical support to families in need across Wales using a non-judgmental, compassionate and strengths-based approach which is built on trust. This case study shows how the NYTH/NEST Framework which underpins Home Start’s approach, is aligned to the values and principles of the Trauma-informed Wales Framework - which together are working to build and sustain a strengths and children’s rights-based, whole system approach to mental health and wellbeing for children, families, Home Start Cymru’s volunteers and workforce.

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          Spotlight Series

          These resources are a part of our new series of ‘Spotlights.’

          These case studies are co-produced with organisations and people across Wales who are leading initiatives at the community level which are already contributing to the vision for Wales to become a trauma-informed nation by working in a trauma-informed way. The purpose of these reports is to shine a light on the existing approaches, celebrate their work and continue to inform and support the implementation of the Trauma-informed Wales Framework and further development of our Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (TrACE) informed organisational toolkit.

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          Cookie Policy

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          Trauma Summit 2024 – Belfast

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          Gender-Based Harassment in Public Spaces: A Review of the Literature

          The aim of this review is to consolidate and enhance the evidence base on the prevention of, and response to, public sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based harassment in all public spaces, to understand prevalence, causes and effective interventions. It will directly inform the priority of the Blueprint work stream: Gender-based Harassment in all Public Spaces. The Blueprint approach has been adopted by Welsh Government and Policing in Wales to support delivery against the Wales Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV) strategy.

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          Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (TrACE)-Informed Organisation Toolkit: Implementation Readiness Review

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          Newport Conversations

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          ACE Conversations Map

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          Community of Practice (FINAL)

          *Brief description including numbers, organisations, etc.*

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          Monitoring and Evaluation

          This domain relates to an ongoing monitoring and evaluation process to support the embedding of TrACE approaches, using reflective practice as the underlying principle. Considering how to involve those who experience the organisation in this process is also important, inclusive of those who deliver the service as well as those who receive the service.

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          Service Design and Delivery

          This domain relates to ensuring trauma-informed principles are incorporated in all aspects of service delivery and that there is commitment to sustain this approach in things like funding strategies.

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          Physical Environment

          This domain relates to what the physical and social environments provide to promote safety and the provision of appropriate resources to achieve this. This is about more than one room being used as a calm space, it considers every space that is used from walking in the front door to the toilets and considers things like promotional materials displayed and accessibility requirements.

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          Workforce Training and Support

          This domain relates to ensuring knowledge and skills within the workforce, enabling trauma-informed principles to be embedded in an ongoing supportive, learning cycle that recognises the importance of the wellbeing and safety of the workforce as set out in the four practice levels.

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          Policies and Procedures

          This domain relates to how organisational policies and procedures demonstrate commitment to, and enable internal systems to, reflect the foundational values and principles of trauma-informed practice.

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          Governance and Leadership

          This domain relates to the overall support and investment in implementing and sustaining a trauma-informed approach.

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          Racial Trauma

          The Criminal Justice System are working with Public Health Wales to research and develop policy and practice around racial trauma. TrACE-informed approaches should create healing environments for those who have experienced racial trauma.

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          Racial Trauma Resources

          The Criminal Justice System are working with Public Health Wales to research and develop policy and practice around racial trauma.

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          Adversity and Trauma in the Narratives of Displaced German Children, 1945-2022

          Report

          ACE Hub Wales Annual Conference

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          Community of Practice

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          Trauma-informed Communication Guidance

          Guide

          Anti-Racist Wales: A Symposium to develop a collaborative Research Network

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          Supporting Victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence who have no recourse to Public Funds

          Report

          Substance Misuse TrACE Toolkit Evaluation Report

          Report

          Guidance for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice

          Guide

          Wales, a trauma-informed nation: Laying the foundations

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          Wales: Practical interventions that work

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          LEPH 2023 - Wales Resource Hub

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          Introducing the TrACE Toolkit into the Further Education Sector

          Report

          Trauma-Informed Communities: A Comparative Study of Welsh Models of Practice

          Report

          Trauma-informed Communities Report Launch Event

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          Trauma and ACEs Informed Higher Education in Wales Vision Paper

          Report

          Get Support

          If you are in immediate danger, dial 999.
          If you are concerned about the safety or well-being of a child call the Police on 999 or contact the NSPCC Helpline – 0808 800 5000.

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          All Wales Trauma-Informed Organisation Training

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          Hyb ACE Cymru Digwyddiad Ymgysylltu â Phartneriaid

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          ACE Hub Wales Partnership Engagement Event

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          Identifying Women’s Pathways to Offending and the Primary Prevention and Early Intervention Opportunities for Women at Risk of Offending in Wales

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          What Works in the Prevention and Early Intervention of ACEs at the Community Level? Identifying and Supporting Projects across Wales

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          #TimeToBeKind 2021 - Our Behaviour Change Campaign

          Life during the pandemic was a difficult time for everyone, especially for our young people, with many experiencing isolation, stress and anxiety. COVID-19 exacerbated the experience of children who are at risk of ACEs or are experiencing them in the home. Lack of access to school friends, teachers, social workers and the safe space and services that schools provide meant more children were unable to have their voices heard or access support/protective factors.

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          Trauma and ACE (TrACE) Informed Organisations Toolkit

          Supporting organisations to embed ACE Awareness and Trauma and ACE Informed Practice

          Guide

          A short guide to understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences and a Trauma and ACE (TrACE) informed approach

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          About ACEs and a trauma and ACEs-informed approach

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          Trauma-Informed Wales Framework

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          TrACE-Informed Organisations Toolkit

          Everyone has a role to play in Wales becoming a Trauma and ACE informed nation. The Trauma-Informed Wales Framework sets out an all age, all of society approach for people, communities, organisations, sectors and systems.

          The ACE Hub Wales Trauma and ACE (TrACE) Informed Organisations Toolkit provides a practical guide to support organisations to support them on their TrACE journey and is a key resource to support the implementation of the Framework.

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          ‘Trauma-informed’: Identifying Key Language and Terminology through a Review of the Literature

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          What Works to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) at the Community Level?

          An Evidence Review and Mapping Exercise

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          Our Impact

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          What we do

          The ACE Hub Wales, is part of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) in Public Health Wales and funded by the Welsh Government. The Hub was founded in 2017.

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          #TimeToBeKind - 2019

          With almost half the people in Wales having experienced an ACE during childhood, our objective was to start changing attitudes towards those who have experienced ACEs and create a more “ACE aware Wales” by encouraging people to be compassionate and understand that everyone can play a role in building resilience in children.

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          Discrimination and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the Lives of Child Refugees of the 1930s: Learning for the Present and the Future

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          Campaigns

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          Developing a Trauma-informed Practice Framework for Wales poster

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          Resources

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          Resources for professionals

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          Resources for community members

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          Support for Displaced People in Wales in Private Accommodation

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          Meet The Team

          The ACE Hub Wales team are passionate about the ACE agenda and supporting the nation to become ACE aware and trauma-informed in practice.

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          Health and Wellbeing Support for Displaced Peoples

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          Adversity, trauma and displaced people

          A short pre-recorded training resource delivered to those working with displaced people

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          An exploration of the trauma informed terminology and approaches being used by significant projects, programmes and interventions in Wales

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          Uncharted Territory Review

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          ACE Support Hub Annual Report 2020-21

          Report

          Independent evaluation of online training and recommendations for further training and embedding trauma sensitive approaches into the workplace

          Report

          Exploring the perspectives of providers of education and educational support services on their ability to meet the needs of sanctuary seeking primary school children in South Wales

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          Peer Abuse Fact Sheet

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          Domestic Abuse Fact Sheet

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          Forced Marriage Fact Sheet

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          Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Refugee Children in the 1930s in the UK

          A History Shaping the Future

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          Contact Us

          There are a range of ways to get in touch with the ACE Hub Wales. We’re on social media, or you can get in touch directly to our inbox using the form below.

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          Adverse Childhood Experiences in child refugee and asylum seeking populations

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          An evaluation of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)-informed School Approach in three secondary schools in Wales

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          ACEs & HMP Parc Prison

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          An ACE Aware Youth Workforce

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          ACE Awareness at Pobl

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          ACEs & Millbrook Primary School

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          ACEs & Samaritans Cymru

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          Michael & Peter – Young people just want to be listened to

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          Sophie Howe – Understanding ACEs and Spotting the Signs

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          Serena – Look at Yourself

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