Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) contribute to shorter, less healthy, and less productive lives. ACEs result from growing up in households with addiction, mental illness, abuse, or loss, all of which expose children to chronic toxic stress, and produce measurable structural changes in children’s developing brains that last a lifetime. These changes, which include an overdeveloped stress response system that impairs learning and planning and results in underdeveloped self-regulatory systems, impact performance in the workplace, especially in institutions of higher education. ACEs in East Tennessee and at ETSU are higher than the national average. About 1 in 4 East Tennesseeans have 3+ ACEs. To help mitigate the local impact of ACEs, 20 ETSU faculty and associates from 11 academic departments and all 8 academic colleges have collaborated to form the Strong BRAIN (Building Resilience through ACEs-Informed Networking) Institute. Among other objectives, the Strong BRAIN Institute (SBI) strives to collaborate with ETSU administration to transform institutional culture through prioritizing and implementing Resilience-Informed practices and procedures, including the establishment of rampant psychological safety, radical transparency, and brutal authenticity. The SBI hopes to position ETSU as a national model for providing Resilience-informed higher education.
Date
October 2020
Subject
Industrial and organizational psychology
Document Type
posters
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Introduction of the ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) contribute to shorter, less healthy, and less productive lives. ACEs result from growing up in households with addiction, mental illness, abuse, or loss, all of which expose children to chronic toxic stress, and produce measurable structural changes in children’s developing brains that last a lifetime. These changes, which include an overdeveloped stress response system that impairs learning and planning and results in underdeveloped self-regulatory systems, impact performance in the workplace, especially in institutions of higher education. ACEs in East Tennessee and at ETSU are higher than the national average. About 1 in 4 East Tennesseeans have 3+ ACEs. To help mitigate the local impact of ACEs, 20 ETSU faculty and associates from 11 academic departments and all 8 academic colleges have collaborated to form the Strong BRAIN (Building Resilience through ACEs-Informed Networking) Institute. Among other objectives, the Strong BRAIN Institute (SBI) strives to collaborate with ETSU administration to transform institutional culture through prioritizing and implementing Resilience-Informed practices and procedures, including the establishment of rampant psychological safety, radical transparency, and brutal authenticity. The SBI hopes to position ETSU as a national model for providing Resilience-informed higher education.
Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology