{"id":47766,"date":"2018-02-07T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/?p=47766\/"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:12:39","slug":"merging-brain-science-and-trauma-informed-care-at-boyle-mccauley-health-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/fr\/merging-brain-science-and-trauma-informed-care-at-boyle-mccauley-health-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Merging Brain Science and Trauma Informed Care at Boyle McCauley Health Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row padding_top=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb padding_bottom=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\u00a0\u00bbMerging Brain Science and Trauma Informed Care at Boyle McCauley Health Centre\u00a0\u00bb font_container=\u00a0\u00bbtag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23000000&Prime; use_theme_fonts=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-82318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BMHC-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BMHC-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BMHC-672x504.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BMHC-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BMHC.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Experimentation, evaluation, and science-informed policy. That\u2019s the approach that the 3-year coalition called <em>Change in Mind<\/em> is taking to accelerate and infuse brain science into the work of community-based agencies and to align existing policies and systems with the latest neuroscientific discoveries. Dr. Mosaico, one of our family doctors at Boyle McCauley Health Centre (BMHC)\u00a0 in Edmonton, Alberta, started using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/violenceprevention\/acestudy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)<\/a> survey to therapeutically engage with his clients after he learned about the impact of early toxic stress on later health outcomes. He learned that the link between toxic stress in childhood and a higher burden of disease later in life has been scientifically proven, and that the implication for society and government systems is clear. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We need to prevent toxic stress in childhood, and we need to find ways to use that science in medical practice for both adults and children. Dr. Mosaico firmly believes that medical schools should be teaching students to understand more about people\u2019s early experiences of toxic stress and that we should regard this information as important as hand-washing in every clinical setting.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmhc.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Health Centre<\/a>, we work mostly with adults who come to us with highly complex physical, social, cultural, and psychological barriers to health and resilience. Over time, many of our patients have built up long, individual histories of chronic homelessness, substance use disorders, and a variety of serious physical and mental illnesses due to repeated and long-term traumatic experiences that often start in childhood. It\u2019s not always easy for them to feel comfortable asking for the help they need or to even feel welcome in mainstream health clinics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our staff are trained to understand the effects of trauma and work to limit the amount of re-traumatization that might occur during a medical or other health program visit. While this explains quite a bit about what we do at BMHC, when it comes to advocating for this population, it is still difficult to explain why multiple resources (and lots of patience!) are often needed to help our clients to progress. In order to advance the ball in terms of developing better frontline practices, sharing with the community, and improving policy we, as a country, need to start looking at ACEs and resilience together and talking about how to use it in ways that help children and adult patients get more of the care they need.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47780 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/change-in-mind-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/change-in-mind-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/change-in-mind-768x304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/change-in-mind-100x40.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/change-in-mind.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our involvement in the <a href=\"http:\/\/alliance1.org\/change-in-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Change in Mind Initiative<\/a> has been a two-and-a-half year whirlwind of learning, prototyping, testing, collecting data, training ourselves and each other, and slowly reshaping our day to day work so that it is informed by the latest science. We have learned new things. And, we have learned some language that helps us explain the old things we already knew. We have been able to take our tacit knowledge about trauma-informed care and make it more explicit. Learning through rapid testing and other developmental evaluation tools has produced a merging of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertafamilywellness.org\/resources\/video\/brain-architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brain science<\/a> and trauma-informed care at our CHC. This process is not over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are still days when we know that some people are uncomfortable about us asking ACEs questions. But that\u2019s OK. It\u2019s not a matter of brain science versus trauma-informed care. We have learned that we can lean in towards brain science, or trauma-informed care, or both. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here are some things we\u2019ve done and lessons learned through our work with the Change in Mind Initiative:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">How to do ACEs surveys using a trauma informed approach<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We asked each team and program at the BMHC to make a plan to complete 5 ACEs surveys with clients and to tell us how it went. At this point staff had a lot of information about how childhood experiences influence health outcomes, and that resilience plays an important role in the relationship between staff and clients. Over the course of 3 months, we answered questions, provided support, and then held group interviews with each of team to ask what went well, and what didn\u2019t. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As you might guess, successfully administering an ACEs survey had a lot to do with setting the context of an ACEs survey into the staff-client relationship. Here are the three major themes that came out of our group interviews with staff: <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Staff need training and access to learning materials about ACEs and resilience. They also need significant exposure to trauma-informed practice. Once they have some idea of how they will need to approach patients about ACEs, they still need flexibility around when and where to introduce the ACEs survey. They will need enough time (30 minutes on average) and a space where the client can feel at ease learning about ACEs and completing the survey. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once the context is explained to the client about how early experiences can shape current health, some clients may ask to be able to do the survey outright, while some express a need for\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47877 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/You-Are-Resilient-203x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/You-Are-Resilient-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/You-Are-Resilient-100x148.png 100w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/You-Are-Resilient.png 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>varying degrees of anonymity or support. For example, one client chose to read the survey and just state what their overall score was without actually sharing which ACEs they experienced in childhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once the conversation is started, and the client has begun to share their score, there is an opportunity for staff to continue to build on client strengths by re-framing ACEs and talking about what makes that person resilient. Being able to shift back and forth between ACEs and resilience takes a well-developed therapeutic skill set and sensitivity to the client&rsquo;s shifting needs in the moment. The result for clients and staff turns out to be worth the investment. As one staff put it, \u201c\u2026she [the client] couldn\u2019t understand why she can\u2019t get anything good happening for her. We used this survey and it really helped her to know that it isn\u2019t all her fault.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Staff training and orientation<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Staff training and orientation on ACEs and resilience is now available to all our staff and volunteers. At first, staff were pretty leery about asking patients direct questions about ACEs.\u00a0 Staff at the BMHC have always worked from a trauma-informed perspective \u2013 meaning that they take the risk of re-traumatizing patients very seriously and do what they can to avoid opening up deep emotional wounds and psychologically re-injuring people. To get to the point where staff are more comfortable with this new survey, we enlisted staff to develop training for other staff.\u00a0 We played the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.thebrainarchitecturegame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brain Architecture Game<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5434104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watched videos<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, and shared insights and resources.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We tracked some of the effects of staff training by asking them how knowledgeable they felt before and after doing the training.\u00a0By doing the training, sharing information, and focusing on a<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resilienceresearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scientifically backed definition of resilience<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, staff started feeling more confident about trying to do an ACEs survey with select clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77658\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77658\" class=\"wp-image-77658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-staff-survey-re-ACEs-300x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-staff-survey-re-ACEs-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-staff-survey-re-ACEs-100x77.png 100w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-staff-survey-re-ACEs.png 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BMHC staff survey, 2015-16<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the positive spin offs of this is the development of relationships with clients.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For example, Dr. Mosaico notes that some clients who did not want to see a psychiatrist before learning about ACEs and doing the ACEs survey are now attending visits to the psychiatrist in addition to their regular primary care provider visits at the clinic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Collected ACEs and health data<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We originally looked at the distribution of 65 patients\u2019 ACE scores that were collected by Dr. Mosaico when he was developing a therapeutic method of incorporating the ACEs survey into his practice. We compared those 65 ACE scores to the distribution of a<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foothillsnetwork.ca\/files\/file\/2015-06jun-10-sheila-mcdonald-and-suzanne-tough-ab-ace-presentat.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">general population\u2019s ACEs in Alberta<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This enabled us to help give people a deeper understanding of the degree of health disparity our patients\u2019 usually experience.\u00a0We can now provide this comparative data for more than 130 clients. This works for us because the pattern in our data is so strikingly different from the general population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77662\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77662\" class=\"wp-image-77662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-clients-ACE-scores-300x138.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-clients-ACE-scores-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-clients-ACE-scores-100x46.png 100w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-clients-ACE-scores.png 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ACE Scores, BMHC Clients (n=132)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The bulk of the general population has scores of 3 and under. The bulk of our patients have scores of 4 and up. When we display this in a chart, people are often astonished at the sight of two completely opposite bar graphs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Looking at our data set in depth, and teasing out the health problems of our clients with the highest ACEs has also been a great tool in helping the public, policymakers and various partners understand our work.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It has also helped our staff to understand the histories of their clients and to frame stories about patients who have some of the most traumatic childhoods and the resilience and progress that has shown up in their lives both before and after becoming a patient at the BMHC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Looking Forward<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since we started this journey, the\u00a0number of ACEs surveys completed at BMHC has more than doubled and the trend remains unchanged.\u00a0 We know that our clients have borne a tremendous burden of toxic stress in their childhoods compared to the general population. We know that this contributes to their individual complex health challenges today and this will continue into their futures.\u00a0 But we need others to know this as well.\u00a0 We need programs and policies to be informed by the effects of early toxic stress. We need other organizations to learn the language of toxic stress and resilience. And, we need more people to join in the innovation and discovery of how to get the science into our practices.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77667\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77667\" class=\"wp-image-77667 size-medium\" style=\"color: #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-Mental-Health-clients-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-Mental-Health-clients-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-Mental-Health-clients-100x59.png 100w, https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BMHC-Mental-Health-clients.png 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prevalence of mental disorders, BMHC clients compared to Canadian average<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dedicating ourselves to truly understanding the nuances of resilience, ACEs and the effects of toxic stress on brain development brings new knowledge and new vocabulary to our understanding of health for the whole person and, in some cases, whole communities. It has the potential to help us communicate across boundaries, not only in the health care system, but across other systems as well \u2013 justice, education, children and families\u2019 services, to name a few. This is something that Community Health Centres are already doing, as multi-sector organizations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We imagine a system of health care where health researchers, physicians, nurses, administrators and others all understand the role of ACEs in preventing disease for future generations; grasping the role of resilience in stabilizing and maintaining relationships with clients to slow or reverse the impact of childhood exposure to toxic stress.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/95ovIJ3dsNk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The science is in on this<\/a>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We know that lasting issues like poverty, lack of affordable housing, food insecurity, social isolation, family and neighborhood violence, and sexual abuse will lead to bad physical and mental health outcomes.\u00a0 We need members from all corners of the health system to take up a call to action. We need to reduce toxic stress wherever we can find it in our communities so that we can see reduced suffering and lowered economic costs later. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You don\u2019t have to wait for others to act.\u00a0 You can start now by accessing the<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertafamilywellness.org\/training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alberta Family Wellness Initiative<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">They have created a comprehensive, free online course that can be used for professional development credits across many disciplines.\u00a0 Some of our staff have taken the course and have learned a lot. We think everyone in the health and social service sectors should take it and think about how to change our communication and practices to address toxic stress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row padding_top=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb padding_bottom=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\u00a0\u00bbMerging Brain Science and Trauma Informed Care at Boyle McCauley Health Centre\u00a0\u00bb font_container=\u00a0\u00bbtag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23000000&Prime; use_theme_fonts=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column_text] Experimentation, evaluation, and science-informed policy. That\u2019s the approach that the 3-year coalition called Change in Mind is taking to accelerate and infuse brain science into the work of community-based agencies and to align existing policies and systems with the latest neuroscientific discoveries. 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