Advancing the measurement of collective community capacity to address adverse childhood experiences and resilience

In 2012, the ACEs Public-Private Initiative (APPI), a Washington State consortium of public agencies, private foundations, and local networks, was formed to study interventions to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and facilitate statewide learning and dialogue on these topics...

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Published in:Children and youth services review 2017-05, Vol.76, p.142-153
Main Authors: Hargreaves, Margaret B., Verbitsky-Savitz, Natalya, Coffee-Borden, Brandon, Perreras, Lexie, White, Catherine Roller, Pecora, Peter J., Morgan, Geoffrey B., Barila, Theresa, Ervin, Andi, Case, Lyndie, Hunter, Renee, Adams, Kathy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adverse childhood experiences
Child abuse & neglect
Child maltreatment
Childhood experiences
Childhood factors
Community
Community assessment
Community capacity measurement
Community organization
Community organizations
Community support
Government agencies
Local area networks
Measurement
Polls & surveys
Resilience
Teams
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Summary:In 2012, the ACEs Public-Private Initiative (APPI), a Washington State consortium of public agencies, private foundations, and local networks, was formed to study interventions to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and facilitate statewide learning and dialogue on these topics. The evaluation team assessed the extent to which five community sites developed sufficient capacity to achieve their goals, and examined the relationship of the sites' capacity to selected site efforts and their impact on ACEs-related outcomes. To help accomplish that a survey was created to measure the APPI sites' collective community capacity to address ACEs and increase resilience in their communities. This article describes the development, design, implementation, and results of the APPI evaluation's ACEs and Resilience Collective Community Capacity (ARC3) survey. •Communities around the world are learning about and working to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).•We developed a survey to measure collective community capacity to address ACEs and increase resilience.•The ARC3 survey measures key aspects of community capacity-building and detects differences in capacity across communities.
ISSN:0190-7409
1873-7765
DOI:10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.02.021