Making the Connection Toolkit
The Making the Connection Toolkit provides interactive modules that reveal the connection between ACEs, toxic stress, brain development, and youth substance use. The toolkit helps educators engage youth with realistic examples, current science, and engaging activities to help youth make personal connections to the material while building resilience and coping skills. This toolkit is intended for parents and adults to present to the youth they work with, mentor, or care for.
Module 1
Making the Connection: Toxic Stress, Teen Brains, and Building Resilience
Module 2
ACEs, Toxic Stress, & Adversity
Module 3
Teen Brain Development
Module 4
When Coping Costs: Adaptations with a Downside
Module 5
Costs of Early Use: Marijuana & Cannabis Products
Module 6
Vaping, E-cigs, and Marijuana
Module 7
Revealing Resilience
Module 8
Building Community: Resilience & Trauma-Informed Systems (For Adult Audiences)
Module 9
Activity: Mapping Your Resilience
Module 10
Why Is It So Hard?!: Parenting After ACEs
Module 11
Build: Self Care for Parents
Module 12
Re-Routing Mindsets: Turning Survival Skills Toward Resilience
Module 13
Activity: Repeat to Get Real
Module 14
Bounce: Self Care for Youth
Module 15
Communicating with a Trauma Lens
Module 16
Balance: Self Care for Professionals
NEW Youth-Led Module
Module 17a
Understanding the Connection between vaping and health
