Family support professionals can use ACEs to promote awareness that parents play a role in both the transfer and prevention of ACEs from generation to generation. Lemonade for Life has been developed for use with family support professionals and other helping professionals to:
1) increase understanding of their role in using ACEs with families
2) increase comfort with engaging families on sensitive topics raised by the ACEs questionnaire
3) help foster resilience and hope
4) prevent future exposure to ACEs for the next generation
Anticipated Outcomes of Lemonade for Life
Family support workers are empowered to use ACEs as a tool in their work with families
Parents have tools to understand why things in their life might be so hard
As a result of their adversity, parents feel more hopeful to make a difference in their children’s lives
Parents feel empowered to prevent recurrence of ACEs.
Engagement in services increases, attrition decreases, and program completion increases