This toolkit is guided by Cardea’s work with La Clínica de la Raza and other community-based organizations we have supported to develop their roadmap to ACE integration. The toolkit serves as a technical assistance guide synthesizing learnings, perspectives, and ultimately, providing an enduring tool to support sustainability. This toolkit provides practical steps to assist community-based clinics and organizations to outline a strategy for thoughtful integration of ACE screening and treatment of toxic stress.
It is structured around the idea of a Roadmap and five guiding questions:
- Where are we going?
- For whom are we doing this?
- What do we need to get there?
- What is our destination?
- Are we there yet?
The toolkit will ask these questions with the aim of creating an equitable integration process that ensures community voice is included, the Social Determinants of Health and Equity are understood and acknowledged, and the integration remains sustainable.
