What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

A landmark study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Keiser Permanente investigated the effects of child abuse and related adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as a public health problem over ...

In the mid-1990s, the concept of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) was introduced through a study conducted by Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This study was ...

Join Rockford Public Library’s free trauma film series starting Jan. 13. Explore ACEs, resilience, and recovery through June.

Schools should be ideal places for children who have faced trauma to process their experiences. Yet too often, school systems ...

In California, where I live and work as a sex and intimacy disorders specialist, there is a movement for mandatory adverse childhood experiences (ACES) assessment in all public and private medical and ...

I was recently working with a young mother who struggled with depression and anxiety in the difficult year following the birth of her child. In addition to managing the herculean task of adjusting to ...

The research is clear that childhood adversity and trauma can have immediate and long-term negative health and economic impacts that persist across generations. Ohioans of color and Ohioans with low ...

Mental health continues to dominate the conversation when it comes to community health. Local educators are learning a new method of training for addressing student mental health. Staff from Regis ...

LAS CRUCES - Las Cruces City Councilor Kasandra Gandara has one big request for her partners in a new effort to tackle childhood trauma in Las Cruces and Doña Ana County: Ask every person they serve ...

Fred Rogers, the beloved television personality of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," gave such a moment of contemplation to the graduating class of Dartmouth University during a commencement speech 16 years ...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACES) harm children's developing brains and lead to long term physical and emotional health issues. While we can’t go back and undo early trauma, we can intervene using ...