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.

For children who have experienced trauma, trusting adults and navigating the classroom may be difficult, but there are simple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers found that potentially traumatic childhood experiences, including physical abuse and parental separation, have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senators Dick Durbin and Shelley Moore Capito reintroduced the bipartisan RISE from Trauma Act to expand supports for ...