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.

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 ...

When you think of your early years, what comes to mind? It might be things like diving into a fresh bowl of watermelon on a hot summer day, giggling as your parents pushed you on the swings at the ...

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 ...

After the success of a 2022 educational calendar, the Kandiyohi-Renville ACEs Coalition will continue to educate the public about adverse childhood experiences and how to move past them. As a way to ...

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

Our experiences as children can affect the way we feel and function throughout our lives. While early adversity or trauma can have lasting effects on our health and well-being, healing is possible — ...

Researchers say study shows childhood trauma is a lifelong battle. Oct. 6, 2009— -- While it may not come as a surprise that survivors of childhood traumas have more difficult lives, a new study ...

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 ...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and for that, New Mexico Living has been taking a closer look at all the resources available in the Duke City. CYFD Cabinet Secretary Brian Blalock discusses the ...

ACES are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains and lead to changing how they respond to stress and damaging their immune systems so profoundly that the effects show up ...