ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

The California Endowment’s mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.

Led by founder and CEO Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, we are a health organization within a pediatric home that serves children and families in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco. We were created to respond to an urgent public health issue: early adversity harms the developing brains and bodies of children.

CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

Childhood trauma — abuse, neglect, domestic violence, mental illness — doesn’t come and go.  It stays.  And stays. If left unaddressed it can cause problems that affect the child.  Later, it can affect the adult that child becomes.

Dr. Ginsburg is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

This site provides information about my services to the community of people who wish to learn more about CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study or are implementing — or thinking of implementing — the ideas and concepts that the ACE Study brought to light.

We believe that advances in science provide a powerful source of new ideas focused on the early years of life. Founded in 2006, the Center catalyzes local, national, and international innovation in policy and practice focused on children and families

The Institute began its work in 2011 as the Community Resiliency Project in response to the town of Mount Vernon, Iowa, losing three teens to suicide within six months. Under the direction of Mollie Marti, a local psychologist and resilience researcher, the Project utilized the THRIVE Model of Resilience and developed evidence-based tools to help communities recover from trauma and develop positive norms of hope, help seeking, and wholeness.

Here you’ll find links to download and print the handouts you saw as samples while attending a screening of Paper Tigers sponsored by the Prevent Child Abuse America chapter in your state.