Food insecurity is a major public health challenge associated with developmental and health risks for both children and adults. The connection between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and ...

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 ...

There’s no doubt that the pandemic has been traumatic for children and adults alike. District and school staff member must remain especially diligent in being aware of and implementing strategies that ...

Researchers conducted a qualitative evaluation in five clinics in Los Angeles County to understand physician and clinical staff perspectives on the implementation of routine Adverse Childhood ...

Awareness is spreading about trauma-informed care, a framework that has helped educators and other professionals understand the children they work with as well as the behavior they exhibit. That's ...

Credit: Getty Images Adverse childhood experiences are not diagnoses, but risk factors for negative health outcomes later in life. Trauma-related terms like adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), ...

I recently had an interesting discussion with a scholar who is conducting her dissertation research on how trauma-informed approaches in social services are shifting urban policies. She contacted me ...

Science has a pernicious history of doing violence to communities of color. Examples abound: Consider the infamous Tuskegee study in which the U.S. Public Health Service spent decades withholding ...

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 ...