COA Awareness Week - Emphasizing the Continued Need to Address the Needs of the Children

Thank you, Mary Beth! 

I am deeply grateful for people who made a difference in my life as an ACA — in childhood and “adult childhood.” NACoA and Sis Winger have played a mission-critical role, and, in fact, introduced the ACEs Study to me shortly after Sis became aware of it. Your work is invaluable and appreciated, and inspired me on pathway to more conscious parenting. My kids grew up in a saner and more loving home thanks to NACoA. I loved sharing your materials in treatment centers as I did volunteer work. Thank you for your service —  you, Sis, Gail, all who have worked to remind government, faith communities, treatment centers, the medical community, educators, and researchers to remember the children, and to give voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. Most important? Thanks for the constant reminder that one caring adult CAN make all the difference in the life of a child who does not know he or she didn’t cause family addiction and/or abuse, and that they cannot control it or cure it.