Cissy's note: Thanks to @Elizabeth Perry for flagging me and letting me know about this important YouTube video posted on April 6th via the ACE Interface Laura Porter channel which furthers this important discussion about the uses/misuses of ACEs scores. This topic is written about from a personal perspective by @Former Member here, yesterday, on ACEs Connection a piece entitled Erasing My ACEs which @Laura Porter commented upon.
I have found tremendous benefit from learning about ACEs science and sharing information about the ACEs study as a parent and survivor, and also in sharing information with other parents and survivors as a peer and layperson. I've benefited also when working with a functional medicine nurse practitioner as I wrote about here. But when I met with my nurse practitioner at the time it was me who was educating my provider about the ACEs study and her informing me about the way chronic stress and trauma in childhood might be impacting my adult health and what I might be able to do in response.
Sharing information about ACEs science with people in safe and peer settings is different than using ACE-scoring systems on people in medical, education, or social system settings where there are power differentials and dynamics, as well as discrimination, which can make doing so unsafe. But that does not mean that we can't empower ourselves and one another by understanding ACEs science, as well as the ACEs study, and making sure this important public health information is well understood by the public that we all are.
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