In 1854, London physician John Snow traced a cholera epidemic to a tainted water pump and launched a revolution in the understanding of health and illness.
A hundred and sixty years later, a similar revolution is under way, a ground-shift in the way we think about health and illness, human suffering and strength. It is a revolution with the potential to reshape physical and mental health care practices, schools, social services, juvenile justice systems, communities, families and individual lives.
That was the passionate consensus at the National Summit on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), held May 13 and 14 in Philadelphia, which drew nearly 200 physicians, nurses, researchers, policy makers and child advocates to share expertise, compare notes and envision a world in which the crucial question to ask of someone suffering physically or emotionally would be not “What’s wrong with you?” but “What happened to you?”
Read the rest of this post by ISF director Martha Davis, and download the presentations at:
http://www.instituteforsafefamilies.org/latest-updates-summit
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