Nearly one in three Rochester-area children have had at least one traumatic experience that threatens to harm their health, emotions and grades, according to new data released Thursday by Monroe County.
The 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey captures growing concern over traumatic stress as measured in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) such as living with violent or addicted adults, lacking money for food or being physically or sexually assaulted. National and local research shows that the more of those experiences a child has, the worse their outcomes will be in a variety of future indicators.
The way to combat that surge of toxic stress — in addition removing the stressors themselves — is to build a child's resiliency to it. There, too, the local data shows promising returns.
[For more on this story by Justin Murphy, go to https://www.democratandchronic...rochester/316410002/]
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