PACEs Science Champions

Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative , won a U.S. Supreme Court case banning mandatory life sentencing without parole for anyone age 17 or younger. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, a state that officially celebrates Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King, Jr., day together , the Harvard-trained lawyer has dedicated his life to serving the poor, the incarcerated, and children prosecuted as adults. Stevenson keynoted the final day of the 2016 Conference on Adverse Childhood...

Although it’s too soon to tell if integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) sciences is making a difference for the teens living at Home on the Range , a residential treatment center in Sentinel Butte, ND, it’s made a huge difference for the people who work there. They now understand that kids aren’t born bad. “ACEs has enlightened us,” says Mike Gooch, clinical program director for the center, which is located on a 1,600-acre...