Life expectancy is highly correlated with ACE scores and complex childhood trauma. Enter your address or zip code to know what the health outcomes are in your neighborhoods and communities. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Life Expectancy Calculator

At this time more formal policies are in the works. The school principal communicates, monitors, and upholds the values and policies that underscore a trauma-informed approach. Here are a few examples: -Hiring decisions are made based on relationship skills. Teaching credentials and skills are a minimum requirement, and staffing decisions are made based on how job candidates value and promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships with students. -Students (and adults, including parents) are...

Karen Clemmer, the Northwest community facilitator with ACEs Connection, was already deeply interested in the CDC/Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study when she and a colleague from the Child Parent Institute were invited to lunch by ACEs Connection founder and publisher Jane Stevens in 2012. But that lunch meeting changed everything. Karen Clemmer “Jane helped us see a bigger world,” says Clemmer. “She came with a much wider lens. She didn’t look only at Sonoma County, she...

The Continuous Data Collection & Quality Improvement workgroup (CQI) is exploring creation of voluntary partnership levels to help leadership manage communication and leverage the strengths of the collective. We are also expanding a pilot ‘data comparison’ project as a next step on the path to data sharing. This survey is to collect feedback on both of these initiatives. Please use the QR code in the attached image to access the survey, or click here . We appreciate your participation!

Awareness about health outcomes are as much about the long-term impact caused by adverse childhood experiences as they are by positive childhood experiences. By providing education on trauma-informed awareness and resilience building frameworks, the CRC Accelerator certification is a tool for both.