Our state is poised to take a vital leadership role. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been part of a national dialogue for over 20 years, since Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted their ground-breaking study in the 1990s.
While this public awareness has been important to our understanding of the social and economic consequences of ACEs, and we are making great strides in responses to the crisis, we still have yet to translate that effort into preventative action.
Now, we in New Mexico have an opportunity to become a national leader in data-driven, holistically structured, community-focused action aimed directly at combatting the sources of ACEs, rather than responding to them once they have occurred.
Senate Bill 370 would establish the Anna Age Eight Institute at Northern New Mexico College for the study and prevention of childhood and family trauma. The institute gets its name from the book by Dr. Katherine Ortega Courtney and Mr. Dominic Cappello, who will serve as the institute’s leaders.
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