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The Health Committee of the Arizona House of Representatives has taken up two bills related to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the current legislative session. In addition to legislation to create an ACEs Study Committee (H.B. 2198), a second bill ( H.B. 2476 ) has been heard in the Health Committee that would require trauma-informed training for foster parents and employees of a child welfare agency who have direct contact with children place with the agency. The Department of Child...

Hello Everyone, Welcome to 2017 and the official kick-off of the Arizona ACEs in Action State Group! This is a big year for the Arizona ACE Consortium – our 10 year anniversary! It’s hard to believe that a decade has gone by since we officially launched what started as the Arizona ACE Think Tank and later turned into the Arizona Adverse Childhood Experiences Consortium! A lot has changed over these past 10 years. Originally the problem was finding any information on what individuals,...

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Not long after Marcia Stanton stumbled across the original article from the  CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Study , she heard a conference presentation by Dr. Vincent Felitti, one of the study’s co-authors. She invited Felitti to...

The leaders of the ACEs movement in Iowa, Wisconsin and Arizona shared the histories of how it all got started, the challenges along the way, and what the future holds in their respective states.  Martha Davis of the Robert Wood Johnson...

In 2010, I was asked to write an article for a parenting magazine regarding child abuse. My initial response was, "No way!" Having had a decent childhood myself and nearly ready to launch two kids of my own, I could not wrap my mind around writing...

More than 200 people will gather in the studios of the local PBS station in Phoenix next Tuesday to attend "Creating Safe Environments -- Advocacy, Prevention, and Support for Children in Arizona". And, if you're not one of those 200,...