Photo of Nadine Burke Harris by Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle
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Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, pediatrician and CEO of the Center For Youth Wellness, and Dr. Melissa Merrick, behavioral scientist at CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and lead scientist on the ACE Study, will present at a session on today titled “Improving Children’s Chances by Combating Early Trauma" at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) meeting in Boston (August 6-9).
The NCSL website says that “more than 6,000 state legislators, legislative staff, federal officials and others from across the country and world will attend a wide range of policy sessions spanning autonomous vehicles to immigration, elections technology, cybersecurity, redistricting, marijuana, infrastructure funding, drones, bail reform, police/community relations, fixing health care, opioid abuse and much more.”
The summary of the session with Harris and Merrick reads:
Advances in science show how traumatic or adverse experiences in early childhood can affect a person’s long-term health and well-being, educational achievement and economic productivity. This can be costly to states, in terms of health care, education and human services. Learn how adverse childhood experiences affect brain development and think through policy options and strategies in this interactive session.
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