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Understanding ACEs promotes healing [ValleyJournal.net]

 

There’s a problem and we all have the solution.

According to The Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University, “When adults have opportunities to build the core skills that are needed to be productive participants in the workforce and to provide stable, responsive environments for the children in their care, our economy will be stronger, and the next generation of citizens, workers, and parents will thrive.”

Individuals, communities and the nation have within their grasp information that can improve childhood experiences, family relationships, community security, national student success rates and public health. 

A study of adverse childhood experiences (ACES) occurred at a Kaiser Health Facility in Los Angeles in the mid 1990s. Health professionals found that early trauma, especially recurring trauma and toxic stress, extending activation of the stress response system, predicted chronic health problems in adults by compromising immune systems, speeding up disease processes and aging.

To continue reading this article by Kathi Beeks, go to: http://www.valleyjournal.net/A...CEs-promotes-healing

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