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While the impact of maltreatment on a child and their family is devastating, child maltreatment also has serious effects far beyond those for the victim. Maltreatment results in ongoing costs to taxpayers, institutions, businesses, and society at large. Local communities bear the brunt of these costs in the form of medical, educational, and judicial costs, though more tragic signs are seen in homelessness, addiction, and teen pregnancy. To create a concrete understanding of the widespread...

Genentech is excited to launch a new philanthropic initiative, The Resilience Effect , to address childhood adversity and its long-term effects on health. For more than 40 years, our company has pursued groundbreaking science to improve the lives of people facing serious and life-threatening diseases. That’s why, when we learned about the emerging science behind the effects of toxic stress and the connection between early adverse childhood experiences and diseases later in life, we knew we...

As a pediatrician at the South San Francisco Clinic, a community clinic of San Mateo Medical Center, I am very happy to hear about this effort as well as Genentech's support for STEM education in South San Francisco. In response to the wealth of medical literature pinpointing childhood adversity as the major determinant of lifelong physical and mental health, we at South San Francisco Clinic have integrated screening for adversity into pediatric primary care. We talk with families about the...