NH Voices: Ardis Olson -- Dealing with ACEs an urgent need in NH [unionleader.com]

This is actually an urgent question for New Hampshire, as a state, to respond to, as a recent survey of New Hampshire adults found that those who had experienced early adversity are in poorer physical and mental health than their peers who did not experience adversity.

This survey of Adverse Childhood Experiences, or “ACEs”, asked New Hampshire adults whether they, as children, experienced conditions that have been shown to negatively affect both short- and long-term health and social outcomes. These ACEs include witnessing or experiencing physical violence, living with an adult with a substance use problem or a mental health issue, and other factors that disrupt stability in the parent-child relationship. Nearly half of adults in New Hampshire report having experienced one or more ACEs.