Another city (Memphis) does its own ACE survey. (You have to subscribe to the Commercial Appeal to read the entire story.) For the survey results, go to the ACEs Task Force of Shelby County site. The key findings are:
- 52 percent of adults in Shelby County report having experienced at least one ACE.
- Individuals reporting four or more ACEs have heightened risk for negative adult social and health outcomes.
- The most prevalent ACEs in Shelby County are substance abuse, emotional abuse, and violence between adults in the home.
- Shelby County has higher prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and violence between adults in the home than the state and the nation.
Armed with potent new evidence that many of Memphis’ greatest problems are traceable to fractured childhoods, local leaders on Thursday unveiled details of two soon-to-open centers where families will get help in shielding kids from the kind of traumatic experiences that can cause lifelong harm.
The Universal Parenting Places, as the centers are called, will open in Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women and at Knowledge Quest, a nonprofit facility in South Memphis, in March and April. The facilities, funded at least initially by charitable foundations, anchor an initiative by a new task force that seeks to reset the way the community addresses problems ranging from obesity to substance abuse to violent crime.
“We’re here for nothing less than a revolution,” Robin Karr-Morse, a consultant for the ACE Center Task Force of Shelby County, told an audience of some 300 people drawn to the Kroc Center for a forum on adverse childhood experiences, the term behind the acronym in the group’s name.
[For more of this story, written by Tom Charlier, go to http://www.commercialappeal.co...urvey-finds_42958945]
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