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For my PHC 6534 grant proposal, I chose a topic that was near and dear to me. Having served on active duty in the military, I have been on my fair share of deployments to combat zones. I now work as a civilian for the military, in deployment and logistics, deploying others to those same combat zones. While I am familiar with the effects of PTSD, as I have seen it first hand, prior to this course, I was unaware of the correlation of ACEs scores to how someone might process combat stressors.

An ever-increasing number of studies show a correlation between the number of ACEs and devastating health and behavioral events later in life. To prevent these outcomes, we must prevent the occurrence of ACEs, which means directing prevention efforts at the parental level. An often-overlooked population is the military spouse community and the children of active-duty military members. With spouses who are often not co-located with their family and the transient life of forced moves every...