Profile Information
Location
Port Angeles, WA
Country
United States
Postal Code
98362
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Clinical Social Worker
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Currently working in private practice
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I first saw Vincent Felleti, MD talk about the ACE study here in Port Angeles at a meeting of Prevention Works! several years ago. As a long time mental health provider I knew the often severe impact of bad things happening to children on their emotional well being and their ability growing up to become successful adults. My first thoughts while hearing Felleti were that maybe now legislators would understand how expensive it is to NOT put monies into prevention of child abuse and neglect which contribute to mental and behavioral health disorders which were more controversial conditions (and with treatment minimally funded) then physical health problems like those looked at in the ACE study.