A new report produced in partnership with Casey Family Programs illuminates the importance of HOPE—Health Outcomes of Positive Experiences, a framework that studies and promotes positive child and family well-being. Balancing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with HOPE presents newly-released, compelling data that reinforces the need and opportunity to support families and communities in the cultivation of relationships and environments that promote healthy childhood development. It also...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is running a special report called "A Time to Heal." This exhaustive series begins with tracing the significant economic issues that have hit "rust belt" cities like Milwaukee (the third-most impoverished big city in the U.S.) and imposed significant social and economic decline. The articles trace how researchers are now exploring why some people who are exposed to childhood trauma emerge undefeated—and whether their resilience can be coaxed out of others and...

Susan Dreyfus, president and CEO of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, prepared this blog post on a recent journal article on ACEs co-authored by Jennifer Jones of the Alliance. The compelling issue of how race and income are related to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) was examined in a recent article published in Health & Social Work , a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, co-authored by Jennifer Jones of the Alliance for Strong Families and...

The Chronicle of Social Change recently ran an article on the increasing efforts in the child welfare field to realize findings from neurosciences into practice. The article offers details from a recent Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University report and a policy document created by the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities to steer the development of policies that take into account the latest brain science. Access the Chronicle of Social Change article .