What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

For children who have experienced trauma, trusting adults and navigating the classroom may be difficult, but there are simple ...

We know that experiences from our childhood, both good and bad, shape who we become as adults. But, understanding what kinds of early experiences have staying power into adulthood and the wide range ...

We should all care about our communities’ economic health as much as we care about our community’s physical health because they are inextricably linked,” Wil Franklin writes.

Researchers found that potentially traumatic childhood experiences, including physical abuse and parental separation, have lasting financial consequences, shaping workers' savings and retirement ...

This expert guide supports clinicians, educators, legal advocates, judges, and mental health professionals in effectively screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). It integrates ...

Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur before a child reaches the age of 15 with ...

Adverse experiences don't only happen at home. What about the things children face on the other side of the front door?

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data from multiple sources in the Census Bureau Data Linkage Infrastructure; authors’ analysis of events during 2017–21 among 23,000–930,000 people (ages 18–22) born during ...

Scientists have long known that people who have experienced adverse events in early childhood are more likely to face ...