Child well-being depends on safe, nurturing, stable environments that help kids develop sound cognitive and emotional skills and a robust sense of their own identity. Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are defined broadly as incidents during childhood that threaten to dramatically upset these environments.
A growing body of research has established the link between adverse childhood experiences and a host of health problems and risk behaviors in adulthood. Join us Monday, June 11, 2012 for the Iowa ACEs Summit to learn about these often overlooked root causes of adult disease and disability and innovative solutions for reversing Iowa's trends.
Click here to access a template to complete on your local ACEs efforts.
For more information on ACEs, check at the following documents:
- Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Role of the Pediatrician (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Children’s Emotional Development Is Built into the Architecture of Their Brains (National Scientific Council on the Developing Child)
- Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain (National Scientific Council on the Developing Child)