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Transforming Schools Through ACEs Awareness
What This Webinar Series Is About
Our webinar series is about transforming schools through ACEs awareness.
What We Are Doing
HCIS and EvaluACT are engaging with school districts across Southern California to share our experiences and lessons learned when screening, identifying, and treating for ACEs.
Why We Are Doing It
HCIS and EvaluACT have experienced, through school-based health care, the detrimental effects of hidden ACEs can have on a youth’s ability to thrive in our society. Thus, we are sharing our experiences in the hopes
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood. ACEs can include violence, abuse, and growing up in a family with mental health or substance use problems. Toxic stress from ACEs can change brain development and affect how the body responds to stress. ACEs are linked to chronic health problems, mental illness, and substance misuse in adulthood. However, ACEs can be prevented.
Preventing ACEs can help children and adults thrive and potentially:
- Lower risk for conditions like depression, asthma, cancer, and diabetes in adulthood.
- Reduce risky behaviors like smoking and heavy drinking.
- Improve education and employment potential.
- Stop ACEs from being passed from one generation to the next.
Preventing ACEs could reduce a large number of health conditions.
