Robert Anda

Senior Scientific Consultant, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Co-Principal Investigator of the ACE Study

“The people affected by ACEs, who outnumber the people who are unaffected by ACEs, can become a social movement that can drive people in different service sectors to make a difference in the way they treat and interact with people who are affected by adversity.”

Sandy Bloom

Associate Professor at Drexel University School of Public Health, Co-Founder of the Sanctuary Institute and Co-Leader of the Philadelphia ACES Task Force

The Philadelphia ACEs Task Force discovered that 37 percent of those they surveyed had experienced 4 or more ACEs, whereas 12.5 percent had in the national study released in 1998.

Nadine Burke Harris

CEO/Founder for the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco

The scientific community extended the life expectancy of those infected with HIV by not accepting the inevitability of a death sentence and understanding what was happening, so they could intervene. Burke Harris says the same revolutionary shift is happening with the prevention and treatment of ACEs.

Martha Davis

Executive Director of the Institute for Safe Families

“We're going to change the world. Together we're creating a revolution. It’s based in science, it’s founded in data, and it’s based on people’s joint commitments to do something better for families.”

Susan Dreyfus

President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Alliance for Children and Families

“Our first inclination in human services is always to think, ‘What new program, what new service do we need?’ Not, ‘How do we, through rigor and science, align new and developing science to our practice and policy?’"

Andrew Garner

Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Early Brain and Child Development Leadership Workgroup and Pediatrician at Partners in Pediatrics

“We have a much better chance of success,” if we have a “common message regarding prevention, integrated services for interventions” and if we share knowledge about “who’s doing evidence-based treatments in the community.”

Ken Ginsburg

Medical Director of Covenant House Pennsylvania and Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

“When kids learn how to recover from the past, they can raise the next generation who won’t experience traumas in the first place.”

Jane Isaacs Lowe

RWJF Senior Program Adviser for Program Development

“Even when people score high on ACEs, it doesn’t mean that this is determinative of their life course. What doesn’t get accounted for in the ACE score is the concept of resilience; building resilience is a solution to the adverse childhood experiences.”

Jane Stevens

Founder, ACEsTooHigh.com and ACESConnection.com

Jane believes in the power of storytelling to increase awareness and understanding of ACEs. “When someone says, ‘Let me give you some data,’ you say, ‘Well yeah, okay, tell me.’ When someone tells you a story, you want to lean forward, you want to listen.”