In this video, Nadine Burke Harris, ceo and founder for the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco, says that ACEs and toxic stress is the next massive public health threat.
Thanks to the advances of the last century, we’ve been able to keep a lot of major public health threats at bay, so now it’s time for us as a scientific community to move on to addressing the next massive public health threat, which really is this issue of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress."
About ACEs
Traumatic childhood events like abuse and neglect can create dangerous levels of stress and derail healthy brain development, resulting in long-term effects on learning, behavior and health. A growing network of leaders in research, policy and practice are leading the way in preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and mitigating their impact by building resilience. Learn more about growing efforts to prevent ACEs across the country