"The Born This Way Foundation is opening doors for many youth to have the full life they are born to live. Many youth experience events in their early life, through no choice of their own, which can be deeply stressful to a developing mind and brain -- both highly sensitive to beneficial and detrimental influences.
"ACEs are "adverse childhood experiences" that can usher in a lifetime of misfortune -- and frequently then pass troubles on to succeeding generations. These are events beyond a young person's control....
"The Born This Way Foundation, and its message to be brave and to be kind, is not daunted by challenges of this magnitude. Lady Gaga and Cynthia Germanotta, co-founders of the Foundation and daughter and mother, recognize social-emotional development as a crucial building block in the lives of youth, and have made this and what impacts it, negatively and positively, a focus of their work...."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lloyd-i-sederer-md/adverse-childhood-experiences_b_4256732.html
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