Ace is a three-letter word usually indicating greatness or excellence.
But when those same letters stand as an acronym for “adverse childhood experiences,” it loses that luster – and can lead to mental, physical and social problems later in life.
It’s also the reason behaviorist Robert Anda is coming to Hanna Boys Center this week to shed light on how traumatic events in a child’s life threaten not only their health, but the public’s health in general.
Anda will present a public seminar titled “Building Self-Healing Communities” at Hanna Boys Center on Sept 22. Anda makes a fitting speaker at Hanna Boys Center, where many of its youth residents come from troubled homes and have experienced more than their share of childhood adversity. Anda was one of the principal investigators of the ACE Study, an ongoing investigation, launched in 1995, into the progress of 17,000 sufferers of childhood trauma, according to the CDC’s webpage on adverse childhood experiences.
[For more of this story, written by Pio Valenzuela, go to http://www.sonomanews.com/life...#Ze50JEcTefSzj5qp.97]
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