Children and Adversity: Childhood Homelessness Can Cast a Long Shadow

ACEsConnection member Laura Porter is featured.

"By Perry Firth, Graduate Student, Seattle University Community Counseling, and Project Assistant, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness"

"Over the past decade, data has emerged showing that our childhoods affect us more than previously thought. Not only do they affect our adult mental health, but they can also lay the groundwork for our long-term physical health. It’s all part of a fascinating framework called Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs. This may have staggering implications for children who experience homelessness...."

http://firesteelwa.org/blog/open/title/children-and-adversity-childhood-homelessness-can-cast-a-long-shadow