To hear pediatrician and activist Nadine Burke-Harris tell it, the movement to address the epidemic of childhood trauma has come a long way in the past two years.
“When I first started talked about this eight years ago, I would get into a room of a thousand people and I would ask how many folks had heard of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress,” Burke-Harris said at a conference last week organized by her organization, the San Francisco-based Center for Youth Wellness (CYW). “Three hands would go up.”
"But I’m happy to say that two weeks ago, at the White House, I asked the very same question and every single hand in the room went up.”
[For more of this story, written by Jeremy Loudenback, go to http://www.socialjusticesoluti...tions-aces-movement/]
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