In a card game, holding aces is an advantage. But in life, having too many aces can make a person miserable.
Those kind of ACEs go by the formal term of adverse childhood experiences. They were defined in a 1995-1997 study in San Diego, California conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic.
What the community can do to reduce those ACEs will be discussed in a free forum, the Children, Youth and Families Summit, from 8:30 a.m. to noon Thursday, Oct. 29 at the Heyde Center for the Arts, 3 S. High St., Chippewa Falls.
For Larry Winter, director of the Chippewa County Department of Human Services, finding ways to eliminate ACEs would get at the root problems troubling many adults seeking help from Human Services.
The ACEs include: physical, sexual or verbal abuse; physical and emotional neglect; a family member who is depressed or diagnosed with other mental illness, or is addicted to alcohol or another substance or is in prison; witnessing a parent being abused; and losing a parent to a separation, divorce or another reason.
[For more of this story, written by Rod Stetzer, go to http://chippewa.com/news/local...28-2284dbf5551d.html]
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