How do we know if our families are experiencing hunger? We ask.

We can never assume our families have access to key services. We won't know if they are experiencing hunger or lack a stable and safe place to live unless we ask them. Preventing ACEs means assessing our families in order to help them gain access to the services that make a community family-friendly. The challenge is that we don't yet have the public health infrastructure to survey our families. We also don't have any state or local government institution committed to building the capacity of communities with the goal of making them trauma-free. This is the cross-sector and systemic work ahead in the next data-driven phase of ACEs prevention.