In the fall of 2012, The Huffington Post published Jane Ellen Stevens’s three-part overview on what Stevens claimed was “probably the most important public health study you never heard of.” Stevens, a seasoned health, science, and technology journalist, and now the founder and editor of the news site ACEs Too High, was writing about the CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experience Study—the ACE Study.
Stevens’s contributions to The Huffington Post bring the overwhelmingly compelling and often concerning research about adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress to popular, mainstream culture. It’s not unlike Paul Tough’s 2011 profile in The New Yorker on Dr. Nadine Burke’s efforts to rethink primary care for the young patients she sees in Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco by treating the effects of trauma and toxic stress to improve health outcomes. And it’s similar to the multi-part series of articles entitled “Tackling Toxic Stress” commissioned by the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University. These articles showcase policymakers, researchers and practitioners implementing new approaches and services for children and families based on the science of early childhood development and an understanding of the consequences of adverse early experiences and toxic stress.
[For more of this story, written by Rachel Maguire, go to http://www.iftf.org/future-now...g-caring-communities]
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