A person who tosses thousands of beached starfish back into the ocean may provide the creatures with temporary relief, but doesn’t address the potentially hostile state of the environment.
That’s the analogy conference facilitator Tom Begich used to kick off the Mat-Su Valley Summit for Adverse Childhood Experiences Study at the Mat-Su Borough School District administration building on Friday.
More than 100 health professionals and community members in other relevant fields were invited to begin the process of becoming a “trauma-informed community” and hear the hard-and-fast facts about the correlation between adverse childhood experiences and future negative health outcomes, as determined by the ACE Study. ACES trainer and therapist Deb Haynes — also a psychology and human relations teacher at Wasilla High School — and Dr. Linda Chamberlain with the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services — a dog musher and epidemiologist — delivered a collaborative presentation on the study.
[For more of this story, written by Caitlin Skvorc, go to http://www.frontiersman.com/va...92-d7a5ddc1c10b.html]
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