This blog post by SAMHSA's Paolo del Vecchio provides a good overview of the department's prevention programs. The focus is on mental illness but much of what he says applies to the prevention of ACEs.
There is truth in the old adage that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Mental illnesses result in major costs to society from lost productivity to lost lives. Even if we do not yet have a “vaccine” type of preventive intervention for serious mental illnesses, we can help reduce symptoms and disabling impacts if intervention occurs early. It behooves us to take advantage of the promise that prevention brings.
http://blog.samhsa.gov/2014/05/28/the-power-of-prevention/#.U4za-l5aRn-
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