New ACEsConnection member Barb Boose co-wrote this great feature story about ACEs for Des Moines University. Nadine Burke
Harris and Suzanne Mineck are quoted, and details of the Iowa ACEs Study are provided.
“Each of us knows someone who’s been affected by adverse childhood experiences. They clearly affect almost every social, economic and health issue in society,” says Suzanne Mineck, president of the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation, which commissioned a study on ACEs in Iowa that was released last October. “It’s not just a dotted line; it’s a direct link to chronic disease and many other issues.”
Given the direct tie between ACEs and poor health outcomes and the high cost of those outcomes, what can we do to prevent and counter them? How can we help not only the children in abusive or dysfunctional situations, but also the adults around them? What will be the costs of addressing ACEs?
More important, what will be the costs if we don’t?
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