Adverse experiences in childhood constitute “the single greatest public health threat facing the nation today,” said renowned pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris. The founder and CEO of San Francisco’s Center for Youth Wellness was in Seattle on Friday, May 15, to speak at an event hosted by THRIVE Washington at the Westin Hotel.
Harris told her audience that 67 percent of American adults grew up in a household where they experienced at least one of the 10 toxic events or conditions defined by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study. Twenty-two percent, she added, endured four or more and, as a result, became extremely likely to develop physical, behavioral and learning problems.
[For more of this story, written by Judy Lightfoot, go to http://crosscut.com/2015/05/th...-good-start-in-life/]
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