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Hi, Everyone: Here’s the state profile for California. To review the entire profile, open the PDF that is attached to this post. If you have corrections or additions, please leave them in the comments section of this post. We’ll be reviewing the comments regularly and doing fact-checks. The information you give us will also help us determine how to organize and expand the information in the state profiles. We will be turning this post into a living profile that, with your help and input,...

About 10 years ago, in her Bayview-Hunters Point clinic, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris examined a 7-year-old boy who was the height and weight of a 4-year-old. When she discovered that he had stopped growing after he was sexually abused, Harris started drawing connections with her other patients. She noticed that childhood trauma and adverse experiences negatively affected health. In her book “The Deepest Well,” Burke Harris explores the connection between poor health and toxic stress during...

Attached are just a few selected resources that can help you communicate right away with family, community, and co-workers about the impacts of trauma, and how resilience helps prevent and heal these impacts.

Welcome to the ACEsConnection.com Resources Center! As of October 2016, we are launching this new version. We think that it's a skeleton of its future self, i.e., we'll be adding more categories and more information to each category. Our goal is to make this useful, but not so chock full of content that you don't know where to start. In other words, we’re curating carefully, not cataloguing. A couple of important points about our approach: We believe that any...