Hey everyone. Just wanted to introduce myself. I first heard about ACEs when I was a medical student working at St. Christopher's doing research with their child abuse prevention work. Since then, I have continued to work at St. Chris and see the effects of toxic stress and ACEs on a daily basis.
I've also been involved in the development of an amazing collaboration with St. Chris, Institute for Safe Families, Congresso, and CCTC called the Family Safe Zone. We are working to address toxic stress prevention through working on increased screening for ACEs, training all our hospital staff on how to intervene with harsh parenting, and a significant amount of parental education on positive parenting. So far we have had great results, and it has been a huge learning experience for all of us involved. Our hope is to continue our program and to continue to reach out into the community. I'd love to talk more about it if anyone else is interested.
Personally, I going to be continuing my training here in Philly for the next years years, and plan on continuing to be involved in all the great ACE work happening in the city. I look forward to seeing all the great things being done.