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Reply to "Effects of ACE on work performance"

     I wish this article was mandatory reading for my state Vocational Rehabilitation service employees...  For as long as I've been a client of Vocational Rehabilitation, no one employed by the agency, or providing contracted services for the agency, has ever asked if I experienced any ACEs. Apparently, there is a cap on Vocational Rehabilitation expenditures for clients throughout their lifetime. Had this information been known, when I first applied for vocational rehabilitation services, I might have had a "successful career", and not needed their services intermittently, for over forty years. In fairness, the ACE study results have only been available for just under twenty years.  I sincerely hope it does not take another twenty years before Vocational Rehabilitation services, everywhere, begin asking clients if they experienced ACEs.                                                                        Sometimes I was even able to work two jobs simultaneously. Now, I am about to be cut off from services, eight months before I'd be eligible to retire anyway--if Congress doesn't raise the age for retirement, again. I applaud the Icelandic focus noted here in the comments. 

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