The ACE Study is an ongoing collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente.  Led by Co-principal Investigators Robert F. Anda, MD, MS, and Vincent J. Felitti, MD, the ACE Study is perhaps the largest scientific research study of its kind, analyzing the relationship between multiple categories of childhood trauma (ACEs), and health and behavioral outcomes later in life.

Incredible advancements in brain research and health studies have opened the door to understanding how adverse childhood experience shapes the individual, drives high cost social problems, and becomes an extremely powerful determination of health across the lifespan. This presentation will provide the opportunity to learn and dialogue with other leaders in your community. You will learn:

• What the newest brain research and epidemiology tell us about adverse childhood experience and the developing child;
• Typical patterns of physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes across the lifespan;
• How the individual effects of adverse childhood experience in one generation can lead to escalation of child abuse, substance abuse, and other major social problems over the course of several generations; and
• How you can make a difference.