Adverse
childhood experience is one of the major problem faced by our society in
today’s rapidly growing time. Many children are facing these problems of ACE
which is very stressful and included with emotional and physical neglect of a
particular child. Mental level of a child is very sophisticated and thus
growing up with the family included with a mentally ill person can harm and
affect their mind in a very destructive way. Apart from family reasons such as parental
abandonment, divorce, or loss certain other reason including neglects and
physical and verbal humiliation which puts on very harmful impact on child
brain.
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE
Study) is a research study conducted by the American health maintenance
organization Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. It is mainly related with the development of many mental problems grown
up in the childhood age , which a person face throughout life. Many organizations are taking stand on this cause
for saving the charm and healthy childhood of many children in a society.
ACEs includes
with so serious problems faced by children included with domestic violence, physical
and sexual abuse, emotional abusing, household violence, emotional and physical
neglect, Parental separation or divorce, incarcerated household member. It could be all those negative factors spoiled
and killed the brain of a child, harassed a child mind badly.
Childhood experiences are included with many emotional
positive and negative feelings having tremendous impact on future violence
victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. As such,
early experiences are an important public health issue. Many organizations are
working for this cause of saving children. ACE’s can be prevented and one such
organization working on such very serious issue related with the teenagers and
children is teenfocus.org .
Conducted by Kim Scott which is a social worker and counselor
with the 17 years of huge experience of an administrator in profit and nonprofit
organization. Anyone who like to do some
donation related with ACEs can contact via website.
ACEs and Prevention Efforts
Preventing ACEs can be very impactful and be the savior of so
many health-related problems of children.
Serious attention towards Adverse childhood experience is growing in the
news. And people are taking so many steps to save many children of the
countries.
Our objective for this cause or signing this petition is to
raise our voice on such crucial issues. Thus , we ask you to follow these terms to develop a resilient community as of :
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Develop a common language: ACEs conversations to create a
collective understanding of trauma and toxic effect on the developing brain,
social skills, and emotional development.
Need to share ACEs data within the community and society can be
significant and important in making people aware and to bring up a change with
so many effective solutions.
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Create Policy Centered on Prevention: Be a part of the community
infrastructure involves creating policies and will work with collaboration in
decreasing the number ACEs, signing petitions with the specific demands and ask
government for approval.
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Funding of evidence based prevention
: Need to fund the
social services cause as of parenting classes, abuse prevention training for
teachers and parents, home visits, community capacity building.
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Connect: Try to build resilience in the families and communities, cultivate
trusting and caring relationships. Make people engage with this cause.
Every year percentage of
ACEs Adverse childhood experience are increasing and this is the time to
raise our voice for this cause . We as a team working on this cause (ACEs) to
prevent the society and growing brains of so many children. Working
deliberately to stop these unsocial activities including abuse, neglect and
household dysfunction. And trying to prevent the childhood brain of the
country’s next generation.
