{"id":8664,"date":"2020-12-21T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfsri.org\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:07:09","slug":"spotlight-on-aces-pbss-invisible-scars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childrensfriendri.org\/2020\/12\/21\/spotlight-on-aces-pbss-invisible-scars\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on ACEs: PBS\u2019s Invisible Scars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Children\u2019s Friend, we focus on preventing and treating Adverse Childhood Experiences \u2013 or ACEs \u2013 with the kids and families we serve.&nbsp; ACEs are traumatic events witnessed or experienced in childhood, such as poverty, exposure to domestic violence, or family members&#8217; incarceration.&nbsp; ACEs aren\u2019t just painful in the moment; they can cause serious mental and physical health challenges over a lifetime.&nbsp; ACEs are more prevalent in communities impacted by disinvestment of resources, such as communities of color.<\/p>\n<p>The PBS News Hour recently released an excellent three-part series on ACEs called \u201cInvisible Scars: America\u2019s Childhood Trauma Crisis.\u201d&nbsp; The series talks about the science of trauma, reports on ACEs in rural Montana and Chicago\u2019s West Side, and shares what can be done to prevent and treat ACEs.&nbsp; The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated ACEs in RI \u2013 we all must learn about ACEs so we can come together and heal.<\/p>\n<p>Part 1: &nbsp;Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and it\u2019s having devastating consequences (LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/childhood-trauma-impacts-millions-of-americans-and-its-having-devastating-consequences\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/childhood-trauma-impacts-millions-of-americans-and-its-having-devastating-consequences<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Part 2: Breaking the cycle of childhood trauma in rural Montana (LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/breaking-the-cycle-of-childhood-trauma-in-rural-montana\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/breaking-the-cycle-of-childhood-trauma-in-rural-montana<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Part 3: The overwhelming impact of childhood trauma on Chicago\u2019s West Side (LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/the-overwhelming-impact-of-childhood-trauma-on-chicagos-west-side\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/the-overwhelming-impact-of-childhood-trauma-on-chicagos-west-side<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfsri.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/webbob-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Hagberg<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Strategy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Children\u2019s Friend, we focus on preventing and treating Adverse Childhood Experiences \u2013 or ACEs \u2013 with the kids and families we serve.&nbsp; ACEs are traumatic events witnessed or experienced in childhood, such as poverty, exposure to domestic violence, or family members&#8217; incarceration.&nbsp; ACEs aren\u2019t just painful in the moment; they can cause serious mental&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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