[PNWHEALTH] Adverse Childhood Experiences

Tue Apr 3 11:37:05 PDT 2007

 South King County Community Network

This is an opportunity to learn about the latest research on

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Dr. Robert Anda

Saturday, April 21, 2007 * 9:00 am to noon

Green River Community College

12401 SE 320th Street, Auburn, Washington 98092 * See directions on back
of flyer.

Why is it important to know about the Adverse Childhood Experiences
Study?

Because it provides compelling evidence that:

*	ACEs are surprisingly common.
*	They happen even in "the best of families".
*	They have long-term, damaging consequences. 

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is a major American
research project that poses the question of whether, and how, childhood
experiences affect adult health decades later. This question is being
answered with the ongoing collaboration of Robert Anda, MD at the
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the cooperation of 17,421 adults
at Kaiser Permanente's Department of Preventive Medicine in San Diego,
California. Kaiser Permanente is a Health Maintenance Organization
[HMO]. The findings from the ACE Study provide a remarkable insight into
how we become what we are as individuals and as a nation. They are
important medically, socially, and economically.

The ACE Study reveals a powerful relationship between our emotional
experiences as children and our physical and mental health as adults, as
well as the major causes of adult mortality in the United States. It
documents the conversion of traumatic emotional experiences in childhood
into organic disease later in life. How does this happen, this reverse
alchemy, turning the gold of a newborn infant into the lead of a
depressed, diseased adult? The Study makes it clear that time does not
heal some of the adverse experiences we found so common in the
childhoods of a large population of middle-aged, middle class Americans.
One does not 'just get over' some things, not even fifty years later."

Dr. Robert Anda graduated from Rush Medical College in 1979 and received
his Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1982. During 1982-1984
he completed a Fellowship in Preventive Medicine at the University of
Wisconsin where he also received a Masters Degree (MS) in Epidemiology.

For more than 10 years he has been Co-Principal Investigator for the
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, a collaborative study with
Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Anda played the principal role in the design of
the study, subsequent analysis of the ACE Study data, and preparation
its numerous scientific publications. Dr. Anda has more than 100
peer-reviewed and government publications and has authored several book
chapters. In addition, he has received numerous awards and recognition
for scientific achievements at the CDC. He is frequently invited to
speak about the ACE Study at national meetings and has presented the ACE
Study findings at Congressional briefings.

For more information about ACE's check out www.acestudy.org
<http://www.acestudy.org/> 

For more information about the SKCCN check out www.skccn.com
<http://www.skccn.com/>  

Space is limited to the first 110 participants so contact us right away
if you wish to attend!

forum at skccn.com <mailto:forum at skccn.com>  or call Dianne at
253/850-5927, ext. 1

Dianne S. Heide

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