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Adverse Childhood Experiences
Questionnaire Resource Guide
Purpose:
This guide has a collection of resources that outline what Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are, how to assess and utilize ACE scores in patient care.
ACE Study Overview:
A large-scale epidemiological study was conducted in 1995 that questioned child and adolescent histories of 17,000 subjects, comparing their childhood experiences and their adult health records. What the study by physicians, Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda, found was that two thirds of individuals have experienced one or more Adverse Childhood Experiences. The experiences included growing up with a depressed or alcoholic parent; losing a parent to divorce or other circumstances; experiencing humiliation, emotional neglect, sexual or physical abuse.
The number of Adverse Childhood Experiences an individual had, predicted the amount of medical care they require as an adult at a high rate of accuracy. Individuals who faced four or more ACE’s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, depression, heart disease, autoimmune disorders and other chronic illnesses, verses an individual who didn’t have ACE’s. The study surprisingly concluded that if one experiences more than six ACE’s it can shorten their life by twenty years.
The Center for Youth Wellness is a national leader in the effort to advance pediatric medicine, raise public awareness,
and transform the way society responds to children exposed to ACEs and toxic stress.
Six Components of Care
The Center for Youth Wellness believes the most promising healing practices for toxic stress for both children and
adults include:
ACEs Connection, an ever-growing social network, connects those who are implementing trauma-informed and
resilience-building practices based on ACEs science. The network’s 35,000+ members share their best practices, while
inspiring each other to grow the ACEs movement.
This website is a helpful resource for people who are implementing – or thinking about implementing – trauma-informed
and resilience-building practices based on ACEs research.
On this website, you’ll find valuable tools, such as:
Resource Center – Here you’ll find resources such as:
How to build community resilience
Surveys and scales you can use to measure resilience
How to set up a measurement framework
ACEs in rural communities
Trauma-informed guides, presentations, and self-assessment tools
Spanish-language handouts and information for presentations
ACEs Too High is a news site that reports on research about ACEs, including developments in epidemiology, neurobiology,
and the biomedical and epigenetic consequences of toxic stress.
On this website, you’ll find valuable tools, such as:
