Casey Family Programs Publishes Report on How Positive Factors Change Child Trauma

Casey Family Programs Publishes Report on How Positive Factors Change Child Trauma

Casey Family Programs partners with think tanks to understand health outcomes that children and families experience in midst of trauma.

By now, the link between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and poor health outcomes later in life have become well established and the focus of efforts to change policy and practice. In an effort to measure the impact of childhood trauma, 32 states and the District of Columbia now conduct surveys that include questions about ACEs.

But in the push to help foster the social and emotional development of children with many adverse experiences early in life, a new report says that the answer is not just focusing on ACEs alone. More attention should be paid to understanding health outcomes of positive experience (HOPE) — positive interactions and relationships that children and families experience in midst of trauma...