The Academy on Violence and Abuse, which educates health care professionals about the often unrecognizable health effects of violence and abuse, produced a four-hour DVD of interviews with the co-founders of the CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, released a 14-minute executive summary.
The organization released a three-minute teaser last year. For those unfamiliar with the ACE STudy, this 14-minute puts a little more meat on the bones.
And if you want to know what your ACE score is — as well as how you’re doing on building resilience into your life — go to the survey: Got Your ACE Score? The ACE survey has 10 questions, and the resilience survey has 14.
ACEs Too High 
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Love the video! Shared all over the place!
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So, basically, almost anything and everything “bad” that can happen to a person short of accidents, stem from how we were parented. That is profound.
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Parenting, the community we’re brought up in, and the times we live through. So, you may have wonderful parents, but your life may have been uprooted by war or a natural disaster and its long-term effects. Or, you may have wonderful parents and live in a very violent community where you witness murder or have friends who have been shot.
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