developed by the National Education Association -Health Information Network through a cooperative agreement with the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health in 1999.
The five year pilot project promoted community mobilizing around policies shown to reduce injuries and offered the course "Youth Safety, Health and Resiliency" at the University of New Mexico-Valencia.
Once these services for survival are in place, further mobilizing focuses on securing access to parent supports, early childhood learning programs, community schools, youth mentoring and job training.
It has been twenty years since the original Adverse Childhood Experience Study,[1] with little to show for systemwide prevention efforts on a national or statewide level to reduce the impact of ACEs and toxic stress.
[4] Cappello and Ortega Courtney are also the authors of David, Age 14: Who and what determine our children's health, education and future and the fully illustrated social satire Attack of the Three-Headed Hydras.