When it comes to preventing violence, Danny Bane holds all the aces.
ACES, that is. That’s the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study done by the Centers for Disease Control. Bane says the study’s insights can change lives and he plans to use them in his job as Umatilla County’s first-ever violence prevention coordinator.
Bane knows a little something about childhood trauma and violence. Alcohol affected his home life. When his beloved older sister, a young mother of four, was killed by a drunk driver, 12-year-old Danny was devastated.
“My mind was blank in school,” he said of the aftermath. “I sat there teary-eyed.”
The boy felt angry when he was placed in a special education class after his school work suffered.
“I was done,” he recalled. “That tipped me over.”
As a teen, he connected with drug dealers and gang bangers. One night, wired on meth, he and another teenager robbed a Tri-Cities restaurant. Danny pistol-whipped two workers and left them hog-tied in a walk-in refrigerator. For that, Bane served time in the Walla Walla Penitentiary.
[For more of this story, written by Kathy Aney, go to http://www.eastoregonian.com/e...s-aces-up-his-sleeve]
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