ACEsConnection member Lauren Forcella answers a teen's question about love at Redding.com's Straight Talk column.
"At this point in our narrative, let’s talk about ACE scores. “ACE” stands for “adverse childhood experience” and a person’s ACE “score” is their score on a series of 10 questions used to assess childhood trauma. The higher the ACE score, the more likelihood of depression, violence, drug and alcohol addiction, inappropriate sex, suicide and other social emotional problems — and chronic health problems later in life. I invite you to take the 5-minute ACE test at www.acestoohigh.com and see how your own childhood traumas have affected you. I then invite you to consider how every kid in juvenile hall and many in the foster care system could benefit from having that one unconditionally-loving adult in their life. Could that person be you? It’s never too late for these kids — for them, it does take a village. -- Lauren"
http://www.redding.com/news/2013/feb/03/straight-talk-in-love-with-troubled-stepbrother/
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