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Hello Kimberly. Sorry for the delay in commenting but I think it is a great time to increase awareness of what is coming out the California ACEs Summit and from other initiatives in the state to address ACEs. I would encourage you to post your comment on the California ACEs Action group since some of the members of that group attended the Summit and will be involved in follow-up activities. As the ACEs Network staff member assigned to the State ACEs Action group, I'll be monitoring the...

But if you are asked, "What is your evidence behind your screening tool?" Ask "What is the evidence behind yours?"(for example for pediatric bipolar). You will find that the DSM is a group of academic doctors getting together to decide these symptoms mean this diagnosis. The evidence is slim at best. They can give not genetic, epigenetic, demographic or you name it ... answers....However an association called "The Directors of State Mental Health Providers asked them to put Developmental...

Tina, in Vermont, we are working with our legislature. Elizabeth Prewit did two (?) pieces about the Vermont activity, which I'm sure you can find on the ACEs Connection website. I took issue with them on prescisely this issue - the screening. The ACE study is an incredibly valuable study. It is a watershed moment in the childhood trauma world. It did not, however, develop screening tools, and it is not "trauma informed." The ten-item ACE questionnaire is not a validated screen - it came out...