I am looking for research that points to AA children and AA communities experiencing more trauma or ACE.
Please advise of where I can find the literature or data to support AA being more at risk for trauma.
I am looking for research that points to AA children and AA communities experiencing more trauma or ACE.
Please advise of where I can find the literature or data to support AA being more at risk for trauma.
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Here are some related links:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/fi.../child_adversity.pdf
https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(17)30352-2/pdf
Hello Ebony, Please contact me directly and I can send you pdfs of some or many research reports. The first link in Melissa's response works and is very good.
Best,
Craig
Thank you both. Some of the links above donât work.
Ebony:
This, from Child Trends, has some good info. though it's from 2018. Also, here's an article, also from 2018 about a presentation done at the ACEs Conference by @Dr. Flojuane Cofer and Ben Duncan at the ACEs National Conference in CA with some info. such as:
âThe people in the original ACE Study are disproportionately white, employed, and insured, college educated and middle income,â said Cofer. Among those who were not well-represented in the original ACE Study, she explained, include:
and
"âWe have to think about community and historical trauma arising from systems and do it while recognizing how race and bias can be baked into our understanding of ACEs,â she (Dr. Cofer) said.
Cissy