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Understanding How ACEs Impact You & Society
Thu, Aug 08
|Milbank
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood. ACEs can include violence, abuse, and growing up in a family with mental health or substance use problems. Toxic stress from ACEs can change brain development and affect how the body responds to stress.
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Time & Location
Aug 08, 2024, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Milbank, 221 E 3rd Ave, Milbank, SD 57252, USA
About the event
Preventing ACEs can help children and adults thrive and potentially:
- Lower risk for conditions like depression, asthma, cancer, and diabetes in adulthood.
- Reduce risky behaviors like smoking and heavy drinking.
- Improve education and employment potential.
- Stop ACEs from being passed from one generation to the next.
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