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Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and maltreatment

Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and maltreatment

Cappello, Dominic
Ortega Courtney, Katherine

Paperback

Poverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1979903077
ISBN13: 9781979903073
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Dec 25 2017
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We are in the midst of an epidemic of childhood trauma with far-reaching effects that the public, media, and lawmakers would prefer not to see.

With research showing child maltreatment is substantiated for one in eight children in the US, it's clear Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), a broader category of experiences than just maltreatment, are at an epidemic scale in our society. Slowly and silently, these emotionally and physically abusive experiences that are often hidden from protective services destroy essential relationships, fill our jails, diminish our workforce, inhibit learning in our schools, overtax our emergency rooms, and encourage the sort of hopelessness that drives people to drugs and other self-destructive behaviors. Everyone is harmed, directly or indirectly, as the trauma is passed from generation to generation.

The authors' main thesis, quite simply, is that protecting all our children is entirely possible, but only when we know the scope of the challenges families face. The book provides a detailed, data-driven analysis of the scope of the problem, its various parts, and how to strengthen systems designed to protect our children. The book suggests a series of shockingly modest yet strategic reforms, changes that can ensure that the future systems of protection in every community are better at identifying their shortcomings and fixing them. The proven strategies proposed have the power to heal families, illustrating how we can all take courageous and compassionate steps toward designing child-friendly, trauma-free communities.

In the shadows of society lies an epidemic of childhood trauma, often overlooked by the public, media, and lawmakers.

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