ACEs Trauma Awareness Symposium

Empowering Communities,

Transforming Futures.

THANK YOU

The Board of Directors of the Essie B. & William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living and the ACEs Awareness Foundation would like to thank you for joining us for our virtual Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Trauma Awareness Symposium. Your participation helped make the event an unqualified success! 

OUR AIM

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Trauma Symposium attendees will be able to:

1. Identify the science-based evidence between chronic adversity/trauma and negative health outcomes

2. Formulate three interventions to mitigate ACEs, including early exposure to opportunity and strengths-based environments

3. Underscore the plasticity of the brain and strengths-based environments in mitigating early exposure to trauma and chronic poverty  

4. Provide educators, policymakers, employers, and clinicians with an understanding of breakthrough interventions and outcomes in children and families

Past symposiums

2025

2025

Recap of the 6th Annual ACEs Trauma Awareness Symposium
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2024

2024

Recap of the 5th Annual ACEs Trauma Awareness Symposium
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2023

2023

Recap of the 4th Annual ACEs Trauma Awareness Symposium
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WHAT IS ACEs?

  1. ACEs is routed in Brain science (neurobiology of toxic stress) — how toxic stress caused by ACEs damages the function and structure of kids’ developing brains
  2. ACEs are adverse childhood experiences that lead to changing how a child responds to stress and damaging their immune systems so profoundly that the effects show up decades later.
  3. ACEs causes much of our burden of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence.

How Does ACEs Affect Life Outcomes?

How Does ACEs Affect Life Outcomes?

An ACE score of 4 that includes divorce, physical abuse, an incarcerated family member and a depressed family member, has the same statistical health consequences as an ACE score of 4 that includes living with an alcoholic, verbal abuse, emotional neglect and physical neglect.

Show your support!

The ACEs Awareness Foundation’s aim is to help increase the community’s understanding of trauma and the dose-effect of toxic adverse childhood experiences on health outcomes, choices, and later-life behaviors.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is the acronym used to describe various forms of abuse, neglect, and other traumatic experiences.

We hope that you will consider supporting our symposium