Episode Details

Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak discuss the effects adverse childhood experiences can have on a person’s entire life. They also share tools that can be used to measure the impact these experiences can have and also the factors that influence a person’s resilience.

Key Points

• Childhood experiences are predictors of future health.
• People self-medicate for their anxiety, depression, and fear in different ways.
• Depending on a child’s ACE score, it can be predicted that they will have a life of up to 20 years shorter.
• Drug addicted parents usually love their children, but their addictions steal away the relationship with their children.
• Remember the connection between prevention of adverse childhood experiences and the reduction in the risk of being sexually trafficked.

Resources

• ACE Quiz
• Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Resilience Questionaire
• 169: Dr. Jodi Quas: Communicating with Child Victims of Trauma
• TEDMED talk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
• Ensure Justice Conference Videos

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Transcript

Dave: [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 172, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Building Resilience.

Production Credits: [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave: [00:00:30] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie: [00:00:35] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: [00:00:38] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, today we’re going to take a look at a model that came out of a study from a number of years ago and you have an assessment under my nose as well that I have a feeling I might be taking here shortly.

Sandie: [00:00:59] Well, there was a study that began with the Center for Disease Control and Kaiser. And it’s called the ACE Study, adverse childhood experience, and the concept was that we have childhood experiences that are predictors of our future health, including mental health, behavioral health, everything. And even how opportunity works in our life. And so, we want to look at this as a predictor of how we better serve the most vulnerable for becoming victims of human trafficking or how that experience actually informs how we support victims and intervene on their behalf.

Sandie: [00:01:48] And so the first thing we’re going to do is look at the actual survey tool that’s used, and it’s called an ACE quiz. I’ve used it in m