Title

Collaborating a Shared Vision of Child and Family Well Being

Authors

Tom Standish, The Heritage of Hannah Neil

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Abstract

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are major factors contributing to both physical and mental illness. ACEs include: physical/sexual abuse, neglect, domestic/community violence, parental separation/divorce, household substance abuse, household mental illness. ACEs in a culture of poverty furthers: unemployment/underemployment, social isolation, poor housing, early death, mental illness, higher suicide, high risk behaviors, alcohol substance abuse, physical illness, a navigational quagmire. However, people do build resiliency. People do recover.

Publication Date

10-7-2016

Disciplines

Family, Life Course, and Society | Social Welfare

Recommended Citation

Standish, Tom, "Collaborating a Shared Vision of Child and Family Well Being" (2016). Learning Showcase 2016: A Celebration of Discovery, Transformation and Success. 58.
https://fuse.franklin.edu/ss2016/58