Web Seminar:

The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Adult Health and Well-Being

Date:

Friday, April 29, 2005

Time:

2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern

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Speaker:

Vincent Felitti, MD
Department of Preventive Medicine, Southern California Permanente Medical Group

Description:

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study examines how traumatic childhood experiences affect adult health and well-being.  The ACE Study reveals a strong relationship between emotional experiences that occur in childhood and adult physical and mental health. It documents how adverse emotional experiences in childhood lead to organic disease later in life.  The ACE study is a collaborate effort between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, California.  For more information, see the ACE Study website at www.acestudy.org. 

Registration:

To register, send an e-mail to webseminar@... by April 22, 2005.  Space is limited and will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.  The seminar will be archived on the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website at www.nsvrc.org.

Sponsorship:

In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this web seminar is being sponsored by CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Women’s Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.