Adverse Childhood Experiences Resources

• Vital Signs Fact Sheet: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) pdf icon[865 KB, 2 Pages, 508]
  CDC’s Vital Signs fact sheet featuring ACEs and their negative impacts on health as well as education and employment opportunities later in life.
• VetoViolence
  VetoViolence is a source of trainings, tools, and resources for violence prevention professionals. The site features interactive tools and trainings designed to help practitioners stop violence before it begins.
  • ACEs Training
    An online training to help understand, recognize, and prevent ACEs from occurring in the first place.
  • ACE Study Infographic
    Visual, interactive representation of data from the 1995-1997 CDC-Kaiser Permanente study on Adverse Childhood Experiences prevalence and relationship to health outcomes.
  • ACEs Snapshot
    Interactive tool that provides insight into how ACEs can be prevented and how to minimize negative effects.
  • Connecting the Dots
    A free, online training that helps users explore shared risk and protective factors across multiple forms of violence.
  • Making the Case: Engaging Businesses
    A free online resource that explains how communities can work with the business sector to assure safe, stable, nurturing relationships, and environments for all children and families.
  • Veto Violence Facebook Page
    Connect with VetoViolence on Facebook, where you can watch videos, post comments, and more.
• Case Studies
  The state case studies provide detailed descriptions of how selected states have valued and used ACE data to inform their child abuse and neglect prevention efforts.
  • Learning from Alaska’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Story pdf icon[208 KB, 3 Pages, 508]
    Outlines Alaska’s journey to raise awareness of ACEs, collect state-level ACE data, and efforts to use ACE data to inform prevention of child abuse and neglect.
  • Learning from Oklahoma’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Story pdf icon[264 KB, 2 Pages, 508]
    Highlights Oklahoma’s efforts to use their ACE data to inform their state’s prevention actions, as well as next steps in preventing child abuse and neglect.
  • Learning from Washington’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Story pdf icon[233 KB, 2 Pages, 508]
    Highlights how Washington supported state-level ACE data collection, how data were used to inform prevention efforts, and provides examples of the state’s next steps in preventing abuse and neglect.
  • Learning from Wisconsin’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Story pdf icon[221 KB, 2 Pages, 508]
    Describes how Wisconsin utilized their ACE data to provide a platform to increase support for evidence-based strategies that promote protective factors.
• Select Journal Articles
  This is a sample of selected ACE-related journal articles. A systematic review of the literature is encouraged for a more comprehensive list of publications.
• Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships Panel Supplement pdf icon[6.45 MB, 16 Pages, 508]
  This is a special supplement of the Journal of Adolescent Health that presents four longitudinal studies on intergenerational patterns of violence.
• Essentials for Childhood (EfC)
  EfC proposes strategies that communities can consider to promote the types of relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive citizens.
• Presentation Graphics
  This page contains graphics that can be incorporated into presentations on ACEs.
• Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence pdf icon[4 MB, 40 Pages, 508]
  This is a resource to help states and communities leverage the best available evidence to prevent ACEs from happening in the first place as well as lessen harms when ACEs do occur. It features six strategies drawn from the CDC Technical Packages to Prevent Violence.
• Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: A Technical Package for Policy, Norm, and Programmatic Activitiespdf icon [3.69 MB, 52 Pages, 508]
  CDC’s technical package to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent child abuse and neglect and other adversities.
• Strengthening Economic Supports for Families Recommended Messagingpdf iconexternal icon
  These are general recommendations for effective messaging of prevention strategies.
• Administration for Children and Families’ Children’s Bureau’s prevention pageexternal icon
  This page provides resources to support child abuse and neglect programs, researchers, and monitoring systems.

See Child Abuse and Neglect Resources for more articles, publications, data sources, and prevention resources about child abuse and neglect.