Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

data innovation, and identifying strategies and building capacity to prevent ACEs across the country.5 In 2019, CDC released Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Prevention: Resource for Action, a collection of strategies and approaches based on the best available e. [...] These programs were designed to build state- wide capacity to collect and learn from ACEs data, implement strategies to prevent ACEs from occurring, and use data to inform prevention and intervention actions. [...] Using CDC PACE:D2A funding, the Michigan Public Health Institute, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services, improved awareness and understanding of ACEs in the state to help identify populations with the highest need and focus community prevention resources.8 In another example, the Georgia Department of Public Health implemented ACEs-spe. [...] In 2023, CDC funded 12 recipients, including public health organizations in 11 states and one tribal nation, to build ACEs surveillance infrastructure and implement ACEs prevention strategies as part of the Essentials for Childhood: Preventing ACEs through Data to Action program. [...] Allocating $2.5 million for the BHCU within the overall $32.5 million amount for the ACEs program would support CDC efforts to develop a national strategy to address the linkages between adolescent mental health and ACEs, substance use and overdose, and suicide.