IMPACT: Current research does not support the practice of using ACEs as the main lens for understanding early childhood experiences. Such studies must inform preventive measures, therapeutic interventions, advocacy efforts, social policy changes, and public awareness campaigns to address early life adversities and their enduring effects on human potential. These contribute to their physical health, psychiatric conditions, cognitive/executive, social, and psychological functions, lifestyle choices, and socioeconomic outcomes. Future research should use a social-ecological approach to investigate the robust interactions among adverse conditions, protective factors, genetic and epigenetic influences, environmental exposures, and social policy, within the context of a child's developmental stages. We identify cortisol as a stress biomarker and posit that hair cortisol concentrations represent a summative and chronological record of children's exposure to adverse experiences and other contextual stressors.
Comprehensive assessments of a child's physical and social ecology not only require parent/caregiver surveys and clinical observations, but also include measurements of the child's physiology using biomarkers. Rather than focusing only on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as the main lens for understanding early childhood experiences, detailed assessments of a child's social ecology are required to assess "early life adversity." These should also include the role of positive experiences, social relationships, and resilience-promoting factors. This highlighted to me the complexity and reward of the relationships we have with our patients, and the impact these relationships can have in their well-being.Īn increasing prevalence of early childhood adversity has reached epidemic proportions, creating a public health crisis. As healthcare providers, many of us represented the only relationships these patients had. The AIDS virus rendered vulnerable many young people who were already defenseless and without social, financial and emotional support.
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I am proud to work with colleagues of various disciplines and approaches we all share the same goal of helping each child live a better life and develop to their full potential.ĭuring the early 80s, while in medical school, I witnessed many young people struggle alone with a disease that few understood and at the time was considered a death sentence. This is the meaning of personalized care. Listening empathically matched with comprehensive data-gathering helps us avoid reacting too quickly or impulsively, out of preconceived ideas. I work toward understanding the struggles of children and families and this informs my clinical approach.
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The mentorship will pair a current CVUSD student with a current college student or college graduate who was a former CVUSD student, or is a part of the Coachella Valley.ĮCV for CHANGE will also provide additional services to the CVUSD such as: professional development and college application workshops.Excellent care starts with listening. The ECV for CHANGE will serve as a 1-year mentorship program for current CVUSD High School Sophomores and Juniors.
In December 2019, the Coachella Valley Unified School District unanimously voted to approve Eastern Coachella Valley for Change.
The goal of ECV for CHANGE is to empower the future of the Eastern Coachella Valley one student at a time through the following pillars: higher education, leadership development, and civic engagement. Spearheading a new effort in the Coachella Valley to enable recent and current college students to "give back" by mentoring current high school students in the Eastern Coachella Valley!ĮCV for CHANGE is a sponsored organization under the Dr.
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