On March 2, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO) Advisory Group on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) met for the first time to begin the process of providing actionable data and information that informs a comprehensive policy approach to prevent and mitigate the impact of adverse childhood experiences in Ohio. The goal is to focus on those ACEs that have the most severe and costly implications, and by doing so, improving the overall child health and wellbeing and reducing the cost burden of ACEs in Ohio.
ACEs include such childhood experiences as emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, substance abuse in the household, exposure to intimate partner violence, exposure to community violence, mental illness in the household, food insecurity, housing insecurity, having a incarcerated household member, and/or parental separation/divorce.
Read the American Academy of Family Physicians policy on adverse childhood experiences.
Ohio Academy of Family Physicians Executive Vice President Ann Spicer serves on the HPIO advisory group.