ACE Overcomers

If that poverty affects the stress level of the parents, that’s going to be felt by the children,” he said. People are actually wearing out years earlier because their homeostasis, their thermometer, was ramped up too high because of early childhood adversity.” It might seem babies and toddlers are too young and won’t remember their early impoverished years, but the impacts get stored in the body, Lockridge said. She hopes to figure out a job with Foster Farms in the area, get her children into Head Start, and begin to get ahead.

Today, ACE Overcomers serves as a reminder that “there is no excuse for abuse”. Through the eyes of our valued clients in education, health & human services, the criminal justice system, rescue missions, churches, and ministries, we have seen the harm that childhood abuse creates in all age groups. We must stop the abuse of children and remediate those with a history of being abused. To help create this much-needed awareness, ACE Overcomers has joined millions of other individuals, corporate sponsors, and ministry partners to help make the month of April become the awareness month to prevent child abuse.

But that’s what Dave Lockridge was doing as the 20 people in his Monday night ACE Overcomers class at Gateway Community Church in Merced, CA, busily scribbled in their workbooks. The CDC’s ACE Study measured 10 childhood traumas – physical, emotional and sexual abuse; emotional and physical neglect; living with a parent who’s an alcoholic or addicted to other drugs; witnessing the abuse of a mother; a family member in prison or diagnosed with mental illness; and a loss of a parent through divorce or abandonment – in 17,000 people in San Diego. The percentages climbed to grim and astounding levels as the ACE score increased – people with an ACE score of 6, for example, had a 4,600 percent increase in the likelihood of becoming an IV drug user. There’s an important issue that many people who are implementing ACE concepts in their communities agree upon: There aren’t enough therapists in the world to help the hundreds of millions of people who have complex trauma, generally thought of as an ACE score of 3 or 4 or more.

Evaluation of an intervention promoting emotion regulation skills for adults with persisting distress due to adverse childhood experiences. Our first ACE Overcomers study will be published in May in Child Abuse and Neglect and available online: This link provides you with free access to the article until April 30th. …the present findings provide evidence that participation in the ACE Overcomers program can lead to improvements in emotion regulation skills, psychological resilience and well-being, certain facets of quality of life, reduced illness days, and reduced somatic symptoms for community residents suffering from ACEs…” PLEASE VISIT US AT: