In the past couple of decades, there has been an explosion of new understanding – beginning with the Adverse Childhood Experience, or “ACE” Study – about how and why adversity and trauma can reliably predict risks for mental, physical and behavioral health as well as productivity in the population. This is great news! What’s predictable is preventable – because of recent discoveries in neuroscience, epigenetics, epidemiology and resilience studies, we can understand how protection, prevention and resilience promotion can profoundly improve health, safety and productivity, and reduce public and private costs now and for generations to come.

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