Episode 45 - Mondays with Melissa

Mending Families is hosted by Melissa Pemberton and she brings you weekly content that is a mix of trauma aware interviews, parenting tips for those caring for kids from adversity, and stories from people just like you as they share their beautiful messy moments. Melissa hopes that when you listen each week, you will feel encouraged, inspired and take a little something away to help you and your family move from broken to mended.

On today’s episode, Melissa explains what Adverse Childhood Experiences are, where they came from, and why we need to be aware of them. Melissa also explores things to think about with ACES and building resilience in the kids in our lives. If you have never heard of ACEs, or even if you have, this is a good episode to better understand adversity in early childhood.

Topics Melissa mentions:

*Melissa talks about the book The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris. This book does a great job of explaining ACEs and how Dr. Burke-Harris is using them to improve how the state of California cares for their vulnerable children.

*Find a breakdown of the findings from the ACEs study, what the ACEs are and much more at www.acestoohigh.com

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