Lots of significant themes intersect today: @DocResilience on ACES, protests for #BlackLivesMatter , anniv of #JusticeForGrenfell, data showing ethnic minorities are more at risk of COVID. So I want to provide a thread abt people talkng abt ethnicity & ACES. #ResilienceTogether
2. June 2019. “We see higher levels of childhood adversity among minority populations. We need to acknowledge the role that historic inequities play in creating the environment in which such traumatic experiences are more likely to occur.” injury.research.chop.edu/blog/posts/rol…
3. May 2019. "There is a need for policy makers to examine the unintended consequences of policy change or action. Racial equity impact assessments can be used to examine the impact of a policy change or action to prevent ACEs on communities of color." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31131725/
4. Feb 2018. "More important than exposure to any specific event is the accumulation of multiple adversities during childhood, which is associated w/ especially deleterious effects on development. The prevalence of ACEs was highest among black children." childtrends.org/publications/p…
5. Let me highlight the KEY POINT in that last article: "Not all children who experience one of these ACES (or even more than one) are negatively affected; much depends on the context in which they occur—particularly t context of POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS." childtrends.org/publications/p…
6. 2017 on paediatricians building hope. "These data suggest that improvng child health trajectories accordng to race &socioeconomic status will require community-building efforts directed to poor & usually racially segregated neighborhoods &communities." academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-…
7. Oct 2016. "If it’s not racially just, it’s not trauma-informed." #BlackLivesMatter acestoohigh.com/2016/10/24/rac…
8/end. So I'm just trying to say: They are interwoven discussions: ACES, #BlackLivesMatter-ing, the integenerational consequences of slavery. Many people see t trauma of slavery as the past. It isn't. It lives on in our cultural structures and in the bodies of descendants.
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