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ACE 101: Incarcerated Household Member

Stop Abuse Campaign

Studies on the long-term effects of childhood abuse have historically focused on one type of abuse, such as child sexual abuse , and few have scrutinized the impact of more than one type of abuse. The study has shown that ACEs are common across all populations and have lasting, even deadly, consequences into adulthood.

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. That’s not correct.