SDOH Members,

The Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) was founded in response to the  
US Institute of Medicine report entitled Confronting Chronic Neglect,  
the education and training of health processionals on family violence  
which observed that, while exposure to violence, abuse, maltreatment  
or neglect have serious and lasting adverse health effects, health  
professionals are, for the most part, inadequately trained to prevent,  
recognize or treat the consequences of this exposure.

April 14-16, 2011 AVA will host a conference featuring, among others,  
the lead authors of the Adverse Childhood Experiences studies (ACEs)  
which link a variety of childhood experiences with a host of chronic  
conditions. The conference will also feature Dr. Esme Fuller-Thomson  
who's work on the association between child abuse and adult disease  
has been published in the prestigious journal Cancer.

For more information about this conference, please go to www.avahealth.org

Thank You,


Mike




Michael Callahan
Executive Director
Academy on Violence and Abuse
14850 Scenic Heights Road
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Phone: 952-974-3270

mike.avahealth.org




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