Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is a pediatrician and the CEO of The Center for Youth Wellness the in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunters Point. She is a pioneer in addressing the issue of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as a public health crisis. For more information on ACEs see: How to Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences
She is speaking at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club on March 27th. .See: Healing Long-Term Affects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Tickets are $15.
If you cannot make the event, you can hear Dr. Burke Harris' discuss this issue in her TED Talk, "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime." See: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris Ted Talk