PRACTICE: Preventing and Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)-Associated Health Conditions and Toxic Stress in Clinics through Community Engagement Grant

The UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN) is partnering with the Population Health Innovation Lab (PHIL), a program of the Public Health Institute (PHI), to build the Preventing and Responding to ACE-Associated Health Conditions and Toxic Stress in Clinics through Community Engagement (PRACTICE) grant. This is a multi-million-dollar California statewide grant to:

• Strengthen partnerships to screen for ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and respond to toxic stress,
• Develop sustainable, evidence-informed, real-world clinical services that target ACE-Associated Health Conditions and support prevention of ACEs and response to toxic stress, and
• Build a sustainable workforce to support ACE screening, response to impacts of toxic stress and adversity, and ACEs prevention.

With support from the California Office of the Surgeon General (OSG) and Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), PRACTICE is designed to support clinica teams mobilizing a health system’s response to address toxic stress within local California communities.

For more information, see Population Health Innovation Lab.