- Population Health Information Tool
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is excited to share a new data dashboard that explores Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
PCEs are things that children need to thrive. They are experiences that promote safe, stable, and nurturing relationships or environments in a child’s life. They exist within the household, neighborhood, or in the greater society. ACEs on the other hand, are things that may happen in childhood that cause toxic stress throughout a person’s life. Toxic stress from these experiences affects the brain, how it develops, and how someone’s body will respond to stress in the future.
Identifying PCEs and ACEs as a score has been used in public health, social work, and other allied health professions to understand the impact of trauma on children. This dashboard shares selected data collected from surveys on PCEs and ACEs among Massachusetts residents by experience and their population groups. The different tabs show the results of Massachusetts resident survey responses for a topic and can be filtered by survey year, survey, population group, and experience.
