After reading the August 2016 EENet.ca "Early Years Evidence Brief, I thought some additional references might be useful, as the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted [and expanded upon] the US CDC/Kaiser-Permanente ACE [Adverse Childhood Experiences] Study Screening Tool (the WHO ACE International Questionnaire)--which it used in their 2013 (WHO) Assessment of the world's healthiest children (Netherlands ranked #1, U.S. A. ranked 25th, and Canada ranked 26th, ...) as they examined the factors which contributed to the "Toxic Stress" and C/PTSD which can effect neurodevelopment of prenatal and perinatal infants and children, as well as adolescents.
In 2000, I attended a "Grand Rounds" continuing [medical] education session at [then Dartmouth, now] Geisel Medical School, by an Epidemiologist entitled: "52% of Detroit Metropolitan Area Schoolchildren met the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD". Being this close to Windsor, Ontario, I thought subsequent reports in the U.S. of similar numbers of schoolchildren in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta, and in June of this year [2018] at five charter schools in New Orleans, might prompt at least Windsor, Ontario to assess their schoolchildren in case this 'Epidemic' is spreading from the U.S. into Ontario, and perhaps other locations in Canada--if there was any validity to the 2013 WHO Assessment of the world's healthiest children.
The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was intended to address both the 'Resilience Building' benefits for children, as well as the trans-generational aspects of parent's own childhood trauma/'toxic stress'. The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative was noted in the "Community Resilience Cookbook"-also funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.