Local Interventions into ACEs

ACE, Adverse Childhood Events.

First, stop incarcerating people for mental health issues. Stop incarcerating people for substance abuse. Stop destroying families employability through incarceration. Stop destroying families economic situation through incarceration. All of the dotted lines in the diagram above can be easily reduced.

Rita Sullivan's work OnTrack in Jackson County, OR successfully addressed family, drug recovery, criminal behavior, housing, employment simultaneously as the system it is.