Adverse Childhood Experiences Data

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are stressful events in a child's life that happen before they turn 18 that have potential to impact their future health and well-being.

Interactive data modules:

In these data modules, we summarize eight thoroughly researched ACEs. We acknowledge that many adverse experiences not listed here can impact a child's future well-being. The ACEs we summarize are:

1. Parental incarceration
2. Alcohol misuse in the child's household
3. Illegal drug use or misuse of prescription drugs in the child's household
4. The struggle with depression and other mental illnesses in the child's household
5. Emotional abuse
6. Physical abuse
7. Domestic violence (of a relative or non-relative)
8. Sexual abuse

This website was made possible by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the non-research cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-CE21-2101: Core State Injury Prevention Program (Core SIPP) through the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-CE-23-0005: Essentials for Childhood: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the CDC.