The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

Center for Youth Wellness (CYW) into the world. The Bayview clinic, supported in part by the hospital, would keep doing what it did—regular checkups for kids in the community and ACE screening. Once a patient screened positive for ACEs, the CYW clinical team would provide the multidisciplinary services focused on treating toxic stress—mental health, mindfulness, home visits, nutritional counseling, all the stuff our research told us could make a difference. The research team would track the data, and the advocacy team would get the word out. It was going to be a top-to-tail health-care home for kids and what we hoped would be a model for future organizations.