Groundbreaking Study: Substance Abuse and Childhood Experiences

groundbreaking study: Fast forward to 2019 and a groundbreaking study in Croydon has shown how adverse childhood experiences like exposure to domestic violence, parental substance abuse and mental illness are still having a generational impact on youngsters' health and wellbeing, according to The Guardian. The investment needs to go deeper into communities, to fund preventive work that forms lasting relationships, builds trust and gives whole families the support they need to thrive, before we can be confident again of achieving sustainable health benefits for children experiencing poverty and neglect. But not to be overlooked is that when Sure Start was launched it formed just one part of an early intervention strategy to tackle the impact of poverty on families, going beyond the need for affordable childcare and employment advice. Steve PhaureCEO, Croydon Voluntary Action It made my day when I read that research by the IFS shows that Sure Start children's centres provided major health benefits for young children in the most deprived areas. Notwithstanding the benefits of this, it hardly compares to the initial Sure Start programme, where integrated health and family support and early-years education were delivered through a wide range of innovative and accessible services. The government responded by citing its Healthy Child Programme which provides five mandatory health visitor checks before a child is two-and-a-half. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.