Connecting The Dots:
How Great is the Impact of Positive Child Experiences?
Season 2 - Episode 2
There has been a wealth of research into the negative impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)on a person’s physical and mental health outcomes. From research, we also know that strengths can mitigate the impact of adverse experiences on a young person’s mental health and risk behaviors. On the next episode of Connecting the Dots, Dr. Xiaoran Tong will share his groundbreaking research exploring the joint impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) versus Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) on a broad range of physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes. Dr. Tong will share data visualizations that map the opposing forces of ACEs and PCEs, from which patterns of their joint effect on a full range of youth outcomes can be identified.
Please join us on Tuesday, April 2, at 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 1 PM (EST)
About Our Guest
Dr. Xiaoran Tong is an assistant professor at the Center for Innovation in Population Health at the University of Kentucky (IPHC/UKY). He manages, analyzes, and develops statistical methods to improve youth welfare services based on data collected via CANS (Child Adolescent Needs and Strength) and other TCOM-based assessment tools. Under the guidance of IPHC/UKY, Dr. Xiaoran develops and uses innovative statistical methods to assess youth welfare service data and provides data-driven policy guidance. His primary interest is incorporating contemporary machine learning approaches into analyzing CANS (Child Adolescent Needs and Strength) assessment data.
About Connecting The Dots
Mr. Mark Lardner, LCSW-C, the Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Innovation in Population Health at the University of Kentucky, is interested in hearing stories from people currently working to connect the dots in our helping systems; using their data to seamlessly move from the delivery of person-centered care based on individual aspirations to transformational system level outcomes.
This live video podcast will be an in-depth, and broadly accessible, exploration of innovative approaches for translating assessment data into meaningful metrics across the helping professions.
Each month, a different guest will share their insights on how to use data to better understand the transformational process through the use of aggregated data. These interactive episodes will air on the first or the second Tuesday of each month and be archived with helpful resources on our IPH Center live website. We hope you will join us on this journey to uncover how applied person-centered data is moving us closer to transformational systems that work for all people.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 1 PM (EST)