title: Changing Medicine and Building Community: Maine's Adverse Childhood Experiences Momentum.
abstract: Physicians are instrumental in community education, prevention, and intervention for adverse childhood experiences. In Maine, a statewide effort is focusing on education about adverse childhood experiences and ways that communities and physicians can approach childhood adversity. This article describes how education about adversity and resilience can positively change the practice of medicine and related fields. It exemplifies the collective impact model by increasing community knowledge, affecting medical practice, and improving lives.
authors.affiliation: Associate Extension Professor in Child and Family Development at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. leslie.forstadt@maine.edu.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Forstadt
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrist at the Edmund Ervine Pediatric Center at Maine Medical Center in Waterville and Augusta, ME. sally.cooper@mainegeneral.org.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.affiliation: Co-Facilitator for the Maine Resilience Building Network and President of Solutions Consulting in Dover-Foxcroft, ME. sdmandrews@aol.com.
authors.forename: Sue Mackey
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Andrews
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008281:Maine; D012947:Social Work