Seven out of ten American adults carry the effects of childhood trauma. Abuse, neglect, a parent lost to addiction or violence, a home that was never safe. For most of them, no one ever named what happened. They grew up, went to work, raised families, sat in church — and carried it the whole way.

Childhood trauma is not a bad memory. It is a physical injury to a developing brain and body. It shapes how a nervous system handles fear and stress for the rest of a person's life, and it shows up decades later as depression, anxiety, addiction, heart disease, autoimmune illness and early death. Measured in years of life lost, it costs this country more than cancer, heart disease and stroke combined. It is devastating to individuals, to families, and to humanity as a whole — and it is largely preventable.

United Against Childhood Trauma exists to change that. Our work rests on three commitments. Awareness: so that parents, teachers, pastors, nurses and leaders can recognize a wound they were never taught to see. Healing: by training a new generation of trauma-responsive practitioners who can meet people where they are, in schools, clinics, churches and communities. Prevention: because every child we protect today is an adult who never has to recover.

We don't compete with the people already doing this work. We connect them. UACT brings together health care, education, faith, justice, child welfare, government, business and survivors themselves, because no single group can solve this alone.

Your gift helps build that movement — the training, the tools and the coalition — at the moment it's needed most.

Name the wound. Heal the wound. Stop the wound.

United Against Childhood Trauma is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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