Image of Professor Zara Quigg from Liverpool John Moores University, M-RIC Lead Investigator Professor Rhiannon Corcoran and Katharine Abba, Research Fellow at M-RIC on the Population Mental Health work package at the ACES conference

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Pioneering alliance to focus on adverse childhood experiences

A Liverpool city region-wide alliance is being created to improve the prospects and outcomes of people who have endured adverse experiences and trauma in childhood.

A collaboration of NHS, universities, local authority, public health and voluntary sector bodies has formed the Liverpool City Region ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Alliance with the ambition of preventing adverse childhood experiences and their life course consequences as well as improving the delivery of services within the wider health and care system so that they become ‘trauma informed’.

M-RIC Lead Investigator Professor Rhiannon Corcoran  is one of the alliance leaders, alongside Professor Zara Quigg of Liverpool John Moores University.

Rhiannon and Zara addressed the recent Annual ACEs conference called ‘Growing Stronger’ hosted by the Liverpool ACEs team and Liverpool John Moores University which focused on ways to build an ACEs and trauma responsive system.

Pictured above is Professor Zara Quigg , Professor Rhiannon Corcoran and Katharine Abba, Research Fellow at M-RIC on the Population Mental Health work package at the ACES conference.

Rhiannon told the conference:

We want to hear from everyone who has ideas for research which will advance practice and increase collaboration, to progress towards making Liverpool the first ACEs-informed city region in the country.

“At first, we may focus on the impact of ACEs but we really want to look at how they can be prevented. For everyone affected by adverse childhood experiences it is important to ask ‘what happened to me’ – not ‘what’s wrong with me’.

The work on adverse childhood experiences is part of the M-RIC work theme, population mental health.

Which organisations are part of the Liverpool City Region ACEs Alliance?

The alliance, which continues to grow, includes:

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