The Adverse Childhood Experiences Health Integration Team (HIT) has changed its name to the Adversity and Trauma HIT to better reflect the remit of its work, considering the impacts of adversity and trauma across the course of people’s lives.
The Adversity and Trauma HIT aims to develop and use what has been learned from research into adversity and trauma to inform service design and practice, which will then improve outcomes for people across their lives and reduce health inequalities.
Latest news and events
25 November 2021
Hard Evidence is a theatre piece written and performed by Shass Blake and Alison Prince. It follows the story of two friends, Jan and Christine, who both have experience of domestic abuse, but are at different points in their journey to finding support. I...
20 October 2021
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West (ARC West) has launched a new project working with young people to understand the mental health and wellbeing impacts of school discipline on pupils. The project will use creative methods to understand pupils’ ex...
14 October 2021
Bristol Health Partners held its annual Conference on Tuesday 12 October 2021. Like last year, the event was held online due to the ongoing pandemic, with more than 110 academics, clinicians, commissioners and others from organisations across Bristol, Sou...
23 September 2021
Bristol Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) has joined forces with Bristol’s hospital charities on an innovative programme of support to benefit thousands in the community. Above & Beyond, Southmead Hospital Charity and...
16 September 2021
Hard Evidence, a new production developed in collaboration with Acta Theatre, shines light on how getting involved with research empowered women who have experienced domestic abuse to support others in a similar situation.Written over Zoom in the early mo...
15 September 2021
A successful Bristol City Council project using data and analytics to understand risk and vulnerability of children and families across the city is to be expanded across Avon and Somerset. Nearly £1m of Government funding has been allocated over the next...
20 July 2021
Directors Ann James, Professor John Macleod and Dr Jo Williams look back on what the HIT achieved in 2020-21. The Adverse Childhood Experiences HIT is now known as the Adversity and Trauma HIT. This new name better reflects the approach of the group, and...
17 June 2021
Bristol Health Partners’ Adverse Childhood Experiences Health Integration Team (HIT) has changed its name to the Adversity and Trauma HIT to better reflect the remit of its work, considering the impacts of adversity and trauma across the course of peopl...
17 May 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic may be associated with continuing emotional and behavioural difficulties in children after the age of two, a new study out today [17 May] from researchers at the University of Bristol has found.Please note this is a preprint, so it i...
26 April 2021
NIHR ARC West is starting two new projects looking at childhood head injuries. One will look at ‘shaken baby’ syndrome and other abusive head traumas inflicted on babies, while the other will focus on post-concussion syndrome among children. Both proj...
1 December 2020
During a span of two weeks in November 2020, the Adverse Childhood Experiences Health Integration Team (ACE HIT) brought together over 700 attendees from across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) for a webinar series: Adversity,...
20 October 2020
Bristol Health Partners held its annual Health Integration Team (HIT) Conference as an entirely virtual event this year because of the pandemic. The event, “COVID-19 Call to Action: What else can we achieve in health and social care?”, took place b...
19 October 2020
The latest edition of Children & Young People Now includes a special report on adverse childhood experiences (ACE). The report features an article on the ACE Ambassadors scheme that is a key part of the work of our Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Heal...
18 May 2020
Directors Dr Jacqui Jensen, Professor John Macleod and Dr Jo Williams look back on what the newly formed HIT achieved in 2019-20. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) HIT was formed in 2019 and has been well supported by a wide range of partners. The f...
3 February 2020
From adverse childhood experiences to bladder and bowel confidence, our latest HITs will be tackling a range of challenges.
2 December 2019
Children of women who reported domestic violence in pregnancy or during the first six years of the child's life are almost 50 per cent more likely to have a low IQ at age eight, research has found.
