Why We Are Here?

Decades of research has linked exposure to childhood adversity to a range of long-term negative outcomes, including the famous large-scale ACEs study which reported in 1998 that exposure to childhood adversity dramatically increases the risk for 7 out of 10 of the leading causes of death in America. The effects of stress exposure can begin to accumulate in the womb, and early childhood stress in particular, can have serious long-term effects including for achievement, depression, addiction, risk-taking and suicidality.

Today, there are no accessible, cost-effective, tools available that can readily be deployed to monitor stress system development - for example in the context of home visitation or child wellness visits.

Envision the Day When Monitoring the Health of a Child’s Stress Response System is an Integral Part of Evaluating Child Development

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The Solution Begins with Identification

To change the trajectory of children experiencing toxic stress, we must be able to monitor the stress response system's development and identify when the system may be off track. Recalibrate Solutions is developing an assessment tool to evaluate the stress response health of all children. For such a tool to be useful, it must be:

1. Fast
2. Cost-effective
3. Simple to use
   
4. Accurate
5. Measure Biology

Our assessment tool is a five-minute, disposable, saliva based, cortisol test that can be conducted using 2-3 drops of saliva. It requires minimal training and can be used with children as well as adults.