Take Your ACEs Assessment
Discover your Adverse Childhood Experiences score in 10 questions. Understanding ourselves as adults often means revisiting our childhoods. When you take your ACEs Assessment, or adverse childhood experience test, it helps you do that. Your answers are confidential. No identifying information is gathered.

Score yourself. You get 1 point for every yes. There are 10 possible points.

Birth Year*

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Sex*

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Race*

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Question 1 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often… swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you?*

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Question 2 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often… push, grab, slap, or throw something at you? or ever hit you so hard that you had marks or were injured?*

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Question 3 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, did an adult or person at least five years older than you ever…
touch or fondle you or have you touch their body in a sexual way?
or
attempt or actually have oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with you?*

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Question 4 of 10

Before your eighteenth birthday, did you often or very often feel that…
no one in your family loved you or thought you were important or special?
or
your family didn’t look out for each other, feel close to each other, or support each other?*

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Question 5 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, did you often or very often feel that…
you didn’t have enough to eat, had to wear dirty clothes, and had no one to protect you?
or
your parents were too drunk or high to take care of you or take you to the doctor if you needed it?*

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Question 6 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, was a biological parent ever lost to you through divorce, abandonment, or other reason?*

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Question 7 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, was your mother or stepmother:
often or very often pushed, grabbed, slapped, or had something thrown at her?
or
sometimes, often, or very often kicked, bitten, hit with a fist, or hit with something hard?
or
ever repeatedly hit over at least a few minutes or threatened with a gun or knife?*

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Question 8 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, did you live with anyone who was a problem drinker or alcoholic, or who used street drugs?*

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Question 9 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, was a household member depressed or mentally ill, or did a household member attempt suicide?*

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Question 10 of 10

Before your 18th birthday, did a household member go to prison?*

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