The Murphy administration Thursday announced a statewide strategy to reduce childhood trauma and adversity and prevent such adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, from causing lifelong social, physical, emotional and economic challenges. The ACEs Action Plan was developed with support from philanthropic groups with input from families, community and legislative leaders and health care professionals. It will be run out of the Department of Children and Families’ Office of Resilience. Dave Ellis, executive director of that DCF office, said the action plan was two years in the making and unlike anything else in the country. “Preventing ACEs means changing lives,” Ellis said. “Literally changing the trajectory of generational adversity into people’s personal best.”