The Shasta County Public Health Department will use a $50,000 grant from Partnership HealthPlan to begin measuring adverse childhood experiences among Shasta County adults — the first time such a study has been conducted since 2012.
Hill Country Health and Wellness Center, Shasta Community Health Center, and Mercy Medical Center's Maternity Center and Family Medicine programs will work on the project starting in June.
Health care providers at those medical centers will ask patients whether they experienced adverse childhood experiences such as divorce, exposure to drug abuse, mental illness and physical abuse. They hope to find out how many residents have experienced adverse childhood experiences and whether resources exist locally to help today's parents cope with the effects of those and break the cycle.
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