By Anna Challet, New America Media
Past experiences of childhood trauma are common among California adults, and those experiences correlate with harmful behaviors and chronic disease at a level that constitutes a “public health crisis,” according to a new study.
The report by the Center for Youth Wellness, a health organization that serves children and families in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point area, demonstrates that “the effects of early adversity on lifetime health are astounding,” according to the center’s founder and CEO Nadine Burke Harris.
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