By Lauren Negrete, October 16, 2019, for KCBY
NORTH BEND, Ore. -- Community training is taking place in Coos County to address poor population health outcomes.
South Coast Together is a community collaboration group working to train people as Adverse Childhood Experience Masters to recognize and prevent the accumulation of adverse childhood experiences.
“To start presenting to both public and professionals in our community to learn about neuroscience, the science of childhood adversity, and also the science of resilience, which is how people compensate and overcome challenges,” said South Coast Together's Leah Lorincz.
Also called “ACE,” the term covers experiences like alcoholic parents, divorce, bullying, racism, and violence.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente’s study finds their effects lead to chronic illness from heart disease to suicidal thoughts.
You can visit southcoasttogether.org for more information on Coos and Curry county initiatives.
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