Laura Klivans
Community Health Reporter
Community Health Reporter
A reporter set out to discover why trauma rates were so high in the community of Paradise, Calif. Then the deadliest wildfire in state history destroyed the town.
Reporter Laura Klivans followed Sabrina Hanes through her daily routine in Paradise last summer, to learn how she’s developed resilience. She caught up with Hanes after the fire to find out what happens next.
As many Paradise residents work to piece their lives back together they have the added weight of trauma from the Camp Fire.
Photos from Paradise, California, before and after the most devastating fire in the state's history largely destroyed the town.
Reporter Laura Klivans visited Paradise this summer for her reporting on childhood trauma. All the places she visited have now burned down. She takes a moment to look back.
This story was produced as a project for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s California Fellowship....
Emotional neglect, physical abuse, divorce, a household riven by addiction — science shows that traumas like these in childhood cause poorer health later in life, both mentally and physically.
Within California, there is an incredible variation in childhood adversity scores, from lows in San Francisco County to highs in Butte County.