my name is chelsea stewart, i'm a medical school candidates. i want to preview with my policy brief on adverse childhood experiences entitled "fighting resilience, adverse childhoods experience screening schools. i want to start off with a quote that reads, aces are the new cholesterol. if you don't screen for it and you don't look for it, you will never find it, but has more health impacts then than you can imagine, and that is by a doctor in hayward his. adverse childhood experiences are traumatic events experienced during childhood that have severe negative health implications on health in adulthood. it contributes to toxic stress by increasing stress hormones in the body and damaging the development of vital organs such as the brain. they are classified as emotional , physical, and sexual abuse, neglect, and household instability. having an incarcerated parent or a parent addicted to alcohol or other drugs all contribute to the manifestation of toxic stress. sixty-one-point 7% of adults in california have experienced at least one, and 16-po