Key points
The CDC Injury Center prioritizes funding for the prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), overdose, and suicide. This page shows how funds were appropriated in the state of Nevada in FY23.
ACEs prevention funding - Nevada
ACEs are preventable, potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years). Examples include neglect, experiencing or witnessing violence, or having a family member attempt or die by suicide.
- 69.9% of adults reported at least one ACE in Nevada in 2020*1
- 22.1% of adults reported experiencing four or more ACEs in Nevada in 2020*1
*ACE statistics are reported by U.S. adults and include exposure to eight types of ACEs: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, witnessing intimate partner violence, household substance abuse, household mental illness, parental separation or divorce, and incarcerated household member.
Total ACEs prevention funding in Nevada
Total ACE prevention funding for Nevada
- Essentials for Childhood: Preventing ACEs
- University of Nevada Reno - Board of Regents: $485,000
- University of Nevada Reno - Board of Regents: $485,000
Examples of how Nevada is working to prevent ACEs
Surveillance activities
The University of Nevada, Reno is adding questions about experiencing ACEs to the Nevada YRBS to provide representative state-wide estimates of ACEs for Nevada public high school students.
Other support for ACEs in Nevada
Beyond the ACEs appropriation, CDC supports several initiatives, research, and partnerships to build state and tribal surveillance infrastructure and enhance ACEs prevention and mitigation.
In Nevada, some of those other initiatives include:
Overdose prevention funding - Nevada
There were 107,968 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2022 (34.6 deaths per 100,000 standard population), a 1.2% increase from 2021.2
- There were 1,003 overdose deaths in Nevada in 20223
- There were 30.3 overdose deaths per 100,000 people (age-adjusted) in Nevada in 20223
Total overdose prevention funding in Nevada
Overdose prevention programs
- Overdose Data to Action in States
- Nevada Department of Health and Human Services: $2,509,678
- Nevada Department of Health and Human Services: $2,509,678
- Overdose Data to Action: LOCAL
- Southern Nevada Health District: $2,550,000
- Southern Nevada Health District: $2,550,000
- Public Health and Public Safety
- Overdose Response Strategy: $87,600*
- Overdose Response Strategy: $87,600*
- Research
- University of Nevada, Reno: $362,500
- University of Nevada, Reno: $362,500
*average award amount
Examples of how Nevada is working to prevent overdose
Data linkage to inform action
Nevada linked statewide State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System fatal overdose data with available prescription drug monitoring program data. The data linkage project identified missed opportunities for prescribers to intervene prior to an overdose. As a result of their findings, Nevada provided intervention recommendations to the state board of pharmacy.
Non-fatal overdose reporting expansion
Using emergency medical services data, Nevada established a new surveillance case definition for non-fatal opioid overdoses that may have been missed by syndromic surveillance and hospital data. Use of the case definition allows for more enhanced overdose reporting mechanisms in northern Nevada's largest county.
- Swedo EA, Aslam MV, Dahlberg LL, Niolon PH, Simon TR, Guinn AS, Mercy JA. Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Adults – Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, 2011-2020. MMWR.
- Spencer MR, Miniño AM, Warner M. Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 2001–2021. NCHS Data Brief, no 457. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2022. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:122556
- NVSS – Drug Overdose Deaths