California’s adolescent birth rate has dropped to another record low, although not Nevada County. In 2015, there were 17.6 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19, the latest numbers available, a 10% decline from the previous year. But Nevada County’s rate was up about a point-and-a-half, at 11.2. However, the rate for 2013-2015 is the 7th lowest among the state’s 58 counties, at 11.3. The Director of Nursing at the County Health Department is Cindy Wilson. She says there are a lot of caring adults in the area, especially at the schools, which are also keeping teens busy…

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Wilson says it also helps that this is a fairly close-knit area, where a lot of people know each other…

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Most smaller, rural foothill counties also continue to have low teen birth rates. 3-year rates are even lower in Placer County, at 8.3, and in El Dorado County, at 9.2.