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By Aimee Picchi, Image: Screenshot from article, CBS News, February 10, 2023 A "hunger cliff" is looming for millions of Americans, with 32 states set to slash food-stamp benefits beginning in March. The cuts will impact more than 30 million people who are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in those states, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Among the states where recipients are facing cuts are California and Texas, which have greatest...

By Hannah Saunders, State of Reform, February 6, 2023 A new partnership will make mental telehealth services available to over one million students in K-12 public schools in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE), LA Care Health Plan, Health Net, and the LA County Department of Mental Health will use school-based telehealth company, Hazel Health , to provide free mental health support for students, creating shorter wait times to connect with qualified...

“This has been a really good talk on some of the variables related to/associated with the negative holistic health and wellness impacts of historical trauma upon BIPOC Communities. This a great intro-segue into the much larger dialogue of deconstructing and healing from ‘The Conditioning’ we all knowingly or unknowingly are experiencing. Thank you for your service,” remarked one attendant during PACEs Connections’ recent Historical Trauma in the American Northwest event. Facilitated by...

By Barbara J. King, Photo: Michael Probst/AP, National Public Radio, February 9, 2023 Climate activist Greta Thunberg who, at age 15, led school strikes every Friday in her home country of Sweden — a practice that caught on globally — has now, at 20, managed to bring together more than 100 scientists, environmental activists, journalists and writers to lay out exactly how and why it's clear that the climate crisis is happening. Impressively, in The Climate Book, Thunberg and team — which...

By Rhonda Crowder, Photo: Rhonda Crowder/Ideastream Public Media, Ideastream Public Media, February 7, 2023 More than three decades ago, Dr. Robert Needlman decided if he was going to improve the health outcomes of his patients he was going to have to fight illiteracy. “There is an association between racial disadvantage and low literacy and poor health outcomes,” said Needlman, now a pediatric physician at MetroHealth in Cleveland. It was a nexus at which he thought he could intervene. In...

By Adam Beam, Photo: Associated Press, Associated Press, February 9, 2023 A five-year experiment aimed at improving care for some of California’s most at-risk Medicaid patients — including homeless people and people with severe drug addictions — resulted in fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits that saved taxpayers an estimated $383 per patient per year, according to a review released Wednesday. The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research said that for every 1,000 people enrolled...

By Alec MacGillis, Rahim Fortune/The New Yorker, The New Yorker, February 6, 2023 Corey Winfield was ten when he saw someone get shot for the first time. He and a friend were marching around with a drum in the Park Heights section of Northwest Baltimore, and a few older guys asked if they could use it; while they were doing so, someone came up and shot one of them in the back, paralyzing him. At eleven, Corey found his first gun, in an alley near his school. He sold it to a friend’s older...

By Mark Swartz, Early Learning Nation, February 8, 2023 A decade ago, early childhood advocacy could be a lonely pursuit. “It felt like we were talking to an empty auditorium,” says Bruce D. Perry, MD, Ph.D. “Now there are more people in the auditorium. They’re recognizing the power of early childhood, the importance of creating policy and practice that will benefit children and that will meet the needs of the adults who are caring for young children.” Perry is best known as the co-author,...

By The HOPE Team, 2/9/2023, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ At the HOPE National Resource Center we talk a lot about how our cultural history and celebrating our heritage provides many opportunities for positive childhood experiences (PCEs). Black History Month provides a time for intentional celebration of Black history and Black cultures. Learning about our history connects us to our past and shares the ways that Black people have influenced our history as a nation.

I am new to this community but I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Connie Davis, and I am the founder of Kairos Digital Commerce Consulting . I am a widow, mother of three, and grandmother, and serve on the board of NPEIV . I am also a love & authenticity practitioner, a member of the St Pete Chamber of Commerce, a course creator for Women in Blockchain Talks , and a volunteer on the Presidents Advisory Council of Paytech Women because I believe that money is at the center of every...

By Charles Bethea, Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press, The New Yorker, February 7, 2023 In late January, at Greenland Pines Elementary, kids attended a party for an annual event called Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! There was an escape room and food trucks. Brian Covey, an entrepreneur in his late thirties, came to pick up his daughter, who’s in second grade, and his son, who’s in fifth. His kids looked confused. “Did you hear what happened at school today?” his daughter asked.

By Asher Lehrer-Small, The74, February 7, 2023 Growing up in northern Vermont, people who looked like Irian Adii were few and far between. She recalls that her all-white second-grade classmates spread the rumor that the young girl, who has a Black father and white mother, was sick and contagious. “No one would touch what I touched because they thought someone that looked like me must have been, like, riddled with disease,” Adii said. One peer told her to change her skin color like pop...