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By Kurtis Lee, Photograph: Adam Perez for The New York Times, The Washington Post, September 10, 2022 Since 2020, four dozen pilot programs have started, with Los Angeles running one of the largest to provide cash assistance. Early in the pandemic, Alondra Barajas had a temporary job for the Census Bureau, doing phone work from the two-bedroom apartment she shared with her mother and four younger siblings. When that job ended in late 2020, she struggled to find employment. But Ms. Barajas...

By Tony Leys, Photograph: Tony Leys / KHN, Kaiser Health News, September 13, 2022 GLENWOOD, Iowa — Mike Lee’s way of life has faded away in most of the United States, and it soon will vanish from southwestern Iowa. Lee, 57, has spent 44 years at the Glenwood Resource Center, a state-run institution for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. He has autism and epilepsy, and his parents decided when he was 13 that he needed the structure and constant oversight offered by a...

By Mark Keierleber, Photograph: Joshua Bay/The 74; Kel-Tec/iStock, The 74, September 12, 2022 As districts nationwide bolster police in schools, a Florida sheriff plans to equip campus cops with collapsible rifles strapped to their chests. As children in Brevard County, Florida, shopped for notebooks and pencils for the upcoming school year, Sheriff Wayne Ivey geared up to — as he called it — “win the battle.” Just two days before students returned to classes at the coastal district east of...

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M4WqOGnzSru3UCIW_3qndw Starlings Community is a not-for-profit made of peers and allies who are inspiring a society that can protect the health and promote the healing of youth exposed to the stigma of a parent's substance use through advocacy, peer support, and knowledge mobilization. In this lunch and listen, Nevada Ouellette (Starlings' Partner), Cassandra Bandura (Starlings Youth Volunteer), Aryn Stretch (Starlings Youth...

Open Invitation to All Desiring Change to What Is Called Child Welfare The Kempe Center is excited to host the 2022 International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare. We will reconvene and expand the international community of practice with an expected 3000 participants from 20 countries gathering to debate, innovate, and discuss ways to transform child welfare and to re-imagine healthy, restorative, and healing ways of working with children and families. This...

The other day, I heard about a funder who was advised by a consultant to get “out of the ACEs bubble” and move on to something else. That’s like telling geologists to move on from plate tectonics (how continents ride on moving plates to cause earthquakes and volcanoes). Or telling biologists and physicians to move on from germ theory , which showed that bacteria and viruses cause disease, not “bad air” (!). The science of positive and adverse childhood experiences is just as revolutionary as...

“Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media”, published today, is available at a pre-launch discount of up to $1.96 (from the $28 cover price to $26.04) via independent bookstores . The book is the seventh by Donna Jackson Nakazawa, acclaimed author, science journalist, international speaker and longtime friend of PACEs Connection. Jackson will join PACEs Connection for our second “Connecting Communities One Book at a Time”...

Tune into History. Culture. Trauma. – 1pm PT Thursday, September 15 – Encore of Agnes Woodward discussing murdered and missing Indigenous women. For the month of September, PACEs Connection is taking a break. Our staff will celebrate Labor Day and take this month to restore ourselves. We have picked our most popular episodes to run this month. This week's favorite was chosen by staff member Jenna Quinn, coordinator and environmental justice consultant at PACEs Connection. In honor of the...

Hi. Honestly, this is one of the worst videos I've done. However, every moment of life matters, and so if it's just one of those days and you only have X amount of time, you do what you can and move on; and it should still be of benefit. Video description: Briefly, how Connect All works with being prepared and some of the free available materials. Link: https://youtu.be/kcTmyXXiDz8

Cuerpo y mente. How do you stay healthy? Mariela Herrera speaks (and sings) about mind and body health. We need sun, but what else do we need to be healthy? #TogetherTuesday https://youtu.be/Rnrpeny9fW4

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN, September 12, 2022 Put on your walking shoes and don’t forget your step counter: You can reduce your risk for cancer, heart disease and early death by getting up to 10,000 steps a day, but any amount of walking helps, according to a new study. Health benefits rose with every step, the study found, but peaked at 10,000 steps – after that the effects faded. Counting steps may be especially important for people who do unstructured, unplanned physical activity such as...

By Saundra Amrhein, Photo: Courtesy/Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Herald-Tribune, September 2, 2022 Rebecca Gannon looked into the blank stares of the homeless women she was trying to help. Even as the women sat quietly with fidgeting infants, Gannon sensed they couldn’t hear her, their emotions roiling inside. “It almost seems like they can’t understand the situation that I’m sharing,” Gannon said. Housing Crisis: New Sarasota-Manatee housing collaborative may offer immediate help to...