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By Jason DeParle, Photo: Maddie McGarvey, The New York Times, September 11, 2022 With little public notice and accelerating speed, child poverty fell by 59 percent from 1993 to 2019, according to a comprehensive new analysis that shows the critical role of increased government aid. WASHINGTON — For a generation or more, America’s high levels of child poverty set it apart from other rich nations, leaving millions of young people lacking support as basic as food and shelter amid mounting...

PACEs Connection's own Lara Kain will be speaking during this webinar focused on trauma-informed strategies in schools. Join 4CA and the following panel of leaders in this discussion about policy perspectives on implementing trauma-informed strategies in schools, including an update on California’s $4.1 billion investment in Community Schools. Janis Connallon, Senior Health Policy Associate, Children’s Defense Fund-CA Elena Costa, Program Coordinator, Essentials for Childhood Initiative,...

Please join us for our series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn. This series features a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection education consultant, with special guests on education-related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science-aware lens to examine what's going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system. October session,...

The Child Advocacy Studies program at Zero Abuse Project is hiring a CAST Program Manager. The CAST Manager will be primarily responsible for supporting the CAST Director in managing major aspects of a two-year federal grant program and its deliverables; serving as a training and technical assistance liaison for CAST institutions; and assisting with the coordination and delivery of CAST trainings, meetings, publications, and other related activities. More information on the position and how...

By Paula Span, Photo: Natosha Via for The New York Times, The New York Times, September 4, 2022 Many employees reduce their hours or stop working to help ailing family members. But it may be years before they fully return to the work force, studies indicate. At first, Dana Guthrie thought she could help care for her parents, whose health had begun to decline, and still hold onto her job administering a busy dental practice in Plant City, Fla. “It was a great-paying job and I didn’t want to...

By A. Andrews, Illustration: A. Andrews , The Washington Post, September 11, 2022 I’ve been thinking a lot about bootstrap culture: that American ideal that anyone should be able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” and succeed at anything. There’s a toxic root to the notion that we should all ascribe ourselves to impossible tasks. All of this affects life in a disabled body – a body that is constantly observed and assigned both too much expectation and little whatsoever. The mixed...

By Knvul Sheikh, Photo: Victor Moriyama for The New York Times, The New York Times, September 7, 2022 Recent research suggests that people who work out have stronger resistance to infectious diseases — including Covid — but experts say the findings need to be tested further. You’ve probably heard the advice: One of the best things you can do to keep healthy — especially as cold and flu season creeps up — is stay physically active. This folk wisdom has been around for ages, but until...

By Joan E Greve, Photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters, The Guardian, September 11, 2022 Long championed by climate activists, the green bank would provide funding to expand clean energy use across the US. Buried on page 667 of the Inflation Reduction Act is a climate policy that has been in the making for more than a decade. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund provides $27bn in funding for projects aimed at lowering America’s planet-heating emissions. Some of those funds, roughly $7bn, will be...

By Andrew Hertz, MD, and Keili Mistovich, MD, MPH , Medpage Today, September 8, 2022 The direct care subscription delivery model is rapidly growing. Hint Health, a national leader in the direct care space, identified an increase of patients receiving direct primary care by 241% and an increase of direct primary care clinicians by 159% over the past 4 years. Direct care (DC) reestablishes the primary relationship between doctors and patients without the involvement of insurance. Care is...

By Joel Warsh , Photo: Washington Post staff illustration/Getty Images/iStockphoto, The Washington Post , September 7, 2022 Joel Warsh is a pediatrician in Los Angeles specializing in integrative medicine. What decade are we in? A school district in southwestern Missouri has decided to bring back corporal punishment — otherwise known as spanking, in this case with paddles — as a way to discipline students. Parents in Cassville, Mo., learned recently that spanking would once again be allowed...

By Jakob McWhinney , Photo: Brittany Cruz-Fejeran for Voice of San Diego, Voice of San Diego , September 6, 2022 Godwin Higa is a longtime educator and principal celebrated for his spearheading of trauma-informed schools and restorative justice. But can his decades of experience make up for a lack of polish, institutional support and funding? Godwin Higa’s outreach strategy for the primary election for the sub-district B seat on the San Diego Unified School District board – which represents...

By David Robson, BBC, September 6, 2022 Our brain changes hugely during adolescence. New research shows how we can use this transformation to help teens achieve their potential. Parents and teachers of teens may recognise that sensation of dealing with a highly combustible mind. The teenage years can feel like a shocking transformation – a turning inside out of the mind and soul that renders the person unrecognisable from the child they once were. There's the hard-to-control mood swings,...