Gary Evans documents how environmental poverty contributes to ACEs
The accumulation of multiple environmental risks creates pathways from poverty to low academic achievement and limited upward mobility. This is similar to the ACEs model.
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Early Bird Registration Open for 4th Annual CRC Conference [valenciacollege.edu]
Thursday, April 21st, 2022 Dr. Asim Jani - "Let's Make the Shift!" Building a resilient, trauma-informed community involves responding to the challenges inherent in all three realms of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) - household, community, and environment. By definition, these realms respectively include the broad range of individual, social, and climatic determinants of overall health. Looking at existing and emerging problems, regardless of which realm they relate to, involves a...
Hannah Institute Summit 2022 Launches [hannahcenter.org]
The Hanna Institute Summit is an immersive, multi-day, fully virtual conference focused on learning and sharing new and proven approaches to trauma-informed care. In 2022, the Summit will focus on community violence and will offer a profound opportunity for deep learning, evolution and healing within our collective communities. We invite you to hear from leaders and activists in the field, and lean in to meaningful - at times, uncomfortable - learning to unearth legacies and practices that...
HOPE Block by Block - Environment with Dr. Wendy Ellis [positiveexperience.org/category/blog/]
By The HOPE Team, 2/15/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Dr. Wendy Ellis , joins HOPE’s Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Amanda Winn, for the second vlog in our new series, HOPE Block by Block. This series highlights the work of Black practitioners, scholars, researchers, and community activists during the month of February. In this second episode, Dr. Ellis will address the HOPE building block of environment. The environment building block is about children...
February 18, 2022 - Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities
Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities February 18, 2022 - 1pm to 5pm ET/10am to 2pm PT Panel 1: Transformative Justice Grant-funded workshop provided by Mazzoni Center and WOAR. This workshop will give a foundational look at transformative justice with the goal of better understanding how to support people who have experienced violence through community-based approaches. The audience will learn about the core tenets of transformative...
'Into The Depths' podcast follows Black divers in search for slave trade shipwrecks [npr.org]
By Michel Martin, Photo: Unsplash, National Public Radio, February 12, 2022 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts about her new podcast Into The Depths , about a team of Black divers exploring the ruins of slave ships in the ocean. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, a key chapter in the origin story of Africans in America took place over water. Historians estimate that some 36,000 ships brought nearly 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean,...
When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord [propublica.org]
By Heather Vogell, Image: Matthew Kam/ProPublica, ProPublica, February 7, 2022 Daniel Cooper could barely afford a tiny apartment at the 13-story Olume building in downtown San Francisco. But the expansive view from the roof deck captivated him. Raised in a small city in Kentucky, Cooper was struck by the grandeur of the skyline before him, from the soaring heights of Salesforce tower, San Francisco’s largest skyscraper, to the gleaming gold cupolas atop St. Joseph’s Church, one of the...
Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem [theatlantic.com]
By Matthew Hindman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Trevor Davis, Image: Ben Clarkson, The Atlantic, February 10, 2022 I f you want to understand why Facebook too often is a cesspool of hate and disinformation, a good place to start is with users such as John, Michelle, and Calvin. John, a caps-lock devotee from upstate New York, calls House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “PIGLOSI,” uses the term negro , and says that the right response to Democrats with whom they disagree is to “SHOOT all of them.” Michelle...
With Bike Buses, Kid Cyclists Dominate the Road [bloomberg.com]
By Maxwell Adler, Photo: Bryan Banducci/Bloomberg, Bloomberg City Lab, February 10, 2022 A man in a Superman costume and a child on a tricked-out tricycle, affectionately nicknamed “trek-ceratops,” stood out among the pack of cyclists riding right down the middle of JFK Drive in San Francisco on their way to school. Two parents sped ahead to the intersection at the corner of 11th and Mission to block off traffic. No police escort was present. And music blasted from the speakers on...
Developmental milestones just changed for the first time in years [washingtonpost.com]
By Jackie Spinner, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, February 10, 2022 For the first time in decades, the nation’s top pediatricians have changed the checklist of developmental milestones for infants and young children to make it easier to identify delays that could be a sign of autism or other social-communication disabilities. The updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made with the American Academy of Pediatrics, raised the percentage of children who typically meet...
Forward-Facing Face to Face: Professional Resilience An Evening with Friends
Forward-Facing Face to Face: Professional Resilience An Evening with Friends Tuesday, March 1, 2022 5:00 PM (PST) Join Dr. Gentry as he welcomes General Kathleen Flarity, PhD, DNP and Jeffrey “Jim” Dietz, MD for a one-hour conversation about professional resilience in the 21 st Century. The presentation is entirely free of charge. Dr. Kathleen Flarity, DNP, PhD, CEN, CFRN, FAEN, FAAN is the Deputy Director of the CU Anschutz Center for COMBAT (COmbat Medicine and BATtlefield) Research.
Workshop REMINDER: Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities - Friday, February 18, 2022 @ 1pm EST
We are excited to present the fourth action-packed workshop session this Friday and we hope you can make it! Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities February 18, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT Panel 1: Transformative Justice A grant-funded workshop provided by Mazzoni Center and WOAR/Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence will give a foundational look at transformative justice with the goal of better understanding how to support people who...
Anti-Black Racism and the Threat to American Health | February 23, 2022 [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
WHEN : Feb. 23, 2022, from 10 a.m.-11 a.m. PT / 1-2 p.m. ET Racial and ethnic minorities in America experience a lower quality of health services, and are less likely to receive even routine medical procedures than are white Americans, a seminal report led by Brian Smedley, Ph.D., concluded in 2003. Nearly two decades since that damning Institute of Medicine finding, the fundamental problems of systemic racism in the U.S. health care system remain unchanged, just one aspect of a much broader...
📣 Call for proposals: ZERO TO THREE Virtual Annual Conference 2022 [zerotothree.org]
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Help advance the field by sharing your unique experience. ZERO TO THREE’s Virtual Conference is the go-to event for professionals from across the early childhood field seeking to advance their knowledge and practice. The conference’s range of online learning experiences is designed to offer the very latest research, promising practices, and policy strategies. Proposals will be considered for presentations ranging from 10–75 minutes featuring content relevant to...
CDC proposes new prescription opioid guidelines for caregivers [washingtonpost.com]
By Lenny Bernstein, Photo: Keith Srakocic/Associated Press, The Washington Post, February 10, 2022 The federal government on Thursday proposed new guidelines for prescribing opioids that would eliminate numerical dosage recommendations for treatment of chronic pain in favor of a more flexible approach by caregivers. The recommendations call for doctors and other prescribers to weigh the risks and benefits of starting, increasing and halting treatment with opioids. They leave out previous...