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Texas Teachers Go Door to Door as Kids Disappear From Remote Classes [the74million.org]

By Bekah McNeel, The 74, March 3, 2021 Middle school teacher Brandee Brandt pounded on the door of a ground level apartment in San Antonio, Texas for the third time one January afternoon in search of one of her students. “It’s Ms. Brandt! Davey, are you there?” she called, her face close to the apartment door. She could hear voices inside, and finally Davey’s older brother cracked open the door. [ Please click here to read more .]

Strategies and Options for Creating an Advanced Health Delivery System: Lessons Learned in CA [jdsupra.com]

By Jocelyn Guyer, Alice Lam, and Madeleine Toups, JD Supra, March 1, 2021 California’s long-standing efforts to promote child development and kindergarten readiness have brought greater focus to the vital role of child health in realizing the full strength of these critical state investments. As a large and diverse state, with 5 million children enrolled in Medi Cal – including 64 percent of all children under the age of 5 - policy and practice innovations originating in California that...

One Year In: Optimism, Advice for Dealing with Stress and Anxiety From the Pandemic [today.duke.edu]

By Eric Ferreri, Duke Today, March 3, 2021 The mental health challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have overwhelmed many Americans. The stress and anxiety from sickness, lost employment and a pivot for children and parents to isolated, virtual schooling has had a devastating cumulative effect. As the first anniversary of the pandemic approaches, three Duke experts reflected Wednesday on the impact it has had on various aspects of mental health during University Communications’...

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Dropped Dramatically Since January, But Can We Keep Them Down? [npr.org]

By Will Stone, National Public Radio, Febaruay 26, 2021 With coronavirus infections on a steady, six weeks long descent in the U.S., it's clear the worst days of the brutal winter surge have waned. Yet researchers are still not sure how sustainable the decline is. And a small but concerning uptick in cases in the last three days has health officials on edge. So what caused the massive decline since January, and what can the U.S. do to ensure that it lasts? New infections have fallen close to...

Supporting Families of Color: How Racial and Complex Trauma Affect Parents of Color Navigating Family Court During the Time of COVID and Beyond — A Report by Tricia Stephens, LCSW-R, Ph.D.

By Tricia Stephens, Rise, June 24, 2020 This report is intended to provide family court officers and child welfare professionals who engage with child welfare involved (CWI) parents, introductory knowledge on the trauma-informed approach. Readers will be introduced to the importance of using the trauma-informed approach in their work with CWI parents, with a focus on the impact that language has on the way in which CWI parents are depicted and responded to in the courtroom. Definitions of...

Free Interactive Workshop - Advocating for Trauma-Informed Care: Teachers and Caregivers

Just TWO WEEKS away! The March free, interactive workshop will help teachers and caregivers explore strategies to advocate for trauma-informed care practices at their school. Join me on March 17th at 4pm PT/7pm ET for this workshop! Based on past participant feedback, the workshop is scheduled for 1.5 hours. A certificate of completion for the workshop is available upon request. The workshop will be recorded and sent out to all registrants. Register at http://bit.ly/risemar21 . You can find...

Separation Anxiety - Parenting Center Tip of the Week [mountsinaiparenting.org]

From Mount Sinai Parenting Center, March 3, 2021 Separation Anxiety This week's tip comes from our partners at Zero to Three! Separation anxiety is an expected part of early childhood development, starting around 7-9 months of age. Here's how to help parents who are struggling with difficult goodbyes: Your baby has gotten used to you as "their" person. You respond when they cry, offer a bottle or a diaper change, and soothe them back to sleep. Up until now, they have been okay with other...

Scholarship opportunity for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Pacific Islander youth leaders [preventioninstitute.org]

PI partners on the Stronger Scholarship, which will award three $7,000 scholarships to young health equity changemakers Young people are actively changing the world. They bring new ideas, strategies, and perspectives to issues our communities have been struggling to overcome for decades. Young people are taking to the streets, mobilizing, and speaking out against racial injustices, health inequities, and environmental racism—all with heart, hope, and vision. In recognition of the important...

Let's Continue Learning Together as a Community! Early Registration Ends Friday (Creating a Resilient Community Conference)

As a community, we have been reading Donna Jackson Nakazawa's book, Childhood Disrupted as part of our Common Read initiative. Now, we will get to experience her research directly and deepen our learning together at the Creating a Resilient Community Conference on April 20 - 21, 2021! Early Registration Ends Friday! REGISTER HERE The Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College, Early Learning Coalition of Orange County, Creating a Resilient Community Network and Title Sponsor, Orlando...

Southern states top list of worst states for kids during the pandemic, Save the Children finds [cbsnews.com]

By Audrey McNamara, CBS News, March 2, 2021 A new report from Save the Children found that Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and New Mexico ranked as the worst states for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Louisiana and Mississippi consistently placed in the bottom 10 of states for the last five months of 2020. Save the Children ranked states based on data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau's bi-weekly Household Pulse Survey . The resulting report, "Childhood in the Time of COVID," analyzed...

New Data Reports on ACEs Aware Training and Screening [acesaware.org]

New data reports are now available that detail the number of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screenings conducted in California between January 1 and June 30, 2020, and the number of providers who have completed the “ Becoming ACEs Aware in California ” core online training. Since launching the ACEs Aware initiative in December 2019, more than 15,500 providers have taken the training. About 9,100 Medi-Cal providers in California have attested to completing the training and are receiving...

Housing Projects And Empty Lots. How Chanell Stone is Reframing Nature Photography [npr.org]

By Will Matsuda, National Public Radio, February 27, 2021 When most people think about traditional nature photography, black and white images of towering mountains and rushing rivers in the American West are often what comes to mind. It's a genre that was made popular by men like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, whose work in the early 1900s often positioned the natural world as something that is remote, wild and untouched. But missing from this tradition is another kind of landscape — the...

How one documentary reframes the history of Black women [cnn.com]

By Leah Asmelash, CNN, March 1, 2021 Black women are the mules of the world, Zora Neale Hurston wrote in 1937. More than 80 years later, Hurston's words in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" still ring true, but one filmmaker is on a journey to both expose that truth and alleviate it. Oge Egbuonu's new documentary, "(In)visible Portraits," is what she calls a love letter to Black women, and a reeducation for everyone else. The 90-minute feature, set to premiere on Oprah Winfrey's OWN on March 2,...

Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests [scientificamerican.com]

By Jim Daley, Scientific American, March 1, 2021 Since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S. Now a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred. Black Lives Matter (BLM) began when Oakland, Calif.–based activist Alicia Garza posted a message of protest on Facebook after George...

Youths of color are our future. Investing in their mental health must be taken seriously [statnews.com]

By Margarita Alegría, STAT, February 9, 2021 Gonzales is a small city in central California populated mostly by Latino immigrant families and farmworkers. Like other places, it has felt the weight of the coronavirus pandemic. When Covid-19 hit, the city’s youth council conducted an online mental health survey of middle and high schoolers. The students received an overwhelming response that revealed high levels of anxiety symptoms and stress among their peers. The findings were a wake-up call...

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