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Solving America's Solar Inequality Starts In the Neighborhood [bloomberg.com]

By Saijel Kishan, Bloomberg Green, January 26, 2021 The indifference of middle-aged, White car salesmen gave Kristal Hansley her start in green energy. She had just finished a stint on Capitol Hill in the summer of 2017, when she started working at a Chevy dealership outside of Baltimore. She was the only Black woman on the showroom floor. Her coworkers, mostly White men, were more interested in selling Corvettes and Silverados than the electric vehicles on show. So Hansley carved out a...

Helping Kids Is a Very Good Idea [nytimes.com]

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 25, 2021 Some things about American politics are completely predictable, even in a time of insurrection and QAnon craziness. Anyone who has been paying attention over the past decade knew that as soon as a Democrat took the White House, Republicans would instantly do another 180-degree turn on budget deficits. Remember, the G.O.P. went from hyperventilating about debt as an existential threat during the Obama years to complete indifference about...

Sonoma State receives near $5 million from NASA to engage autistic learners in STEM [news.sonoma.edu]

By Nate Galvan, Sonoma State University News, January 26, 2021 Sonoma State University has been awarded $4.96 million from NASA to design and implement a program that will engage students on the autism spectrum in informal STEM learning. NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) aims to broaden participation in NASA programs to include autistic and other learners with neurological differences. As part of NASA’s Science Activation Program , which is composed of teams across the nation to help...

They Lost Sons To Drug Overdoses: How The Pandemic May Be Fueling Deaths Of Despair [npr.org]

By Scott Horsley, National Public Radio, January 26, 2021 Karen Butcher's son Matthew struggled for years with an addiction to opioids. She's convinced the pandemic made it worse. The restaurant in Scott County, Ky., where Matthew worked as a bartender closed before the pandemic, and soon other establishments, from restaurants to stores, followed suit as states imposed lockdowns. "One day you're a bartender and you're serving people and having a great time at it, and then the next day the...

Brain Cells That Help Drive Bodily Reaction to Fear, Anxiety Identified - Neuroscience Breakthrough Could Lead to Mental Health [scitechdaily.com]

From University of North Carolina Health Care, January 23, 2021 A feat of basic neuroscience co-led by UNC School of Medicine scientists, the discovery of a set of arousal-related neurons could help scientists develop better treatments for anxiety disorders, psychiatric illnesses. Strong emotions such as fear and anxiety tend to be accompanied and reinforced by measurable bodily changes including increased blood pressure, heart rate and respiration, and dilation of the eyes’ pupils. These...

Prematurity: Transdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Early Trauma in Babies

Nearly one in 10 people born in the United States is premature (birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy), and its complications are the number one cause of death in babies. Those who survive premature birth often have long-term health issues. Surprisingly, the United States has one of the worst premature birth rates among high-resource nations (Source: March of Dimes ). Research has also shown that the countries with the highest prematurity rates also have high rates of depression and alcoholism...

CASEL Competencies for Educator Wellness

With 12 years of experience in social and emotional learning education, Dovetail Learning realized that promoting an SEL program for children was not addressing the educators’ core SEL challenge. We have learned that the best way to help children is to ensure that the adults who serve them have strong Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and resilience skills . We Are Resilient™ was created to meet that need. We know that “ stress affects teachers’ health and well-being, job satisfaction, job...

Join the Catalyst Center for our ACEs Aware Regional Provider Trainings! [catalyst-center.org]

From The Catalyst Center, January 27, 2021 Through this training, you will gain insight and tools on ACEs, Toxic Stress, ACE screening, and unique populations experiencing ACEs, to then identify and engage community-based services to provide a warm handoff for patients and their families. Our ACEs Aware provider trainings will begin with the Orange County region on February 22nd, 2021. [ Please click here to register for the Provider Trainings .] We also invite ALL to join our regional...

Participate in a New Research Project for 18-26 Year-Old Parents Formerly in Foster Care [cssp.org]

By Center for the Study of Social Policy, January 26, 2021 Healthy Teen Network is currently seeking 18-26 year-old parents, who were in foster care around age 17, or have "aged-out" of the system, to participate in a new research projects centering and understanding the needs of young parents during the pandemic. Participants will receive compensation of $50 or $95, depending on how they choose to engage with the project. View the complete flyer here. For those interested, please email...

A Conversation on the History of Racism in Child Welfare

By First Focus on Children, January 26, 2021 Join us for a conversation with First Focus for Children and the Center for the Study of Social Policy to examine the history of racism within the child welfare system on Friday, January 29th at 12:00pm EST. This is the first in a series of public conversations on child welfare and race equity. You can tune in to the conversation on Facebook Live on January 29th — and we invite you to join us using # FosterUnderstanding . [ Please click here to...

Street Medicine Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic [chcf.org]

By Center for Health Care Strategies, California Health Care Foundation, January 11, 2021 Within California, 70% of the approximately 150,000 people experiencing homelessness are living unsheltered, according to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report developed by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Street medicine is the practice of providing basic medical care to people experiencing homelessness and living on the street. What began in the early 1990s with the recognition that...

ACEs Aware in Action: January Newsletter [acesaware.org]

ACEs Aware in Action Join the Movement to Screen, Treat, and Heal California patients, health care providers, and communities have weathered many storms over the past year. Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and responding to the symptoms of toxic stress will improve patient health now and in the future, unlocking the potential of an entire generation. Join the movement today to become ACEs Aware. ACEs Aware Announces Grant Awards to Support Trauma-Informed Networks of Care...

California's ACEs Aware Initiative Awards $30.8 Million in Grant Funds to Strengthen Trauma-Informed Networks of Care [acesaware.org]

Further expanding the reach and impact of the ACEs Aware initiative , the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in partnership with the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG), today awarded $30.8 million in ACEs Aware grant funds to 35 organizations across California. The grants will help build and strengthen robust networks of care to effectively respond to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress with community-based health and social supports that meet the...

8 Categories of Adversity That Shape Health: ACEs, ABEs, Discrimination and More

ACEs science is waking the world up to the role of adversity - big and small, overt and covert, from acts of commission as well as acts of omission - as one of the most important non-genetic risk factors for chronic illness and other conditions that keep people from reaching their full potential. It is also paving the way for recognizing the role of other categories of adversity that shape health. Here are 7 additional categories of adversity that shape and influence health and more

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