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On January 20, 2021 the California Department of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the C alifornia Department of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention (CDSS/OCAP)’s , Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative hosted a webinar entitled, “Creating Compelling Messaging with ACEs Data”. This webinar featured presentations from Shaddai Martinez Cuestas, MPH, Strategic Communications Specialist at Berkeley Media Studies Group ; Donielle Prince, Ph.D,...

By Leila Fadel, National Public Radio, January 21, 2021 On a recent Friday afternoon, the critical care charge nurse at a South Los Angeles hospital tries to send another nurse off to grab lunch. Maria Arechiga is interrupted by the beeping of an alarm, the vitals of a patient declining, organs failing. She dons a surgical gown and unzips a plastic tarp that hangs from the doorway of a hospital room — a makeshift isolation room on this floor temporarily transformed into a larger intensive...

By Josiah H. Brown, The CT Mirror, January 17, 2021 January is Mentoring Month , January 17 International Mentoring Day — with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday a day of service. (January is also Human Trafficking Awareness Month , underscoring one risk of a lack of positive mentoring and other adult presences in a young person’s life.) Supportive, cross-generational relationships help young people to develop socially/emotionally and academically—as well as adults to grow professionally and...

One of the ways we are expanding awareness of the ACEs Aware initiative is by hosting Facilitated Peer-to-Peer sessions for Medi-Cal and other providers in Orange County. ⁠ ⁠ These two-hour sessions are perfect for practitioners who want to learn more about action planning and strategic change in trauma-informed care and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on individuals and communities.⁠ ⁠ Join us on Wednesday 2.03.21. ⁠ ⁠ Topic: Provider Compassion: Coming to Terms with...

One of the ways we are expanding awareness of the ACEs Aware initiative is by hosting Facilitated Network-of-Care sessions for Medi-Cal and other providers in Orange County. ⁠ ⁠ These two hour sessions are perfect for practitioners who want to learn more about action planning and strategic change in trauma-informed care and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on individuals and communities.⁠ ⁠ Join us at one of the upcoming events on: Tuesday 01.26.2021 - 10-12 pm PST Tuesday...

As we wave goodbye to 2020 and warmly embrace a new year of ever growing community power and collective change, we want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for the great contributions that you have made to the Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Innovation Forum . When the NOW Innovation Forum was launched 2 years ago, the idea was that it served to promote shared learning and networking across the field by bringing together resources, stories, discussions,...

Worried that your child may be secretly cyberbullied? There are signs and changes in your child’s life that can serve as a telltale. This may include subtle or not-so-subtle behavioral changes in your child’s school and social life, how they handle the use of technology, and changes in their emotions and behaviors. You’re a parent, right? You know your child like the back of your hand. Their daily behavior and routine. And even if you find it hard to keep abreast with the latest toys (read:...

Posted on behalf of the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival team: Robin Cogan, The Relentless School Nurse Erin Connolly, Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP) Whitney Marris, Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP) Cissy White, ACEs Connection Thank you for signing up to attend the Dec. 15th discussion about parts one, two, and three of the Whole People documentary series about trauma which streamed on ACEs Connection . We are grateful to...

By Mark Hurtubise, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2021 For more than a decade, I was president and CEO of Inland Northwest Community Foundation (now known as Innovia). In early 2017, after I had announced my goal of pursuing other interests, we discovered overwhelming evidence to deny a donor-advisor’s recommendation of a grant. He wished to award it to VDare, a charity that supports white supremacy. The board approved the grant anyway. During my last six months as the...

By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, January 20, 2021 Amid escalating political tension nationwide, California’s school counselors are urging students, families and school staff — especially in politically conservative communities — to talk about the insurgency in Washington, D.C., and the importance of non-violent communication. While many teachers have used the Jan. 6 insurgency and the peaceful transfer of power as a lesson in history and politics, the topic has been decreed off-limits in some...

By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2021 Every college has its brag sheet. But the University of California has taken it to a whole new level with a 123-page report of exhaustive detail on jobs created, research performed, start-up businesses launched, tax dollars generated and students served. The report, released Tuesday, may not have the most lyrical title: The University of California Systemwide Economic, Fiscal and Social Impact Analysis. The data are mind-numbing: What...

From Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, January 2021 The pandemic has exposed a stubborn, harsh truth about life in America, and revealed glaring failures in our public policies. The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted the lives of everyone living in the United States and around the world, but the most severe health and economic impacts have been concentrated among people of color, those with low and middle incomes, and people who live in places that were already struggling financially before the...