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By Rachel Rosenberg and Alaina Flannigan, Child Trends, October 15, 2020 The data provided through the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) is critical to shaping the services and supports available to young people as they transition out of foster care and begin to live independently. While earlier briefs in this series have highlighted ways in which the research community can use the NYTD data, survey administrators (state and federal) should also strive for a better understanding...

By Elena Moore, National Public Radio, October 16, 2020 Key priorities Joe Biden Make public colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions tuition-free for families making less than $125,000. Make two years of community college and training programs tuition-free. Cancel $10,000 of every American's student debt and revise the current loan repayment system. Establish universal prekindergarten. Read details of Biden's plans below. Donald Trump...

By Xenia Shih Bion, California Health Care Foundation, October 19, 2020 When California’s statewide stay-at-home order took effect in March, Orlando Ruiz lost his job at a landscaping company, and he panicked because he was the only full-time worker in his household. Ruiz, who emigrated from Guatemala seven years ago, shares a house in East Oakland with his wife and two children, his two brothers, and his parents. His brothers assured him that they could cover the rent with part-time jobs,...

ACEs Connection race and equity workgroup staff reflect on our process thus far.

The Association between ACEs and Criminal Justice Involvement: Becoming Trauma Informed: An Essential Element for Justice Settings Webinar Series Dates and Times: The Association between ACEs and Criminal Justice Involvement: October 26, 2020 Trauma-Informed Treatment and Theory: November 2, 2020 Becoming Trauma Informed and Moving to Trauma Responsive: November 9, 2020 Webinar Start Times (All Sessions): 10-11:15 am PT/ 11am-1:15pm MT/ 12-1:15pm CT/ 1-2:15 pm ET Each session is 75 minutes.

Don't miss tomorrow's discussion on how to build equity into your network Networks are a way for people and organizations to come together to find solutions to complex problems. How can you create intentional partnerships that uphold the values, practices, and systems that support equity? Join our webinar tomorrow, October 20, to learn from Abby Charles, the program director for our partners at the Institute for Public Health Innovation, who will talk about the networked way of working and...

The 2020 Pediatric Brain Health Summit, which is online and free to attend, is part of the Texas Pediatric Brain Health Initiative, a multi-sector, multi-agency collaboration focused on the prenatal to three-year-old developmental window. The purpose of the initiative is to use the current science on pediatric brain development to help inform and support programs that promote community resilience and optimal development in Texas’ children. The purpose of the 2020 Pediatric Brain Health...

Thursday, November 5, 2020 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (PT) Megan Gerber, MD, MPH is a general internist with a career-long focus on the medical care of trauma exposed women. She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and Medical Director of Women’s Health at VA Boston. She holds an adjunct appointment as Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on optimizing medical outcomes for women who have experienced trauma as well as adapting systems of...

Changemakers unite! Now is the time for a trauma-informed approach to healing and personal growth. The reinvention of the new normal starts with you!

“Anxiety is soul chatter . It’s your soul recognizing that two values are in conflict, or something that is deeply important to you is not getting the time or energy it needs.” - Brandon Wert The opening quote from my dear partner is a generous, kind description of one aspect of the human experience. It invites curiosity rather than judgement. It seeks understanding rather than a narrow view. It assures that the fullness of a person’s experience is welcome, and this moment is not defining.

By James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, et al., ProPublica, October 15, 2020 At 7:47 a.m. on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, Dr. Jay Butler pounded out a grim email to colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Butler, then the head of the agency’s coronavirus response, and his team had been trying to craft guidance to help Americans return safely to worship amid worries that two of its greatest comforts — the chanting of prayers and singing...

By Theresa Harrington, EdSource, October 16, 2020 Deep into the pandemic, some districts are finding an alarming percentage of students are missing from the virtual classroom — with the worst absentee rates occurring among homeless students, foster youth, English learners, Black students and high school seniors. Now some districts, such as West Contra Costa and Oakland Unified in the San Francisco Bay Area, are scrambling to find ways to track down and re-engage students and provide them...