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By Kelley Fong, The Imprint, September 20, 2020 For many parents, it’s their worst fear: a knock on the door from a state social worker with the power to take their children. With 1 in 3 children nationwide experiencing a Child Protective Services (CPS) investigation during childhood following a report of child maltreatment, this experience is all too common for U.S. families, especially Black and Native American families. Child maltreatment conjures images of critically injured or severely...

By Rumi Chunara, Yuan Zhao, Ji Chen, Katharine Lawrence, et al., Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, August 31, 2020 Abstract Objective Through the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, telemedicine became a necessary entry point into the process of diagnosis, triage and treatment. Racial and ethnic disparities in health care have been well documented in COVID-19 with respect to risk of infection and in-hospital outcomes once admitted, and here we assess...

By Margaret G. Parker, Arvin Garg, Margaret A. McConnell, JAMA Pediatrics, September 14, 2020 Two in 5 children are poor or nearly poor, and childhood poverty is a key social determinant of heath that is associated with negative health and developmental outcomes across the life course. In 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement on child poverty and health, emphasizing the importance of addressing poverty-related risk factors in the delivery of pediatric care.1...

County planning embedded clinicians for emergency responses By Zachary Clark Daily Journal staff Three San Mateo County police departments this year are expected to enter into a pilot program aimed at enhancing their response to mental health crises. The program will embed a full-time licensed mental health clinician within the San Mateo, South San Francisco and Redwood City police departments — there will likely be a total of four clinicians between the three cities — to respond along with...

ACEs Connection was today awarded a $500,000 grant from Blue Shield of California Foundation for its work to support communities and families in these challenging times.

Live, Interactive Online Workshop. Get the experience and tools to overcome the equity challenges in your data. Few people intentionally use data to make racist, or sexist, or unethical decisions. However, it’s very easy to do so accidentally. This has serious consequences for communities, policies, individuals, and organizations. From regular citizens, to decision makers, to CEOs, to tech workers, we all need a toolkit for embedding equity and ethics on our data products. What you'll get:...

When you can’t do what you want, do what you can! This was the title of a song that was sent to me from a fan of our courses. The song was inspired by the country’s amazing feats of creativity during pandemic quarantining. It’s the perfect fight song for CRI’s upcoming virtual course. Course 2: Trauma-Supportive Certification offers more than 30 strategies to foster resilience in your family, workplace, or community. Several of the strategies were specifically designed to address the impact...

The School Crisis Recovery and Renewal project Supporting students, educators, school staff, and school-based clinicians to effectively implement trauma-informed crisis recovery and renewal strategies. The School Crisis Recovery & Renewal (SCRR) project is a new initiative that launched June 2020. Funded by SAMHSA, the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal (SCRR) is a National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Treatment and Services Adaptation Center (Category II, 2020-2025).

Svensson is no stranger to trauma. She attributes her ACE score of 2 to when her parents, living in Bakersfield, adopted an older, trouble-ridden sixth-grade boy for five years, starting when she was in first grade.

Student suspension rates dropped. Teacher retention rose. Membership in the PTA swelled from zero to more than 200. More kids said in a survey that there was at least one adult at school whom they could talk to if they had a problem. The data—a comparison of the Bounce Coalition’s pilot school and one with similar demographics—told the Kentucky resilience-boosting group that they were on the right track. The Bounce Coalition formed in 2014; the catalyst was a grant from the Foundation for a...

This story is part of an occasional series about California-based pediatricians who are incorporating ACEs screening into their practices. In the first installment published in May, which you can find here , Dr. Amy Shekarchi and other team members had just launched their ACEs screening by phone. A community health worker from a clinic affiliated with Los Angeles County’s Department of Health Care Services recently called a teenage patient to find out if she ever felt unsafe in her home or...

Social science evidence from the National Survey of Children's Health helps place California's ACE screening mandate in context. The data suggest California does not do well in providing developmental screening in pediatric care -- a much more direct method than ACE screening to detect problems arising from toxic stress and adversity. See https://www.acesconnection.com/blog/painful-questions-what-happens-when-doctors-uncover-adverse-childhood-experiences