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By Megan Cattel, The Center for Public Integrity, August 25, 2020 After the Tubbs Fire in 2017, Anabel Garcia felt on edge every time an ambulance siren blared outside her home in Santa Rosa, California. Sirens reminded her of evacuating during the state’s second-deadliest wildfire , which killed 22 and destroyed 5,000 homes. Flames reached as close as five miles from her family’s house. “It terrified us,” Garcia said in Spanish. “But it was scarier having to go through it all a second...

CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY (CAA) , funded by ACEs Aware, is providing free online training to Medi-Cal providers and others featuring: Practical strategies for integrating trauma-informed health care into your team’s practice that improves patients’ well being and the productivity of your practice. Meet colleagues with experience and success providing trauma-informed health care in their practices. Learn from national and local experts. Talk to other professionals from your region in small...

From The Aspen Institute, August 2020 Record levels of job loss, economic instability, and family isolation during the pandemic have raised the child support policy stakes for fathers, families, and communities. Through careful and rigorous research, we know that there is a better way to approach child support policy to build strong families and communities. Across the country - states, counties, and tribes have embraced the research and are modernizing their child support programs through...

Photo credit: Xavier Mouton/Unsplash.com I missed out on hugs and cuddles. My mother, who was mentally ill, did not display affection. In second grade, I walked home from school with a friend. I remember watching as she ran up her front steps. Her mother would be waiting for her at the door with a smile. She’d open the door and wrap her arms around my friend. I was jealous. As explored in a previous post, young children need positive stimulation—back and forth interactions—from adults for...

By David J. Schonfeld, Marlene Melzer-Lange, Andrew N. Hashikawa, et al., Pediatrics, August 2020 Abstract Children and adolescents should be included in exercises and drills to the extent that their involvement advances readiness to meet their unique needs in the event of a crisis and/or furthers their own preparedness or resiliency. However, there is also a need to be cautious about the potential psychological risks and other unintended consequences of directly involving children in live...

By Phillip Reese, Kaiser Health News, August 26, 2020 It’s official, California: COVID-19 has left us sick with worry and increasingly despondent. And our youngest adults — ages 18 to 29 — are feeling it worst. Weekly surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau from late April through late July offer a grim view of the toll the pandemic has taken on the nation’s mental health. By late July, more than 44% of California adult respondents reported levels of anxiety and gloom typically...

By Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat, August 21, 2020 As America’s students head back into their virtual or real-life classrooms, new rules await. In Jacksonville, Florida, students who don’t wear a mask repeatedly could be removed from school and made to learn online. In some Texas districts, intentionally coughing on someone can be classified as assault. In Memphis, minor misbehaviors could land students in an online “supervised study.” It’s amounting to a flood of changes to school rules and...

By Rezvan Ameli, Ninet Sinaii, Colin P. West, et al., JAMA Network Open, August 25, 2020 Key Points Español 中文 (Chinese) Question Is a brief mindfulness-based program effective and feasible in reducing stress among health care professionals during work hours? Findings In this randomized clinical trial including 78 participants randomized to a 5-session (7.5-hour total) mindfulness program or a life-as-usual control, participants in the mindfulness program reported reduced stress and anxiety...

As the Executive Director of Watch Me Grow Inc., I plan to continue to have public discussions about the importance of investing in Early Childhood Education & our Youth and becoming Trauma-Informed so that we can create more healthy environments. Tonight at 6:30pm PST we will have a Facebook Live Discussion with an amazing Panel. Click the link to join 👉🏽https://www.facebook.com/watchmegrowinc707/

Loren McCullough, 8/26/20, positiveexperience.org/blog HOPE involves a change in mindset. For many of us, our professional training and inclinations lead us to discover risks, problems, and deficits. In this blog (the first from our new team member, Loren McCullough), we examine national data that points to severe problems with the food supply – as experienced by families. Hidden within the data, we also see evidence for hope. Family and community engagement have buffered some of these...

In this episode, Jeff and Matt define states and traits and explore how HRV measures both. HRV provides amazing insight to understand “How am I doing today?” “How am I doing this week?” “How am I doing this month?” We also discuss how HRV provides a powerful outcome for clinical care and managers. https://optimalhrv.com/podcast/measuring-states-and-traits-with-heart-rate-variability/

1. We have no national health care system to ensure vital and timely care for all in a pandemic. Actually, we do. It’s called Medicare for those over 65. It’s not brain surgery to see the urgent need for a Medicare-For-All system. If the feds won’t do it, then each state must design their own version (and some states have been working on this for decades). Without a system of care, many of our kids endure health disparities. 2. We have no national plan to ensure all health care providers...