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In case it is of interest to you, please see the message below from the California Department of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention (CDSS/OCAP): If you applied to the Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting Task Force but were not selected (see following announcement), there is still an opportunity to be a part of the shift towards community supporting efforts! The OCAP is thrilled to announce that the Online Mandated Reporter Training will be undergoing a redesign to align...

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at the Arcosa Wind Towers, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. Grisham on Friday, Sept. 8, issued an emergency public health order that suspends the open and permitted concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque for 30 days in the midst of a spate of gun violence. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) By Morgan Lee, Associated Press, September 9, 2023 New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry...

AC Care Alliance care navigator Nikki High, left, visits with a client family at her home in Gardena, California. Photo: Harrison Hill By Heather Stringer, California Health Care Foundation, August 25, 2023 Leslie Arnold’s 87-year-old mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 10 years ago, and caring for her has become increasingly difficult as the disease has progressed. Sometimes his mother is resistant to changing out of soiled clothes or going to bed, and she stays up reorganizing...

Cares volunteer Laurel Paltier, left, works with Baltimore residents looking for help with their electricity bills at the GEDCO building in Baltimore on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. Credit: Jessica Gallagher/The Baltimore Banner. By Aman Azhar, Inside Climate News, September 11, 2023 Laurel Peltier fumed and half-muttered an expletive as she pondered the case of Teresa McFadden, 58, a Black woman who stood perplexed on the other side of the reception desk at Cares, a nonprofit helping...

By Michael Fitzgerald, Photo: Lado2016/Adobe Stock, The Imprint, August 30, 2023 In a rare mention of foster youth during a White House briefing in May, a spokesperson for President Joe Biden made the case for easing the daily struggles of young adults aging out of the U.S. foster care system. New federal rules will soon expand work requirements for food stamps for more unemployed adults. But “at the President’s insistence,” the White House official said, a deal had been struck with...

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Anxiety rooted in the hidden wounds from childhood need not be a lifelong sentence. A combination of effective strategies offer hope and help to alleviate anxious conditions, including excessive worry and panic attacks, that originate in childhood.

Hi All, Want to share the recently updated "Informing A Provider: Some available information and tools for Mental Health providers, for a child or youth with a developmental delay or/and a disability who has experienced trauma." For those of you unfamiliar with the document: If we look at what trauma treatment is available for individuals with a developmental delay or/and a disability, some of the gaps we see are: For mental health providers: May not be aware of what information and tools...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Egge MK. Medical Child Abuse: A Review by Subspecialty. Adv Pediatr. 2023;70(1):59-80. PMID: 37422298 “Medical child abuse (MCA), formerly...

Wendy Samford, PhD, is a consultant for the Florida Handle With Care (HWC) program, and will be sharing her passion and understanding of this program with the PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities today at 10 a.m. PT/ 1 ET. HWC is simple. If the police are called to a home, and there are children present, they send a notice that says Handle With Care to the school so that the school personnel are aware that something traumatic happened to that child and to treat them accordingly. Being...

“Play is a child’s work,” explained Katie Bierch, the FamilyWise Parent Support Services Manager. “Through play we’re teaching core life skills, problem-solving skills, cooperation, building respect between parent and child."

By Kaytee Gillis, Image: Siska/Pixabay, Psychology Today, September 10, 2023 Chris plopped down on the couch, hands never moving from their position crossed in front of his chest. "I don't see any point in talking about all of this, it's in the past." "Maybe so. But do you feel like it affects you today?" I gently nudged, not wanting to acknowledge the elephant in the room: his estrangement from his wife and kids. "I don't see how that has anything to do with it..." Chris continued, but I...