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January 2021

Advancing Parenting

Advancing Parenting is a Camarillo, CA nonprofit organization pioneering a new kind of aces prevention/parenting education...one that reaches everyone, everywhere, all the time. Below is a sample of the requests that come in every day for sets of Advancing Parenting’s bumper stickers. Because we have run out of funding and are entirely dependent on donations no stickers were printed and none were shipped. We have requests for hundreds of sets of the fifty-one parenting tips bumper stickers...

How One Atlanta Church Impacted Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement and Incoming Sen. Raphael Warnock (time.com)

Formerly enslaved individuals helped found Ebenezer in 1886, and its roots in civil rights activism predate King. His grandfather, A.D. Williams, was the church’s second pastor, and he helped start the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP. The church’s historian Benjamin Ridgeway tells TIME that King’s father, known as Martin Luther King, Sr., was an early advocate for Black police officers in Atlanta and equal pay for teachers as a pastor at Ebenezer. But Martin Luther King, Jr. helped raise the...

East Tennessee State University/Ballad Health Strong Brain Institute Begins Work

Amidst the beauty found within the rural communities nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, Northeast Tennessee is a region that sadly is no stranger to challenges. This is a region with overcrowded prisons, hospitals delivering babies whose mothers are addicted to substances at staggering rates, foster care shortfalls, and public-school systems where it’s common to hear phrases like cradle to prison and school to prison pipeline. In 2014, while working for the local Police Department as the...

Begin Again: Live Online Yoga Class Series

However difficult the past, or slow the progress, you can always choose to begin again. Wednesdays 12:00-12:50 January 27 - March 17, 2021 Live Online Yoga Practice Sign up for the Eight Week Series or Single Classes By employing the contemplative movement practice of yoga through a trauma-sensitive lens, you will have the opportunity to observe your thoughts, feel your physical and emotional sensations and consider self-compassion as you invite yourself, from moment to moment, to begin...

"The Brain's Journey to Resilience"

"The Brain Story is a story about how experiences shape our brains. As such, it is also a story about human relationships, because we depend on those around us for the experiences that build our brain architecture."-Alberta Family Wellness Initiative For those individuals who have taken the incredible Brain Story Certification through the Alberta Family Wellness initiative, AFWI has released a report on January 8,2021, titled: "EARLY LEARNINGS ABOUT USES FOR THE RESILIENCE SCALE METAPHOR IN...

Survey: Attitudes, Views and Values around Health, Equity and Race Amid COVID-19 (rwjf.org)

A national, ongoing survey explores deep-rooted views of those with low and middle incomes, with a focus on people of color, on health, equity and race. COVID-19 has upended the lives of people living in the United States, but some groups are facing more challenges than others. This ongoing survey from RAND Corporation attempts to understand the views and values of those who are most at risk to the adverse impacts of COVID-19 by surveying people with lower and middle incomes with a focus on...

Directory of ACEs Connection How-Tos

JOIN How-To: Join ACEs Connection How-To: Join ACEs Connection Groups INVITE How-To: Invite Others to Join ACEs Connection How-To: Invite Others to Join an ACEs Connection Group SIGN IN & UPDATE PROFILE How-To: Sign In to ACEs Connection How-To: Update Your Profile and Contact Info How-To: Add or Change a Profile Picture EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS How-To: Customize Your Email Notifications for ACEs Connection Main Site How-To: Customize Your Email Notifications for ACEs...

This California city just ended chronic homelessness [fastcompany.com]

By Adele Peters, Fast Company, January 6, 2021 Bakersfield, California, struggled with extreme poverty and homelessness long before the pandemic, and when COVID hit, the challenges in fighting those issues only grew. But in 2020, the city and surrounding county still managed to achieve a goal that few other communities have: It reached “functional zero” for chronic homelessness, meaning that long-lasting and recurring homelessness were essentially eliminated. The city and county are part of...

CDC: Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the US $1.02 trillion in 2017.

CDC: Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the US $1.02 trillion in 2017. The most complete accounting to date of America’s opioid crisis was released by CDC in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence . This CDC study expands and updates two prior estimates of the cost of the opioid crisis: a 2016 CDC economic cost study and a 2017 report released by the White House Council of Economic Advisors. In 2017, there were more than 2.1 million people over age 12 with an opioid use...

CTSS Conference - One Month To Go!

There is just one month until the Attachment & Trauma Network's Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference , February 15-18, 2021. Join us for 4-days of amazing workshops and speakers. Keynote Speakers include: Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, Ingrid Cockhren, Dr. Mona Delahooke, Dr. Melissa Sadin and Special Guest, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk! Registration is $250 and includes all 4 keynotes, over 40 workshops, 40 special events, and access to conference recordings for 90 days! New for 2021 Are you...

How Colleges Can Promote Equity to Support Low-Income Students [aecf.org]

By The Annie E. Casey Foundation, December 13, 2020 Earning an advanced degree opens doors for low-income working students, connecting them to family-supporting wages and greater financial stability. A new report, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, explores the role of colleges in supporting these students and their success. The report, Building Equity by Supporting the Whole Student , shares finding from interviews with more than 80 students, administrators, faculty and staff across...

A Comprehensive Policy Framework to Understand and Address Disparities and Discrimination in Health and Health Care: A Policy Paper From the American College of Physicians [acpjournal.org]

By Josh Serchen, Robert Doherty, and Omar Atiq, Annals of Internal Medicine, January 12, 2021 Abstract Racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States experience disparities in their health and health care that arise from a combination of interacting factors, including racism and discrimination, social drivers of health, health care access and quality, individual behavior, and biology. To ameliorate these disparities, the American College of Physicians (ACP) proposes a...

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