November 2021

By Miriam Jordan, The New York Times, October 28, 2021 Migrant families separated at the border by the Trump administration may be eligible to each receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for the damage inflicted on them by the policy, according to several people familiar with the matter. Some families could receive as much as $450,000 for each member who was directly affected, the sources said. However, negotiations between the Biden administration and lawyers representing...

By Carmen Kohlruss, The Fresno Bee, October 8, 2021 Marie Wilcox was once the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni. She worked tirelessly to change that, what started with writing down words in her native language over 20 years ago. Today, there are at least three fluent Wukchumni speakers, all members of her family, said her daughter, Jennifer Malone. She’s included in that trio. Wilcox died Sept. 25 at age 87 in a Visalia hospital with the great hope they will continue her language work.

Esto es una repetición de la sesion del 30 de septiembre titulada Heridas del Trauma Racial y experiencias adversas en la infancia o ACEs por sus siglas en inglés Adverse Childhood Experiences: Encontrando Esperanza y Sanando en Conexión Relacional JUEVES, 11 DE NOVIEMBRE 5:00 - 7:00 PM (PST) Dirigido por la Dr. Noriega, quien es una socia del Programa de Investigación de Trauma Infantil de la Universidad de California en San Francisco y consultora de On the Margins, LLC. Vea la biografía a...

California Screens More Than 500,000 Children and Adults for Adverse Childhood Experiences New partnership with University of California will advance ACEs Aware initiative. The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in partnership with the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG), today announced that the ACEs Aware initiative has reached two key milestones less than two years after launching. To date, more than 20,500 California clinicians have been trained to screen...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are known to cause multiple types of illnesses and early death later in life (Felitti et al., 1998). ACEs cause untold misery and heartache because they shake the very fundamental foundations of who we believe we are and how we perceive our world. Much research has been done since the ACE study performed by Kaiser Permanente, overseen by Dr. Vincent Felitti, where more than 45,000 people were studied to measure how many adverse childhood experiences they...

By Sharon Pruitt-Young, National Public Radio, November 3, 2021 The American Psychological Association is seeking to make amends for past wrongs. The APA, an organization that has been around since the late 1800s, issued a lengthy statement on Friday apologizing not only for the APA's role in perpetuating systemic racism, but for the role psychology, as a field of study, has also played in systemically harming people of color for decades. The organization's Council of Representatives...

By Diane Bernard, The Washington Post, November 3, 2021 On a sunny spring day in 1963, 14-year-old Violetta Sharps Jones rode atop a burgundy red convertible down the main street of her segregated neighborhood in College Park, Md. Adorned with a tiara and white sash reading “Miss Lakeland,” she waved to the crowd, representing the aspirations of four generations of African Americans who built the thriving community near the University of Maryland. “It was such an honor,” said Jones, who is...

By Judith L. Pace and Wayne Journell, EdSource, November 2, 2021 I n Texas, teachers who once taught controversial issues in history and politics are now afraid to do so . Political attacks on school board members across the country also threaten those in California . State laws banning critical race theory in schools are censoring educators and the curriculum. Does this mean the time has passed when teachers can engage students in open discussion of controversial issues, which we know is a...

By Micah Danny, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November 1, 2021 In the eyes of court officials with say-so over whether he remains free or on lockdown, Nasheem Heath has mostly made the right moves since, at age 16, he was arrested for pointing a pistol at a random stranger and snatching that man’s necklace and cash. Heath has not been re-arrested. He has held a seasonal job with a moving company. What he still doesn’t have is a home to call his own or the kind of income that would...

Healing the Wound That Won't Heal: The Reality of Trauma: Spencer, Jo: 9781523601448: Amazon.com: Books This book is a chronicle to my uncovering and understanding the abandonment trauma and neglect I suffered during the first year of my life due to my father's shell-shock from WWII.

By Guest Author, 11/03/21, positiveexperience.org/blog On Monday, November 1 st , HOPE held its first National Advisory Board meeting for the 2021-2022 cycle. Lexie Beck from Youth MOVE Nevada joined us to talk about youth engagement and the importance of including youth in decision making. We brainstormed ideas about our annual work plan and topics to learn about together. Later, the team from Root Cause led breakout groups to discuss what being HOPE-informed looks like in practice. We also...

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