February 2022

In the wake of the omicron wave, single parents are drowning [washingtonpost.com]

Carey Sipp · 2/1/2212:00 PM

By Caitlin Gibson, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, January 29, 2022 Andria Hayes-Birchler had barely begun to comprehend her new reality as a single parent before the pandemic hit. In March 2020, she had an 8-month-old infant and a 4-year-old, and her soon-to-be-ex-husband had recently moved from their home in Washington, D.C., to California. What followed was a year and a half of unrelenting crisis as she struggled to balance her career as a research consultant with caring for her two...

2011-2021—Update on a decade of steady growth in PACEs, ACEs and TI laws and resolutions in the states

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 2/1/2211:10 AM

Image above represents the " State ACEs and TI Laws & Resolutions clickable map " The steady growth in ACEs and Trauma-Informed laws and resolutions has continued since the last snapshot in PACEs Connection in June 2021 . That article reported that state legislatures and governors in dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that specially reference adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) or trauma in the years 2019 and 2020. A new tally shows that In 2021 alone, another 36...

The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else it did [npr.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 2/1/224:00 AM

By Cory Turner, Image: LA Johnson/NPR, National Public Radio, January 27, 2022 Blink and you could have missed it. For six months, the United States experimented with an idea that's new here but is already a backstitch in the social fabric of many wealthy nations : a monthly cash payment to help families cover the costs of raising children. Less than a year in, though, this U.S. experiment, known as the expanded child tax credit, has already been unwound by a deadlocked Congress . Still,...

California ready to launch $3 billion, multiyear transition to community schools [edsource.org]

Lara Kain · 2/1/224:00 AM

By John Fensterwald, Photo: Allison Shelley/Eduimages, EdSource, January 31, 2022 I n coming weeks, California will embark on a massive undertaking to convert several thousand schools in low-income neighborhoods into centers of community life and providers of vital services for families as well as students. Known as community schools, they will be established over the next seven years. New York and Maryland are among states that are investing in community schools, but California’s $3 billion...

Stop Blaming the Uncooperative Mother [imprintnews.org]

Natalie Audage · 2/1/224:00 AM

By Karen Baynes-Dunning, Photo: Unsplash, The Imprint, January 31, 2022 I titled this essay Stop Blaming the “Uncooperative Mother,” because it has become a racial trope used by well-intentioned people who work with families throughout our nation’s child welfare system. Over nearly 30 years of working in and around the child welfare system, I have heard variations on this theme: the angry mother; the hostile mother; the disrespectful mother; the antagonistic mother; the aggressive mother;...

How to heal our national exhaustion [vox.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 2/1/224:00 AM

By Anna North, Image: Getty Images/fStop, Vox, January 27, 2022 That’s the question facing a lot of Americans as we stagger into 2022 still carrying the burden of a pandemic on our shoulders, plus some other burdens including but not limited to the i ncreasingly devastating effects of climate change, the real and disturbing threats to democracy , and the seeming inability of the highest levels of the US government to address these dangers . It’s even boring to talk about how much any of us —...

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