March 2023

A mother holds her child in her apartment in Redding on Sept. 20, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local By Indira D'Souza, Cal Matters, March 15, 2023 Addressing racial and economic inequality in California requires policies that improve the material circumstances of those groups in our society who face the greatest hardship. One such group is women of color, and one such policy would be the introduction of universal health care coverage. The experiences of women of...

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~George S. Patton Much of the difficulty and struggle that we go through in life comes from our resistance to change. At some point, we get stuck in painful circumstances, yet we fear facing our reality and doing the work required to ignite a positive change. After all, the enemy we know is better than the enemy we don’t know. “It’s not that bad”, we tell ourselves. So we settle, give up on our desires, try to make the best of what we...

By Tina Hesman Saey , SCIENCE NEWS, March 14, 2023 at 3:56 pm Race should no longer be used to describe populations in most genetics studies, a panel of experts says. Using race and ethnicity to describe study participants gives the mistaken impression that humans can be divided into distinct groups. Such labels have been used to stigmatize groups of people, but do not explain biological and genetic diversity , the panel convened by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and...

Laura Gallant, 3/16/2023, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ When the COVID-19 pandemic began, there were emergency increases of concrete supports to children and families to provide food security. This increase in financial resources kept 4.2 million families above the poverty line* and helped families put food on their tables. These resources contributed to the nutritional well-being and reduced financial stress of children and families. With less financial stress in the home,...

Though now serving as both a national and international consultant, it was in 2014, shortly after my "ah-ha" moment learning about the significance of ACEs science while working for the police, that my career altering journey began. In the early days, my mindset was to "trauma inform" the region. Those adventures and outcomes I've written about in blogs published in PACEs Connection over the past 8 years along the way. Within rural Appalachia I've delivered training and coaching to thousands...

By Jason Pohl, Greater Good Magazine, March 10, 2023 When it comes to workplace woes, Christina Maslach has heard it all. The hard-working team that’s celebrated less than the office slackers. The professionals who wind up in a soul-sucking job. The employees required to attend office BBQs but left out of workplace decision making. It’s been 40-plus years since Maslach, a psychology professor emerita at UC Berkeley, first wrote about workplace trauma and burnout. She’s since pioneered a body...

The Deep Well Project – a Hilton Hilton-based nonprofit – patches damages driven by environmental stressors. By Mary Dimitrov By Sarah Haselhorst and Mary Dimitrov, The Island Packet, March 9, 2023 There’s no longer a trace that Audrey Hamilton’s great-granddaughter fell through the kitchen floor of her great-grandmother’s mobile home. Or that the refrigerator the teen was trying to get to sank below the soggy presswood. Both were swallowed up after the floor had been weighed down and...

By Caitlin Young, Photo: Kusska/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, March 15, 2023 Most local governments rely on property taxes to fund amenities and services for their residents, including public schools, libraries, roads, parks, and other public services. Property tax rates vary significantly by locality but generally are calculated based on assessments of property values conducted by local assessors’ offices. That means that if assessed values are accurate, property owners are paying a flat...

Before the Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act went up for a vote, supporters of the law gather with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Reps. Heather Keeler, Alicia Kozlowski and Jamie Becker-Finn at the Minnesota Capitol. Here, Flanagan lights sage in an abalone shell while a community member sings a Dakota prayer song and others wait to be smudged. Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle. By Farrah Mina, The Imprint, March 9, 2023 Well before she became a Minnesota state senator, Mary Kunesh’s great uncle...

By Laura Braden Quigley, Director of Communications and Outreach CTIPP CAN and other advocates are encouraged to urge their Representative in the U.S. House to sign onto a bipartisan letter (see full text enclosed*) that supports robust funding for several trauma-mitigating programs in the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education FY 2024 Appropriations bill: New Interagency Task Force (authorized by P.L. 115-271) charged with setting a national strategy for a coordinated federal...

Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country Amid increasing child labor violations, lawmakers must act to strengthen standards ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE MARCH 14, 2023 States across the country are attempting to weaken child labor protections, just as violations of these standards are rising. This report identifies bills weakening child labor standards in 10 states that have been introduced or passed in the past two years alone. It provides background on child labor...

“We typically don’t talk about poverty as a condition that benefits some of us,” Desmond writes in his morally charged manifesto. “It seems we prefer more absolving theories of the problem.”Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker By Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, March 13, 2023 “Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their...