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July 2020

Save a Warrior and ACE’s

Save a Warrior, ACE SCORES and ACA/ACoA: Save a Warrior is the only Military and First Responder Services Organization tying ACE Scores to ACA orientation/participation as a cost-free, peer-to-peer, community-based-resiliency-model for achieving sustained recovery from “Complex PTS” which includes family of origin Trauma and adult Trauma (including Combat Trauma, First Responder “Life on the Streets”, Moral Injury, Survivor Guilt and Post Traumatic Stress). There is no single cause of...

The Biggest Problem With Opportunity Zones [bloomberg.com]

By Alex Wittenberg June 25, 2020, 1:55 PM EDT on Bloomberg CityLab Two years ago, when the U.S. Treasury Department outlined how its new “Opportunity Zones” program would work , many experts were skeptical. Touted as a tax incentive designed to spur investment in low-income communities and help remedy the unequal pace of regional economic development, the program looked to some like another tax break for the wealthy; others feared it would just underwrite big projects in gentrifying...

2020 KIDS COUNT Data Book [aecf.org]

2020 State Trends in Child Well-Being By the Annie E. Casey Foundation on June 22, 2020 The 31st edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before the coronavirus pandemic began. This year’s publication continues to deliver the Foundation’s annual state rankings and the latest available data on child well-being. It also identifies multi-year trends — comparing statistics from 2010 to 2018. As always,...

How Schools Across the Globe are Reopening Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic [edsource.org]

Article by Michael Burke and Yuxuan Xie in EdSource, June 30th, 2020 Each morning before Chengbao Shang leaves for school in Guangzhou, China, his parents take the 7-year-old’s temperature and send the results to his teacher using a program on WeChat, the popular Chinese social media platform. It’s the same for every student in this city of more than 15 million. Chengbao’s father then drives him to school and drops him off 20 yards away from the campus. Chengbao, a first-grade student, gets...

Child Care Is Infrastructure [theatlantic.com]

By Helen Lewis of The Atlantic, June 30th, 2020 Boris Johnson loves to dress up—admittedly not an unusual pastime among alumni of Britain’s most exclusive schools. But his specific kink is looking like a builder, in a hard hat and bright high-visibility jacket. Yesterday, the British prime minister filmed a wobbly video that featured himself decked out in Day-Glo yellow at a London school, laying the groundwork for his “new deal” on infrastructure . For a set-piece speech today, his lectern...

The Relentless School Nurse: 10 Things Parents Can Do Now to Help Prepare Children For Returning to School

School nurses have been industrious during COVID-19, using innovative skills to do one of the things we do best, providing information for our families. Everyone's health literacy has been tested through the pandemic. The messaging from our most trusted institutions like the CDC has been confusing and ever-changing. As states have released vague return to school guidelines, it is clear that the details for keeping our students and staff safe will depend on each school district to create...

Catch Up on Our 'A Better Normal' Series While We Take a Break This Week

Thank you to all who have joined us so far for the 'A Better Normal' Community Discussions! With 32 episodes so far, the 'A Better Normal' Discussions have been attended by over 3,000 different people! ACEs Connection Staff will be taking some time off for a break around the July 4th holiday, we will not be hosting any of the 'A Better Normal' discussions or publishing our Daily Digests on Thursday and Friday. Use this time to catch up on past 'A Better Normal' Discussions on our Youtube...

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