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July 2020

It's Time for State Prevention Services Systems [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

By Jennifer Jones and Bart Klika, The Chronicle of Social Change, July 21, 2020 As we navigate the effects of a global pandemic and economic recession, we have the opportunity to rethink the ways we provide services and supports to children and families before they find themselves in crisis. Essential to this new thinking is the realignment of our systems to make them more prevention-oriented, integrated, science-informed, and equitable, and thereby better meeting the needs of children and...

Offset trauma for students by promoting positive experiences [exclusive.multibriefs.com]

By Sheilamary Koch, Multibriefs: Exclusive, July 27, 2020 When Christina Bethell was little, she lived in a low-income housing complex in Los Angeles where her neighbor, a quiet lady the kids called Mrs. Raccoon, always had her door open for the neighborhood kids. Every Saturday she threw a little tea party with candy to celebrate any child with a birthday that week. Bethell fondly remembers the woman’s kindness as source of comfort during her challenging childhood. Dr. Bethell, now a...

Nonprofits So White: New Report on Lack of Inclusion Offers Strategies [taketheleadwomen.com]

By Michele Weldon, Take The Lead Women, June 22, 2020 Nonprofits in this country are failing on their diversity and inclusion efforts, even as their missions address social justice and fairness issues, according to a new report of more than 5,000 workers in nonprofits. “The sad — but unsurprising — truth is that people of color and whites have a different set of experiences in nonprofit organizations. This gap in how professionals experience their workplaces — whether they receive...

How Police Unions Fight Reform [thenewyorker.com]

By William Finnegan, The New Yorker, July 27, 2020 In May, just days after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, Lieutenant Bob Kroll, the bellicose leader of the city’s police union, described Floyd as a violent criminal, said that the protesters who had gathered to lament his death were terrorists, and complained that they weren’t being treated more roughly by police. Kroll, who has spoken unsentimentally about being involved in three shootings himself, said that he was...

Race in America: Diversity in Corporate America [washingtonpost.com]

From The Washington Post, July 17, 2020 Diversity has been on the corporate agenda for many years, but it was not until the recent Black Lives Matter protests galvanized the nation that substantial change seems possible across American industry. Fortune 500 companies are committing to new standards and hiring practices. Senior executives are reassessing pipelines to upper management and scrutinizing company culture. Ariel Investments co-CEO John W. Rogers, Jr., joins The Washington Post’s...

Wolf Administration Releases ‘Trauma-Informed PA’ Plan with Recommendations and Steps for the Commonwealth and Providers to Become Trauma-Informed [PA Governor Tom Wolf Press Release]

July 27, 2020 As a companion to Governor Tom Wolf’s multi-agency effort and anti-stigma initiative, Reach Out PA: Your Mental Health Matters, the Office of Advocacy and Reform (OAR) is releasing the “Trauma-Informed PA” plan to guide the commonwealth and service providers statewide on what it means to be trauma-informed and healing-centered in PA. This plan is the result of four months of work from OAR and the Trauma-Informed PA Think Tank, formed in February. The think tank was made up of...

JULY WEBINAR - Register Now Fundamentals of ACE Screening & Response in Adult Medicine [acesaware.org]

With introductory remarks from Nadine Burke Harris, MD, MPH, FAAP, California Surgeon General Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Noon – 1 p.m. Register for the Webinar Presenters Brent Sugimoto, MD, MPH, FAAFP – Family Medicine Physician and New Physician Director, American Academy of Family Physicians Mimi Mateo, CNM, MSN, CDE – Certified Nurse Midwife and Clinical Director of Midwifery, North County Health Services Denise Gomez, MD, PharmD, ACP – Internal Medicine Physician and Associate Medical...

VA TICNs eNote July 27 2020 [grscan.com]

A preview of the programs happening during Racial Truth & Reconciliation Week is up on the Voices for Virginia's Children blog! All programs will be posted by July 31, and we'll share more at the end of this week! You can already take a look at the Art & Activism Virtual Showcase , sign up to be a Partner in Solidarity , read stories , and access a Social Media Toolkit . From a Moment to a Movement: Envisioning a Child Welfare System We Have Yet to See from the Chronicle of Social...

Health Care Payment and Delivery System Reform for Children as a Tool to Improve the Health of Vulnerable Communities [familiesusa.org]

From Families USA, July 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic, and its disproportionate impact on low-income people and people of color, has starkly demonstrated the need for long-term investments targeted at social drivers of population health. Although chronic physical and behavioral health problems are not the only source of these disparities, they are among the most important causes. Health inequities often start in childhood. Yet important efforts to re-orient our health care system to focus more...

It's Time to View Severe Medically Unexplained Symptoms as Red-Flag Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety [jamanetwork.com]

By Robert C. Smith, JAMA Pediatrics, July 23, 2020 The study by Saunders and colleagues in JAMA Network Open is an important contribution to the field of what I’ll call medically unexplained symptoms (MUSs). MUSs in their most severe form encompass what the authors call somatic symptom and related disorders, as well as numerous other similar terms, such as somatic symptom disorder from psychiatry and chronic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia from medicine.

REAL TALK: A Generational Approach to Inequity

Friends of the Children - Los Angeles' Executive Director Thomas Lee, with Friends of the Children - New York's Executive Director Gary Clemons join together on Tuesday, July 28th, to discuss how Friends of the Children's Two-Generation (2Gen) approach impacts the inequity facing our families. Friends of the Children has known for more than 25 years that the presence of a Friend in a child's life has ripple effects to parents, caregivers, siblings, friends, and communities. Los Angeles and...

CAREgivers Film -- Tribute Screenings gratis at www.caregiversfilm.com August 1-8

Greetings to Everyone in the acesconnection community! As a tribute to our Healthcare, EMT's, social workers, mental health and other essential workers and with gratitude for their wonderful care during these difficult times, our team invites you to view the Broadcast version of CAREgivers film FROM AUGUST 1-8 at www.caregiversfilm.com Please feel free to contact me as well with any questions about the film, other kinds of screening opportunities and/ or virtual presentations and discussions...

What Can You Do About Complex Trauma and Racial Inequities? [thenationalcouncil.org]

From The National Council for Behavioral Health, July 27, 2020 We are living in a time of unprecedented stress impacting individuals, families and communities across cultures, generations, genders and racial groups. Our nation is reckoning with the systemic racism laid bare by COVID-19 racial disparities and the death of George Floyd sparking outrage and bringing to light the additional traumas experienced by Black, Indigenous and People of Color. Are you looking for the tools and training...

CAREgivers film: Free access for healthcare, EMT, and essential workers from August 1-8, 2020

As a special tribute to our healthcare, EMT, and many additional essential workers during the COVID epidemic , the producers of CAREgivers film invite you to view the film for free online. When? August 1st through August 8th, 2020 Where ? www.caregiversfilm.com About the Film (from our website) Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their Pain is a documentary film based on interviews with nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, doctors, firefighters, first responders...

ACEs and Children's Environments

It seems clear to most that not all communities in the United States are created equal and not all people are treated as equals. How do environments—both physical and atmospheric—affect our children and do Adverse Community Environments place our children at as much risk as Adverse Childhood Experiences?

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