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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...

Measuring trauma-informed care is an essential ingredient for successful TIC initiatives. With an effective, easy to use, validated measurement tool, benefits of TIC measurement include: Readiness assessment for TIC change process Pre-post comparison to evaluate TIC intervention effectiveness Monitoring of TIC change process Data to drive stakeholder engagement Empirical evidence to advance TIC field Whether you’re ready to collect baseline data to inform TIC planning or begin a pre-post TIC...

Transforming Trauma Episode 055: Supporting Women to Reconnect Back to Themselves and Their Bodies with Lara Eisenberg In this episode of Transforming Trauma, Brad Kammer, Senior Faculty and Training Director of the NARM Training Institute, is joined by Lara Eisenberg. Lara is a bilingual licensed professional clinical counselor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and women's spirituality and sexuality therapist. She’s the owner of Body-Mind Wellness, a somatic psychotherapy and coaching...

By Lynsdey Bonomolo, October 28, 2021, For Ed Source With students across California returning to classrooms earlier this autumn, it’s become undeniable that the ongoing pandemic is exacerbating systemic issues that long pre-date Covid-19 . As in many similar districts, Black students in Los Angeles County schools face unique and serious equity barriers, and many teachers are not equipped to address the disparity in access to opportunities that are obvious in their own classes. [Please click...

By Alicia Wallace , November 2, 2021, CNN Business If communities across America were to become more racially integrated, it would be an "economic game changer," boosting gross domestic product growth by an estimated 0.3 percentage points in the span of a decade, Moody's Analytics has found. Deeply entrenched racial bias and segregation, however, are limiting the nation's potential and hampering economic growth by billions of dollars annually, the financial research firm's chief economists...