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By Ashley Imlay, Deseret News, March 7, 2021 Utah’s 2021 legislative session marked milestones in investments in affordable housing and sweeping changes to the homeless governance system, all meant to enact measurable improvements in two of the Beehive State’s biggest issues. The Legislature approved $50 million in funding to affordable housing initiatives and homelessness , which advocates described as a record in the state. Leaders with the private philanthropy community announced...

By Ray Delgado, Global Newswire, March 10, 2021 Hillsides has received a $300,000 grant from the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG) and the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to establish a network of care among partner agencies as part of the state’s ACEs Aware Initiative. The grant is the second phase of funding Hillsides has received as part of the initiative following a $100,000 grant in June last year that established a learning community to promote the ACEs Aware...

By Poppy Noor, The Guardian, March 10, 2021 Last summer, as people began marching for racial justice across the world, companies were having their own internal racial reckonings. Brands began lining up to prove their anti-racist credentials . Employees, emboldened by the moment, began airing their companies’ dirty laundry in public. Commitments to diversity were made; tweets were sent ; pledges to do better abounded; goals and targets were set. And the numbers did soar. Enrollment for Yale...

By Jason Grotto, Bloomberg Equality, March 9, 2021 It’s the last weekend of the month, so Di Leshea Scott’s Saturday begins with a long wait at the post office to get a money order for her rent. From there, she drives north to hand-deliver it at a drab office building just outside Detroit’s city limits. As always, this ritual leaves her angry and frustrated; her landlord refuses to give her a lease, she says, or to make basic repairs. When it rains, she needs three buckets upstairs to catch...

Greetings Community Members! If you have not joined our community please do so at: https://www.acesconnection.com/g/sacramento-county-ca-aces-connection By joining you are opening your world to information on ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and solutions in our community. We aspire for everyone to pull a chair and sit at our table. Here is this month’s session recording: https://baymark.zoom.us/rec/share/vYI4Z5-3dPLVWCuVQp5_NlGCiJomMZ-c-yvOw0Bb7xt24GjfWO922FoQxOhxjiOQ.U4S452MfTD1CyZRk...

The combination of concern about math learning loss with the generally high level of math anxiety among US adults sparked us to write this thought piece. Written from a place of personal experience, it's a story I think many who embrace a strengths-based approach will appreciate. By Rebecca Honig and Françoise Lartigue, Ready4K Content Leaders As we get farther into a school year so disrupted by the pandemic, research is beginning to emerge on areas in which students seem to be experiencing...

T ransforming Trauma Episode 037: NARM and Healing Complex Trauma within Native Communities with Trilby Kerrigan On this episode of Transforming Trauma, our host Sarah Buino has an engaging conversation with Trilby Kerrigan, a NARM-trained Behavioral Health Therapist at a Tribal health clinic in Northern California. Trilby is a member of the Karuk Tribe of California and is deeply committed to supporting community reconnection through education and treatment of complex trauma. Throughout the...

By Loren McCullough and Dr. Bob Sege, 3/11/21, positiveexperience.org/blog What’s going on with families during the COVID pandemic? In partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics , Prevent Child Abuse America , and with assistance and financial support from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) , The Lucile Packard Foundation , the California Department of Public Health , and KidsData.org , we surveyed California parents, to find out how they are doing during the...

The House of Representatives passed the Senate-amended version of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package—the American Rescue Plan ( H.R. 1319 )—on March 10, giving President Biden his first major legislative achievement. The phased-in increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 was dropped prior to Senate consideration because the parliamentarian ruled it was not consistent with budget reconciliation rules. President Biden will address the nation on Thursday evening (8:00 ET) to mark the...

A new report from the American Psychological Association shows just how stressful life in America was in 2020. The APA's "Stress in America" report, published Thursday, provides a stunning example of how mental health directly impacts physical health. It comes exactly one year after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. "We've gone through a collective trauma," said Arthur C. Evans, chief executive officer and executive vice president of the APA. The...

Family Estrangement is an emotional distancing and cessation of communication between one or more members of a family. It is the breakdown of the support from and to a person who can no longer trust their family to be on their side any longer. Often family estrangement happens when two or more members of a family disagree on the facts on matters such as in the case of childhood trauma. The adult survivor might come out and talk about what happened to them, but the other member or members of...

By Patricia K. Kerig, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, March 10, 2021 The well-established finding that a majority of youth in the juvenile justice system have been exposed to trauma has led to a clarion call for the implementation of trauma-informed practices . However, to date, less attention has been paid to the importance of providing juvenile justice staff with the tools needed to carry out trauma-informed practices in ways that protect them from the potential risks associated...