From Tugg.com, March 17, 2016 Tugg Edu is proud to present the highly anticipated ACEs documentary PAPER TIGERS to the educational marketplace. Directed by James Redford ( THE BIG PICTURE: RETHINKING DYSLEXIA, RESILIENCE ), PAPER TIGERS follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families. With over 450...

Princeton, N.J .—The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced the 16 communities that have been chosen as finalists for the fourth annual RWJF Culture of Health Prize. The Prize honors communities that place a high priority on health and bring partners together to drive local change. Selected from nearly 200 applicants, the following 16 finalist communities are one step closer to the coveted national Prize: 24:1 Community Region, Missouri Clayton County, Georgia Columbia Gorge Region,...

Location Confirmed! Southern Alameda County Lunch Meet Up: 3/23, 12:30pm, Buffalo Bill's Bay Area Brewery 1082 B ST, HAYWARD, CA 94541 (510) 886-9823. For more info and to RSVP please go to: http://www.acesconnection.com/g/alameda-county-aces/event/southern-alameda-county-lunch-meet-up-location-tbd

Did you or other folks you know missed the sold out Berkeley Media Studies Group/ACEs Connection Paper Tigers screening and panel back in Dec? Tickets are still available for East Bay Agency for Children (EBAC) screening next week...

All Alameda County ACEs Connection members are invited to attend the meeting on Tues April 5, 2-3:30pm, OUSD, Suite 102, 1000 Broadway, Oakland. Feel free to also invite a co-worker, neighbor, or friend! Our agenda will include a presentation and discussion with ACEs Connection Founder, Jane Stevens, on the philosophy and strategies of the network and community/county groups. We will also have time to share out across sectors and explore next steps for greater collaboration locally,...

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Join me and my guests, John Brooks and Nancy Newton Verrier, on “About Health.” Monday March 7th from 2-3PM on KPFA.org or 94.1FM. We will discuss, The Girl Behind the Door, A Father’s Quest to Understand His Daughter’s Suicide , by John Brooks. It provides a profound look into adoption, teenage suicide, and attachment issues. When John and Erika’s daughter Casey jumped off of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2008, John began to unravel a heartbreaking truth—Casey had been in pain since birth,...

Wisconsin elementary-school teachers are incorporating simple mental exercises in the classroom to promote well-being, thanks to a partnership between the Madison Metropolitan School District and the Center for Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The school's 5th graders recently made a music video for the song, "Don't flip yo' lid," by SF Bay Area hip hop artist, Just Me. The song's hook is, "mindfulness will change your life."

More than 17,000 people are coveting 115 below-market apartments being built next to the San Leandro BART station, a stunning statement of just how intense Bay Area demand is for affordable housing. The apartments, called Marea Alta, are one of three affordable-housing projects opening this year in mid-Alameda County. The Arbor at Hesperian in San Lorenzo will include 77 senior apartments, and another 64 senior and 87 family apartments are being constructed near the South Hayward BART...

A new Prevention Institute report, featured Wednesday in USA Today , offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding the relationship between community trauma and violence. In doing so, the report provides insight into how we can overcome the inequities that contribute to a cycle of inner-city gun violence, poverty, unemployment, and poor health in communities of color. As additional treatment models are developed for individual trauma, there is a growing need for addressing trauma as a...

Oakland will launch a citywide effort Thursday to triple the number of college graduates coming out of public schools, an ambitious and expensive “cradle to career” plan that aims to reverse cycles of poverty and hopelessness by raising expectations that all children can thrive in school. The centerpiece of the Oakland Promise initiative is an infusion of grants, ranging from $500 college savings accounts for children born into poverty to college scholarships of up to $16,000 for...

by David Gorn, California Healthline Sacramento Bureau Thursday, January 28, 2016 As a college student, Rob Bonta had a summer job working as a counselor for troubled kids. Now, two decades later he is bringing legislation to address some of the needs he saw then. "I worked with some of these kids as a counselor out of college, and I'd walk them home and hear some of these stories," Assembly member Bonta (D-Oakland) said. "Shootings they heard. Or shootings they witnessed the night before."...