November 2021

By Diana Lambert, November 1, 2021 for EdSource When Sacramento State professor Otis Scott slammed his fist on the table at a Sacramento Area Black Caucus meeting in 2007, infuriated about the test scores of local Black students, no one knew he was setting in motion the creation of an organization that would eventually fight for the equity and fair treatment of California’s Black and Latino children. In February 2008 a small group of community activists formed the Black Parallel School Board...

By Carmen Kohlruss, The Fresno Bee, October 8, 2021 Marie Wilcox was once the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni. She worked tirelessly to change that, what started with writing down words in her native language over 20 years ago. Today, there are at least three fluent Wukchumni speakers, all members of her family, said her daughter, Jennifer Malone. She’s included in that trio. Wilcox died Sept. 25 at age 87 in a Visalia hospital with the great hope they will continue her language work.

By Special to the Enterprise, Davis Enterprise, October 25, 2021 In November, Resilient Yolo will launch a three-part virtual workshop series to educate members of the public on strategies for strengthening health and social support systems in Yolo County. To advance conversations around health and equity, the collaborative will also be hosting a Building a Resilient Yolo Summit in spring 2022. Formed in 2014, Resilient Yolo is a community-based collaborative with an interest in...

Please sign onto and share this memo supporting using a trauma-informed approach to decreasing vaccine hesitancy! Many of the challenges we are facing with vaccine hesitancy can be better understood by looking at the issue through a trauma-informed lens. The following memo has been developed with input from many of the clinical and academic thought leaders from the trauma healing field to offer supportive guidance to the Administration. To successfully address this challenge, we need to...

By Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint, October 27, 2021 A start-up law firm in Northern California with a progressive approach to representing parents who’ve lost their kids to foster care is scrambling to hand off its more than 1,000 clients this week, after the state court administration terminated its contract. The circumstances surrounding the end of the firm’s contract with the Judicial Council of California are not entirely clear. But leaders of the East Bay Family Defenders said the...

Esto es una repetición de la sesion del 30 de septiembre titulada Heridas del Trauma Racial y experiencias adversas en la infancia o ACEs por sus siglas en inglés Adverse Childhood Experiences: Encontrando Esperanza y Sanando en Conexión Relacional JUEVES, 11 DE NOVIEMBRE 5:00 - 7:00 PM (PST) Dirigido por la Dr. Noriega, quien es una socia del Programa de Investigación de Trauma Infantil de la Universidad de California en San Francisco y consultora de On the Margins, LLC. Vea la biografía a...

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...