April 2022

By Diana Marcum, Photo: Nic Coury/Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2022 It began as a whimsical notion that occurred to Angelica Glass during a bubble bath: She would walk every street in Santa Cruz County. She had no idea it would unearth her past and change how she experienced life. She started each walk from her home in this beach town where she has lived all her life. She noticed spiraling vines of wild cucumber dripping down fences and how they would bounce back like a spring if she pulled...

May event dates listed for the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. JOIN US!!!

Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to join fellow PACEs science activists for Building the Movement through Policy and Advocacy , the last of nine remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. Policy and advocacy best practices are among the topics to be covered on Friday, April 28 from 1pm. - 5 p.m. ET; 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. PT. Here is an agenda and our list of subject matter experts who...

By Giles Bruce, Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images, Center for Health Journalism, April 25, 2022 California is embarking on a potentially transformative shift in the way it delivers health care, using its Medicaid program to help meet the social needs of many of its most vulnerable residents. Under the CalAIM initiative, $6 billion will be spent over the next five years to address the social forces shaping health, in such unique ways as paying for housing, cleaning up asthma triggers in the...

By Keara Williams, Gene McAdoo, and Tyrone C. Howard, Photo: Allison Shelley/American Education, EdSource, April 26, 2022 Despite decades of reform efforts, Black students’ educational experiences continue to be shaped by anti-blackness, the general or specific contempt for blackness, resulting in Black people not being seen as fully human and worthy of having their civil rights and humanity observed and protected. Data on the more than 350,000 Black students in California schools suggests...

Basic Information Beginning May 1, 2022, a new law in California will give full scope Medi-Cal to adults 50 years of age or older and immigration status does not matter. All other Medi-Cal eligibility rules, including income limits, will still apply. This initiative, called Older Adult Expansion, is modeled after the Young Adult Expansion, which provided full scope Medi-Cal to young adults 19 through 25, inclusive. See the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) website for the Young Adult...

By Romy Varghese, Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg, Bloomberg City Lab, April 21, 2022 California’s efforts to alleviate homelessness through local borrowing are running up against the realities of slow-moving bond financing — and rising interest rates mean higher costs for the governments. It’s been more than five years since voters in Alameda County, home to Oakland; Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley; and Los Angeles approved borrowing a total of $2.73 billion to tackle...

By Chris Ponce, The California Aggie, April 11, 2022 The 2020 Census revealed that 28.4% of the people from Yolo County have an income below 150% of the poverty level. The poverty rate in Yolo County is at 20.9%, according to a 2022 press release. Experts and researchers from UC Davis have weighed in on the rising crisis of poverty in Yolo County, emphasizing the need for county action. Dr. Catherine Brinkley, a faculty member of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and...

The Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP) is pleased to announce the release of the Father Engagement Program Request for Applications (RFA) for funding beginning October 1, 2022 and ending September 30, 2025. The OCAP is currently accepting applications to fund up to eight qualified Applicants to implement grants for the purposes outlined in the RFA below. Approximately $4,200,000 of total federal funding will be available, to fund up to eight grantees (at a level of approximately...

Strong Communities Program Grant – Expansion of FRCs Strong Communities Program Grant: The California Department of Social Services’ Office of Child Abuse Prevention is pleased to announce the release of the Strong Communities Program – Expansion of Family Resource Centers Request for Applications (RFA). Approximately $5,000,000 of total federal funding will be available, to fund up to five grantees (at a level of approximately $333,000 per year, per grantee) for the expansion of Family...

One year ago, The California Endowment decided to take our vision for a better California to the next level. As we experienced the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing racial injustices facing communities of color, and the resurgence of civic activism, TCE believed it was our duty to double down on our investments in the work of California’s good troublemakers. These are the community organizers, grassroots leaders and groups who have been doing the deep work of...

By Andrew Schwartz, Illustration: Sally Deng, The New York Times, April 4, 2022 Outside my lab near Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada of California, new animal tracks are on the snow after a winter of hibernation, bird songs are lofting through the air, and the creek is flowing strongly with water from the melting snow. Spring has come worryingly early to the Sierra Nevada. This past week, I joined teams of other scientists gathering the most important measurements of the Sierra Nevada...