June 2021

Por Richard Pan, Cal Matters, May 25, 2021 La Declaración de Independencia proclama “Sostenemos que estas verdades son evidentes por sí mismas, que todos los hombres son creados iguales”, pero a pesar de nuestras aspiraciones, todos los estadounidenses no disfrutan de las mismas oportunidades. La pandemia de COVID subraya las disparidades actuales en la salud, la educación y la riqueza que se ofrecen a diferentes estadounidenses según su raza. El coronavirus no discrimina por motivos de...

By Charlotte West and Angel Fabre, Cal Matters, June 16, 2021 In early June, 19-year-old Brian Cruz was on a break from his warehouse job at Amazon, listening to music. He scrolled through the messages on his phone and saw an email from the college and career center at his old high school in Hemet, a high desert town in Southern California. Even though Cruz graduated from Tahquitz High School last year, the email invited him to make an appointment with a school counselor. Last spring, Cruz...

By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times, June 14, 2021 To a wide circle of friends and family, Jesse Ruby was the go-to guy. The father who would drop everything and drive across town if his sons needed a ride. The cousin who spent weekends helping relatives move. The partner who worked odd jobs on weekends with his girlfriend, Virginia Herrera, to help make ends meet for an extended household in San Jose, Calif. “If he was your friend, or he considered you a friend or family, all you had to...

By Linh Tat, Los Angeles Daily News, June 14, 2021 Rap legend Dr. Dre and music producer Jimmy Iovine are teaming up with Los Angeles Unified to open a new magnet high school focused on design, business and technology, with the goal of giving historically underserved students an opportunity to become the next generation of leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs. Opening in fall 2022 on the campus of Audubon Middle School in South L.A., the magnet school aims to provide students with hands-on...

By Katherine Swartz, The Sacramento Bee, June 17, 2021 After more than a year of closures and limited capacity restrictions, gyms and physical fitness centers are up and running again as California’s economy reopens. Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke from an In-Shape Health gym in Bakersfield Wednesday about his new initiative to promote Californians’ overall health: a new advisory council on physical fitness and mental well-being. The advisory council, to be co-chaired by First Partner Jennifer...

By Melissa Montalvo, Cal Matters, June 14, 2021 A Fresno-area politician wants California to prioritize struggling San Joaquin Valley farmworkers in a proposed pilot program that would put cash in the hands of some the state’s impoverished residents. State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, a Democrat from Sanger, issued a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom last week urging the state to prioritize California’s “displaced, underemployed, or unemployed farmworkers” for the Universal Basic Income pilot program.

By Malavika Kannan, San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 2021 Even before COVID-19 canceled San Francisco’s iconic Pride Parade for the second straight year, gay teen Steven Sutton was finding celebration and solidarity online. On his TikTok account, between videos celebrating gay love and trolling Millennials, the 15-year-old San Mateo high schooler posts raw, vulnerable updates about his daily life and challenges. While Sutton is out to his family, he said he feels most comfortable among...

Please join us for a special webinar highlighting the final release of the ACEs Aware Trauma-Informed Network of Care Roadmap. The Network of Care Roadmap provides practical steps that health care providers, clinics, community-based organizations, and social service agencies can take within their communities to grow cross-sector networks of care and improve collaboration and coordination across systems to prevent, treat, and heal toxic stress. This webinar will: Discuss the purpose of the...

The American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 3 has developed a visual resource adapted from the ACEs Aware Self-Care tool . The handout is print-ready and available in English , Spanish , Amharic , Arabic , Chinese , Farsi and Vietnamese .

In this webinar, we’ll discuss the unique importance of school mental health at this time, what schools can do to support it, and how these efforts can be funded (including accessing ARPA funds). Join experts in school mental health/trauma-informed program design, implementation, and funding streams to explore how schools committed to supporting student wellbeing can find a path that considers both your school capacity and the needs of your students. Learning Outcomes Planning &...

Jun 21, 2021 10:00 AM inPacific Time The goal of this training is to raise the capacity of health care providers to advance trauma-informed communities in support of ACE screening and coordinated prevention and treatment to mitigate the toxic stress response. Through this training, organizational leaders will be able to: 1) gain insight and tools on ACEs, toxic stress, ACE screening, and unique populations experiencing ACEs to assess their local communities, to then - 2) identify and engage...

The circumstances were already tragic. The parents of a three-year-old dying from hydranencephaly, a fatal condition marked by abnormal brain development, had requested one final consultation with a neurosurgeon. Dr. Sharon Cooper , a developmental, behavioral and forensic pediatrician who accompanied them to the appointment, recalled the horror she felt at the words the neurosurgeon, who was White, blithely said to the child’s parents who were Black, when he viewed the CT scan of the...