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August 2020

Turning Anger Into Action: Minority Students Analyze COVID Data on Racial Disparities [californiahealthline.org]

By Esther Landhuis, California Healthline, August 12, 2020 As the coronavirus swept into Detroit this spring, Wayne State University junior Skye Taylor noticed something striking. On social media, many of her fellow Black classmates who live or grew up in the city were “posting about death, like, ‘Oh, I lost this family member to COVID-19,’” said Taylor. The picture was different in Beverly Hills, a mostly white suburb 20 miles away. “People I went to high school with aren’t posting anything...

Whose Streets? [motherjones.com]

By Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones, October 2020 In August 2018, a few weeks after he was shot eight times at a party in Oakland, Andre Reed was recovering at his mom’s house, his wounds still open, when he got a message on Instagram. It was an old friend from his school days. She said some people were looking for him and wanted to talk. Reed, then 35, had recently been released from federal prison, after years of bouncing in and out of the criminal justice system. “Is this the police?” he...

Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, June 24-30, 2020 [cdc.gov]

By Mark É. Czeisler, Rashon I. Lane, Emiko Petrosky, et al., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 14, 2020 What is already known about this topic? Communities have faced mental health challenges related to COVID-19–associated morbidity, mortality, and mitigation activities. What is added by this report? During June 24–30, 2020, U.S. adults reported considerably elevated adverse mental health conditions associated with COVID-19. Younger adults, racial/ethnic minorities,...

COVID-19 Black initiative delivers call to action in San Francisco Bay Area

As the COVID-19 pandemic began its devastating sweep through African American communities in April, Andre Chapman, CEO of the San Jose, California-based Unity Care , saw a glaring need for developing a COVID-19 prevention campaign that spoke directly to African Americans. “Many of our young folks and families really didn't understand the impact of this virus, nor did they believe much of the information that was coming through the media,” says Chapman. His organization provides housing and...

Back-to-School in a Pandemic? Questions, Concerns, and Discussion with School Nurse, Robin Cogan

Robin is a brilliant, passionate, and vocal school nurse with almost two decades of experience as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. She is the Legislative Co-Chair for the New Jersey State School Nurses Association and she joined us last week for A Better Normal community discussion about back-to-school (or not) plans families are facing this school year. Robin serves as faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing...

The Digital Divide

As the school year begins, access to technology, including suitable devices for schoolwork and a sufficient broadband internet connection, is both a requirement for effective learning and a source of division in this new mode of mass education. Educational inequities become more acute when some children lack a dedicated device or have an inadequate internet connection. This digital divide compounds inequities and may have long-term consequences on educational outcomes. Kidsdata.org now...

Upcoming A Better Normal Webinar: "Practical Tools for Building a Trauma-Informed Culture"

Tuesday, August 18th, 12-1pm PT Register HERE Culture is at the heart of a trauma-informed approach but can often feel abstract or hard to operationalize. In this one-hour interactive A Better Normal session, we will explore the role of culture in a trauma-informed approach, work through an exercise to apply these concepts, and discuss what culture looks like in our own communities and organizations. Participants will walk away with practical action steps to help lead the development of a...

Resilient Sacramento Monthly Meeting Join us on August 11, 2020, 3:00pm

Greetings! My name is Severine Hollingsworth, I am the Community Liaison for BAART Programs and MedMark Treatment Centers. We offer outpatient opioid medication assisted treatment (MAT) in three convenient locations in the greater Sacramento area (see attached flyer). We provide counseling, ease of access, continuum of care and community referrals to benefit our patients. We are collaborative in all aspect of our communities from mental health, drug and alcohol rehab to reentry programs. Our...

Race and Ethnicity Matter in Californians' Views on Environmental Disparities [ppic.org]

By Alyssa Dykman, Public Policy Institute of California, August 5, 2020 Three crises facing the nation—COVID-19, systemic racism, and the economic recession—have placed environmental justice in the spotlight. Disparities across the environment, the economy, and COVID-19 are inextricably linked to race/ethnicity and disproportionally affect communities of color. At the same time, people of color are more likely than whites to be concerned about these inequities. PPIC’s latest survey on...

UCSF White Coats for Black Lives Statement on the Public Health Crisis at San Quentin State Prison and Other California Prisons and Jails [medium.com]

By UCSF White Coats for Black Lives, July 26, 2020 To Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: As doctors, nurses and healthcare workers of California, we write to you today in outrage at the conditions of the California Prison system. With 2,401 COVID-19 cases and 17 deaths, the outbreak at San Quentin is now the second largest in the nation. This is a public health crisis — one that impacts not only those Californians who are currently...

Fundamentals of ACE Screening & Response in Adult Medicine [acesaware.org]

With an introduction from California Surgeon General, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the webinar featured a cross-disciplinary group of providers who have extensive experience with ACE screening and clinical response in adult primary care. The webinar covered: The value of ACE screening and clinical response in family and adult medicine; The science and physiological impacts of ACEs and toxic stress; The ACE screening tool and the ACEs and Toxic Stress Risk Assessment Algorithm; and Four case...

Childhood Maltreatment and Suicidality [jamanetwork.com]

By Brett Burstein and Brian Greenfield, JAMA Network Open, August 5, 2020 In JAMA Network Open, Angelakis et al have conducted an important exploration of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their association with suicide in the pediatric age group. The authors have undertaken a meta-analysis to quantify the association between ACEs and suicide ideation, attempts, and plans, offering odds ratios (ORs) to elucidate the relative contribution of several core ACEs to eventual suicidal...

Association of Childhood Intrafamilial Aggression and Childhood Peer Bullying With Adult Depressive Symptoms in China [jamanetwork.com]

By Qing Wang, JAMA Network Open, August 4, 2020 Key Points Español 中文 (Chinese) Question What is the contribution of childhood peer bullying to the association between intrafamilial aggression exposure and depression symptoms in adulthood? Findings In this national cross-sectional study of 15 450 respondents 45 years or older in China, being bullied by peers in childhood was a mediator of the association between childhood intrafamilial aggression (eg, parental physical maltreatment and...

Association of Childhood Maltreatment With Suicide Behaviors Among Young People [jamanetwork.com]

By Ioannis Angelakis, Jennifer L. Austin, and Patricia Gooding, JAMA Network Open, August 5, 2020 Key Points Español 中文 (Chinese) Question What is the association between experiences of childhood maltreatment and suicide behaviors in children and young adults? Findings This systematic review and meta-analysis was based on 79 individual studies with 337 185 unique participants found an association between core types of childhood maltreatment and suicide behaviors in children and young adults.

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