September 2021

By Angela Hart , Kaiser Health Network, September 8, 2021 Living unmedicated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Eugenia Hunter has a hard time recalling how long she’s been staying in the tent she calls home at the bustling intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland’s hip Uptown neighborhood. Craft coffee shops and weed dispensaries are plentiful here and one-bedroom apartments push $3,000 per month. “At least the rats aren’t all over me in here,” the...

The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB), Suicide Prevention Program , Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative , and CORE State Injury Prevention Program invite your participation in the “ Preventing Trauma and Suicide during Catastrophic Events and Beyond: Strategies for Preventing Suicide in California ” webinar on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (PST). In this webinar, presenters from the Prevention Institute and...

Dear Friends and Allies, Concerns for children’s mental health are on the top of our state policymakers’ agendas, and CCT has recently provided data, research and testimony to find solutions. In just the last few weeks, the Little Hoover Commission published the results of an extensive series of hearings: COVID-19 and Children’s Mental Health: Addressing the Impact and on August 18 the California Joint Senate Hearing on Education and the Pandemic Response , heard from panels of experts to...

By The HOPE Team, 9/15/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Each person is an individual with essential human dignity. Our society, however, continues to struggle with persistent racism. Today, we have posted a new statement about how HOPE intends to infuse an understanding of race, racism, and anti-racism into our work. Beyond individual biases, systems perpetuate inequity via systemic racism, endangering the health of children and families of color . HOPE core faculty member Dr. Baraka Floyd...

Article published September 9, 2021; The Daily Democrat By GERARDO ZAVALA Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced the launch of a Race Blind Charging program this week, which aims to eliminate any implicit bias based on race when deciding to file charges against suspects. “We started to work on this program almost two years ago with conversations with the Stanford Computational Policy Lab, who built the redaction engine that powers the race-blind charging process,” Reisig...

Our new report shows how community-based organizations have responded to COVID-19 and the policy implications An equitable recovery is one that prioritizes racially just, community-led solutions to reverse the underlying inequities that have generated disparities in COVID-19 case and death rates. And we have the opportunity to achieve that. This new report shows the way. Unfortunately, almost 18 months into the COVID-19 public health crisis, Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color...

By Guest Author, 9/7/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics released the fifth snapshot in the Family Snapshots: Life during the Pandemic series. In past blogs , we discussed the results of the survey that the HOPE team, in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics , Prevent Child Abuse America , and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) , conducted using the national online platform YouGov.com . This survey asked a national...

Anxiety, depression, and suicide is historically high, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, where our world has changed so drastically. It has left many feeling isolated, fearful, lonely, sad, and unsure of the future. In this live webinar, Dr. Kristin Beasley, Clinical Psychologist, will discuss building a community of support, self-care tips, building resilience in difficult times, healthy communication methods, and more! We are all in this together! Share this time with us! September...

Anxiety, depression, and suicide is historically high, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, where our world has changed so drastically. It has left many feeling isolated, fearful, lonely, sad, and unsure of the future. In this live webinar, Dr. Kristin Beasley, Clinical Psychologist, will discuss building a community of support, self-care tips, building resilience in difficult times, healthy communication methods, and more! We are all in this together! Share this time with us! September...

© UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser Challenge and crisis have shaped the lives of today's college students. Where do they go from here? Students by the hundreds were streaming through Sather Gate on a brilliant morning last week at UC Berkeley, en route to class, or the library, or the familiar comforts of the Free Speech Café. It was such a pleasant scene, so familiar, and yet for Brianna Rivera, a senior in English, it was skewing a little strange. She was walking to her first class of...

The Administration for Children and Families and the Department of Health & Human Services are engaging with the Treasury Department and the White House to help enroll eligible families in the Child Tax Credit, with a particular focus on families that may not usually file taxes. To do that, the ACF and HHS are offering the opportunity to participate in a 1 hour training to help you and your teams learn more about the Child Tax Credit and how you can help those in your community enroll.

REGISTER HERE: https://ycoe.zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_FO7yn1FhSD- fsyZlICGVvg Resilient Yolo is educating people in Yolo County, CA, about adverse childhood experience (ACEs). Our intent is that everyone in Yolo County integrates trauma-informed and resilience-building practices into their work, family, community and individual lives. Our quarterly workshop series will explore how we can advance this mission. Join us for the following sessions (subject to change): ** November 5:...