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2019 Los Angeles Women's Needs Assessment [downtownwomenscenter.org]
By Downtown Women's Center, February 2020 A report on women experiencing homelessness The 2019 Los Angeles Women’s Needs Assessment is a community-based research project developed in partnership with unsheltered and sheltered women in the City of Los Angeles. Expanding on the legacy of six past projects documenting the demographics, needs, and conditions of homeless and low-income women in downtown Los Angeles, this project includes women from a broader geographic swath of the city. [ Please...
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37th Annual Child Abuse Prevention Symposium Recap
"Speak Out! Confronting the Culture of Child Sexual Abuse and Secrecy" was the theme of Santa Clara County's 37th Annual Child Abuse Prevention Symposium which featured a Keynote conversation with Olympic Gold Medal winning gymnast and current UCLA Assistant Gymnastics Coach Jordyn Wieber. Jordyn, and other athletes and survivors of former USA Gymnastics team doctor and serial child sex abuser Larry Nassar, earlier spoke to a U.S. Senate Subcommittee about a “culture of silence” more...
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A Guide to Creating “Safe Space” Policies for Early Childhood Programs [CLASP]
From the Center for Law and Social Policy Early childhood programs play an important role in the lives of young children and their families. But in our current immigration policy climate, families across the country are questioning whether it’s safe to attend or enroll. Providers can take steps to protect families’ safety and privacy by implementing policies that designate their facilities as a safe space from immigration enforcement. This guide explains federal agency guidance related to...
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CA pediatrician develops, tests, gets state OK for whole-child assessment tool that includes ACEs
Over the last dozen years or so, many pediatricians, astounded by the ramifications of the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the children they care for, began integrating this science into their practices. The most common approach has been to ask parents about ACEs using a questionnaire, and to use this information to counsel parents and identify resources for the family. Different practices have been using different questionnaires: Some ask parents for their ACE scores...
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CA pediatrician develops, tests, gets state OK for whole-child assessment tool that includes ACEs
[Editor's note: This blog was first posted in April 2017. Dr. Marie-Mitchell updated the assessment by modifying a few of the questions, so we are republishing with the new assessment, one in Spanish and one in English.] Over the last dozen years or so, many pediatricians, astounded by the ramifications of the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the children they care for, began integrating this science into their practices. The most common approach has been to ask parents...
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Alternative IHEBA with ACEs for California (and Other) Pediatricians
If you are a pediatrician serving Medicaid managed care patients in California, then you are required to use the Staying Healthy Assessment or an alternative IHEBA (Individual Health Education Behavioral Assessment) at all well-child visits. The bad news is that getting approval to use an alternative IHEBA is a tedious process. The good news is that as of October 27, 2016 the Whole Child Assessment (WCA) is available for use in English and Spanish. Most importantly, the WCA has been...
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Assembly OK’s Bill to Expand ‘Gravely Disabled’ to Include Mental Illness (scvnews.com)
The California Assembly passed AB 1971 Wednesday, legislation which amends the state’s definition of “gravely disabled” to include medical treatment as a basic human need for those suffering from a serious mental illness, just as necessary to well-being as food, clothing or shelter. AB 1971 is sponsored by Los Angeles County, the Steinberg Institute, and the California Psychiatric Association. The bill passed with bipartisan support by a vote of 66-0. The proposal for the change in state law...
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Shasta County Public Health looks to measure wellness by looking back at childhood experiences [Redding.com]
The Shasta County Department of Public Health is looking at a new way to address healthiness, and it starts by looking back at childhood experiences. Adverse Childhood Experiences, also known as ACEs, are childhood experiences that are unhappy, unhealthy and hurtful before age 18. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looking at ACEs suggests that these "experiences are major risk factors for the leading causes of illness and death as well as poor quality of life in...
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State surgeon general’s prescription for a healthy Sacramento: Alleviating childhood trauma [sacbee.com]
California’s new surgeon general made Sacramento the first stop on her statewide listening tour, and after Tuesday’s event, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris told The Bee that capital residents are powerfully grappling with the long-term impact childhood trauma has on their families and neighborhoods. Burke Harris said many of the 100 Sacramento-area residents she met with asked her to find ways to bring training, resources and support to families, educators, nonprofits and other community-based...
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Sutter, Kaiser and other providers work to fight ‘eye-opening’ physician burnout levels (sacbee.com)
In recent years, the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society has turned its focus to caring for caregivers. The medical society, one of the oldest medical societies in the west, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, is attempting to curb the effects of physician burnout through its Joy of Medicine program. The program is a multi-disciplinary approach to address burnout by encouraging wellness and resiliency among physicians in the region. It was designed with input from all of the...
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The Department of Health Services is tracking racial / ethnic demographic data for COVID-19 positive cases in County
Susan Gorin @susangorin1st Impacts on the Latinx Community There are long-standing injustices that have led to this, and this moment offers the opportunity to take concerted action to overcome inequalities and transform our thinking and actions towards a "stronger for all" Sonoma county. The health differences between the racial and ethnic groups are rooted in unequal economic and social conditions, as well as in past and current structural inequalities and discrimination that marginalize...
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Dozens of stakeholders representing thousands of practitioners send public comments on Calif. ACEs-screening plan
Update: We posted this story on Tuesday evening and received a response from the Department of Health Care Services Wednesday that clarifies additional information. DHCS information Officer Katharine Weir said that subject to budget approval by the legislature and the governor: The reimbursement rate will be $29. Federally Qualified Health Centers will also be reimbursed for screening pediatric patients for trauma through Prop 56 funds and federal matching funds. In response to a question...
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Keeping Kids Out of Cells [sfchronicle.com]
By Jill Tucker and Joaquin Palomino, San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2019 The two-story brick building on a quiet street in Queens doesn’t stand out from the million-dollar homes scattered throughout the neighborhood. There are no signs on the former Catholic convent, nothing to indicate that inside are five New York City teens who committed felony assault, grand larceny, gun possession or another serious crime. Placed here by a judge’s order, each is spending an average of seven...
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New Brief on Play & Trauma Available
Bay Area Early Childhood Funders have released a new brief, “The Power of Play for Addressing Trauma in Early Years,” available in both English and Spanish . The brief provides families, teachers and caregivers an easy-to-read, one-page online brief about the importance of play for addressing trauma in young children and tips for helping children cope. Additional materials on the importance of play are available here .
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One City Heights School is Doing the Nearly Impossible: Closing the Achievement Gap [voiceofsandiego.com]
By Will Huntsberry, Voice of San Diego, March 2, 2020 In San Diego, as with the rest of the country, poverty tracks closely with test scores. The social science is clear: Poorer children are not less bright. They lack the same opportunities as their more affluent peers to gain cognitive skills from the moment they are born. The most pressing question in education has always been whether schools can supercharge the learning process enough to compensate for these class inequities. At Edison...
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Op-Ed – Looking To Oakland For Gun Violence Reduction Strategies That Work [witnessla.com]
It’s the best news you’ve probably never heard. Oakland, long synonymous with gun violence, is suddenly emerging as a national leader in the field of violence prevention. Since 2012, shootings are down more than 50 percent and are on pace to reach their lowest levels in decades. California leaders have much to learn from how people in Oakland came together to rewrite the violence reduction playbook. [For more on this story by Reygan Cunningham and Mike McLively, go to...
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Cities Take Issue With Unsettling Smoke [thesungazette.com]
By Reggie Ellis, The Sun-Gazette, October 23, 2019 After decades of declines in underage tobacco use, flavored vape juice is fueling a resurgence in teen smoking; forces cities to consider bans as school districts struggle to deal with vaping epidemic. When Sara Morton became an educator 20 years ago, underage cigarette use was at an all-time low. Kids who had grown up watching well-funded anti-smoking commercials on television seemed to have gotten the message. During her first few years as...
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County Public Health to use $50,000 grant to measure adverse childhood experiences [Redding.com]
The Shasta County Public Health Department will use a $50,000 grant from Partnership HealthPlan to begin measuring adverse childhood experiences among Shasta County adults — the first time such a study has been conducted since 2012. Hill Country Health and Wellness Center, Shasta Community Health Center, and Mercy Medical Center's Maternity Center and Family Medicine programs will work on the project starting in June. Health care providers at those medical centers will ask patients whether...
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California still suspending black and Native American students way more than whites [sacbee.com]
California has made strides to reduce student suspensions for minor classroom disruptions, but a new study concludes the state still has not gone far enough — and in some districts, pernicious disparities remain. Statewide, school districts in 2017 issued some 381,845 suspensions that resulted in an estimated 763,690 missed days of instruction, according to a new report by the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA. The number of days lost for minor infractions categorized as “defiance and...
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How collaboration helps clinic in San Mateo County, CA, tackle ACEs in children
Dr. Elizabeth Grady is a pediatrician at the South San Francisco Clinic, a community clinic of San Mateo Medical Center. She and Susana Flores , a senior public health nurse with San Mateo County Health, spoke with me about how the clinic and other health agencies in San Mateo have been able to craft ways to work together to prevent and heal toxic stress in children. Grady also talked about how she and Flores have been working with the Resilient Beginnings Collaborative (RBC), a group of...
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In Spanish: Handouts for parents about ACEs, toxic stress & resilience
The Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District has come through again, with a Spanish version of the parent handout (in English) that we posted last year , and which has been downloaded thousands of times. The English versions came about whiledoing a story about the trauma-in formed elementary schools in Spokane, WA .I interviewedp ublic health nurse Melissa Charbonneau who said that she'd been giving an...
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Webinar Recap: Fostering HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) during COVID-19 with Drs. Robert Sege and Dina Burstein
On June 16, 2020, the California Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative held a webinar entitled, “Fostering HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) during COVID-19" and heard from special guest speakers, Drs. Robert Sege and Dina Burstein from the HOPE Project at Tufts Medical Center . Drs. Sege and Burstein presented research and data supporting the benefits and importance of Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs), background on the HOPE Project, and the relevance to ACEs...
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Juneteenth California [LA Times]
Juneteenth is Friday, June 19. Read this brief history by the LA Times of the Juneteenth Celebration and description of recent celebrations in Los Angeles, celebrations that will be repeated throughout California this weekend.
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Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: One-Pager
Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: One-Pager
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New Resource: Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic One-Pager (English & Spanish!)
English: The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP) , Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative , ACEs Connection , and the Yolo County Children’s Alliance have co-created a newly developed resource, “Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in both English and Spanish. This material is intended for Californian families experiencing the severe...
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New Understanding Childhood Trauma Resource for Parents/Caregivers
Please see our new pamphlet for parents/caregivers about childhood trauma (now in eight languages), and share with friends, family and colleagues. Although designed for Massachusetts residents, the resource page can be adapted for other locations. Thank you for your help and any distribution ideas. https://www.frcma.org/about/tr...sources-and-training https://myemail.constantcontact.com/NEW-Understanding-Childhood-Trauma-Resource.html?soid=1135101415145&aid=t6mWQvwx2sA
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Los Mariachis lloran la pérdida de decenas de músicos por COVID-19 [laopinion.com]
By Araceli Martínez Ortega, La Opinión, February 10, 2021 A María Olmos, el 30 de enero, la pandemia de COVID-19 le arrebató a su esposo Dagoberto Martínez, integrante del Mariachi Tierra Mexicana de Los Ángeles. “Sé que necesitan ayuda para pagar la renta y la comida, pero también deben evitar exponerse al virus como lo hizo mi esposo. Les pido a todos los mariachis que se cuiden y cuiden a su familia. COVID es algo muy serio ”, dice María. Ella y Dagoberto formaron una pareja durante 34...
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To heal a community, let its members be the agents of change
Recently, the United States reached a sobering milestone. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 500,000 people, surpassing the number of US soldiers who died in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. The pandemic has closed schools, turned urban areas into ghost towns, and caused massive job loss, long food lines, more homelessness, and isolation for many shuttered indoors in response to orders by public health officials. And 2020 also witnessed numerous instances of...
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Doctora explica su experiencia con la vacuna contra el COVID-19 [elespectador.com]
Por Redacción Bogotá, 5 Febrero 2021 La profesional de la salud asegura que las vacunas aprobadas han demostrado en estudios clínicos su alta eficacia contra el COVID-19, ya que estimulan el sistema inmune para crear anticuerpos que combaten a este coronavirus. “Yo no me vacuno” es una de las frases que ha comenzado a ser usada en las redes sociales. Videos, e incluso grupos en Facebook, agrupan personas bajo esta premisa. Parte de los argumentos utilizados es que las vacunas contra el...
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7 experiencias que todo niño debería vivir para una buena salud mental de adulto, según especialistas [naranxadul.com]
Por Consuelo Hernández, Naran Xadul, 18 Marzo 2021 Todo lo que vivimos en la infancia deja huellas en nuestro corazón y en nuestra personalidad, pero, las experiencias positivas en específico son las que nos ayudan a tener una buena salud mental cuando somos adultos. Según un estudio realizado por la Universidad Johns Hopkins , cuando tu hijo vive experiencias positivas mientras es niño, es menos probable que sufra depresión y tenga una mejor salud mental cuando sea adulto, por lo que sus...
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Llamadas telefónicas de alto precio en la cárcel: $15 para hablar con su hija [calmatters.org]
Por Anne Stuhldreher, Cal Matters, April 27, 2021 Al crecer, Blossom Sergejev tenía suerte si hablaba con su madre una vez a la semana. Por lo general, era una vez al mes. Incluso entonces, sus conversaciones terminaron casi tan pronto como comenzaron. Ella, su hermano y su hermana tenían un temporizador para asegurarse de que los tres tuvieran su parte justa del tiempo de su madre: cinco minutos cada uno. “No hubo una pequeña charla sobre esas llamadas, y no fue nada alegre”, dice Sergejev.
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Meet the Tik Tok angel of street vendors [calmatters.org]
By Jacqueline Garcia, Cal Matters, May 6, 2021 When TikTok started gaining popularity, Jesus Morales, like many other young people, decided to create original content to post on the social media platform. What he did not expect is that in a very short time he would become an influencer and a guardian angel for many street vendors in California. The 24-year-old said that after being fired from his job at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, he decided to use his free time to create funny...
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Conoce al ángel de TikTok de los vendedores ambulantes [calmatters.org]
Por Jacqueline Garcia, Cal Matters, 6 Mayo 2021 Cuando TikTok comenzó a ganar popularidad, Jesús Morales, como muchos otros jóvenes, decidió crear contenido original para publicar en la plataforma de redes sociales. Lo que no esperaba es que en muy poco tiempo se convertiría en influencer y ángel de la guarda para muchos vendedores ambulantes en California. El joven de 24 años dijo que después de ser despedido de su trabajo al comienzo de la pandemia en 2020, decidió usar su tiempo libre...
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Cómo los agricultores tuvieron que eludir los programas estatales y del condado para vacunar a los trabajadores agrícolas [calmatters.org]
Por Caitlin Antonios, Cal Matters, 5 Mayo 2021 A fines de enero, la Junta de Supervisores del Condado de Monterey envió una carta a los líderes estatales, instándolos a dar prioridad a sus 64.000 trabajadores agrícolas en una de las regiones agrícolas más grandes del país. Un mes después, el gobernador Gavin Newsom visitó una clínica móvil de vacunas en Fresno y prometió decenas de miles de dosis adicionales para los trabajadores agrícolas. A su vez, Chris Valadez, presidente de una...
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Resource: Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic One-Pager in English and Spanish
Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic is now available in ADA compliant English and Spanish versions! Please share the attached resource with your networks, the families you serve, or where families access meals or food boxes through the school community or food distribution centers. Here’s more information about the document: The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse...
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How some college counselors are fighting back against pandemic-induced enrollment decline [calmatters.org]
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...
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¿Se extenderá la moratoria de desalojos de California más allá del 30 de junio? [calmatters.org]
By Manuela Tobias, Cal Matters, June 21, 2021 Por tercera vez durante la pandemia, los legisladores de California han postergado una enorme e inminente pregunta hasta el último minuto: ¿protegerá el estado a los inquilinos del desalojo? Lo más probable es que la respuesta sea sí, pero por cuánto tiempo y en qué términos todavía está en el aire. Varios legisladores le dijeron a CalMatters que una decisión podría llegar tarde esta semana, solo unos días antes de que expiren las protecciones...
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¿Facturas de servicios públicos sin pagar? California pagará $2,000 millones para evitar suspensiones de servicio [calmatters.org]
By Jackie Botts, Cal Matters, July 21, 2021 Hace dos años, el Departamento de Agua y Energía de Los Ángeles cortó la electricidad en la casa de Will Hollman en el Valle de San Fernando, lo que obligó a la familia a depender de un generador de gasolina. A fines de junio de este año, el departamento también desconectó el agua, a pesar de una moratoria estatal sobre cortes de agua que el gobernador Gavin Newsom recientemente extendido hasta el 30 de septiembre . Hollman, su hijo de 10 años y su...
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Resource: Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic One-Pager (English & Spanish!)
English: The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP) , Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative , ACEs Connection , and the Yolo County Children’s Alliance co-created “Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in both English and Spanish. This material is intended for Californian families experiencing the severe economic consequences resulting from...
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Por qué deberías dejar de gritarles a tus hijos [nytimes.com]
Por Stephen Marche, The New York Times, September 10, 2018 Desde hace cincuenta años, el uso de las nalgadas como correctivo ha ido en descenso, pero ¿qué hay de los gritos? Casi todo el mundo les grita a sus hijos en algunas ocasiones, incluso los padres que saben que no funciona. Actualmente, gritar podría ser la tontería más generalizada en cuanto a crianza. En los hogares donde los gritos son recurrentes, los niños tienden a desarrollar una baja autoestima e índices más altos de...
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El condado de Imperial tiene una de las mejores tasas de vacunación de California. Esta es la razón [calmatters.org]
Por Ana B. Ibarra, Cal Matters, August 16, 2021 El condado de Imperial, ubicado en la esquina sureste de California, aprendió desde el principio lo que significaba ser una zona caliente de COVID-19. El virus arrasó el condado agrícola la primavera pasada y luego nuevamente en el invierno. Aproximadamente uno de cada seis residentes se ha infectado y 745 personas han muerto. Pero el condado de Imperial tiene una estadística que está dando esperanzas a los funcionarios de salud locales: el 86%...