July 2020

(VIDEO) Humboldt Soul Singer Has Them ‘Pandemic Blues’ (Lost Coast Outpost)

Karen Clemmer · 7/31/207:55 PM

By Andrew Goff, July 30, 2020, Lost Coast Outpost. For the past couple years, rarely a week would go by in Humboldt when you couldn’t find Claire Bent and her band Citizen Funk at some bar or casino kicking out dance tunes for appreciative feet. But as it’s gone for most of us, Bent’s regularly scheduled life took a turn when COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders went into place. “We were playing almost every weekend,” Bent told the Outpost . “We had so many weddings we were going to play this...

Confessions of a California Covid Nurse (Bloomberg)

Karen Clemmer · 7/30/208:47 PM

By Michael Lewis, July 30, 2020, Bloomberg. Notes From A Pandemic: A California county’s efforts to stop the spread has also become a battle with the public’s denial. Erica Dykehouse will wait for minds to change. The Humboldt County Public Health department in California is inside what used to be a juvenile jail. The offices are former prison cells. A few of the doors still have the small windows with the sliding panels that allowed guards to observe prisoners. The basement is a dungeon,...

Why the dean of early childhood experts wants to get beyond the brain [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 7/30/208:55 AM

By Ryan White, Center for Health Journalism, July 23, 2020 Harvard’s Jack Shonkoff, a luminary in the field of early childhood, has spent years showing that events in the earliest years of life have profound implications for how budding brains develop, and in turn, shape a child’s later potential at school and work. Now, Shonkoff says it’s time to connect the brain to the rest of the body. “The message now is to say that there is a revolution going on in molecular biology and genomics and in...

WELLNESS & RECOVERY PROGRAM (Partnership Healthplan of California)

Karen Clemmer · 7/16/208:52 AM

New benefits as of July 2020 Partnership is working to ensure that our members get effective and appropriate behavioral health care services ( mental health and substance use treatment services ) in all 14 counties we serve. Expansion of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Services PHC’s 14 counties have long supported SUD treatment services through the Drug Medi-Cal program. Now, these services are greatly expanded in seven of our counties through our new Wellness and Recovery Program. Wellness...

PLANNING DEPARTMENT’S ACCOUNTING OF MONEY COLLECTED FROM CANNABIS INDUSTRY ‘NOT TRANSPARENT,’ SAYS HUMBOLDT COUNTY CIVIL GRAND JULY (Redheaded Blackbelt)

Karen Clemmer · 7/15/208:34 PM

By Kym Kemp, July 15, 2020, kymkemp.com. Report from the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury: In the wake of the historic referendum, Proposition 64, that legalized recreational cannabis in California, Humboldt County had an opportunity and a responsibility to develop a safe, well-managed, and thriving industry. Four years into this new era, Humboldt County’s administration of the emergent cannabis industry (permits, fines, penalties, laws, monitoring, the oversight and enforcement thereof) has...

BARRIERS TO CARE: Why Humboldt’s Latinx Population is Being Hit Disproportionately Hard by COVID-19 (Lost Coast Outpost)

Karen Clemmer · 7/11/206:45 PM

By Iridian Casarez, July 10, 2020, Community Voices Coalition. Standing in Eureka’s La Pasadita Market on a recent afternoon, Isabel Ortiz says she’s had a hard time getting information on COVID-19, how to prevent its spread and what to do if she or someone she knows starts experiencing symptoms. Ortiz, who works at the market, only speaks Spanish and most of the COVID-19 information she’s seen has been in English. She says it would be a good idea for local officials to translate important...

St. Joe’s, Open Door Bring Six New First-Year Doctors to Humboldt County For Residency Program (Lost Coast Outpost)

Karen Clemmer · 7/7/204:04 PM

Press release from St. Joseph Hospital: : The St. Joseph Hospital of Eureka Family Medicine Residency Program, a medical training alliance between St. Joseph Hospital – the sponsoring institution – and Open Door Community Health Centers, is pleased to announce its second class of residents to the North Coast rural medicine program. [ Please click here to read more. ]

Regulation Before Education: Trauma-Informed Schools

Emily Read Daniels · 7/7/2012:36 PM

Regulation Before Education: The Roots and Fruits of a Trauma-Informed School July 29-31st | 12:00 - 3:00pm EDT These times are unsettling in many ways. But the disruptions have widened opportunities for different ways of being, thinking and doing in education. The trauma-informed schools movement has never been more relevant. Schools committed to cultivating trauma-informed change can successfully buffer the adverse effects of the pandemic, economic collapse, and persistent racial...

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