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September 2019

Adult Reentry Grant Program (ARG): Proposals due November 1st.

The Adult Reentry Grant (ARG) Program was established through the Budget Act of 2018 (Senate Bill 840, Chapter 29, Statute of 2018) and appropriated $50,000,000 in funding for competitive awards to community-based organizations to support offenders formerly incarcerated in state prison. The Budget Act requires that funding be allocated as follows: -$25 million be for rental assistance; -$9.35 million to support the warm handoff and reentry of offenders transitioning from prison to...

Afterschool programs and a trauma-informed approach [Afterschool Alliance]

“A trauma-informed, culturally responsive lens must be a part of everything we do.” This statement by Laura Norton-Cruz, Director of the Alaska Resilience Initiative, sums up the key message of last week’s Senate Afterschool Caucus briefing for Congressional staff which focused on “Afterschool Programs and a Trauma-Informed Approach.” On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Senate Afterschool Caucus* — in partnership with the Afterschool Alliance, Alaska Children’s Trust – Alaska Afterschool Network,...

Want to Reduce Suicides? Follow the Data - To Medical Offices, Motels and Even Animal Shelters [khn.org]

By Maureen O'Hagan, Kaiser Health News, September 23, 2019 On Kimberly Repp’s office wall is a sign in Latin: Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. This is a place where the dead delight in helping the living. For medical examiners, it’s a mission. Their job is to investigate deaths and learn from them, for the benefit of us all. Repp, however, isn’t a medical examiner; she’s a Ph.D. microbiologist. And as the Washington County epidemiologist, she was most accustomed to studying...

Using the Centrality of Relationships as a Protective Factor in Building Resilience: Infusing Early Childhood Mental Health Principles and Practices Across the Care Continuum for Children and Families

Interested in going further upstream to promote resilience in the Northern CA region through development of “early childhood informed” communities? Strategies 2.0 is extending an invitation to join us in our Learning Community focused on early childhood mental health in a 4-Part Series entitled: “Using the Centrality of Relationships as a Protective Factor in Building Resilience: Infusing Early Childhood Mental Health Principles and Practices Across the Care Continuum for Children and...

Humboldt County Grapples With School Suspension Rates [times-standard.com]

By Sonia Waraich, Times-Standard, September 1, 2019 School suspension rates are unusually high in Humboldt County, but school districts say they’re working on reducing those numbers. Overall, the county had a 6.6% suspension rate across all its schools during the 2017-2018 school year, compared with a rate of 3.5% for the rest of the state, according to data from the state Department of Education. In some districts, school suspensions jump into the double digits – 11.2% at Southern Humboldt...

Equity Arcata working on bias reporting app [Times Standard]

By Sonia Waraich, Sept 4, 2019 for Times Standard Humboldt State University students of color will soon have a choice to download an app letting them know where incidences of bias have been reported in the past and where they are likely to be safe from that harassment. Jennifer Eichstedt, a Humboldt State University sociology professor and member of Equity Arcata’s bias reporting tool and community response team, told the Arcata City Council that the partnership formed to tackle local racial...

 
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