July 2021

REGISTER NOW for our Aug. 3 webinar: Community advocacy tools for spending COVID relief dollars [phadvocates.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 7/30/218:56 AM

California’s cities and counties are starting to outline plans and allocate the $16 billion in relief funding they are getting through the American Rescue Plan Act. Community members and community-based organizations should have a seat at the table and advocate for funding to support their greatest needs. In our next webinar , Tuesday, August 3rd at 2 PM, we will share: Ways the California COVID Justice Coalition recommends spending the money to improve community health and racial equity...

From 6 states in 2009 to 50 + DC in 2020, all US states now collect ACEs data

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 7/28/217:54 AM

Over the last dozen years (2009-2020), every state and the District of Columbia have included the ACEs module in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey at least once—many multiple times—achieving a significant milestone in the PACEs (ACEs/trauma/resilience) movement. In 2009, the first year that the ACEs module was available for inclusion in the BRFSS, only Arkansas, California, Louisiana, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Washington participated. Since 2009, the US...

July 2021 CTIPP CAN Call Follow Up - Using Trauma-Informed and Faith-Based Approaches to Overcome Poverty

Jesse Maxwell Kohler · 7/25/2110:42 AM

Thank you to all who joined our incredible CTIPP CAN call on Wednesday. We are grateful for all who participated, but want to especially thank Jen Curt for the overview of the STRONG Support for Children Act, and Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz and Sanghoon Yoo for their wonderful presentations about their work. You can find the recording from the July CTIPP CAN call here . There were so many valuable resources shared. Attached to this email are both powerpoints from Rebecca and Sanghoon, and they...

Advocates rally around bipartisan RISE from Trauma Act that includes $600 million annually for community coalitions

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 7/25/2110:41 AM

As Congress heads toward the August recess, President Biden’s major domestic priorities are included in the framework announced on July 14 along with Democratic congressional leaders. Biden and party leaders agreed on a top-level number of $3.5 trillion for major programs including an extension of the child tax credit, universal pre-K, two years of free community college, child care support, climate provisions, expansion of the Affordable Care Act, and more. The path to enactment is far from...

The most powerful bill that Congress has ever introduced to address childhood and familial trauma [CTIPP]

Jesse Maxwell Kohler · 7/25/2110:40 AM

PACES Connection and CTIPP invite you to join us on a Zoom call for statewide coordinators and community managers rom around the country on Wednesday July 28th from 1:00-2:00pm ET/10-11am PT The call will cover several important and urgent issues coming out of Washington. First, a bipartisan group of four Senators has introduced the RISE from Trauma Act ( one-page summary attached ). This is the most powerful bill that Congress has ever introduced to address childhood and familial trauma in...

Sec. Haaland on healing from the indoctrination, dehumanization at Indian boarding schools [pbs.org]

Carey Sipp · 7/25/2110:39 AM

By Judy Woodruff, Public Broadcasting Service, July 16, 2021 Like Canada, America has a painful history of creating boarding schools to assimilate Native American children, leading to trauma, abuse and death. For more than 150 years, Indigenous children were taken from their families and forced into far away boarding schools. But now there's a reckoning and a new federal investigation underway. Judy Woodruff discusses it with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. Judy Woodruff: Like Canada, the...

SAMHSA awards $62.4 million in grants to combat child trauma, with $800,000 in American Rescue Plan funds [SAMHSA]

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 7/25/2110:38 AM

Friday, July 9, 2021. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is distributing $62.4 million in grant funding to provide and increase access to effective treatment and services systems in communities throughout the nation for children, adolescents, and their families who experience traumatic events. The White House is bolstering these awards with $800,000 in American Rescue Plan (ARP) support. In 2000, Congress established the National Child Traumatic Stress...

July 21st CTIPP CAN Call

Jesse Maxwell Kohler · 7/16/219:55 AM

July 21st, 2-3:30pm ET/11am-12:30pm PT - Using Trauma-Informed and Faith-Based Approaches to Overcome Poverty Zoom Call-in Information Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 One tap mobile +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) To start the call, we will be joined by a staff member in Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley's office (D-MA-07) to discuss the STRONG Support for Children Act, which was reintroduced last month. Dan and Jesse will also briefly discuss...

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