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NEW YORK (AP) -- Gun deaths have fallen in California over a 16-year period ending in 2015, driven largely by a decline in gang violence and black homicides a recent and rare scientific study of firearm violence has found. Researchers at the University of California, Davis published their findings in the May issue of the journal Annals of Epidemiology after reviewing 50,921 firearm deaths recorded in California between 2000 and 2015. The University provided the study results on Monday. The...

Black Lives Matter leaders took the megaphone at a UC Davis medical education building in Sacramento Tuesday, miles from the downtown intersection where they’ve been protesting for weeks following the deadly police shooting of Stephon Clark. They again demanded police accountability and changes to use of force protocols, this time addressing a group of young faces in green scrubs and white coats. The students laid on the ground in what they called a “white coat die-in” — an event organized...

Medical students around the country participated in a national die-in event as part of the WhiteCoats4BlackLives movement. Check out some information about the event organized by medical students at the UC Davis School of Medicine.

In 1996, right after voters in California banned affirmative action in employment and college admissions, minority student enrollment at two and four-year institutions plummeted. What has happened since though, is pretty remarkable. Of the 2.8 million students attending college in California today, two out of three come from racially and ethnically diverse populations. The most eye-popping increase in enrollment has been among Latinos. They now make up 43 percent of all college students in...

The California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA) is hosting its second annual Policymaker Education Day in Sacramento on May 22nd, 2018 with guest speaker Assemblyman Dr. Joaquin Arambula! Policymaker Education Day is an opportunity for advocates from all over California to come and educate their policymakers about childhood adversity, the long-term consequences of childhood adversity on communities, and what they can do to help. Please register by April 30 at http://bit.do/peday...

"This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life," said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis. The project is led by Clifford Saron,...

Toxic stress impacts individuals and communities every day. Come hear from a panel of subject matter experts who used the Trauma-Informed Approach to mitigate toxic stress and build Resilient Communities in our region. Learn about the Trauma-Informed System’s Principles 1.Trauma Understanding 2.Cultural Humility & Responsiveness 3.Safety & Stability 4.Compassion & Dependability 5.Collaboration & Empowerment 6.Resilience & Recovery Facilitators: Kaytie Speziale, MFT UCDH...

2018 Funding Opportunity Release Date: March 7, 2018 | Application Deadline: April 11, 2018, 3:00 p.m. ET Purpose The Integrative Action for Resilience initiative is a two-phase opportunity for local community leaders—who are interested in designing and implementing rigorous resilience research to generate evidence that can inform their own decision-making about policies and projects needed to build resilience in their community, and for researchers—who are interested in partnering in new...

Robin Green, a member of ACEs Connection and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore Medical Center is interested in folks that may be interested in collaborating on a R-21 grant submission on health risk and resilience after hurricanes. If you are interested, see her post here: http://www.acesconnection.com/topic/r-21-grant-on-health-risk-and-resilience-after-hurricanes

Wilms, professor of education emeritus in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has spent his career dedicated to finding ways to apply his scholarship and some of UCLA’s institutional influence to advance social justice and equality. After taking a conflict mediation class in 1998 taught by Avis Ridley-Thomas, then-director of the dispute resolution program in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, Wilms had the idea to bring that to UCLA. So he invited...

Free public lecture. Please RSVP by March 19, 2018 bhcoe-march2018.eventbrite.com or 916-734-4349 Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control “won’t prevent” such incidents. Professor Metzl will address how assumptions about gun violence incorrectly link...

NOTE - Dr Emmons from UCD is quoted below... Mindfulness is all the rage right now and companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Nike, and Goldman Sachs are all jumping on board. Mindfulness, the practice of focusing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present moment, has many noted benefits including decreased stress, lower blood pressure and heart rate, increased awareness, and higher brain functioning. Thanks to recent advances in the field of neuroscience, we now have new...