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A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
In 2015, Congress charged the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to identify strategies for a quick and significant reduction in child poverty. The resulting report, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty , finds that many poverty-reducing programs, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit Program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, promote babies’ healthy development. https://www.nap.edu/read/ 25246/chapter/2
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Child poverty declines even as disparities persist among the nation’s youngest children
Article by Katherine Paschall and Jessical Dym Bartlett in the publication ChildTrends. September 12. 2019 The most recent Census data show a small decrease in the poverty rate among the overall U.S. population, from 12.3 percent in 2017 to 11.8 percent in 2018. Poverty rates were highest among infants and toddlers (birth through age 2), Black and Hispanic young children, and young children living in single parent-headed households—particularly female-headed households—relative to children...
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Childhood Poverty Series from KQED News
Dear Kidsdata Community, A new series from National Public Radio affiliate, KQED News, examines the role of public policy in addressing poverty among California’s children and their families. Kidsdata, in partnership with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), took a new look at poverty data and provided them for several articles. The articles delve into poverty among infants under three years old and focus on Merced County, an area of particular concern but also great potential. In...
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Fall Conference on Poverty, Segregation and Locality
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Inequality in Children's Brain Development
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The Absence of Punishment in Our Schools
Where to begin... My heart is full of hope and joy as I watch the trauma-informed schools movement swell across our nation and planet. The science of ACEs is mind-bending to say the least and we are now able to open up a much deeper dialogue about human behavior and health. Ultimately this work is about healing… All. Of. Us. A new consciousness is taking root around ending the “us vs them” construct. The idea is growing that we’re all on this journey together and that no matter where our...
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In Housing Crisis, Rural Californians Need Greater Legal Protections and Access to Legal Aid
In a new policy brief from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, Zach Newman and Lisa R. Pruitt write that California's legal-aid system should be funded with sensitivity to rural needs in order to deliver adequate legal aid to all Californians, wherever they reside. Key Facts: Rural homelessness in California is rising, sometimes more quickly than its urban equivalent. High rural eviction rates are caused in part by inadequate access to legal assistance in rural communities. New laws...
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Incarceration and Childhood Disadvantage
Read this article by Siobhan Montgomery O'Keefe, with the center for Poverty Research at UC Davis. Incarceration in the United States has a serious impact on families and on children. Incarcerated adults have children at nearly the same rates as the non-incarcerated population, and children living in families with an incarcerated parent are more likely to experience certain hardships. https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/po st/incarceration-and-childhood -disadvantage?ut...
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POLICY BRIEF: Food-Assistance Programs Have Positive Impacts on Food Retail
In a new policy brief from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, Timothy Beatty, Marianne Bitler, and Cynthia van der Werf of UC Davis find that current policy proposals to shrink the SNAP budget would likely have negative economic consequences. Key Facts SNAP redemptions totaled $76 billion in 2013, representing more than 10 percent of sales at supermarkets. Rollout of the Food Stamp Program in the 1960s and 1970s lead to more people working in food and grocery stores, more employment,...
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POLICY BRIEF: Greater Resources Required to Protect People Experiencing Homelessness from COVID-19
In a new policy brief from UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, UC Davis' Ryan Finnigan writes that, with outbreaks of the novel coronavirus occurring in homeless shelters across the US, significant investment is needed urgently to protect this vulnerable group. Key facts: People experiencing homelessness have a heightened vulnerability to COVID-19 due to higher rates of other health conditions and inadequate access to health care, sanitation services, and physical distancing. Several...
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REPORT: Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods
Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods, a new KIDS COUNT® data snapshot was released this week by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Using the latest data available from the U.S. Census Bureau, the snapshot examines where concentrated poverty has worsened across the country, despite a long period of national economic expansion. While California has seen some improvement since the last snapshot was released in 2012, there are still more than 1.1 million children living in...
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Reports on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in 2018
In 2018, babies continued to be the age group most at risk for poverty, and the uninsured rate for children under 19 increased from 5.0% to 5.5%. Last week, the United States Census Bureau released two reports related to child well-being in the United States: Income and Poverty in the United States: 2018 https://www.census.gov/ library/publications/2019/ demo/p60-266.html Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2018 https://www.census.gov/ library/publications/2019/ demo/p60-267.html
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Webinar: Poverty and Opportunity in California on 10/15
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 12:05 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. PT Despite strong economic growth, California continues to experience high rates of poverty. Backed by strong fiscal reserves, state policymakers have taken several steps to assist struggling families, but the goal of reducing poverty remains elusive. In this conversation, PPIC will share the latest data from the California Poverty Measure, and a panel of experts will discuss the implications for decision makers, stakeholders, and families...
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UC Davis, Poverty Research & Policy Summit, April 22, 2016,
The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis is one of three federally designated centers whose mission is to facilitate non-partisan academic research on poverty in the U.S., disseminate this research, and train the next generation of poverty scholars. Their research agenda includes four themed areas of focus: labor markets and poverty, children and intergenerational transmission of poverty, the non-traditional safety net, and immigration. UC Davis Poverty Research and Policy Summit- Please...
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WEBINAR: Exploring Social Poverty: Low-Income Populations & Impact of Family/Community Ties
Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 1:00-2:00 pm The impact of financial poverty has been a focus of researchers for decades. In this Dibble Institute webinar, Dr. Sarah Halpern-Meekin, author of Social Poverty: Low-income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties , examines another dimension of poverty that has been considerably understudied: social poverty. Social poverty—or lacking adequate close, dependable, and trusting relationships—is an often-ignored form of hardship that is...
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RESOURCE FOR PARENTS: Resilience Booster: Parent Tip Tool
Developed by American Psychological Association's Children, Youth, and Families Office and its Office on Socioeconomic Status, this site provides parents and caregivers with tips on how to boost children’s resilience in the face of adverse experiences. This site is organized around the various places where children spend their time—home, school, child-care settings, neighborhoods and communities—and outlines how each environment can help build resilience among children living in poverty.
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RESOURCE: kidsdata.org
Kidsdata.org provides a tool for assessing community needs, setting priorities, tracking progress, preparing grant proposals, and making program and policy decisions. Users easily can find and customize more than 500 data measures of child health and well-being, sorted by topic, region, or demographic group. Data are available for every county, city, school district, and legislative district in California, and many measures include national comparisons. Kidsdata.org has compiled a...
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RESOURCE: Public Charge and Health Insurance in California information from Western Center on Law and Poverty
Beginning February 24, 2020, the new public charge rule used for immigrants entering the country or applying for permanent residency takes a close look at health insurance. But it does not penalize all immigrants for all kinds of coverage. For example, did you know that Medi-Cal is most often not counted? Medi-Cal does not negatively affect most immigrants for two reasons: (1) many immigrants are not subject to the public charge rule, and (2) the rule’s several exceptions exclude Medi-Cal...
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RESOURCE: Teaching Tolerance from Southern Poverty Law Center
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. These resources include classroom lessons, webinars, grants, podcasts, policy guides and much more. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants. The program...
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Seeking Input on Services for Low-Income Residents
The Community Services Action Board is seeking input on how to better address the needs of low-income individuals and families that reside in Yolo County. The feedback will be used to set service priorities for the 2020-21 Community Services Block Grant funding cycle. Examples of currently funded services in Yolo County include emergency food and shelter, as well as homeless prevention and housing related services. The survey will close on March 29th. To participate in the survey, visit: ·...
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Re: Inequality in Children's Brain Development
Good Question Tenaya. Not according to the information that's been shared with us, but here's a link to the site: https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/ev...rce=bundle_and_blast
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Re: The Absence of Punishment in Our Schools
This is a thorough and detailed look at the effects of creating trauma-informed/ healing school sites written by one of the leaders in the field. I recommend reading if you want to learn about the movement or what with those with those that want additional resources to implement TI schools. And ask them to share back their experiences/ resources either here or in the ACEs in Education community on ACEs Connection!
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WEBINAR: Tackling Child Poverty in the Wake of COVID-19 on 6/18
11:00AM on June 18 https://nasem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nIUySdNGR0eHXwLVYvLcng Growing up in poverty has life-long consequences for a child’s physical and mental health and economic well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated conditions for millions of children and families. Yet, child poverty is not an intractable problem. Join leading national experts in an engaging dialogue on actions that can be taken to address urgent threats to children and our stubbornly high child poverty...
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ARTICLES AND BRIEFS on postpartum mood and anxiety disorders; poverty and domestic violence
Experts Fear Increase in Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders (NY Times): New and expecting moms are facing pandemic-related fears on top of social isolation. Poverty and Domestic Violence from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research Income Support May Reduce Violence for Poor Families : Katherine Maurer finds that income support may help reduce family violence, especially among high-risk, poor families. Reporting Domestic Violence Improves Long-term Achievement of Affected Children and...
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WEBINARS on health, self-care, and child poverty
Rebuilding a Global Approach to Health from Physicians for Human Rights 9am on Thursday, July 16 The devastating spread of COVID-19 has ravaged health care systems around the globe, laying bare the gaping holes in a broken system. When we eventually emerge from this crisis that has changed the world as we know it, our health care systems must change with it. This moment presents an opportunity to reconstruct our global approach to health care in order to create systems that respect health as...
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WEBINARS on cross-cultural communication, ACEs, addiction, compassion fatigue, poverty, and child maltreatment
Building Skills for Cross Cultural Communication Part 2 on 9/23 (Part 1 is available any time here ) 3-4:30pm on Wednesday, September 23 Cultural competence is essential to achieve patient-centered or client-centered care. This workshop from the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network will continue the work of enhancing skills and knowledge to work more effectively in a multicultural setting. Participants will explore stereotypes and enhance skills for interrupting bias. Sometimes...
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WEBINARS on poverty and trauma, trauma-informed response to protests, COVID-19, racial trauma, trauma-informed approach to youth
How Poverty and Trauma Affect Brain Development (recorded) In this presentation to the National Press Foundation, Harvard Center on the Developing Child Director Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. discusses how leveraging advances in the biology of adversity and resilience can reduce inequalities in life outcomes. Swati Adarkar, president and CEO, Children’s Institute in Portland, Oregon, also presents. October Educational Online Forum: A Trauma Informed Response to Protests on 10/26 1:00 -2:30pm on...
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Foster Youth and Homeless Services Collaborative Meetings; Racial disparities infographic; Policy brief on poverty
• Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program and Homeless Education Services Collaborative Meetings The Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program and Homeless Education Services program at Yolo County Office of Ed hosts a monthly collaborative for networking, professional development, training opportunities, program updates, current work serving youth , and a place to share community strengths and needs. This is great opportunity to meet others doing similar work in various settings as well...
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Equipping Hope: A Holistic Approach to Building Trauma-Informed and Resilient Communities - $15 Mini-Event
Are you seeking support to build a truly trauma-informed school or community? Trauma-informed work is never a one-size-fits-all program. It is about building a responsive and actionable culture that is rooted in the science of Hope. Building healthy communities takes a full-spectrum approach, from building the buy-in, to implementing and sustaining the process. In this online conference, you will learn the components for building change: understanding how to develop Hope ; learning how to...
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Yolo County begins allocating basic income to families in poverty
Article by: Chris Ponce — city@theaggie.org The California Aggie, April 11, 2022 https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/article/break-cycle-generational-poverty-yolo-county-begins-allocating-basic-income-families-poverty The 2020 Census revealed that 28.4% of the people from Yolo County have an income below 150% of the poverty level. The poverty rate in Yolo County is at 20.9%, according to a 2022 press release. Experts and researchers from UC Davis have weighed in on the rising crisis of poverty in...