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February 2020

'There's More to Our Story': Weinstein Accuser Helps Survivors Cope After Trauma [theguardian.com]

By Lucia Graves, The Guardian, February 13, 2020 Louise Godbold had recently come from a press conference at Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial in New York and within 24 hours she’d be on a plane again going back there. But today Godbold, one of more than 90 women to come forward with claims against the disgraced movie mogul, is doing what she’s trained to: helping trauma survivors overcome the injuries that powerful abusive men like Weinstein so often leave in their wake. On a cloudy Tuesday...

She Killed Her Children. Can We Forgive Her? [kqed.org]

By April Dembosky, KQED, February 6, 2020 Years later, Rudy Coronado still refers to what happened as "that day." He thinks about what he said, what he didn't say and what he wishes he could take back. The signs he missed – and the signs he saw, but ignored. "That day, Carol was acting kind of weird," he stammered. "She was just different." Not different the way his wife was usually different, the traits that charmed Rudy when they first met at a doughnut shop in Carson: her simple, no...

9 Big Questions as California Starts to Screen Kids for Trauma, ACEs [salud-america.org]

By Amanda Merck, Salud America!, February 12, 2020 Early childhood adversity like abuse and divorce is a root cause of many of the greatest public health challenges we face today. But doctors don’t even screen children for exposure to adversity. That’s changing in California, thanks to Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and other child advocates. As of Jan. 1, 2020, almost 100,000 physicians in 8,800 clinics will be reimbursed for routinely screening Medi-Cal patients for adverse childhood experiences...

'Zero-Tolerance' Discipline Puts Thousands of Texas Schoolkids on Pipeline to Prison [thecrimereport.org]

By TCR Staff, The Crime Report, February 7, 2020 Thousands of Texas schoolchildren—many of them African Americans— are victimized by “zero tolerance” school discipline policies that land them in the criminal justice system, says the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition (TCJC). In a new report, the TCJC found that the over-reliance on police to impose discipline inside classrooms resulted in 144, 432 students from Pre-Kindergarden to 5th grade receiving in-school suspensions between 2015 and...

Engaging with Elected Lawmakers to Prevent ACEs and Trauma

Your ACEs prevention project, including innovations and projects focused on ensuring that all children, students and families have access to behavioral health care, medical care, stable housing, secure food sources and fully-resourced community schools, will depend on support from local and state leadership. We must start building those relationships thoughtfully, strategically and respectfully. To succeed with your mission to ensure trauma-free and thriving childhoods, consider a very long...

The Brain Architects Podcast: Toxic Stress: Protecting the Foundation (Episode 2) from Harvard Center on the Developing Child

Excessive or prolonged activation of stress response systems in early childhood can have damaging effects on learning, behavior, and health across the lifespan. Such toxic stress can occur when a child experiences strong, frequent, and/or prolonged adversity without adequate adult support. But that's not the whole story. With the right supports, toxic stress doesn't have to lead to bad outcomes. The second episode of the Center's new podcast, The Brain Architects, explores what toxic stress...

CYW's Provider Training Courses now available online

In response to an overwhelming demand for information about ACEs science, screening tools, and guidance on how to implement ACEs screening, CYW has developed a suite of online courses in order to make our training more accessible to a broader audience. Developed by a team of pediatricians, research scientists, public health experts, and clinical quality improvement experts, these courses are the first of four online courses that will aid medical providers/practitioners in understanding and...

Critics Warn School Shooter Drills May be Doing More Harm than Good: 'They're Becoming More Perverse and Obscene' [chicagotribune.com]

By Peter Nickeas and Elyssa Cherney, Chicago Tribune, February 12, 2020 Since last year, every school in Illinois has been required by law to conduct active shooter drills to prepare students for potential violence. But two national teacher unions are calling for an end to the practice of simulating violence during such drills because of the potentially harmful effects they can have on the mental health of students and teachers. The American Federation of Teachers and the National Education...

A Closer Look at Food Insecurity [stateofchildhoodobesity.org]

From the Urban Institute, February 2020 40 million Americans, including 12.5 million children, face food insecureity, meaning they don’t have adequate access to healthy food. The Urban Institute recently released an interactive map that allows users to explore county-level food insecurity throughout the country and identify relevant risk factors. We sat down with Urban Institute fellow Elaine Waxman to learn more about the tool, the implications of food insecurity, and how the tool helps...

The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America [theatlantic.com]

By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, February 7, 2020 In the 2010s, the national unemployment rate dropped from a high of 9.9 percent to its current rate of just 3.5 percent. The economy expanded each and every year. Wages picked up for high-income workers as soon as the Great Recession ended, and picked up for lower-income workers in the second half of the decade. Americans’ confidence in the economy hit its highest point since 2000, right before the dot-com bubble burst. The headline economic...

State Senator Would Extend California Foster Care Through Age 25 [chronicleforsocialchange.org]

By Karen de Sa and John Kelly, The Chronicle for Social Change, February 5, 2020 A California senator introduced groundbreaking legislation this week to extend the state’s foster care system through age 25 – a bill that acknowledges the continued failure to prepare young people severed from families for life on their own. The early-stage Senate Bill 912 has few details yet available, and no price tag. But its lofty aim would make California the first state to expand such support and services...

Students can Pay for College with Public Service. Stanislaus State, UC Merced Take Part [modbee.com]

By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, February 11, 2020 Some students will be able to help pay for college through public service, thanks to a pilot program the state launched Monday. Three universities in the Northern San Joaquin Valley are among the eight involved statewide. About 250 students will take part in the rollout of the Civic Action Fellowship during the 2020-21 academic year. It builds on community service that many students already do as part of their coursework. In Turlock, for...

Addressing the Educational Gap in Whittier [kcet.org]

From Neighborhood Data for Social Change, February 2020 Published in partnership with the USC Price Center for Social Innovation in support of the Neighborhood Data for Social Change platform (NDSC): The platform is a free, publicly available online data resource that provides reliable, aggregated data at the city, neighborhood, and census tract level. The mission of the USC Price Center for Social Innovation is to develop ideas and illuminate strategies to improve the quality of life for...

How Some California School Districts Invest in Counseling - and Achieve Results [edsource.org]

By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, February 10, 2020 Geovanna Veloz, a senior at Mission High School in San Francisco, has always known she wants to be a nurse. What she didn’t know was how to get there. Her parents couldn’t help much. Immigrants from Mexico, they speak limited English, work long hours and don’t have much experience with education. Neither went to high school at all, in fact. Enter the school’s academic counseling staff. They ensured that Veloz took the right classes and helped her...

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