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'A fun way to get people out': Santa Rosa taco truck rides build community [pressdemocrat.com]

By Kerry Benefield, The Press Democrat, July 17, 2021 I have covered, watched and enjoyed countless parades, but I have never been in one. Unless, of course, if you count the time in junior high when my friend Shelly and I were handed a shovel and a wheelbarrow before a holiday parade in downtown Santa Rosa and tasked with walking behind the “reindeer,” to prevent any of Santa’s little helpers from marching through muck. With that in mind, Tuesday night felt like a first. As I rode my bike...

8 Hours a Day, 5 Days a Week Is Not Working for Us [nytimes.com]

By Bryce Covert, The New York Times, July 20, 2021 With more than half of American adults fully vaccinated against Covid , employers and employees alike have turned their eyes back to the office. They’re locked in a conflict over when they’ll return and, when they do, what the return will look like. But we shouldn’t just be talking about the parameters of how we get work done in a postpandemic world. We should be pushing to do less of it. In truth, the debate over the return to the office is...

Historic State Budget—Will It Transform Children’s Behavioral Health?

Dear Friends and Allies If you’re feeling both optimistic and overwhelmed by the funding and reforms focused on children’s mental and behavioral health, you’re not alone. The scope and scale of the current reform agenda, and the dozens of relevant investments included in the budget just signed by Governor Newsom, are unprecedented. Children and families, advocates, and systems leaders have achieved consensus that we must reimagine how we support the social and emotional health of children in...

2021 Kids Count Data Book [aecf.org]

From The Annie E. Casey Foundation, June 21, 2021 SUMMARY The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT ® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before — and during — the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s publication continues to deliver the Foundation’s annual state rankings and the latest available data on child well-being. It identifies multiyear trends — comparing statistics from 2010 to 2019. In addition, the report shares data on how...

Queer PoC Artist Christopher Saint on Using Art And Enterprise to Create a Healing Movement [fashionweekdaily.com]

By Amir Bakian, The Daily Front Row, July 19, 2021 Healing means many different things and it comes in many forms. For those belonging to the LGBTQ+ community, it is acceptance and understanding. For people of color, it is an equal opportunity. As someone who is queer and is a proud Asian-American artist, Christopher Saint knows firsthand what it’s like for those who have suffered similar experiences of marginalization as he has. He has been through it all and wants to help others in their...

Join Us For Our Upcoming EmpowerSurvivors Programs & Groups!

EmpowerSurvivors invites YOU to attend our programs and groups. EmpowerSurvivors is a 501c3 Nonprofit Organization located in Stillwater, MN that supports and serves survivors of childhood sexual abuse worldwide. Join us weekly via Zoom!! Monday, July 26, 2021, at 6:00 pm ( Central Time) Conversations With Evey & Elizabeth Guest: Jane Straub Topic: Helping Your Partner Understand The Mind Of A Survivor, Common Reactions To Unprocessed Trauma. Register in advance for this meeting:...

New Data Reports on ACEs Aware Training and Screening [acesaware.org]

The ACEs Aware initiative released today the “ ACEs Aware Screening, Training, and Certification Progress: July 2021 Update. ” This new data report details the number of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screenings conducted in California between January 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020, and the number of providers who completed the “Becoming ACEs Aware in California” online training between December 4, 2019, and March 31, 2021. Since launching the ACEs Aware initiative in December 2019,...

A Little About Epigenetics

Exposure to ACEs can set up transmission of health risks across generations by altering gene expression (epigenetics) in parents to be, which can affect the development and health of their children, and future generations to come. Join in on the CA Surgeon General's bold mission to cut ACEs and toxic stress in half in one generation. Click the attachment below to view a short infographic on Epigenetics. Follow our Instagram for more updates: @acesaware_vc Or check out our website: ...

Free Resource for Nurses: Cultivating the Practice of Gratitude [mindful.org]

We would like to provide you ongoing support and materials following the Mindfulness for Healthcare Summit . This week, we would like to share Gratitude Practice for Nurses —a joint initiative of the American Nurses Foundation and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Decades of scientific research have shown that practicing gratitude is good for our minds, bodies, and relationships. Gratitude Practice for Nurses is a free initiative designed to provide...

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

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...

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

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...

Five Ways to Protect Your Emotional Health Post-COVID [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

By Bethany Teachman, Greater Good Magazine, July 15, 2021 You’ve been waiting…and waiting…and waiting for this amazing, magical day when you could return to “normal life.” For many people in the U.S., it feels like that dim light at the end of the pandemic tunnel is becoming brighter. My 12- and 14-year-old daughters now have their first shot, with the second one soon to follow. I was euphoric when the kids received their vaccinations, choking up under my mask at the relief that my family...

Nonprofits push parole reform and housing for parolees [jjie.org]

By Anna Deen, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, July 16, 2021 Since being released from New York City’s Rikers Island jail — where he’d been sentenced to four months for not being where his parole officer expected him to be on a certain day and time — Dakem Roberts has been living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. It was his latest incarceration since, in the late 1970s, when he was 16, he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. He’d been arrested for his involvement in a robbery...

Why Reparations Are About More Than Money [yesmagazine.org]

By Kerry Whigham, Yes!, July 15, 2021 F rom 1904 to 1908, German soldiers and settler colonists killed about half of all Nama people and over 80% of the Herero ethnic group. On May 28, 2021, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas acknowledged that Germany committed genocide in what is today Namibia . Maas’ statement was Germany’s first official description of these events as “genocide.” Maas also announced that Germany would pay Namibia roughly $1.3 billion to answer for these crimes. Many refer...

Los Angeles Leaders Vote to Try "Colorblind" Foster Care Decisions [imprintnews.org]

By Sara Tiano, The Imprint, July 13, 2021 Los Angeles County leaders committed on Tuesday to test out “ colorblind removals ” in child welfare cases — an attempt to correct long-standing patterns that draw disproportionately more Black and brown children into foster care than their white peers. Beginning in November, one of the county’s 20 regional offices will operate a pilot program relying on the method, which was developed on New York’s Long Island more than a decade ago. In colorblind...

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