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January 2021

January 2021 ACEs Aware Provider Updates and Reminders [healthnet.com]

Provider Resiliency Health Net recognizes the incredible challenges to our health care delivery teams under these difficult circumstances, which can be overwhelming. We want to thank you for your important contributions to the health of individuals and communities across California. Please consider dropping in to our new Resilience Tuesday gatherings. The goal is to create a quiet, protected online space for reflection, rejuvenation and connection with others, facilitated by health...

RFQ Announcement for Celebrating Families! Expansion Project

RFQ ANNOUCEMENT: Celebrating Families! California Expansion Project – Cohort 2 Invitation to Expand Celebrating Families! Statewide The California State Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP) recognizing the effectiveness of Celebrating Families! (CF!), has awarded Prevention Partnership International (PPI) a $158,333, 3- year challenge grant to (1) Identify, train and support agencies in California to provide CF! to children and families at high risk for abuse and neglect and (2) Establish...

Becoming ACEs Aware in a Challenging Year [acesaware.org]

Becoming ACEs Aware in a Challenging Year Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress represent a public health crisis that has been, until recently, largely unrecognized by our health care systems and society, but there is hope. On January 1, 2020, eligible Medi-Cal providers began to receive a $29 payment for conducting qualifying ACEs screenings for children and adults up to age 65 with full-scope Medi-Cal. As many of you know, this is part of the ACEs Aware initiative , a...

Alternatives to Calling the Police for Domestic Violence Survivors (calhealthreport.org)

“For decades, survivors have told us that it’s not safe for them to call law enforcement, that they don’t want to be ushered into a criminal justice system,” said Colsaria Henderson, board president for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. “What they want is the ability to be safe in their homes and in their families. They want the violence to stop. “It’s really time that we re-center on what the survivors are telling us.” Indigenous and LGTBQ perspectives Immigrant victims...

Ethnic studies should build empathy, respect and consideration of multiple perspectives (calmatters.org)

Re High school ethnic studies – the third version Dan Walters’ accurate review of the evolution of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum overlooks serious problems in its third draft . Rather than address racism constructively, the draft applies an ideological litmus test, resulting in one-dimensional misrepresentation of ethnic groups and their role models . Peaceful agents of change, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and the late Rep. John Lewis, are excluded from the list of 154 “Important...

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