March 2021

By Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, 2021 Oakland plans to start a guaranteed income program this spring for 600 residents — one of the largest such programs in the country, city officials said — as Bay Area leaders search for solutions to rising poverty and inequality in the wake of the pandemic. Through the pilot program, residents will receive $500 a month for at least 18 months with no strings attached, Mayor Libby Schaaf said at a Tuesday news conference. Checks could be...

NEW WEBINAR DATE TBD The final release of the ACEs Aware Trauma-Informed Network of Care Roadmap has been postponed until later this spring. Therefore, we are postponing our webinar scheduled for March 30, The Trauma-Informed Network of Care Roadmap: A Guide for Strengthening Community Relationships." We will notify you of the new webinar date. In the interim, the ACEs Aware team is working to incorporate all stakeholder feedback into the Network of Care Roadmap. We have also determined that...

Once again, Americans are confronting the consequences of unaddressed systemic racism in this society. Too often, intolerable acts of racist bias, discrimination, and hate, culminate in shocking interpersonal violence as well as the shocking mass violence that occurred in Atlanta just one week ago, on March 16, 2021.

Please join us for our next installment of A Better Normal, our live webinar series in which we imagine and create our society as trauma-informed! You may have seen we changed our name recently from ACEs Connection to PACEs Connection. Please join us to learn all about the groundbreaking research of Positive Childhood Experiences and how this is going to transform the work we are all doing. Read a detailed blog about the science of PACEs and the research being done by our guest speakers by...

By April Dembosky, California Healthline, March 24, 2021 For months, journalists, politicians and health officials — including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci — have invoked the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why Black Americans are more hesitant than white Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine. “It’s ‘Oh, Tuskegee, Tuskegee, Tuskegee,’ and it’s mentioned every single time,” said Karen Lincoln , a professor of social work at the University of Southern...

Sonoma Connect is the new initiative funded through ACEs Aware to build a network of care to prevent, address and heal ACEs throughout Sonoma County. We are currently hiring two full-time contracted positions - Network Manager and Initiative Support Specialist - to help rapidly grow and support a system that allows people to get the resources they need, when they need it, to be resilient. As part of the backbone staff for the network you will have the opportunity to work with Medi-Cal...

California can support children and youth by tackling the state’s — and the country’s — legacy of White supremacy and replacing it with a trauma-informed approach of love, empathy, and support.

Thank you to Aidan Phillips from the WAVE Trust for his excellent and engaging presentation for attendees of our monthly Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) call for March. The information he shared is invaluable as we continue our work to influence change at the national level through the National Trauma Campaign . If you were unable to join, would like to watch again, or want to share with others, you can find the call recording here . Additionally, if you would like...

Of the $1.9 Trillion in the American Rescue Plan Act, there are several pots of money that can be leveraged for trauma-informed and resilience-focused initiatives. You can find such areas in the Act in this CTIPP analysis. What is needed now is advocacy at the state and local level to leverage these funds for trauma-informed supports. The National Trauma Campaign has advocates in all 50 states helping to mobilize around these pots of money to help bring about the trauma-informed society we...

Join the Better Normal webinar about PACEs and HOPE at noon PT/ 3 pm ET, Friday, March 26. This BN features Dr. Christina Bethell and Dr. Robert Sege. >>Click here to register<< At PACEs Connection, we believe in following the research. The last 25 years have been rich with breakthroughs about the impacts of childhood adversity on health and well-being. Researchers have defined adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), explored their short- and long-term impacts on health, uncovered...

Please see attached flyers (English/Spanish) for CA Covid- 19 Rent Relief program. For information on eligibility or for assistance in applying, please visit HousingisKey.com or call the YCCA Family Resource Center at 916-572-0560, staff is available for assistance in English, Spanish, Russian, and Farsi.

By Heather Tirado Gilligan, California Health Care Foundation, March 22, 2021 Last summer, Heather Yazzie spent a night as an inpatient at a hospital in Temecula, a desert town 30 miles north of Escondido. Down the hall in two other rooms were her father, a member of the Navajo nation, and her mother, part of the Pala Band of Mission Indians. All three were being treated for COVID-19. Heather was released the next day, but her parents had to stay. “Dad, I love you,” she told her father...