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2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book

Isabel Ruelas ·
State Trends in Child Well-Being By the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Project The 2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book urges policymakers not to back away from targeted investments that help U.S. children become healthier, more likely to complete high school and better positioned to contribute to the nation’s economy as adults. The Data Book also shows the child poverty rate in 2015 continued to drop, landing at 21%. In addition, children experienced gains in reading proficiency and a...
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Best Practices for Meaningful Community Engagement

Gabrielle Gonzalez ·
The wider the variety of world views and lived experiences that inform a community visioning or planning process, the more likely it is that the built project or resulting plan will address the needs and opportunities of even the most vulnerable or most marginalized person in the community. Find the full article here !
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Childhood Trauma And Its Lifelong Health Effects More Prevalent Among Minorities

Gabrielle Gonzalez ·
A study published in JAMA Pediatrics — the largest nationally representative study to date on ACEs — confirms that Adverse Childhood Experiences are universal, yet highlights some disparities among socioeconomic groups. People with low-income and educational attainment, people of color and people who identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual had significantly higher chance of having experienced adversity in childhood. Read the full article here.
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The Demographics of Childhood Trauma

Gabrielle Gonzalez ·
A new study assesses the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in America by state, race or ethnicity, and income level. Read the full article here .
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How childhood stress can knock 20 years off your life [The Guardian]

Isabel Ruelas ·
T here is a scene in James Redford’s new film, Resilience , in which a paediatrician cites a parental misdeed so outmoded as to seem bizarre. “Parents used to smoke in the car with kids in the back and the windows rolled up,” she says, incredulous. How long ago those days now seem; how wise today’s parents are to the dangers of those toxins. Yet every week in her clinic in the Bayview-Hunters Point area of San Francisco, children present with symptoms of a new pollutant – one that is just as...
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How Childhood Trauma Adversely Affects Decision-making

Gabrielle Gonzalez ·
New research shows that those who suffered significant trauma at a young age are unable to correctly consider risk as adults. Read the full article here .
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How Tuning Into Your Body Can Make You More Resilient

Gabrielle Gonzalez ·
By balancing our physiology and nervous systems, body-based practices can help us through hard times. Read more from Linda Graham, author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster , about several methods to develop resilience. Find the article here!
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