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By Giles Bruce, Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images, Center for Health Journalism, April 25, 2022 California is embarking on a potentially transformative shift in the way it delivers health care, using its Medicaid program to help meet the social needs of many of its most vulnerable residents. Under the CalAIM initiative, $6 billion will be spent over the next five years to address the social forces shaping health, in such unique ways as paying for housing, cleaning up asthma triggers in the...

The hard parts of life happen every day. Sometimes everything feels like a hard part — especially for trauma survivors. Being in traffic Arguing with partner Running late A dog growling Rising gas prices A certain smell Someone’s tone of voice An interaction that feels uncomfortable The news / war / lack of safety / COVID The list goes on… Hard parts could be anything, really. And finding a healthy coping strategy can be challenging. For people without trauma in their history, they know that...

Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to join fellow PACEs science activists for Building the Movement through Policy and Advocacy , the last of nine remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. Policy and advocacy best practices are among the topics to be covered on Friday, April 28 from 1pm. - 5 p.m. ET; 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. PT. Here is an agenda and our list of subject matter experts who...

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By Stacey Colino, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, April 26, 2022 We all know what stress feels like physically — though the symptoms vary by person. Some people experience shakiness or a racing heart, while others develop muscle tension, headaches or stomach aches. But what we might not realize is that our physiological responses to life’s stresses and strains can have deeper, less obvious, repercussions for just about every organ and system in the body. “I think people really...

By Anemona Hartocollis, Photo: Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 26, 2022 Harvard University is committing $100 million to study and redress its ties to slavery, the university’s president announced Tuesday, and with that money will create an endowed “Legacy of Slavery Fund,” which will continue researching and memorializing that history, working with descendants of Black and Native American people enslaved at Harvard, as well as their broader communities. With...

By Annie Lowry, Illustration: Getty/The Atlantic, The Atlantic, April 25, 2022 A mother in Louisiana is struggling to pay her bills and decides to apply for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, better known as food stamps. She starts to fill out the state’s 26-page, 8,350-word application . Page one instructs her to distinguish between SNAP and two other programs, the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program and the Kinship Care Subsidy Program, providing a...

By Yinka Bokinni, Photo: Channel 4, The Guardian, April 25, 2022 B efore I went into the metaverse, I’d read a few articles on it and people didn’t have the nicest things to say. But I wanted to see if that was true, or whether people were just trying to find negativity. I’m a heavy user of social media, so a 3D virtual space where you can interact with other people – where artists are doing concerts and fashion houses are doing shows? That’s exciting to me! But within the first 10 minutes...

By Donald Judd, Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images, CNN Politics, April 26, 2022 President Joe Biden will mark "Second Chance Month" at the White House on Tuesday, commuting the sentences of 75 people serving time for nonviolent drug offenses, issuing full pardons for three individuals who the administration says have worked toward rehabilitation and unveiling new actions aimed at easing the transition back to normal life for the formerly incarcerated. "America is a nation of...

When it comes to optimizing learning, we don’t value breaks enough, neuroscientists suggest in a new study. Practice makes perfect. To become ambidextrous in basketball, dribble with your left hand, switch to your right, and repeat the process again and again. Likewise, to solve differential equations in math, pile them up and work your way through them diligently. According to one popular school of thought, it’s this active, repeated manipulation of material that lays the neural foundations...

A new resource looks at the preva­lence of trau­ma among youth in the juve­nile jus­tice sys­tem and out­lines ways to pro­tect their men­tal and emo­tion­al well-being. The fact sheet , pro­duced by the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics (AAP), is part of a grow­ing call from child and ado­les­cent health experts to reform long­stand­ing juve­nile jus­tice poli­cies and practices. “Efforts aimed at improv­ing our juve­nile jus­tice sys­tem must extend beyond issues relat­ed to youth arrest...