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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) “ Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Data to Action (PACE-D2A) ” has been underway for about a year and a half (announced September 4, 2020), adding two awardees to the original four to participate in the three-year, $6-million project. PACE-D2A is a major addition to CDC’s already robust portfolio addressing the prevention of ACEs and building resilience in individuals, families, and communities. The initial awards were made to...

By Lenore Palladino, Photo: Unsplash, Roosevelt Institute, March 16, 2022 Chairman Beyer, Ranking Member Lee, Members of the Joint Economic Committee, thank you so much for the invitation. I am honored to be here today. My name is Lenore Palladino, and I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research focuses on large corporations and their critical role in generating innovation, as well as how public policy can enable...

By Ben Steverman, Photo: Myesha Evon Gardner/Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Businessweek + Equality, March 17, 2022 Darrick Hamilton grew up shuttling between two worlds. Each morning during the 1970s and ’80s he and his sister would travel three miles to Brooklyn Friends , the elite private Quaker school that their parents had scrimped, saved, and sacrificed to afford. Then the kids would return from downtown Brooklyn to Bedford-Stuyvesant, which was overwhelmingly Black, largely poor,...

By Taylor Lorenz, Photo: Courtesy of loveyoustepan, The Washington Post, March 17, 2022 For the past week, fans of Stepan , a 13-year-old black-and-brown-striped rescue cat based in Kharkiv, Ukraine, have been in anguish. They’ve refreshed the cat’s Instagram and TikTok feeds and begged for updates in the comments since the accounts went quiet on March 3, as Russia continued its invasion of Ukraine. On Wednesday, nearly two weeks later, Stepan’s more than 1 million followers breathed a...

By Eesha Pendharkar, Photo: Wilfredo Lee/Associated Press, EducationWeek, March 18, 2022 Florida’s legislature passed controversial bills in the past two weeks affecting conversations about race and racism in the classroom, as well as restricting younger students’ access to lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bills—widely referred to as an anti-"woke” bill and a “Don’t Say Gay” bill—have been covered extensively in national media and even late night television. However,...

By Eric M. Brown, Photo: Keira Burton/Pexels, Psychology Today, March 16, 2022 One of the gifts of therapy is being able to understand one’s life within context. To begin to see the seemingly random occurrences of pain, poor personal choices, and disappointing relationships as a coherent narrative. Perhaps the most important task of therapy is to help a client see that their lives make sense. I have found that helping clients understand intergenerational trauma is key to helping them make...

April 27, 2022 | 9:30am - 12pm April 28, 2022 | 12:30 - 3pm *Traducción en Español Abajo* ENACT Day brings together community members from all over California to advocate for policies addressing racial and socio-economic inequities. The Annual ENACT Advocacy Day is designed to share space, expertise and lived experience to inform policy solutions. A wide variety of coalition partners help plan ENACT who work on health, equity, and racial justice issues. The time is now. Communities most...

Independent Feeding Learning to feed themselves is important for babies’ regulation and fine motor skills. Being able to stop when they’re done allows babies to control how much they eat – and learn their bodies’ own signs of fullness. Feeding can exercise the small muscles in a baby’s hand and assist in learning the pincer grasp – a preliteracy skill that facilitates writing. Whenever possible and safe, encourage families to allow babies to feed themselves. While it may be messy, it’s an...

Did you know Resilient Wisconsin offers free webcasts on topics related to trauma and toxic stress? Check out the library of videos on the Resilient Wisconsin: Resources webpage . ACEs, adversity's impact Resource: Integrating Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening into Clinical Practice: Insights from California Providers Childhood trauma and genetics linked to increased obesity risk Why deaths of despair are increasing in the US and not other industrial nations—Insights from Neuroscience...

Please remember that on the original ACES assessment each of the ACES questions had low levels of correlation with an individual's health outcomes. It is only in the aggregate that relationships within populations existed.

The third annual Resilience Week VA is fast approaching! No celebration of resilience is too big or too small. Take a moment during the week for self and/or community care. This Jamboard put together by folks from across VA has lots of ideas - feel free to add yours! Click the image above to download it as a larger slide you can share with your networks. You can also download a simple Resilience Week one-pager with general info to share. These resources and more are available on the...