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By Drew Lindsay, Photo: John Cherry/The New York Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 1, 2022 Andrew Woods has wielded far more passion than money in his decades-long fight against violence in his hometown of Hartford, Conn. Help is on the way, however, for his nonprofit and hundreds more nationwide. In 2004, Woods, a licensed social worker, began Connecticut’s first hospital-based program to provide mental-health services and support to victims of violence. It is part of Hartford...

By Usha Lee McFarling, Photo: Hannah Yoon/STAT, STAT, February 24, 2022 W hen Quinn Capers IV took over as associate dean of admissions at the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 2009, just 13% of the entering class came from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in medicine. A Black cardiologist, he thought the school could do better. Capers launched a series of changes, starting with testing the 140 members of the admissions committee (like the faculty, largely white) for...

By Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, Illustration: Billie Carter-Rankin, The New York Times, March 3, 2022 The other day, while teaching a lecture class, one of us mentioned in passing that the average African American, according to a 2014 paper , is about 24 percent European and less than 1 percent Native American. A student responded that these percentages were impossible to measure, since “race is a social construction.” Given our country’s history of scientific racism — and all...

By Gabriella Velasco and Oriya Cohen, Photo: ostreetphotography/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, March 2, 2022 Zoning reform is not sexy. It’s a complicated process deeply entangled in bureaucratic decisionmaking that often stifles public participation. But zoning profoundly shapes our communities: it is the local regulatory tool that helps dictate where housing, schools, and parks are located; who can access them; and how they’re built. In the United States, zoning codes played a central role...

By Jordan Costa, Photo: Celiafoto/Shutterstock, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, March 2, 2022 The past couple of years have been some of the deadliest for many major U.S. cities . Murder rates have spiked and gun sales have surged . We want the violence to stop. However, our chosen means of addressing violence prevention are shaped by who’s leading that conversation. Too often, the results of those discussions have tended to be punitive in nature, resulting in over-policing and mass...

By Helen Lewis, Image: Vartika Sharme, The Atlantic, February 27, 2022 T hree years ago, the psychiatrist Kirsten Müller-Vahl began to notice something unusual about the newest patients at her clinic in Hannover, Germany. A typical Tourette’s patient is a boy who develops slow, mild motor tics—blinking or grimacing—at about age 5 to 7, followed later by simple vocalizations such as coughing. Only about one in 10 patients progress to the disorder’s most famous symptom—coprolalia, which...

Dear PACEs Connection Community, Today I'm celebrating just shy of three years as an employee at PACEs Connection as I say farewell as an employee. I started here in May of 2019 to fulfill my grad school practicum requirement and was so grateful to be brought on full-time in November of 2019 as a Community Facilitator. It's been an honor to get to meet so many of you in the PACEs Connection community. I loved meeting with community leaders throughout the US and the world to hear how you all...

In light of recent events, Resilient Guilford Network is sharing resources from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in response to the war on Ukraine. Some are specific to military families, while others are more general resources. Please see the links below and let us know if you have questions and how we can help support your local efforts. Deep breaths as we start a new week together. We look forward to staying connected and are grateful for all you do. General Child...

ParentPowered, home of Ready4K, is going to Middle School! Check out why middle school family engagement is essential to supporting your early adolescents, what you want in your middle school family engagement programming, and why middle school might just be the absolute coolest time of life.

“The power of relationships is something we can’t forget about. It’s important for teachers to connect with their students more deeply so that they can support them in their academic goals.” —Renee Prince, LCSW, Director of Mental Health Integration, Turnaround for Children On the last episode of our podcast, The 180, we discussed the national state of emergency in child and adolescent mental health. In the two years since the pandemic first hit, young people around the world have reported...

By H.A. Hellyer, Image: Screenshot from article, The Washington Post, February 28, 2022 “This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades,” Charlie D’Agata, a CBS correspondent in Kyiv, told his colleagues back in the studio. “You know, this is a relatively civilized, relatively European — I have to choose those words carefully, too — city where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen.” Putin’s criminal invasion...

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Photo: Saul Loeb/Associated Press, Associated Press, March 3, 2022 President Joe Biden’s new plan to expand mental health and drug abuse treatment would pour hundreds of millions of dollars into suicide prevention, mental health services for youth, and community clinics providing 24/7 access to people in crisis. Unveiled as part of his State of the Union speech, Biden’s plan seeks to shrink America’s chronic gap in care between diseases of the body and those of...