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By Michele L. Norris, The Washington Post, October 26, 2021 Claudette Colvin was 15 years old when she was arrested in Montgomery, Ala., and placed on indefinite probation, after refusing to vacate her seat on a bus so a young White woman could sit down. This was March 1955 — nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for violating Alabama’s racial segregation laws after refusing to give up her seat to a White man, an act that sparked the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks, who died in...

By Special to the Enterprise, Davis Enterprise, October 25, 2021 In November, Resilient Yolo will launch a three-part virtual workshop series to educate members of the public on strategies for strengthening health and social support systems in Yolo County. To advance conversations around health and equity, the collaborative will also be hosting a Building a Resilient Yolo Summit in spring 2022. Formed in 2014, Resilient Yolo is a community-based collaborative with an interest in...

This handout is based on the work of Donna Jackson Nakazawa , who worked with us and generously allowed us to paraphrase content from her book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology & How You Can Heal . Donna's book specifically addresses those of us parenting with ACEs (which she also does brilliantly in the powerful documentary, Wrestling Ghosts , which is about parenting and healing from ACEs). This handout can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is...

This article demonstrates that relieving poverty is a powerful approach to preventing child abuse and neglect.

By Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, October 28, 2021 Centuries of land loss and forced relocation have left Native Americans significantly more exposed to the effects of climate change, new data show, adding to the debate over how to address climate change and racial inequity in the United States. The findings, which took seven years to compile and were published Thursday in the journal Science , mark the first time that researchers have been able to quantify on a large scale what...

By Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers, Women's eNews, October 27, 2021 Headlines are sprouting everywhere about new court cases which may endanger Roe v Wade. But abortion is not the only issue that is critical to female control of their bodies. We tend to think about child marriages as something that happens in distant third-world countries, but not in the U.S. Unfortunately, that is far from true. In this country, there is no federal legislation regarding age of marriage, and states have...

By Katy O'Donnel, Politico, October 25, 2021 Treasury Department data released Monday showed the disbursement of federal rental aid has started to plateau, despite Biden administration pressure on state and local governments to ramp up delivery of the money to avert evictions during the pandemic. State, local and tribal officials had disbursed about $10.7 billion in rental assistance as of the end of September, representing less than a quarter of the $46.5 billion Congress authorized in two...

By Turnaround For Children, October 28, 2021 After 17 years of teaching, 3rd grade teacher Lindsay Kiernan is getting to know her students like never before. “Having that sense of belonging and attachment are the building blocks to healthy developmental relationships, they’re what every child needs to be successful in the classroom,” she said. “This has become my number one priority.” Ms. Kiernan teaches at P.S. 340 in the Bronx, a school that partnered with Turnaround for Children to pilot...

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have faced increased stress over the cost, availability and quality of health care, and distrust in our health system has heightened. This webinar will provide a deep dive into the impact that COVID-19 has had on the health care system, particularly in marginalized communities, and solutions to build and rebuild trust. Kathleen Noonan is the Chief Executive Officer of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, a nonprofit healthcare...

ACEs Aware in Action October 2021 New ACEs Equity Act Significantly Expands Access to ACE Screening in California The ACEs Aware initiative applauds the recent enactment of Senate Bill (SB) 428, the ACEs Equity Act , which will significantly expand coverage for screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). SB 428, introduced by State Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger), requires all health insurance plan contracts, including Knox-Keene-licensed managed care plan contracts and health...

By Laura Gallant, 10/28/21, positiveexperience.org/blog The Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research (TIER) team evaluated HOPE for the year ending August 31, 2021. We are pleased to share their findings! TIER evaluated the effectiveness of the HOPE trainings and the HOPE Innovation Networks (HIN). HOPE trainings have grown notably over the past year. HOPE reached 18 states including Wyoming, Kansas, Utah, and Georgia, training over 12,000 people. After the training, many participants...

This post is about a book that was published on September 29, 2021. But this posting is not a book review--it is intended as information only--and I welcome and appreciate comments. Thank you for reading. DISCLOSURE: As a writer and editor, I had an opportunity to write an article about child abuse in 2010 and publish it as the cover story in Raising Arizona Kids magazine. Writing it gave me a chance to meet Vincent J. Felitti, M.D. and make a promise to him that I would pursue for the rest...