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By Darryl Fears and Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post, September 2, 2021 Racial minorities in the United States will bear a disproportionate burden of the negative health and environmental impacts from a warming planet, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday, including more deaths from extreme heat and property loss from flooding in the wake of sea level rise. The new analysis, which comes four days after Hurricane Ida destroyed homes of low-income and Black residents in...

Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday to us! Well, sort of. This week marks just over 6 months since ACEs Caribbean Community (ACEs) was formed here on the PACEs Connection platform. Actually, the platform name change from ACEs Connection occurred during our first month here. In that time, we have been pleased to see a coming together of like-minded individuals from within and outside of CARICOM (the Caribbean Community), all with a passion for helping people thrive after childhood adversity.

Por Alejandra Ramos Barreda, CNN Español, 6 Agosto, 2021 Los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos enfrentan varios obstáculos cuando se trata de obtener atención médica. Sin embargo, existen algunas excepciones disponibles para las personas indocumentadas. Según la organización Kaiser Family Foundation , entre las causas por las que los inmigrantes no cuentan con cobertura médica, están los recientes cambios en las políticas de inmigración, el impacto de la pandemia de covid-19 y las restricciones...

By Linda Darling-Hammond, EdSource, September 1, 2021 California is launched on a new in-person school year just as the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 is sweeping across the country. Delta has certainly complicated the well-laid plans of our school leaders, as it required expanded testing and some quarantines but, in contrast to many other states, the path to opening schools in this state has shown promising results thus far — thanks to the focused efforts of principals,...

We have been hard at work producing Part II of the Trauma Talks series. It is shaping up beautifully and we'll soon have an announcement for it. Stay tuned! In the meantime, we are excited to let you know about the Collective Trauma Summit 2021 hosted by our friend and partner Thomas Hübl. The online event will bring together more than 100,000 participants to explore the role of Collective Trauma in our world. No longer can we as a society pretend that we are separate. Humanity is finally...

You walk into your living room after getting out of bed in the morning feeling apprehensive and afraid, but there is nothing to be afraid of that you can observe. An overwhelming sense that something terrible is about to happen permeates your thoughts, and you do not feel at all safe. You have just experienced an emotional flashback. This article will examine the definition of emotional flashbacks, their causes, and some grounding techniques to help you when they attack. What are Emotional...

This article was initially published 9/2/21 in RACmonitor, and appears with explicit permission Significant data already proves increased disease morbidity and mortality for populations who reside in specific ZIP codes. The “ZIP Code Effect” has been associated with variations in neighborhood life expectancy by as much as 33 years ; r esearch has also shown ACEs as major factors to drive health outcomes in these neighborhoods. Research out of Yale University took a new direction, exploring...

By Elaine Batchlor, The Atlantic, September 1, 2021 Months of cajoling and pressure haven’t worked. Neither has bringing home the COVID-19 vaccine and offering to administer it myself. I got my own vaccine as soon as I could—as did my husband and sons—with little to no side effects. Yet my mother, a 93-year-old Black woman, still won’t get vaccinated. Her excuses vary. One day she’ll insist, “I don’t know what’s in it,” even though I’ve explained it to her in detail. Another day: “I already...

By Elizabeth Yuko, Real Simple, August 31, 2021 Although most people have experienced trauma at some point in their lives, they may not use that term to describe what they've been through. That's because when we think of "trauma," our mind frequently makes the leap to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—specifically, soldiers and veterans who have seen wartime combat. While our view of trauma has expanded somewhat to include people who have lived through violent crimes, natural disasters,...

By Bob Moses, The Imprint, August 24, 2021 A s a nation, we stand with bated breath — waiting for public schools to reopen and for “a return to normal” while ignoring that for many, normal is not only not good enough, it was also never really good. Historical inequities and disparities in our public schools, as across all our public systems, operate along a constitutional fault line — an embedded caste system — that we need to find our way across. It is a fault line that is not only about...

By Sara Kassabian, The Oaklandside, August 27, 2021 Every night, Guadalupe Muñoz lays awake listening to her 7-year-old daughter Carla breathe. If she hears a whistling in Carla’s chest, she knows an asthma attack is imminent. Muñoz, who works in housekeeping at a local hotel, lives in a two-bedroom apartment with her two daughters in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood. In an interview conducted in Spanish, Muñoz said she is certain it is her home that is causing her youngest daughter to suffer...

California’s cities and counties are starting to outline plans and allocate the $16 billion in relief funding they are getting through the American Rescue Plan Act. Community members and community-based organizations should have a seat at the table and advocate for funding to support their greatest needs. Our next webinar will be totally in Spanish and is intended for CBO partners who serve Latinx communities and Spanish-speaking community members. The webinar will be held on September 2nd...