Skip to main content

Blog

Youth-Initiated Mentoring as a Scalable Approach to Addressing Mental Health Problems During the COVID-19 Crisis [jamanetwork.com]

By Levi van Dam, Jean Rhodes, and Renee Spencer, JAMA Psychiatry, April 28, 2021 A lthough adolescents have lower COVID-19 infection rates compared with adults, the pandemic is taking a toll on young people’s mental health. There have been multiple reports of increases in mental health challenges for adolescents during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including a rapid systematic review indicating that adolescents are now more likely to experience high rates of depression and anxiety. This...

Street Medicine Programs Improvise to Meet Shifting Challenges [chcf.org]

By Rob Waters, California Health Care Foundation, March 30, 2021 The black-and-green bus pulls into a parking lot around the corner from the Oakland Coliseum complex, where the Oakland Athletics play baseball, and the Golden State Warriors used to play basketball. This bus carries health workers, not ballplayers, and the lot is now home for dozens of individuals and families living in recreational vehicles (RVs), not parking for sports fans. Under a light rain and gusty winds, members of the...

Asian-American Business Leaders Fund Effort to Fight Discrimination [nytimes.com]

By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Edmund Lee, The New York Times, May 3, 2021 Some of the wealthiest and most influential Asian-American business leaders are mounting an ambitious plan to challenge anti-Asian discrimination, rewrite school curriculums to reflect the role of Asian-Americans in history and collect data to guide policymakers. The group has pledged $125 million to a new initiative, the Asian American Foundation. The foundation has raised another $125 million from organizations like...

The hunger industry: does charity put a Band-Aid on American inequality? [theguardian.com]

By Nina Lakhani and Aliya Uteuova, The Guardian, April 28, 2021 A lyson Graham raised three children by juggling multiple jobs and making tough choices about what they should go without. For more than 20 years, she made weekly visits to a food pantry, before going to the store to supplement the free groceries using food stamps and whatever money she had left after paying rent and bills. It was a struggle to put nutritious food on the table. “I always had two jobs when my kids were growing...

ZERO TO THREE Releases State of Babies Yearbook: 2021

By Cody Uhing, First Five Years Fund, April 26, 2021 ZERO TO THREE released the State of Babies Yearbook: 2021 , an in-depth report on how state and federal policies and the COVID-19 pandemic impact the lives of families and their young babies. Looking at every state and the District of Columbia, the report, supplemented by data from the Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development Early Childhood (RAPID-EC) Household Survey , shows that even before the pandemic families with young...

Polyvagal Theory and Hope In Healing from Childhood Trauma

Polyvagal theory emphasizes the evolutionary development of two systems: the parasympathetic nervous system which is ultimately connected to the vagal nerve and the sympathetic nervous system. Each has its own function, and cause the body to react differently before, during, and after a traumatic or stressful event. If these two systems become damaged from excessive and recurrent trauma, a break down occurs and mental illnesses such as CPTSD and anxiety disorders may result.

Join Kristin Neff at the Free Mindfulness for Healthcare Virtual Summit May 20-23 [centerformsc.org]

We invite you to participate in the Mindfulness for Healthcare Summit , May 20-23, 2021 hosted online by our partner Mindful Communications and featuring Mindful Self-Compassion co-founder Kristin Neff along with 45 other experts in the mindfulness, compassion, and healthcare fields. This free virtual event will explore how mindfulness and compassion tools and practices support high-quality patient care and the well-being of healthcare workers , with a particular focus on promoting more just...

Foster Boy: National Foster Care Month Screening [fosterboy.com]

You're invited to a nationwide screening of the award winning film, ' Foster Boy ,' executive produced by Shaquille O'Neal and starring Matthew Modine, Shane Paul McGhie, Louis Gossett Jr., Amy Brenneman, & Julie Benz, and participate in a live Q&A about the importance of reforming the foster care system. REGISTER WATCH THE TRAILER Screening window: May 7 - May 10 Live Panel discussion + Q&A: May 11th at 8:00 pm EST/7:00 pm CST/5:00 pm PST MEET OUR PANELISTS Jay Paul Deratany Jay...

Children's Mental Health Awareness Week [ymhproject.org]

Sunday, May 2 – Saturday, May 8 Open Up for Children’s Mental Health! Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week -- held every year during the first week of May (National Mental Health Awareness Month) -- is a national campaign that raises awareness and funds to promote better mental health for children. At The Youth Mental Health Project, we work every day to ensure that families have support to care for and strengthen their children’s mental health – never more so than during this past year...

FEA Announces 26 Schools To Take Part In Healing-Centered Engagement To Address Adverse Childhood Experiences & Trauma [southjerseyobserver.com]

By Anne Forline, South Jersey Observer, April 25, 2021 In March, 2021, the Foundation for Educational Administration (FEA), the professional learning division of the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association (NJPSA), announced the 26 schools that will be a part of its Healing-Centered Engagement initiative . The Annette Castiglione Early Childhood Center in Bellmawr is among the schools that will be participating in the program. Funded by grants in excess of $580,000, lead partners...

Inequalities deadly toll [nature.com]

By Amy Maxmen, Nature, April 28, 2021 On a hazy day in November, Hardeep Singh received a text message from the COVID-19 testing system at Foster Farms poultry company saying that his mother had tested positive for the coronavirus. He got the alert because his mother, a 63-year-old line worker at one of the company’s meat-packing plants in California’s San Joaquin Valley, doesn’t speak English and doesn’t own a smartphone. Singh couldn’t reach her as she continued to handle chicken parts...

The Building Blocks of Hope [pschologytoday.com]

By Elizabeth Dixon, Psychology Today, May 1, 2021 The Traces of ACEs The presence of adversity, especially early on, can significantly affect the human brain and development. Since the late 1990s, we've learned about ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences, and the traces they leave behind. ACEs may be defined as potentially traumatic events that occur between the ages of 0-17, including any of the following: The experience of abuse, neglect, or violence Witnessing violence in the home or...

New Funding Opportunity with All in For Kids [futureswithoutviolence.org]

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 12-COUNTY ALL IN FOR KIDS FUNDING AVAILABLE Promote Healthy Child Development, Prevent Childhood Adversity, Support Equity, Heal Trauma REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS WEBINAR ON MAY 19 Genentech and Blue Shield of California Foundation have joined Futures Without Violence and Bay Area Region First 5's to create All In For Kids, an initiative that focuses on young children (birth to 5 years of age) along with their families, caregivers, and communities. We are pleased to...

Post
Copyright © 2023, PACEsConnection. All rights reserved.
×
×
×
×