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By Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 26, 2021 Great strides were made after the 1995 release of “Falling Through the Net,” the first empirical study of the Digital Divide. Yet COVID-19 has highlighted the ongoing and widening gap between those withand those without the ability to access, accumulate, and assimilate digital information. Socially and economically disenfranchised, millions of people globally still lack access to broadband internet and a computer to work, learn, or shop...

Now’s the time to make your donation to ACEs Connection, as we’re just $15,000 away from meeting the requirement to earn a matching grant for $50,000 during our ACEs Connection Changemaker Matching Grant campaign. If you work for a company that matches charitable donations, the incentive to give is even greater, as your gift will be “double-matched”! “During our Changemaker Matching Grant campaign, your donation, when matched by your employer’s corporate match, turns a $250 gift into a $1000...

Introducing Resilient Georgia's 8 Regional ACEs/TIC Coalitions Resilient Georgia , in partnership with the Pittulloch Foundation, has been working with 8 cities across Georgia and the surrounding counties to provide a regional emphasis on trauma informed awareness and care, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and child sexual abuse prevention training as a basis to transform systems and procedures crossing both public and private sectors. Resilient Georgia serves as a supportive and guiding...

"SEL and Mental Health" is a critical conversation for all of us, especially in the school context. Please join me and the other panelists on this opportunity hosted by Aperture Education. We will be covering topics spanning school-based mental health services, how educator and student SEL supports learning outcomes, and more. Join us on February 2nd, 1:00 pm PST/4:00 EST SEL and Mental Health Webinar Registration

We want a movement, not a moment. Imagine you are in front of a large crowd, gathered to hear your words about possibilities and hope, and there is that second in time that washes over you. For some, that second can feel like a dry mouth and a tickle creeping up in the back of your throat. Others can feel themselves rise up in that moment, excited to share their knowledge about trauma informed practices and the foundational language of change. If you have waited until this second hits you to...

Note: Please find content below, published with permission of the author, @Wendy Ellis DrPH, MPH, Assistant Professor, Global Health and Director of the Center for Community , Summer Redstone Global Center for Prevention & Wellness, School of Public Health, George Washington University.

By Amanda B. Keener, Knowable Magazine, January 25, 2021 Before you were 18, did a parent or other adult in your household ever push, grab, shove or slap you? Was a household member depressed or mentally ill? Did a household member go to prison? These are just a sampling of the questions asked in a landmark study of 17,337 middle-aged adults that began in the late 1990s. The work showed researchers for the first time just how common adverse childhood experiences , as they’re termed, truly...

By Simon Brooks, Moms, January 25, 2021 Research has shown that childhood emotional trauma often determines whether an individual develops a physical disease as an adult. This means that the experiences that an individual goes through in their childhood years have a huge effect on the quality of life that they live as adults. A rough childhood can predispose one to physical diseases. The brain adapts and evolves from birth according to life experiences. Most experts agree that what goes on...

By Jessie R. Baldwin, Avshalom Caspi, Alan J. Meehan, et al., JAMA Pediatrics, January 25, 2021 Key Points Question Can screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) accurately predict individual risk for later health problems? Findings In 2 population-based birth cohorts (with a total of 2927 individuals) growing up 20 years and 20 000 km apart, ACE scores were associated with mean group differences in health problems independent of other information available to clinicians. However,...

By Anne Sunderland, California Health Care Foundation, January 20, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has forced California to confront the devastating effects of health inequities and this stark truth: communities of color are more likely to contract the coronavirus and to die from it . It is essential, however, that the health disparities laid bare by the pandemic not obscure the fact that inequality has always been baked into the design, delivery, and financing of health care. In a report...

Strategic Solutions Network is pleased to announce our 12th Annual Medicaid Innovations Forum , to be held virtually February 1-4, 2021. This forward-thinking event will offer perspectives from leading Medicaid health plans, state agencies, providers and industry experts. The conference will focus on Medicaid leaders' response to COVID-19, addressing critical issues like care delivery, social determinants of health, member engagement, behavioral health, opioid management, and member-facing...

By David Cohen, Evening Standard, January 18, 2021 London headteachers today laid bare the scale of the mental health crisis affecting schoolchildren and called on the Government to provide urgent support. Speaking out about the hidden youth mental health crisis caused by the pandemic, they told the Standard: “This is the worst it’s ever been — and we haven’t seen the full shape or impact of it yet.” One headteacher called on the Government to set out a targeted mental health recovery...