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By Rick Strom, TYT Sports, October 7, 2019 It's time to end bullying. Rick Strom breaks it down. [ Please click here to watch video clip .]

By Deke Farrow, The Modesto Bee, October 4, 2019 Alana Scott likes to share a story about Tanya King. King, 47 and a student at Modesto Junior College, was interviewing for a scholarship to take a five-week Living WELL program, said Scott, a founder of the nonprofit organization WELL, or Women’s Education and Leadership League. King saw another candidate, Veronica Nunez, arriving and greeted her. Scott asked King how she knew Nunez, and learned that they’re MJC classmates and that King had...

By Xenia Shih Bion, California Health Care Foundation, October 7, 2019 California should move swiftly to improve the quality of care in the managed care plans that serve 80% of Medi-Cal’s nearly 14 million enrollees, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Led by Professor of Medicine Andrew Bindman, MD, with support from CHCF, the researchers examined 41 quality measures and found that more than half of the quality measures stayed the same or declined...

By K. Hecht, P. Berman & A. Hosack Humm, I have used the brown and the yellow. What color would be good for ears? Davy was concentrating hard; his tongue sticking out as he tried to draw carefully what he was imagining in his head. He was at the kitchen table drawing his good daddy- Mr. Carson. Davy had literally dragged a laughing Mr. Carson in from the living room and told him he needed to sit very still until his picture was drawn so that Davy didn’t make any mistakes. Mr. Carson was...

"If substance use disorder or an overdose is thought of as a pebble dropped in water, the ripple effect after an overdose can spread wide, with those closest to the overdose victim—children and families—being the first and hardest hit"

CDC Toolkit: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence Access other technical packages for violence prevention at: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/communicationresources/pub/technical-packages.html?deliveryName=USCDC_2023-DM9684

We will all experience some form of emotional trauma to some degree in our lifetimes. Emotional trauma can be caused by events in any aspect of life. The loss of a friend or family member, a failed relationship or divorce, loss of employment or loss of financial stability can all create emotional instability and trauma. A certain failure or negative event in life can hinder our ability to ever want to step out of our comfort zone again. Emotional trauma can affect us psychologically and...

Every day connections are more important than we ever believed . Science tells us that relationships have the power to shape our brains. Relationships help us learn better, work better, parent better. When we experience tough times or traumatic experiences, they help us heal . With each connection, we develop a healthier stronger community. Connections Matter Georgia is an in-person training designed to engage community members in building caring connections to: • Improve resiliency, •...

By Andrew DuRoss, Daily Herald, October 4, 2019 "Every child deserves a champion: An adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be." This statement from former educator Rita Pierson exemplifies our philosophy in School District 54. We serve more than 15,000 students, and I believe all of them need someone in their corner. Someone to seek them out in the hallway and check in with them each day. Someone they...

By John Soghigian, Hometown Focus, October 4, 2019 Who would have thought that prenatal and childhood trauma could lead to teen and adult depression, obesity, smoking, heart disease, cancer and other ailments throughout life? Study after study has demonstrated just that. Such trauma can take many forms. Imagine life as a child beset by a home with a mentally ill parent, domestic violence, parental divorce or separation, substance abuse, or incarceration; physical, emotional, or sexual abuse;...

By Rebecca Bryan and Janice M. Beitz, Wound Management & Prevention, October 2019 Abstract Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) biologically embed by altering brain development and influencing epigenetic mechanisms. These experiences may generate health risk factors. Purpose: A literature review was conducted to compare ACE-generated health risk factors with risk factors for wound development and aberrant healing, as well as to identify a gap in literature regarding critical connections...

By Yesenia Amaro and Deepa Bharath, Center for Health Journalism News Collaborative, October 4, 2019 For almost two years, Sylvia Valenzuela relied on the federal Indian Health Service system to get the primary care she needed. But when she had to see an OB-GYN for her prenatal care, she was on her own. What followed, she said, was a nightmare in which she struggled to obtain and keep Medi-Cal coverage, leaving her uninsured for a critical stretch of her pregnancy. Valenzuela says she would...