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The PACEs Connection team will be taking a week of rest following the Labor Day holiday on September 5th. We will be out of the office from September 6th -9th. We will not be checking or responding to emails or calls. We will not be publishing the Daily Digests and Weekly Roundup during this time. Our tradition of changing Labor Day to Labor Week was in response to the tremendous stress that came at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since 2020 our team has been overwhelmed. Two years...

The 35 th Anniversary edition of Dr. Louise Hart’s parenting classic is revived with her daughter, Kristen Caven. Kristen Caven and Dr. Louise Hart are a mother-daughter writing team who teach social and emotional well-being for parents and children of all ages. Their latest book, The Winning Family: Where No One Has to Lose helps readers develop the win-win life skills that build self-esteem, confidence, and unconditional love in family relationships. First published in 1987 by Dodd, Mead,...

Origins Training & Consulting was proud to partner with Eisner Health to share their journey of implementing trauma-informed care at the National Association of Community Health Centers annual Community Health Institute in Chicago. To learn more about the lessons learned from Eisner Health's experience, you can download the full paper at https://originstraining.org/eisner-healths-journey-through-implementing-trauma-informed-care/ Thanks to ACEs Aware for funding this paper!

By Hikari Hida and John Yoon, Photo: Ichoan Nursing Home, The New York Times, September 1, 2022 Cooing, giggling and the patter of tiny feet mix with the sound of walkers and wheelchairs at a nursing home in southern Japan. In this graying nation, one home has been recruiting an unusual class of workers to enliven its residents’ days. These are “baby workers,” as the nursing home’s head calls them: 32 children so far, all under 4 years old, who spend time with its residents, who are mostly...

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, Photo: Victor Valley Union High School District, CNN US, September 1, 2022 A California school district is vowing to reform its discipline practices after a federal investigation revealed it was giving harsher punishment to Black students compared to White students who displayed similar behavior. Officials from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights say the Victor Valley Union High School District in southern California's San Bernardino County committed...

By Noah Robertson, Photo: Steve Helber/AP/File, Christian Science Monitor, September 1, 2022 T he forest around Montpelier, James Madison’s former home and tobacco plantation, has miles of paved trails. But Larry Walker isn’t using them. Instead, he has strapped on a rucksack, laced up boots, and tucked his pants into his socks. No asphalt today – he’s ready for a walk in the woods. For miles, he and a group of colleagues travel what feels like the opening scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,”...

By Sarah Holder, Photo: Ken James/Bloomberg, Bloomberg CityLab, September 1, 2022 The heckling, threats and insults had gone on for months, but it was at a town meeting last fall that a personal nightmare finally became a public scandal for Marico Sayoc. As the first Filipina mayor of the small Silicon Valley city of Los Gatos, California, Sayoc had been targeted throughout her term for her race, gender and policies by a small group of locals who disagreed with her. The group of protesters,...

After providing evidence-based prevention programs in K12 schools for nearly 20 years through disordered eating prevention and Resilient Schools initiatives, Sharpen is offering a free 30 day Stress Buster program for individuals ages 14 and up.

By Laura Gallant, 9/1/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center has expanded its certificate program. We are now offering a HOPE Champion program, where those who have completed the Train the Facilitator program can be certified to deliver more in-depth HOPEful technical assistance. Similar to the Train the Facilitator program, each cohort will consist of 10-16 individuals working around the country in different sectors who want to Spread HOPE.

By Liz Seegert, Photo: SHVETS/Pexels, Association of Health Journalists, August 30, 2022 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is funding five additional states and territories to expand access to home and community-based services through Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration program. Awards of up to $5 million each were announced for Illinois, Kansas, and New Hampshire, as well as for American Samoa and Puerto Rico — the first time MFP grants have been made available to...

By Kari Paul, Photo: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images/Tetra images RF, The Guardian, August 30, 2022 California lawmakers passed first-of-its-kind legislation on Monday designed to improve the online safety and privacy protections for children. The bill, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, will require firms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to install guardrails for users under the age of 18, including defaulting to higher privacy settings for minors and refraining from...

By Simon Romero, Roni Caryn Rabin and Mark Walker, Photo: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, The New York Times, August 31, 2022 Carol Schumacher, 56, who was raised in the remote community of Chilchinbeto in the Navajo Nation, has lost 42 family members to Covid-19 over the last two years. The dead included two brothers aged 55 and 54, and cousins as young as 18 and 19. Ms. Schumacher returned to the Navajo Nation from her home in Wisconsin this summer to grieve with family. She knew what to...