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By Mary Beth Maslowski, Psychiatry Advisor, December 9, 2021 US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy issued a public health advisory on Tuesday, December 6, 2021 in order to provide recommendations for how to address the mental health challenges confronting children, adolescents, and young adults, which have been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. The advisory, issued by the Office of the Surgeon General, speaks about actions that various groups, such as, family members, community organizations,...

The last 2 years have been heavy with loss from COVID and COVID-adjacent illnesses - suicide, overdose, and untreated everything. On top of it all, we have often been forced to grieve alone or via zoom, depriving us of the necessary screaming and moaning of our communal lament, and our communal question - WHY? My sister is a public health journalist and wrote this moving piece exploring grief after 2 losses we experienced last year. It helped me to read her words, so eloquently written that...

The National Governors Association along with the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy and the National Academy for State Health Policy, released today, December 9, the report "State Actions To Prevent And Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences." The Executive Summary is included below. To read the entire report, click here. An article about the NGA Learning Collaborative and this report will be posted soon on PACEs Connection. Preventing and mitigating adverse childhood experiences and...

By Kristine Thomason, Mind Body Green, December 6, 2021 In our 2021 Wellness Trends, we predicted that mental fitness would take priority this year—and that phenomenon took off even more than we anticipated. Over the last 18 months, not only has mental health care taken precedence, but we've observed more and more buzz around this topic on public platforms. Between people sharing experiences on social media, doctors providing resources via podcasts, and a society that's slowly becoming more...

By Lev Kushner and Greg Lindsay, Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images, Bloomberg City Lab, December 7, 2021 When we think of resource frontiers, it calls to mind the rugged, glamorous classics: oil booms, gold rushes, or, in the not-so-distant future, asteroid mining. But the latest is closer to home. Whether you live in Manhattan, Hollywood, or beyond, the storefronts and sidewalks in your city are being mined. Over the last year, cities across the U.S. and Europe have seen a rapid rise in the...

By Sandee LaMotte, Photo: Vasyl Helevachuk/Adobe Stock, CNN Health, December 7, 2021 As the pandemic stretches on, our collective ability to weather adversities and bounce back to emotional stability is being challenged daily. Many of us have suffered significant trauma from illness, hospitalization and death. Many more have experienced job loss, economic uncertainly and financial instability. And everyone has had to cope with an unprecedented uprooting of social and emotional support...

By Judd Legum, Photo: Ben Margot/AP, The Guardian, December 7, 2021 In the United States, only certain types of theft are newsworthy. For example, on 14 June 2021, a reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco tweeted a cellphone video of a man in Walgreens filling a garbage bag with stolen items and riding his bicycle out of the store. According to San Francisco’s crime database, the value of the merchandise stolen in the incident was between $200 and $950. According to an analysis by Fair, a...

We are excited to announce that new resources to support clinical approaches to addressing ACEs and toxic stress are now available in Spanish on the ACEs Aware Initiative . Please download and share these materials with your networks! ACE-Associated Health Conditions (Pediatric and Adults) 10 Categories of ACEs Infographic Spectrum of Positive, Tolerable, and Toxic Stress Infographic Stress Busters Wheel Additionally, Spanish versions of the Adult and Pediatric Algorithms and Workflows, Case...

By David Tuller, Image: Malte Mueller/Getty Images, California Healthline, December 9, 2021 Editor’s note: This article contains references to racial and ethnic slurs. Corey Baker, a gay man in Columbus, Ohio, has seen many dating app profiles that include phrases like “Blacks — don’t apply.” Sometimes when he declines invitations, he said, men lash out with insults like “you’re an ugly Black person anyway.” And some of his friends have been slammed with the N-word in similar situations.

From California Department of Public Health, December 2021 The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (IVPB) is proud to release a new resource titled, “Opportunities to Empower and Support Girls and Women in California: An Environmental Scan of Leadership Opportunities and Economic Supports to Prevent Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Teen Dating Violence.” The IVPB addresses root causes of violence and applies an upstream approach...

By Melissa Montalvo, Photo: Rich Peroncelli/AP Photo, Cal Matters, 3 Diciembre 2021 Decenas de miles de trabajadores agrícolas invitados de California y trabajadores agrícolas estadounidenses verán aumentos salariales en 2022, lo que, según los defensores, se debe a su demanda para detener la congelación salarial de la era Trump. El aumento salarial se basa en los resultados de la encuesta anual del USDA sobre el trabajo agrícola , publicada el 24 de noviembre. La encuesta y sus resultados...

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe and eventually made its way to North America, communities scrambled to find protection against the infectious disease. But at the Toronto-based Canadian Women's Foundation, there were other safety measures underway. The foundation's leadership team knew that quarantines during a time of global panic would lead to more domestic violence. In April 2020, they launched the "signal for help," a hand gesture that has led to the rescue of endangered...