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Partnerships in Action Seed Grant Applications Due Friday Strengthen your multi-sectoral partnership or forge a new public-private partnership with a seed grant from Safe States. Safe States is accepting applications for two seed grants of $20,000 each to utilize the recommendations included in the “ Strengthening Partnerships Between Business and Public Health: A Roadmap to Advancing Community Injury and Violence Prevention ” (Roadmap) to inform an effort advancing community-level Injury...

A Conversation on Race and Research The latest U.S. census data shows the nation is rapidly evolving, with 4 in 10 Americans now identifying with a race other than White. Our nation's growing diversity is driving societal and cultural shifts and creating a new conversation about race and ethnicity. It is also highlighting the way race intersects with research in a range of fields, from public opinion polling to medicine to economics. Join us for a virtual event with experts featured in Pew's...

Register Today Friday, November 5, 2021 At California Protective Parents Association, we are so grateful to be co-hosting this special day on Friday, November 5 starting at 9 am PT with UCI Initiative to End Family Violence. This full-day virtual conference will offer multidisciplinary perspectives on protecting children from family violence in the context of child custody or divorce cases. National experts, leading legislators, survivors and courageous kids will address policy reforms,...

From Star News, October 22, 2021 Government schools across Victoria will be able to pick the mental health tools that best match the needs of their students, with the Victorian Government’s Schools Mental Health Fund providing a suite of options to give students tailored support. Bass MP Jordan Crugnale has revealed the interim menu of resources and initiatives to be available to government schools in the Bass electorate as part of the $200 million Fund. Schools will be able to select...

By Paula Mattison, Prevent Child Abuse, October 21, 2021 Many people are familiar with the concept of preventive medicine , which seeks to reduce a person’s risk of injury or disease before it happens rather than just treating the symptoms after they occur (which is the traditional, intervention-based approach). In addition to its theoretical appeal, the preventive approach has some tangible perks: people who take a prevention-based approach have i ncreased lifespans and lower medical bills...

By Richard Faragher and Lynne Cox, IFL Science, October 26, 2021 Most people want to live a long and happy life – or at least avoid a short and miserable one. If you’re in that majority, then you’re in luck. Over the last decade, a quiet research revolution has occurred in our understanding of the biology of ageing. The challenge is to turn this knowledge into advice and treatments we can benefit from. Here we bust the myth that lengthening healthy life expectancy is science fiction, and...

By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, October 25, 2021 Congress is now considering four weeks of paid family and medical leave, down from the 12 weeks that were initially proposed in the Democrats’ spending plan. If the plan becomes law, the United States will no longer be one of six countries in the world — and the only rich country — without any form of national paid leave. But it would still be an outlier. Of the 185 countries that offer paid leave for new mothers, only one, Eswatini...

By Paurvi Bhatt, STAT, October 19, 2021 A s a working daughter, I recently embarked on a new and uncertain phase of my career: taking paid leave for my seriously ill mother. Without children of my own, I never needed to consider paid leave. This new role in caregiving is making me square cultural norms and values engrained in me as a second-generation South Asian immigrant and as a female only child with my senior leadership role in corporate America. While I’ve juggled responsibilities for...

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Resolve Magazine, October 8, 2021 At first, Ethan Martinez’s parents thought his persistent high fever was some kind of temporary virus or infection. The doctor thought so too, and prescribed the eight-year-old antibiotics. But within weeks, the normally easygoing and active child was behaving strangely. Ethan cried while playing baseball, a game he’d always loved. He started getting in trouble at school, and would get suddenly angry for no reason. Early puberty, his...

By Mandy Ferguson and Naomi Newman, JD Supra, October 25, 2021 Overview Increasingly, states are using their Medicaid managed care (MMC) contracts to define the role Medicaid and Medicaid managed care plans can play in addressing unmet social needs and promote a “whole person” approach to care. A few leading states are leveraging contracts with Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to require health plan investment into the community being served. This article describes the context for...

By Anthony Wallace, The Guardian, October 26, 2021 Leaders of non-profit organizations serving Native American communities in the US say they have been inundated with unprecedented financial support over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. Native Americans are three times as likely to have died from the virus in the US as white Americans, according to the APM Research Lab . America’s largest Indian reservation, the Navajo Nation, has lost 1,471 residents to Covid-19 so far. That figure...

By Sara Tiano, The Imprint, October 21, 2021 P rompted by a celebrity’s painful childhood revelation, growing cries to crack down on abusive practices in residential treatment programs for children and teens have reached members of Congress, who are now vowing to act. A flurry of advocacy this week is being led by celebrity heiress Paris Hilton — who has spoken out about her time in a Utah program where she said she was strangled, struck and forcibly medicated. In a series of media events...