Tagged With "Child Care Cost Burden"
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COVID-19 puts societies to the test (The Lancet: Public Health)
EDITORIAL | VOLUME 5, ISSUE 5 , E235, MAY 01, 2020 Published: May, 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30097-9 As of April 21, the coronavirus outbreak has infected more than 2·3 million people and taken 162 956 lives—35 884 in the USA, 24 114 in Italy, 20 852 in Spain, 20 233 in France, 16 509 in the UK, 5209 in Iran, 4642 in China—all underestimates most probably. Beyond these numbers are people, families, communities, societies that have been affected in unprecedented ways.
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ACEs Research Corner — May 2020
[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site -- abuseresearch.info -- that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she's posting the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Williams AB, Smith ER, Trujillo MA, et. al. Common health problems in safety-net primary care: Modeling the roles of trauma history and mental health. J Clin...
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Mental Health Awareness: When Suffering Is Not an Illness
When I was an adolescent and young adult, I struggled with depression. As I reflect back on that time, so much of what I was experiencing was deeply tied to coming to terms with my sexuality. Growing up in the 1980’s in a relatively conservative town, I was closeted (even to myself) until I was a young adult. The pain and fear of being different, of not belonging, of being judged or rejected for who I was more than my adolescent brain could wrap its conscious head around.
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Linda Grabbe: Helping her communities develop resilience through the Community Resilience Model
Grabbe searched for models that would help her homeless and addicted patients. “There are good body-based models for psychotherapy, which may be the most effective approach for trauma,” she says, “but hardly any of my patients were receiving any kind of therapy. There are thousands of people in our communities who have high ACE scores who will never get the years of psychotherapy they deserve. CRM is a self-mental wellness care tool and is exquisitely trauma-sensitive—so it can help enormously.”
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ACEs screening is about building relationships, says early adopter
Whether or not to screen for ACEs in primary care is an important debate—and I hear and respect the passion from both sides of the argument. I fall in the “pro-ACE assessments” camp, but with some important caveats. I think that assessments for ACEs are dramatically different from screening for autism or developmental delays. In my opinion, assessments for ACEs in primary care should be primarily about building relationships.
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Profound Questions for the ACEs Movement from Dr. Anda and Colleagues
Although Covid-19 is on the top of everyone’s list for attention, the posting earlier this week of a link to Dr. Robert Anda, et al.’s paper, Inside the Adverse Childhood Experience Score: Strengths, Limitations, and Misapplications [ajpmonline.org] should also be front and center because it raises profound questions for everyone involved in the ACEs movement. On the surface, the article is a pointed critique of ACEs screening. But it is much more than that. It raises fundamental questions...
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Federal Legislation would reduce poverty & fund caregiving
The Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act, WRCR HR5271, introduced by Reps Gwen Moore (WI) & Marcia Fudge (OH), would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to make it fully refundable and available to more people, including mothers and other unwaged primary caregivers, and get cash directly into mothers’ and families hands
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Useful Information From the Census
Census data provides baselines for research and advocacy Weekly Pulse Newsletter The U.S. Census Bureau is in a unique position to produce data on the social and economic effects of COVID-19 on American households and small businesses. Here are the latest updates on several of our experimental data products . Household Pulse Survey Updates Explore Data See Data Tables Based on responses collected July 2 through July 7 , the Household Pulse Survey estimates that during the COVID-19 pandemic:...
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Resource for Data Driven Decisions
Summary of School Re-Opening Models and Implementation Approaches During the COVID 19 Pandemic July 6, 2020 This document is a brief summary of the models and implementation approaches to re-opening schools that focuses on the approaches used in 15 countries for which we were able to identify data. This is not a comprehensive survey of the models used in all countries that have re-opened schools.
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The Benefits of Screening for Social Determinants of Health [medicalhomeinfo.aap.org]
Developed by the National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home, in partnership with the National Academy for State Health Policy, this fact sheet series discusses social determinants of health (SDoH) screening and referrals for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and their families. Opportunities for collaboration and partnership between Medicaid, Title V Maternal and Child Health / CYSHCN programs, and pediatricians are discussed. State-level case...
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Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study
Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study {Lancet} Long H Nguyen, MD * , David A Drew, PhD * , Amit D Joshi, PhD , Chuan-Guo Guo, MS , et al. Open AccessPublished:July 31, 2020DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30164-X Background Data for front-line health-care workers and risk of COVID-19 are limited. We sought to assess risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers compared with the general community and the...
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COVID-19: a stress test for trust in science
(Poster's comment: While this editorial is about COVID-19 it also applies to ACEs. The need for reliable and comprehensive data is necessary to define ACEs science and practice in a time of politicizing of of our movement. Dennis Haffron) EDITORIAL| VOLUME 396, ISSUE 10254 , P799, SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 Peer Review Week is the annual celebration of the importance of peer review, running Sept 21–25. The theme this year is trust in peer review, a particularly appropriate focus during the COVID-19...
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Building resilient societies after COVID-19: the case for investing in maternal, neonatal, and child health
The Lancet: Public Health Published:September 21, 2020DOI: Chandni Maria Jacob, MSc : Despina D Briana, MD : Prof Gian Carlo Di Renzo, MD : Prof Neena Modi, FMedSci : Flavia Bustreo, MD : et al. Summary Resilient societies respond rapidly and effectively to health challenges and the associated economic consequences, and adapt to be more responsive to future challenges. Although it is only possible to recognise resilience retrospectively, the COVID-19 pandemic has occurred at a point in human...
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We Need More Entrepreneurs Building Companies That Address Society’s Biggest Needs (HBR)
By October 5, 2020, Harvard Business Review. 2020 is the year the world’s attention turned to the deep fractures of our economic, political, educational, and healthcare systems. The year when status quo solutions were no longer good enough. For all the declarations of being “in this together,” the dual pandemics of Covid-19 and systemic racism have revealed how low-income communities and people of color are disproportionately left out, let down, and punished by our systems. The death of...
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Maine Hires Lawyers With Criminal Records to Defend Poor Residents. The Governor Wants Reform. (ProPublica)
By Samantha Hogan, October 14, 2020, The Maine Monitor. Gov. Janet Mills publicly called for a bipartisan effort to reform Maine’s defense system for poor people accused of crimes in response to an investigation by The Maine Monitor and ProPublica. Gov. Janet Mills of Maine publicly called for a bipartisan effort during the next legislative session to reform the state’s system for defending poor people accused of crimes in response to an investigation published by The Maine Monitor and...
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CDC has recently updated its Restricted Access Database (RAD) to include 2018 data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)
2018 NVDRS Restricted Access Database Now Available CDC has recently updated its Restricted Access Database (RAD) to include 2018 data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). The NVDRS RAD consists of data from 38 states, 21 California counties, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The NVDRS RAD is a de-identified, multi-state, case-level dataset comprised of hundreds of unique variables. The data set is available to researchers who meet specific criteria. The RAD...
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A Better Normal Community Discussion - Reimagining Health Care
In a conversational style, join physician Drew Factor who will speak with Dr. Tracy Gaudet, Liza Guroff and An é Watts in a discussion entitled "Reimagining Health Care". Dr. Gaudet will speak about her experience engaging in transformational change at the Veterans Administration and how this has shaped the development of her own Functional Medicine Institute , while Ms. Guroff and Ms. Watts will speak about their knowledge of a Trauma-Informed Approach both at a systems (National Council...
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Social Science Framework Focuses Attention on Policy Initiatives to Reduce Childhood Adversity in California
An important report challenges California policy makers to move well beyond ACEs screening in order to achieve the state's "bold goal" of reducing exposure to childhood trauma. The report employs a broad social science framework to examine the sources of adversity in systemic racism, economic inequality, environmental hazards, and inadequate community resources to support community resilience.
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"A Better Normal" Community Discussion: Suicide Awareness and Community Cafes
Join us on Friday November 6, 2020 from noon to 1:00 PST as we come together and join Satya Chandragiri MD, Bonnie O’Hern RN, Denise PNP, & Michael Polacek RN for a discussion around the tender issue of suicide. Together we will discuss ways people and providers can support each other and encourage communities to take action to support one another around suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and the layers of culture and structural barriers to care. A special emphasis will be on...
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Build a plan for Covid-19 home testing on reason, not speculation or politics
When the government ignores rational health policy, and instead follows unsound ones, the effects can last longer than anyone expects.
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If not us who? Let's reach out and discuss ACEs in the Social Sciences
I hope this posting will encourage you to look at this site in a different way and get involved. Reach me through the site. Make a personal posting, such as I have done, on the site. Suggest a topic for a Zoom meeting.
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Here is some insight into the medical debate about herd immunity and COVID 19.
The medical debate about herd immunity is intense. Here is a look at what medical practitioners are saying to each other.
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CDC: Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the US $1.02 trillion in 2017.
CDC: Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the US $1.02 trillion in 2017. The most complete accounting to date of America’s opioid crisis was released by CDC in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence . This CDC study expands and updates two prior estimates of the cost of the opioid crisis: a 2016 CDC economic cost study and a 2017 report released by the White House Council of Economic Advisors. In 2017, there were more than 2.1 million people over age 12 with an opioid use...
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New ACEs Aware Videos
ACEs Aware [a California ACEs Initiative] has recently released a brand new video featuring Dr. Burke Harris explaining the symptoms of toxic stress and encouraging providers to sign up for ACEs Aware's free, two-hour online training. The ACEs Aware video is available in full, half, and no animation versions. Links are included in the attachment with recommendations for each channel, but you are encouraged to post the animation version that best suits your audience. Links to all three...
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Webinar will explore strategies to combat food insecurity in communities
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are being forced to make choices between food and transportation, utilities, and medical care—leaving even more at risk of ongoing food insecurity . Join the webinar on February 16 to learn strategies to address food insecurity from two fantastic guest speakers:
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An urgent need for primary care to engage with social and structural determinants of health
In The Lancet Public Health, Ruth Watkinson and colleagues report on ethnic inequalities in health among older adults (ie, those aged >55 years) by use of the large, nationally representative,
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Re: Moms, Work and the Pandemic
I wonder if this article is inaccurate. It may conflate sex with child care responses. I have been a stay at home grand parent care caregiver. That task greatly limited my employment choices.
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A Better Normal Friday, March 26, 2021: PACEs and HOPE with Dr. Christina Bethell
Please join us for our next installment of A Better Normal, our live webinar series in which we imagine and create our society as trauma-informed! You may have seen we changed our name recently from ACEs Connection to PACEs Connection. Please join us to learn all about the groundbreaking research of Positive Childhood Experiences and how this is going to transform the work we are all doing. >>Click here to register<< PACEs and HOPE Live Event Friday, March 26, 2021 Noon PT / 1pm...
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New Release: Humboldt County Home Visiting Program Environmental Scan
In partnership with First 5 Humboldt and funded by the First 5 California Home Visiting Coordination Grant, the California Center for Rural Policy has just released the Humboldt County Home Visiting Program Environmental Scan. The findings and recommendations in the environmental scan are grounded in partner workgroups, interviews, and surveys that occurred in 2020-21 and capture the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on home visiting services. Excerpts: "The organizations that provide home...
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Replacing control with ecologies of care (neuroclastic.com)
By Jorn Bettin , NeuroClastic Change Divergently, May 29, 2021 The focus on economic performance and the subordination of all other dimensions of life in industrialised societies has profound effects on human behaviour. Different cultures focus on different primary time horizons, and often this is the biggest source of challenges in being able to understand each other. On a related note, linguist and cognitive scientist Daniel Everett observes that big differences in observed social...
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The LANCET stresses Social Determinants of health
Much evidence has been published supporting Pender's call for social determinants to be considered as key in understanding and treating mental illness. The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development stated that research consistently shows a strong association between social disadvantage and poor mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic has further focused attention on the importance of social determinants in causing both mental and physical illness.
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American Academy of Pediatrics: Seek to link with families and communities about toxic stress
By focusing on the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) that buffer adversity and build resilience, pediatric care is on the cusp of a paradigm shift that could reprioritize clinical activities, rewrite research agendas, and realign our collective advocacy.
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Census data provides national views of what was presented in the CTIPP 01/21 health workshop
People in vulnerable populations — as defined by socioeconomic characteristics — made more preventable visits to emergency rooms than others from 2013 to 2017, according to a U.S. Census Bureau working paper.
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Re: Childhood Adversity, Social Inequality, and Public Policy
Exactly! Dr. McEwen, we so need to bring esteemed historian and patriot Heather Cox Richardson, PhD, into the conversation and exhortations on the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences. Were Dr. Richardson, author of the almost daily " Letters from an American " to frame our nation’s history through the lens of the traumas our peoples have endured, it would explain so much about our current collective trauma. Were she to link for her thousands of followers the science of how...
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Top Reasons for Joining the Summit
Virtual Conference | April 5-6, 2022 Our world gets more complex every day. So it's more important than ever to address the traumas that affect our communities. That’s why we’re coming together at the Hanna Institute Summit: to heal our communities. But why should you join us? Here are the top three reasons people attend the Summit: 1) Learn from Experts From best-selling authors Ibram X. Kendi and Resmaa Menakem to Nancy Dome and Dr. Gary Slutkin, national and Bay Area experts will bring...
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The PODcast: What is "Peer- supported Open Dialogue"? by Mad in America
One of the largest and, arguably, most successful efforts to “Open Dialogue” differences in community and culture challenges - Peer-supported Open Dialogue (POD) - has resulted in the largest research study yet of Open Dialogue-inspired services. The ODDESSI trial is studying the adoption of Peer-supported Open Dialogue within several of the U.K.’s National Health Service trusts.
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Free Webinar: Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience: Theories and Practices that Work!
The University of Louisville, Center for Family and Community Wellbeing study found that Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Increasing Resilience significantly reduced Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms and increased trauma coping skills. What makes Mind Matters so effective? In this webinar author Carolyn Curtis reviews the research behind Mind Matters’ effectiveness. She discusses the program’s theory of change as well as the individual lessons that bring results. Objectives: Participants...
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From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma-Informed Practices for Working with Children, Families, Schools, and Communities (Routledge Textbook)
(Congratulations to Dr. Audrey Hokoda and Dr. Shulamit Ritblatt for their steadfast dedication as Editors of this textbook. Long-standing San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team (SDTIGT) member, there are more SDTIGT members who are co-authors. Congratulations to all contributors!) From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma-Informed Practices for Working with Children, Families, Schools, and Communities Edited by Shulamit Natan Ritblatt, San Diego State University, California, USA and Audrey Hokoda ,...
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Census Bureau Invites Public Input on Designing 2030 Census
(What information should the Census Bureau be collecting and correlating in order to better identify communities at greater risk for a traumatic childhood environment.