Unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America are still arriving to live with family members or guardians in communities across California, while they wait for their court dates to find out if they can stay in this country. In fact, the numbers of children being detained at the U.S.-Mexico border has more than doubled in October and November  compared with a year ago. In California, Los Angeles County has the largest number of these kids, and Alameda County is...

The San Francisco Bay Area Trauma-Transformed (T2) regional center put together this grid of trauma-informed organizational assessment tools to assist with the beginning stages of transformation. Follow up tools coming soon! Trauma-Informed Organizational Assessment Tools

Over 130 residents from across the San Francisco Bay Area representing education, health, and law enforcement attended the sold-out screening of Paper Tigers and panel on December 9 at the Brower Center in Berkeley, CA. The panel discussion was so involved it went 25 minutes longer than scheduled and spilled into the lobby where attendees talked until 10 pm! The documentary Paper Tigers follows six students during a school year at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA. Lincoln is the...

Although new media platforms are changing the way people consume the news, newspapers (including their online components) continue to influence local and national policy debates, and traditional news outlets remain a key source of information for the majority of news consumers. 2 News coverage can set the agenda for debates regarding public policies that could prevent or address childhood trauma. 3-6 If news coverage doesn't discuss childhood trauma or doesn't make connections to the...

Assemblymember Rob Bonta sent out this email: As Chair of the Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color, I invite you to join Chair Assemblymember Reginald Jones-Sawyer and me for a screening and discussion of the moving documentary "Wounded Places" at the Elihu Harris State Building in Oakland on  Monday, December 14th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. " Wounded Places" describes how structural racism has ravaged communities and exposed children and families to multiple adversities...

Thursday, December 3 101 Morgan Hall, UC Berkeley Campus 5:00-6:30 PM -Receptiontofollow Outrage against racialized police violence against African American men and women has crystallized into a movement that builds on...

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Report and event materials attached below...   On September 18, 2015, RYSE Youth Center, CA Children's Defense Fund, and ACEs Connection hosted the event for 60 participants from local and state wide direct service and policy programs to come...

Join Berkeley Media Studies Group and the ACEs Connection Network for a FREE film screening and panel discussion of Paper Tigers, a new documentary on how one school increased its graduation rate five-fold by helping its students heal from...

HEALTH AND STATE VIOLENCE" will explore the intersections of healthcare and the prison industrial complex thru the lens of radical campaigns against policing and imprisonment. When we identify state violence as the problem and self-determination for...

Oakland is one of the "100 Resilient Cities" worldwide... Oakland’s Resilience Challenge A leader in community-based climate resilience planning, Oakland is working to foster community partnerships to increase resilience, as well as social and...