From Governor's Office of Planning and Research, July 9, 2021
New state budget investments signed by Governor Newsom on June 28, 2021, expand the state’s funding for preventing and treating Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by $12.4 million to drive innovative, community-driven research.
This additional funding will support seven collaborative demonstration projects total across the state for three years, building on the first round of awards announced by the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM) in March 2021.
This critical investment is part of Governor Gavin Newsom's broad-based California Comeback Plan to transform California’s behavioral health system for children and youth into an innovative, prevention-focused system with early, targeted screenings and intervention. It is also a key priority of California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, who aims to cut ACEs and toxic stress in half within a generation. Advancing the science of ACEs is a core element of the state’s sweeping approach to explicitly address childhood trauma and toxic stress through complementary investments that extend resources and support evidence-based practices at the doctor’s office, schools, and social services across California’s communities. All seven ACEs demonstration projects begin this summer as part of CIAPM, in partnership with the Office of the California Surgeon General.
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