16 Strong Project is excited to be recruiting for our third Youth Advocacy Board! We are looking for youth ages 14-24 who are passionate about mental health education, want to learn more about ACEs, and who are ready to inspire change in their communities.
Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...
Join the RYSE Center and PACEs Connection on July 12. 2022 from 10 am-1 pm PT / 12 pm-3 pm CT / 1 pm-4 pm ET to examine how conventional social science research often produces and replicates unjust and harmful narratives about Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIPOC) capacities, priorities, dreams, and needs. At the same time, research upholds and enables white, middle-class norms and values as the standard of achievement, success, and health. From the website: “RYSE works to reimagine,...
After more tha n two years of a deadly pandemic, a racial reckoning laying bare gross inequities, historic environmental catastrophes, and record-breaking gun violence and mental health challenges, could the first known national study of “What Happened to You?,” by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey, help us heal our collective trauma, one relationship and community at a time? That’s the question Carey Sipp, PACEs Connection director of strategic partnerships, hopes will be answered with a...
By Sandra R. Hernández, Photo: Jeff Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images, California Health Care Foundation, June 7, 2022 Early in the epidemic, I knew we had a problem. As the public health officer for San Francisco, I saw desperately sick people flooding health clinics daily. Doctors treated patients with the information they had but were flying blind: Paper files on existing health conditions were scattered across the state. It led to thousands of unnecessary...
By Blake Jones, Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, Politico, June 11, 2022 After successfully pushing for a multibillion-dollar program to infuse high-poverty schools with an array of services, United Ways of California is urging state lawmakers to tap the breaks on its expansion, pointing to “issues that have plagued this program since day one.” In a surprising twist, the same group that lobbied for the model just last year is now pleading with budget staffers in the Legislature to slow...
By Emily Elena Dugdale, Photo: Bethany Mollenkof/ProPublica, ProPublica, June 17, 2022 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies disproportionately contact, cite and arrest Black students in the Antelope Valley, according to a new report by the county Inspector General’s Office . And those students are also disproportionately suspended and expelled at higher rates than other racial groups, the report said. The analysis was spurred by a yearlong investigation into allegations of racial...
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Data Report A new report on ACEs was just released! The Adverse Childhood Experiences Data Report: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 2013-2019: An Overview of Adverse Childhood Experiences in California, details the statewide prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in California collected from 2013-2019 through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS); describes ACEs-related demographic disparities; and describes...
It is sad that it was the war in Ukraine that prompted our wanting to create a resource guide for children and families displaced by war and violence, because war, violence, displacement have been going on as long as long as the earth has been inhabited by humans. Estimates announced in May 2022 put the number of forcibly displaced people at 100 million, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) . “The number of forcibly displaced people worldwide rose to 90...
In April, Sonoma County PACES Connection partnered with 25 organizations to "Celebrate Parents as Heroes". Inspired by National Parent Leadership Month and April's Child Abuse Prevention Month, 150 parents were nominated and celebrated. This video was made to highlight the event. Enjoy!
By Carolyn Jones, Photo: Screenshot from article, EdSource, June 16, 2022 Five years ago, Fremont High in East Oakland had some of the highest discipline rates and lowest attendance in the city. Fights and conflicts were common occurrences. Only 1 in 4 graduates were qualified to attend public college in California. One in 3 dropped out entirely. But Fremont High is – literally – a different place now. With a newly rebuilt campus and an intensive focus on improving campus climate, Fremont...
June 2022 Newsletter June is Pride Month! In recognition of Pride Month , we are shining a light on the LGBTQ+ population in this edition of the ACEs Aware newsletter. While Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact all communities, we know that some populations, such as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ+) community, are affected disproportionately. For example: One CDC study found that participants who identified as LGBT reported significantly higher exposure...
By City News Service, Photo: Carlos Castillos/KPBS, KPBS, June 2, 2022 UC San Diego will open a data hub focused exclusively on homelessness, intended to serve as a nonpartisan hub for research, education, policy and action on homelessness, it was announced today. The Homelessness Hub at UC San Diego will be under the umbrella of the university's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Philanthropist couples Phyllis and Dan Epstein and Hanna and Mark Gleiberman donated $1 million each to...
By Carolyn Jones, Photo: Alison Yin/EdSource, EdSource, May 31, 2022 aced with escalating student mental health needs, one California school district is trying an unusual new approach – one that does not include counselors. Saugus Union School District in northern Los Angeles County, which in recent years has endured a nearby school shooting, wildfires and increasing political polarization, is eliminating all four of its counselor positions and replacing them with social workers. In the...
Authors: Nicole Chavez and Laura Studley, CNN, article, California issued its first in-depth report detailing how the government has harmed Black Americans A panel in California considering reparations for Black Americans released its first report Wednesday detailing the "innumerable" harms of slavery in the state that "have snowballed over generations." In a 500-page interim report , the California Reparations Task Force detailed California's involvement in slavery and how it continues to...