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By Grace Galletti, Photo: Hung Chung Chih/iStock, California Health Report, February 2, 2022 Growing up, Tony remembers feeling like an orphan, even though he had two parents. Wherever he went, even with his own family, he felt like he didn’t fit in. Tony, who did not want his last name included because of stigma around mental illness, immigrated from China to the Bay Area 40 years ago. At age 12, he began to struggle with depression and anxiety. He had a hard time talking to his family...

The “Reimagining Prevention” series is centered on Assembly Bill 153 comprehensive planning, moving upstream, change management, and community engagement that fosters innovative, collaborative prevention efforts across all systems. Along with the Federal Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), the enactment of Assembly Bill 153 furthers California's commitment to providing a continuum of prevention services that begins with primary prevention (services for any child, youth or adult...

By Alejandro Lazo, Photo: Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo, CalMatters, March 8, 2022 El gobernador Gavin Newsom es un raro campeón de las personas sin dinero de California. Sin embargo, el empresario del vino, que construyó su carrera política y su fortuna con la ayuda de la élite adinerada del estado, hizo campaña con la promesa de abordar las disparidades de California, y lo hizo con valentía. Desde su primer día en el cargo en enero de 2019, Newsom llamó a las manifestaciones de la desigualdad...

By Hayin Kimner and Martin J. Blank, Photo: Lost Hills Union School District, EdSource, March 6, 2022 T he state has significantly enhanced the potential for school and community leadership to act together to support student learning and development through the California Community Schools Partnership Program. The nearly $3 billion grant program provides an opportunity for districts and their schools to design and implement sustainable and effective community school strategies. That is,...

By Arun K. Ramanathan, Photo: Theresa Harrington/EdSource, EdSource, March 7, 2022 O ver the past twenty-five years, I’ve attended and watched a lot of school board meetings. I know that this is not normal behavior. Once, during a getaway to a fancy resort in Ojai, my wife returned from the spa to find me lying on the bed raptly watching the Ojai Unified School Board meeting. “You have a sickness,” she said, and I didn’t argue with her. People think school board meetings are dull affairs...

Dear PACEs Connection Community, Today I'm celebrating just shy of three years as an employee at PACEs Connection as I say farewell as an employee. I started here in May of 2019 to fulfill my grad school practicum requirement and was so grateful to be brought on full-time in November of 2019 as a Community Facilitator. It's been an honor to get to meet so many of you in the PACEs Connection community. I loved meeting with community leaders throughout the US and the world to hear how you all...

PACEs Connection's Race & Equity Workgroup is examining historical trauma in the United States of America and its impact on American society in a series of virtual discussions. This series, which began in July 2021, highlights several regions within the United States and outlines how unresolved historical trauma has impacted every aspect of American life and directly shapes the socio-political landscape of today as well as the overall well-being of Americans. The purpose of these...

We at PACEs Connection are excited to announce our new director of communities, Mathew Portell. Portell has officially joined this week and will now be leading our Growing Resilient Communities and Cooperative of Communities programs. Portell has dedicated a decade and a half to education in his role as a teacher, instructional coach, teacher mentor, and school administrator. Before accepting the role of director of communities, Portell was the principal of Fall-Hamilton Elementary, an...

Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.

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...

By Julie Reynolds Martinez and Jeremy Loudenback, Photo: Josie Lepe, The Imprint, March 9, 2022 Katherine Lucero — a daughter of farmworkers and longtime juvenile court judge who calls for compassion and support rather than jail and foster care — is now leading the most populous state toward a once-unimaginable goal: a future without youth prisons. In a historic shift aimed at reversing decades of poor outcomes for youth offenders and public safety, California is closing its Division of...

By Soumya Karlamangla, Photo: Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press, The New York Times, March 4, 2022 If California were to provide reparations for Black residents, who exactly should qualify for the payments? That’s a question that has stumped the expert panel in charge of California’s historic reparations effort, the first undertaking of its scale and one that could have major implications for the rest of the nation. In 2020, California approved legislation to accomplish a tall order:...