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Sengthong Sithounnolat, Jeris Woodson, Donald Greene, Ashley Blanco On a recent Saturday, 10 people gather around a table at the offices of Trauma Transformed in Oakland, Calif., where quotes from figures like Frederick Douglas, Nelson Mandela, and Coretta Scott King grace one wall as light streams in from a skylight above. The group is known as the Resident Warriors, which meets weekly. One participant talks of her recovery from addiction and her mother’s murder. Another mentions being...

A toolkit for policy and advocacy on ACEs awareness, trauma informed practice, and resilience building

From The Californian: "All public school students in North Monterey County have free school meals for another school year, intended to help a region that is experiencing high levels of youth homelessness and family poverty."

California trans youth are in crisis; what Bay Area communities are working on to address homelessness for this population- and the gaps that remain.

With the passage of Stephon Clark's law, California has taken steps to address the mental and physical health risk posed by police violence.

As awareness of the long term impacts of childhood trauma grows, Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma, CA, will be reaching out to school alumni to "make amends". This step is part of the Center's overall shift towards trauma-informed practice.

By Jill Cowan, The New York Times, August 21, 2019 Like a game of Whac-a-Mole. That’s how Jenny Schuetz, a researcher with the Brookings Institution, described the task for California lawmakers if they want to get cities to build more apartments. It’s clear that the state needs them. Homeless advocates point straight to overpriced and scarce housing when they explain conditions on the streets. “More supply” is a kind of mantra for developers who say cutting red tape to build new homes is the...

Have you been hearing all the buzz about Dr. Mona Delahooke's new book, Beyond Behaviors ? In my opinion, it’s the best new book of 2019. Dr. Delahooke is a practicing pediatric clinical psychologist of thirty years. She is gaining critical acclaim and grassroots support for challenging the prevalent and pervasive behaviorist bias in schools. As a result, she is an emerging authority in the growing revolution to re-interpret children's misbehavior. She highlights much of the books' content...

Deadline extended to submit abstracts for the 2019 PHA Conference, "Rooted in Community: Moving from Trauma to Healing"

High-quality early childhood education (ECE) has an enormous positive impact on lifelong health, serving as a protective factor against adult disease and disability. Children who receive high-quality ECE stay in school longer and earn more income as adults, helping to close the income inequality gap. Yet parents sometimes struggle to access or pay for available programs, and only about 16% of children who were eligible for federal childcare subsidies in 2015 received them. Given the high...

There's another important opportunity to determine if and how new state money will support community-based youth development services. The Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) has a new duty to distribute around $26 Million of new tax money raised from Proposition 64, which decriminalized adult use of marijuana. The BSCC is allowed to spend the money on "public health and safety programs" that can include local youth substance abuse prevention and intervention programs, but also...

Snapshots of California-specific information are outlined here as resources for your policy and advocacy activities—whether it is educating an elected official or leader in the non-profit world or in business about ACEs-trauma-resilience or simply persuading a potential partner to include ACEs science in developing organizational priorities. The snapshots include data on ACEs and child well-being, profiles of statewide ACEs initiatives, and community profiles (aka stories). CAHMI Fact Sheet...