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Are you ready to transform your school to become a trauma-informed and healing-centered environment? Join us for the PACEsConnection virtual Trauma-Informed School Leadership Institute. This institute is specifically tailored for school leaders and leadership teams who want to understand the HOW of trauma-informed schools. Speakers will include current and former building leaders engaged in the work as well as other national experts supporting schools through this transformation process.

Please join us for our new series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn . This monthly series will feature a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection Education Consultant, with special guests on education related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science aware lens to examine what is going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system.

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...

Check out this new, free Trauma Transformed course exploring how: ACEs happen in a context; so does our work to prevent and screen. This course is designed to contextualize, sometimes complicate the narratives around transforming the impact of childhood adversities as well as the adversities in our healthcare systems.

By Pedro Toledo, Photo: US Atlas, The Press Democrat, January 9, 2022 Every 10 years, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission creates new district maps for the state Senate, Assembly, Board of Equalization and U.S. House of Representatives to ensure that each district has roughly the same number of people. Given the population shifts over the past 10 years, most districts had to significantly change to ensure equal representation and fair maps across the state. When I applied to...

As a Weinstein survivor, I’ve noticed that journalists love to explore the presumed solidarity among “sister survivors” – in our case, the over 100 women who came forward about Weinstein’s sexual predation. But what journalists don’t write about are the challenges in preventing any group of trauma survivors from imploding. Only when we survivors understand the impact of trauma can we overcome the underlying forces that threaten to pull us apart and stand together against injustice and abuse.

Cockhren joined PACEs in 2018 as the Midwest community facilitator and then became director of the PACEs Connection’s Cooperative of Communities. She replaces Jane Stevens, who founded PACEs Connection in 2012 and who served as its CEO for the last 10 years.

By Sylvia A. Harvey, Photo: Lance Yamamoto, The Imprint, January 3, 2022 E ach morning, Ali Knight rises around 6 a.m. The rest of his “table for four,” — his wife, Van, and two children ages 2 and 6 — are asleep. For 30 minutes, he moves about the quietness. When they wake up, the next hour belongs to them. He aims to have his kids clothed, fed and dropped off at school and day care within 45 minutes. If he’s not mentally preparing for calls, the 44-year-old Alameda resident might sing...

By Carolyn Jones, Photo: Alison Yin/EdSource, EdSource, January 10, 2022 H ealth classes in California high schools will soon cover more than nutrition and exercise. Thanks to a new law that went into effect Jan. 1, students will learn about depression, schizophrenia, mood disorders and other serious mental health conditions. Senate Bill 224 requires all school districts that offer health classes to include mental health as part of the curriculum. The California Department of Education has...

By Melora Simon, Photo: Salgu Wissmath, California Health Care Foundation, December 9, 2021 Robert Turner had been living in a tent at a campsite in Auburn during the pandemic when a hospital caseworker named Vicki Miller-Routh called out to him from her car one day. The two had connected earlier at Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital after Turner landed in the emergency room, and Miller-Routh helped him get ongoing medical care after discharge. “She said, ‘You know what, Robert? You do not need to...

A free series of training on child/adolescent traumatic grief in response to experience of COVID-19 related deaths are now available to register. As the US Surgeon General VADM Murthy recently noted, there have been at least 140,000 children in the US who lost a parent or caregiver-- BEFORE the winter surge began. Another subset have lost both parents/caregivers and yet other friends and other family members(grandparents, etc.). These trainings from the SAMHSA/NCTSN Learning Center have free...

Please join Children Now for a webinar on Jan. 20 to learn more about the 2022 California Children's Report Card. More information below. The 2022 California Children’s Report Card – the most comprehensive report on children’s health, education, and well-being in our state – is available now. The Report Card grades the State on its ability to support better outcomes for kids, from prenatal to age 26, across 32 key children’s issues. This year’s edition also includes data related to the...