Gail Kennedy and Sue Delucchi from ACEs Connection Network presented to the CA Department of Early Education and Support Division on Monday, July 27th. The 50+ staff of CDE EES Division are monitors for state early childhood projects and...
Thanks to the generous support of The California Endowment, we've added two new people who'll be working part-time with ACEs Connection Network -- Gail Kennedy and Dana Brown -- to increase support for the work we do in California. In addition,...
The annual KIDS COUNT report on the welfare of the country's children tells a mixed story of how California is faring in providing for its kids. Looking at all measures, the report gives California a relatively low ranking of 38th among 50...
"The C alif ornia School-B ase d Health Alliance (CSHA) received a $2 million grant July 14 from The San Francisco Foundation to support trauma-informed care in 15 school-based health centers in Oakland Public Schools. The grant will...
Attached is the PowerPoint that was presented by Diane Kellegrew, Jane Stevens and Katie Albright in a webinar April 16. And below is the slide that ID's the presenters.
A small segment of Medi-Cal beneficiaries run up huge health care bills -- but they're not necessarily the people you'd expect them to be. The so-called "super-utilizers" are one of the biggest drivers of escalating spending in California's health...
See short article about the Federal Partners Committee on Women and Trauma and their efforts to put trauma on the national policy agenda that Andrea Branch shared with the ACEs Connection Network. There are several examples of state-level...
California Department of Social Services and Department of Health Services Care (The California Department of Health Care Services and Department of Social Services released this guide to best practices for the treatment of mental...
Taking aim at the effect of hunger on students ability to learn, two California legislators announced Tuesday a bill that would require more schools to provide breakfast after the start of school. The proposed legislation would revamp...
Welltopia , a new website launched today by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement (IPHI), offers a wide range of essential resources to help Californians,...
There was an oversight informational hearing today at 2:30pm PST on Misuse of Psychotropic Medication in Foster Care: Improving Child Welfare Oversight and Outcomes within the Continuum of Care by the JOINT HEARING HUMAN SERVICES AND...
LOS ANGELES On February 12, 2015, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris unveiled the Bureau of Childrens Justice within the California Department of Justice that will work to ensure all of Californias children are on track to meet...
In my 12-plus years as an urban superintendent in California, parents often spent more time talking to me about school safety than about teaching and learning. Perhaps thats just common-sense recognition that the latter cant take...
In 2008 California was the first and only state to include the ACEs module in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. The results were reported at a BRFSS conference in 2009. The state also included ACEs modules in...
Attached are briefs on current ACEs in children in selected California cities, with comparison with state and county data. They were prepared by the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, a project of the Child and Adolescent...