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By Michael Burke, EdSource, July 15, 2021 During a visit to Los Angeles on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona encouraged schools in California and elsewhere to help students heal after a school year that many spent in isolation. Cardona also stressed the importance of in-person learning this fall at both K-12 schools and community colleges so students don’t suffer any further academic or social losses . Almost all of California’s school districts are planning to reopen for...

By Amanda Winn, 7/15/21, positiveexperience.org/blog "The HOPE National Resource Center is excited to announce expanded options for HOPE trainings! While we always work with organizations to tailor the training experience to specific local needs, below are basic descriptions of our most requested options including some new opportunities. All trainings can be delivered virtually or in-person. Training options: Introductory Keynote presentation Typically one hour in length, the keynote...

UCLArts & Healing is excited to invite you to our free, online series, HOPE (Healing Online for People Everywhere) , created in 2020 at the start of the pandemic to support the resilience of our global community through social emotional arts. We hope you can join us for one (or all!) of the following upcoming sessions: FREE! Improvisation for Emotional Self-Care With Neal King, LCSW THIS Saturday, July 17, 2021 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Pacific Time (PT) Learn how improvisational comedy can...

By Katie Atkinson, Billboard, June 11, 2021 Camila Cabello sat down with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the surgeon general of California, to have a video conversation about how the negative effects of childhood trauma can affect someone's physical and mental health into adulthood. The chat is part of a national campaign to educate Americans about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) -- defined as highly stressful experiences that can happen to any of us before we turn 18 -- and how they impact...

PACEs Connection is excited to announce that Mendocino ACEs Community Resilience Team has joined the Cooperative of Communities! Mendocino County elicits visions of the rugged Northern California coastline, rolling hills studded with oaks and pear trees, and redwood forests. The rural, vast county, with 3,870 square miles, is nearly the same size as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. As advocates for children and savvy strategists, Sheryn Hildebrand and Patrice Mascolo are changing the...

By Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post, July 13, 2021 If all goes well, the IRS will start depositing monthly payments this week into the bank accounts of millions of American families, many of whom are struggling to put food on the table. Look for these child tax credit payments to show up on July 15. This money couldn’t come at a more opportune time, given the news that the consumer price index rose 5.4 percent in June compared to the same period a year ago. The last time families saw...

A recording and materials are now available for the second in a series of webinars exploring the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress, presented by Al Race, Deputy Director and Chief Knowledge Officer from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. Providers seeking CME/CE and MOC credits* must complete a separate activity evaluation in order to request CME/CE certificate. Those seeking MOC credits must also successfully complete the post-test with...

By EdSource Staff, EdSource, July 13, 2021 Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature have seized a once-in-a-generation deluge of state and federal funding to set in motion a sweeping and ambitious set of education programs that seemed implausible six months ago. The 2021-22 state budget, which Newsom signed late Monday, expands the state government’s commitment to meet the needs of all students and redefines what constitutes an equitable education for low-income kids in a state with...

From Northern California Grantmakers, July 14, 2021 Thursday, July 22, 2021 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Virtual Event The past year has shed a light on many parts of our criminal and civil justice system that increase and extend inequities. In many places in California, and across the United States unfair fines and have the power to devastate the lives of thousands of Californians every year, pushing those with modest fixed incomes to choose between paying rent or putting food on the table. Join...

From California Conservation Corps, July 2021 The COVID-19 Pandemic has interrupted the final year of schooling for thousands of California seniors- especially McKinney-Vento eligible and foster youth, potential 5th-year seniors, and other students most at risk of dropping out. As California slowly emerges from social distancing, Governor Newsome's office projects unemployment in the state could reach 18%, a rate not seen in close to 100 years. This rate will disproportionately affect...

By Natalia Rodriguez Medina and Tom Kisken, Democrat & Chronicle, July 12, 2021 Through 27 years of marriage, Amalia and Félix Santiago have taken care of each other. The devotion, in their eyes, is a duty. It is what they vowed. When Félix Santiago, 84, started showing signs of dementia two years ago, his wife took notice. He could not remember the names of movies a half-hour after watching them. He forgot his address and his phone number. "When you see the person you love going through...