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The ways that First 5 Humboldt is meeting the needs of families are shifting, just like many services throughout our community. Click the link below to read an article written through the Lost Coast Outpost highlighting some of these programs, Pandemic Parenting: First 5 Humboldt Helps Families Address Stress and Regression In Children Through Online Parent Groups . "“I think parents in our community have been affected [by the pandemic] in a big way,” Allen told the Outpost . “A lot of...

By Ali Tadayon, EdSource, April 8, 2021 As students gradually return to classrooms, advocates and lawmakers say it’s more important than ever to provide free meals in schools without burdensome eligibility requirements, just as California has done during the pandemic. The “Free School Meals For All” bill, SB 364 , introduced last month by East Bay Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, would establish a statewide Universal Meal Plan starting in the 2022-2023 school year. It would guarantee free...

Por Forbes Staff, Forbes Mexico, Abril 7, 2021 Nunca como en los tiempos que estamos atravesando se han hecho más palpables las desigualdades sociales que existen en el mundo. Por esta razón, el Día Mundial de la Salud tiene como tema para este año: “ construir un mundo más justo y saludable ”. Desde hace más de 70 años, cada 7 de abril se conmemora esta fecha para recordar el derecho a la salud que tiene todo ser humano. La costumbre es que cada año el tema sea distinto. En 2021 la...

By Shonda L. Goward, EdSource, March 29, 2021 California colleges and universities should permanently adopt policies that were put in place to better support students during the pandemic. These practices can help students graduate more quickly, lessening debt loads and making students eligible more quickly for higher paying work. Some of the biggest differences these pandemic-inspired changes made for students were immediate: They did not have to commute to campus or search endlessly for...

By Miriam Pawel, The New York Times, March 31, 2021 More than three decades ago, Cesar Chavez, founder of the first successful union for farmworkers, predicted a future in which the cities of California would be run by people who looked like him. “History and inevitability are on our side,” he said in one of his best-known speeches, an address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. “The farmworkers and their children, and the Hispanics and their children, are the future in California.”...

By Karen D'Souza, EdSource, April 6, 2021 Children are born ready to learn. In the first year of life, the brain doubles, with about 90% of brain growth happening before kindergarten. However, only 1 in 3 eligible children under 5 years old take part in California’s publicly funded early learning and care programs. To make matters worse this year, 3 out of 4 California parents with children under 5 are worried their education and development will suffer because of the pandemic, according to...

ADRIFT is a free prosocial video game about consent that is appropriate for all ages. ADRIFT is an award-winning game which has been featured in a museum exhibition at MOD. We also offer a free guide for use by parents in conjunction with ADRIFT to aid them when teaching their children about consent.

California will receive $26 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the federal legislation recently signed into law by President Joseph Biden to help state and local economies recover from the pandemic. Media outlets have reported that the money will help fund everything from a stronger COVID-19 response to small businesses, housing, anti-poverty programs, and education, but little has been written about the other ways the act will benefit children. The law’s impact on...

Join us for our first episode in a new series called "PACEs Connection Reacts" where we will be viewing the world through a PACEs science and trauma-informed lens. For this PACEs Connection Reacts, join Ingrid Cockhren, Director of the Cooperative of Communities, Natalie Audage, Family and Community Resources Lead, and Alison Cebulla, Community Facilitator at PACEs Connection. We will be debriefing and sharing our reactions and reflections to the 1st Annual HOPE Summit hosted by Tufts...

By Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2021 After waging a campaign for more than seven years, young activists celebrated a victory on Thursday when Los Angeles officials announced they would set aside $1.1 million for the creation of a centralized resource center for youth. On the City Hall steps, Council Member Monica Rodriguez, who has been pushing for the formation of a youth-centric department since 2018, and Mayor Eric Garcetti told dozens of young activists the funding would be...

By Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint, February 16, 2021 In a historic move, the Los Angeles Unified School District board voted Tuesday to transform its school police force, eliminating more than 100 positions and stationing the remaining officers off campus. In their place, new “school climate coaches” will de-escalate tense situations at the district’s 1,000 K-12 schools, part of a new $36.5 million investment in Black students and their academic success. The vote in the nation’s second...

A workshop for parents and guardians to: Help identify symptoms/risk factors of youth depression Learn steps to take if you are concerned about a child Learn about community resources to help support your child's mental health