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A Guide to Creating “Safe Space” Policies for Early Childhood Programs [CLASP]
From the Center for Law and Social Policy Early childhood programs play an important role in the lives of young children and their families. But in our current immigration policy climate, families across the country are questioning whether it’s safe to attend or enroll. Providers can take steps to protect families’ safety and privacy by implementing policies that designate their facilities as a safe space from immigration enforcement. This guide explains federal agency guidance related to...
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California, Climate Change and the Trauma of the Last Decade [latimes.com]
By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2019 The wildfires were more destructive. The drought was the longest on record. And the storms, when they finally came, unleashed more water than our dams could contain. To live in California over the last decade has meant enduring a steady procession of weather-related disasters, each one seemingly worse than the last. Five of the 10 largest fires in state record books have occurred since 2010. So has California’s third driest year since...
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California Coastkeeper Alliance Releases Climate Change Plan For Coastal Areas [kpbs.org]
By City News Service, KPBS, November 13, 2019 The California Coastkeeper Alliance released its Ocean Climate Resiliency Action Plan Wednesday, a roadmap to mitigate the effects of climate change and sea level rise on coastal areas like northern San Diego County. The plan includes objectives such as recycling 100% of wastewater along the coast by 2040, requiring the use of nitrate removal technology at wastewater treatment plants, establishing a state program for wetlands restoration and...
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WEBINAR: Compassion-Based Resilience for Climate Breakdown
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Webinar Slides and Recording: The Human Impact of Climate Change
Recorded live November 13, 2019. Find the slides attached below. Speaker: Elaine Miller-Karas, MSW, LCSW, Executive Director and Co-founder, Trauma Resource Institute. Guest: Kelly Doty, MA, Strengthening Families Program Manager, Youth for Change Host: Carey Sipp, Southeast Community Facilitator, ACEs Connection. Climate change emergencies are real and the human toll during and in the aftermath impact children, teens and adults. This webinar will hear from Kelly Doty, a survivor, who lost...
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Webinar Slides and Recording: Transformational Resilience for Climate Change Traumas and Toxic Stresses with Bob Doppelt
Recorded live October 28, 2019. Find the slides attached below. The webinar recording: You will learn: how climate change creates personal, family, and community traumas and toxic stresses; how those traumatic stressors trigger feedbacks that expand and aggravate ACEs and many other person, social, community, and societal maladies; why current approaches are woefully inadequate to address what is already occurring and rapidly steaming toward us and why prevention is the only realistic...
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State Audit Finds Education Money Not Serving High-Needs Students, Calls for Changes in Funding Law [edsource.org]
By John Fensterwald, EdSource, November 6, 2019 In its first detailed examination of former Gov. Jerry Brown’s landmark school funding law, the California State Auditor sharply criticized the Legislature and State Board of Education for failing to ensure that billions of dollars have been spent on low-income children and other students targeted for additional state money. “In general, we determined that the State’s approach” to the Local Control Funding Formula “has not ensured that funding...
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RFQ Announcement: Celebrating Families! California Expansion Project
The Prevention Partnership International (PPI), is seeking two organizations interested in receiving training and technical assistance to implement and evaluate the Celebrating Families! (CF!) program at their site. The CF! program is an evidence-based, trauma-informed, skill building program comprising 16 sessions serving the whole family: children ages birth -17, their parents and caregivers. Recognizing the importance of skill-building using a family-centered approach, this initiative...
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The Prescription to End Violence and Change Lives
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Dozens of stakeholders representing thousands of practitioners send public comments on Calif. ACEs-screening plan
Update: We posted this story on Tuesday evening and received a response from the Department of Health Care Services Wednesday that clarifies additional information. DHCS information Officer Katharine Weir said that subject to budget approval by the legislature and the governor: The reimbursement rate will be $29. Federally Qualified Health Centers will also be reimbursed for screening pediatric patients for trauma through Prop 56 funds and federal matching funds. In response to a question...
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Early-Bird Rate Ends in Just 3 Weeks for Important Conference on Preparing People for Climate Change in California [The Resource Innovation Group]
To see the conference agenda, list of all-star speakers, and to register go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/california-2018-conference/
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Early childhood educators learn new ways to spot trauma triggers, build resilience in preschoolers
A hug may be comforting to many children, but for a child who has experienced trauma it may not feel safe.
That’s an example used by Julie Kurtz, co-director of trauma informed practices in early childhood education at the WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies (CCFS), as she begins a trauma training session. Her audience, preschool teachers and staff of the San Francisco-based Wu Yee Children’s Services at San Francisco’s Women’s Building, listen attentively.
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Early childhood educators learn new ways to spot trauma triggers, build resilience in preschoolers
A hug may be comforting to many children, but for a child who has experienced trauma it may not feel safe.
That’s an example used by Julie Kurtz, co-director of trauma informed practices in early childhood education at the WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies (CCFS), as she begins a trauma training session. Her audience, preschool teachers and staff of the San Francisco-based Wu Yee Children’s Services at San Francisco’s Women’s Building, listen attentively.
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Facing Rising Homelessness, Los Angeles Adds Hundreds of Beds for Older Foster Youths [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
By Jeremy Loudenback, The Chronicle of Social Change, November 15, 2019 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to boost housing options for transition-age foster youth at its meeting on Tuesday. Two separate investments totaling nearly $9.4 million will open up 237 transitional beds for foster youth at the greatest risk of homelessness over the next year. “Youth transitioning out of foster care have often experienced significant trauma throughout their young lives,” said...
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Los Angeles County Probation Now Under Civilian Oversight, With Subpoena Power [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
By Jeremy Loudenback, The Chronicle of Social Change, October 4, 2019 On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a civilian oversight body for the the county’s Probation Department that can make unannounced visits and legally compel documents and witnesses. In recent years, the county’s Probation Department has been under fire for conditions at juvenile detention facilities overseen by the department. The department has struggled with reports of excessive use of force...
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New Study Shows Communities Can Reduce the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences [Mathematic Policy Research]
[ Ed. note: Following is a media release published yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research. This follows on the heals of the report, "Self-Healing Communities" that Laura Porter, Dr. Robert Anda and WHO wrote for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Both reports and executive summaries are attached to this blog post. Both reports are significant, because they show that community ACEs initiatives -- with "modest investments and limited staff" -- are solving some of our most intractable...
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Parent with ACEs: Is it Time to Change Your Parenting Playbook [sfbayview.com]
By Diana Hembree, San Francisco Bay View, February 1, 2020 If you experienced severe hardship as a child, are you more likely to have children with behavior or mental health problems? The short answer is yes. A recent UCLA study shows that the children of parents with four or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), such as abuse or neglect, are twice as likely to develop ADHD, which makes it more likely children will become hyperactive and unable to pay attention or control their...
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Polluters, Permafrost, Renewable Fuel, The Ozone Layer and More: We Answer Your Climate Questions [laist.com]
By Jacob Margolis, LAist, September 30, 2019 We spent one full week writing about climate change, and encouraged you to stop screaming into the void and to scream your questions at us instead. More than 140 of you did, and we've been working on getting them answered. Below is a roundup of a few Q&As about what's happening to Earth. [ Please click here to read more .]
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Resilient Communities are Healthy Communities
Resilient Communities are Healthy Communities…what’s good for health is good for climate!” Authored by: Judy Robinson and Sara Jensen Carr, Design 4 Active Sacramento Climate change directly threatens the health and well-being of California’s nearly 40 million people. Without intervention at the local, regional, and state scales, these dangers will only become more pronounced in coming years. The Safeguarding California Plan devotes an entire public health chapter to these risks, stating:...
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Resilient Communities are Healthy Communities
Resilient Communities are Healthy Communities…what’s good for health is good for climate!” Authored by: Judy Robinson and Sara Jensen Carr, Design 4 Active Sacramento Climate change directly threatens the health and well-being of California’s nearly 40 million people. Without intervention at the local, regional, and state scales, these dangers will only become more pronounced in coming years. The Safeguarding California Plan devotes an entire public health chapter to these risks, stating:...
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Governor Newsom To Replace Head Of State’s Youth Justice System Chuck Supple. So Now Who Will Run The DJJ? [witnessla.com]
By Celeste Fremon, Witness LA, September 17, 2019 On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would be replacing the top person at California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), which is the state’s youth lock-up system that Newsom wants to see reformed. The division’s present leader, Director Chuck Supple, will be “stepping down effective immediately citing health reasons,” according to the statement released by the governor’s office. Director Supple was appointed as Director of DJJ in...
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Interview with Dr. Brigid McCaw, Director of Kaiser Permanente's Family Violence Prevention Program
Dr. McCaw describes the genesis and evolution of Kaiser Permanente's Family Violence Prevention Program
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Re: Interview with Dr. Brigid McCaw, Director of Kaiser Permanente's Family Violence Prevention Program
Thank you Carey for such a professional and engaging podcast, and bringing Brigid's and Kaiser's story to us. Brigid is a champion for ACEs as well as violence prevention in general, and the example of how she has accomplished so much is inspiring. Her recognition that understanding ACEs science is fundamental to preventing violence is transforming the field.
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Re: Interview with Dr. Brigid McCaw, Director of Kaiser Permanente's Family Violence Prevention Program
Sarah, thank you for your kind words. It is really a joy to bring Brigid and Kaiser Permanente's story out to share with others. I'm curious to hear what parts of the story resonated with you. What kind of ACEs/ Resiliency work are you doing? Thank you again Carey
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Re: Webinar Recap: Health Equity and COVID-19: Opportunities to Improve Child Wellbeing through Policy with Dr. Flojaune Cofer
Hello, I missed out on joining the Health Equity and COVID-19: Opportunities to Improve Child Wellbeing through Policy with Dr. Flojaune Cofer < https://www.pacesconnection.com...g/496437477581669092 > webinar on March13th and was enjoying watching and listening to the recap. It may be an issue on my end, but everything stopped at timing -47:53. 'Economic Assistance' was the slide that was being shown. I would love to see and hear the rest of the information, please advise how I can do...
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Re: Webinar Recap: Health Equity and COVID-19: Opportunities to Improve Child Wellbeing through Policy with Dr. Flojaune Cofer
Hi @Lydia Vincent-White , I just tried watching the video and was able to watch it through. I think if you refresh your web page this may give the video another chance to load? Or perhaps trying to view it on a different browser? Please let me know if you're still having difficulties. Best, Jenna ACEs Connection Staff
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Re: Parent with ACEs: Is it Time to Change Your Parenting Playbook [sfbayview.com]
Perhaps it is time to take Dr. Felitti's advice and begin seeking ways to improve the overall quality of parenting in communities.
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Re: Nearly half of SF police use-of-force cases last year involved black people [sfchronicle.com]
Hi Lydia, I appreciate you for taking the time to let me know about the broken links. Thank you and be well. Rafael
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Re: Nearly half of SF police use-of-force cases last year involved black people [sfchronicle.com]
Hi, I don't feel like logging into ACEs Connection to finish reading this post, but the [Please click here to read more.] links aren't working. Lydia Vincent-White Community Resource and Engagement Manager Center for Youth Wellness Direct: 415-684-9535 < lvincent@centerforyouthwellness.org > Main: 415-684-9520 Prevent, screen and heal toxic stress in children. Learn how at *Stresshealth.org* *Facebook* < https://www.facebook.com/CenterForYouthWellness >* : **Twitter* <...
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Re: California Parent and Youth Helpline [caparentyouthhelpline.org]
Hi, I hope all is well! I truly enjoy reading the ACEs Connection posts, but I can't keep up; I'm getting way too much! I thought I altered the settings so that I only receive the weekly digest, but it doesn't seem to be working. What must I do to reduce the amount of posts I get from ACEs Connection? Thanks in advance, Lydia Lydia Vincent-White Community Resource and Engagement Manager Center for Youth Wellness Direct: 415-684-9535 < lvincent@centerforyouthwellness.org > Main:...
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The Resilience Champion Certificate (August Cohort)
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Re: Santa Clara County ACES Aware Convening #3 Nov. 20 at noon
Unsubscribe please Erika Ho SUD Counselor UPAC New Leaf Recovery Center South www.upacsd.com 855 Third Avenue, Suite 2230 Chula Vista, CA 91911 main office 619-271-7992 direct 619-271-7519 RADT-1 R1232571016 Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message, and any file(s) transmitted with it may be confidential and/or legally privileged, and intended only for the personal and confidential use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended...
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California Today: Meet Alex Padilla, California’s Next Senator (nytimes.com)
It’s official: California — a state where nearly 40 percent of the population identifies as Latino — will have its first Latino senator. Alex Padilla , California’s secretary of state, has been appointed to replace Senator Kamala Harris when she becomes vice president. And Shirley Weber, a State Assembly member, was tapped to replace Mr. Padilla as secretary of state. She’ll be the first Black woman in the role. For those of you who have been following along , Mr. Padilla’s appointment may...
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What Happens After ACEs Screening? Effective Clinical Response and Community Partnership Thursday, February 18, 2021 | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (PT)
CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY LIVE WEBINAR with FREE CME/CE Educate, Inspire, Connect What Happens After ACEs Screening? Effective Clinical Response and Community Partnership Thursday, February 18, 2021 | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (PT) Register: https://cirinc.wufoo.com/forms/z1895v0i050fy85/ This webinar will discuss opportunities for ACEs screening implementation in the medical setting, identify evidence-informed clinical approaches for responding to ACEs within pediatric and family medicine practice,...
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Race Matters 28-Day Challenge
Sponsored by UC Davis Human Resources. Shout-out to Eddie Moore, Jr. and CUPA-HR for inspiring this challenge and for their great resources and ideas on structure!
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50,000th-member celebration filled with long-time friends of ACEs Connection, laughter, shining examples of how the ACEs movement is growing, accelerating!
Amid laughter and more than a few eyes glistening with tears, much gratitude and a chat-box filled with uplifting messages, members of ACEs Connection from around the world gathered via Zoom on March 4 to celebrate the milestone of the social networking site reaching 50,000 members. The group acknowledged founder and publisher Jane Stevens’ foresight in starting this human and digital catalyst, growing and supporting the worldwide ACEs and resilience movement and telling its authentic...
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PACEs Connection Condemns Racial Terror and Mourns the Loss of Eight Lives To Anti-Asian Racism
Once again, Americans are confronting the consequences of unaddressed systemic racism in this society. Too often, intolerable acts of racist bias, discrimination, and hate, culminate in shocking interpersonal violence as well as the shocking mass violence that occurred in Atlanta just one week ago, on March 16, 2021.
![More than money: How an Oakland woman sent more than 100 students to college [5 min - youtube.com]](https://www.pacesconnection.com/g/california-aces-action/fileSendAction/fcType/5/fcOid/519101024508764373/primaryPicture/true/fodoid/519101024508764447/imageType/LARGE_SQUARE_THUMBNAIL/inlineImage/true/thumbnail.jpg "More than money: How an Oakland woman sent more than 100 students to college [5 min - youtube.com]")
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How 'Mama Brown' changed students' lives by paying for college and so much more: 'It's not about the money' [edsource.org]
By Carolyn Jones and Andrew Reed, EdSource, July 29, 2021 For Gov. Gavin Newsom and anyone else promoting college savings accounts for low-income children, Oral Lee Brown has some advice: “It’s not about the money.” Brown, an Oakland real estate agent now in her 70s, has been promoting the same idea since 1987, when she “adopted” a class of first graders from Brookfield Elementary School in East Oakland, promising to pay their college costs if they stayed in school. [ Please click here to...
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The 2023 Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program is now Open For Registration
PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.
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The 2023 Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program is now Open For Registration
PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.