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With plans to turn conversation into meaningful action, over 100 officials from the Sacramento region convened last week in Del Paso Heights to begin talks about the impact of trauma in the community. Local experts discussed the effective, meaningful work that can be done to process trauma of various forms. The event, which was organized by the national health care insurance provider Health Net, took place Friday at the Greater Sacramento Urban League. It featured a panel of local experts...

Did you see this article in the Sacramento Bee? This Community Connections Forum was hosted by Health Net, and focused on educating the community about childhood trauma, as well as the need to build resilient communities in Sacramento and throughout California. Health Net expects to continue to engage this issue. Local partners include Greater Sacramento Urban League, La Familia Counseling Center, Sacramento County, and WellSpace Health. As you can see from the photo, members of Resilient...

To view this video, click here . On May 22, 2018, john a. powell, Director of UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Author of Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society, joined in conversation on Race, Racism and Otherness with a panel of diverse voices on the subjects of advocacy and social justice in the face of historical and modern displacement and marginalization — and opportunities for change. john a.

To view this video, click here . FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE RYSE CENTER LEARNING SERIES: Trauma and Healing Learning Series, Session 5: Revealing White Privilege and Healing Racial Trauma WHAT: Against a backdrop of the national Black Lives Matter movement and the rich local history of intersecting movements for social justice, young people of color face continued threats and exposure to harm including displacement, unwelcoming schools, over-policing, and dominant media narratives fueling...

A Chicago police officer shot and killed a 37-year-old barber over the weekend, triggering night after night of protests in the streets. Within 24-hours of the shooting of Harith Augustus, police had released a 40-second clip of the shooting, in an effort to dispel rumors about what had happened. The video shows police confront Augustus and attempt to grab him. In the scuffle that ensues, his shirt lifts to reveal a firearm. As he backs away from officers he appears to reach for his belt,...

We’re all familiar with the argument that economic anxiety drove members of the white working class to vote for President Trump. But studies since the election have concluded that white Trump supporters are less motivated by economic pressures than by racial resentment and cultural anxiety brought about by social and demographic changes. We'll look at the role racial animus plays both at the polls and in shaping white voters' identities and attitudes toward immigration and other social...

A new study, published in The Lancet, examines the spillover effects of police killings of unarmed Black Americans. The study was co-led by Jacob Bor, assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health, and Atheendar Venkataramani, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Results of the quasi-experimental study, which analyzed data from over 100,000 Black Americans, suggest a causal link between police killings of unarmed Black Americans and poorer mental health...

Every 2nd Wednesday of every month from 6pm to 8pm join other adoptive parents for support, information, therapeutic parenting ideas, and much more at The Attach Place Center for Strengthening Relationships: 3336 Bradshaw Road, Ste 175, Sacramento, CA 95827. Free group with childcare. RSVP online at attachplace.com.

With no fanfare and no public announcements, the district attorney of Sacramento County has quietly been reducing or dismissing old marijuana convictions for pot crimes that are no longer crimes or are misdemeanors under state law. Anne Marie Schubert, recently re-elected to a second term as DA, has not said a peep about this publicly, even though doing so during the bitter campaign she won on June 5 over a former underling might have deflected some of the heat she's been taking from Black...

ALL Resilient Sacramento members are welcome to participate, follow the link in order to RSVP.

America’s history of racial inequality continues to haunt us. The genocide of Native people, 250-year enslavement of black people, adoption of “racial integrity laws” that demonized ethnic immigrants and people of color, and enforcement of policies and practices designed to perpetuate white supremacy are all part of our difficult past. This country has witnessed great triumph, innovation, and progress, but we are burdened by a painful history that we have yet to adequately acknowledge. In...

Cissy's note; Every time I get annoyed that more men are not leading conversations about sexual violence, sexism or are saying defensive or disparaging things about the #MeToo movement, I check myself. I ask myself how much I've been talking, sharing, learning, and challenging myself about racial bias and my own white advantage. It's never enough. Can I really expect people to be better than I am doing? Can I hope people will challenge their own assumptions, culture, experiences and...