Tagged With "Race & Equity"

Building Resilience with Children During Racial Discrimination & Violence: This attached Resilience Brief for Children has been the hardest one I have written yet. I have been an active advocate for the equal treatment of people from all backgrounds, religions, ethnic heritages, orientations, and families my entire life. It is hard to see the pain present today, not only due to COVID19 but also due to the harm and anger we see daily in the news. I want to share a story about the person...

In 2019 and 2020, dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that reference adverse childhood experiences or trauma. In this post, there's an interactive map that shows them all.

The translation to the name of this resilience interventions is "Always Forward, Never Back" and the acronym SANA-- means HEAL. This intervention focus on building resilience within the Hispanic/Latino immigrant population in Immokalee, Florida of all ages. The rural town of Immokalee in South West Florida may look small, but it houses more than 20,000 farmworkers (Flocks, 2020). The farmworkers range in all ages, and many travel with their families. This community is also known to have...

Our version of a “Path to a Just Society” is our first attempt at creating a common language and identifying points along the path to a just society. The Race and Equity workgroup of PACEs Connection started the project in early 2021, following a staff meeting where we realized that we, our organization and the movement needed this. We think it can help all of us gauge where we are, where we want to be, and what’s needed to get to the next level of integrating practices and policies based on...

Oral health is vital to systemic health and quality of life (Kabani et al., 2018). Despite Alachua County having Florida’s only state funded dental school, rates of negative dental disease are higher than other counties (Tomar, 2018). In a 2018 annual screening of all Alachua County public school third graders, between 20-60% had untreated dental caries (Tomar, 2018). In one school, over 20% of children needed urgent care due to clinical signs of infection or toothache (Tomar, 2018). Rates...

In the United States in 2021, 1 in 6 infants were born to a woman receiving late or no prenatal care (March of Dimes Foundation, 2022). The March of Dimes Foundation also found that on average from 2019 to 2021 9.2% of Black women received late or no prenatal care compared to 4.6% for white women. Infants born to mothers that did not receive prenatal care are three times more likely to have a low birth weight (Novoa, 2020). Low birth weight in infancy contributes to various health-related...

Children in the juvenile justice system have greater chances of experiencing various and multiple forms of childhood trauma, and oftentimes experiences increase their risks for criminal involvement (Dierkhising et al., 2013). 90% of youth in the juvenile justice system have had exposure to traumatic events (Dierkhising et al., 2013). Children of color are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system and are more likely to be detained and committed than their non-Hispanic white counterparts...

This was a virtual program that included high school students from the Miami-Dade County public school district who had suffered the loss of at least one parent or primary caregiver. The intervention is made up of a team of child psychologists, licensed professional counselors, and licensed social workers that have undergone trauma-informed training before the program launch. The intervention is composed of virtual individual counseling sessions, virtual group therapy sessions, and social...