Recap of our recent informational webinar about the new PACEs Connection Statewide Cooperative of Communities program.

JOIN US! October event dates are now up for the FREE PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. if you have already taken the required first event, you'll receive an email with zoom links. If not, save the date for the events you want to join, and take the next Introduction to PACEs Connection webinar ASAP! (Offered 10/13 and 10/24)

PACEs Connection's own Lara Kain will be speaking during this webinar focused on trauma-informed strategies in schools. Join 4CA and the following panel of leaders in this discussion about policy perspectives on implementing trauma-informed strategies in schools, including an update on California’s $4.1 billion investment in Community Schools. Janis Connallon, Senior Health Policy Associate, Children’s Defense Fund-CA Elena Costa, Program Coordinator, Essentials for Childhood Initiative,...

JOIN US! September event dates are now up for the FREE PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. if you have already taken the required first event, you'll receive an email with zoom links. If not, save the date for the events you want to join, and take the next Introduction to PACEs Connection webinar ASAP!

Join the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Accelerator Program to create a resilient community in your own neighborhood, town or city! It’s free!

Join the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Accelerator Program to create a resilient community in your own neighborhood, town or city! It’s free!

June event dates listed for the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. JOIN US!!!

May event dates listed for the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. JOIN US!!!

Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.

By Tyler Kingkade and Mike Hixenbaugh, Illustration: Eleni Kalorkoti/NBC News, NBC News, November 16, 2021 At a September school board meeting in Southlake, Texas, a parent named Tara Eddins strode to the lectern during the public comment period and demanded to know why the Carroll Independent School District was paying counselors “at $90K a pop” to give students lessons on suicide prevention. “At Carroll ISD, you are actually advertising suicide,” Eddins said , arguing that many parents in...

By Lauren Helper, Photo: Stephen Lam/The Chronicle, November 16, 2021 When Sonoo Thadaney-Israni and her husband signed the paperwork for their home in the hills above Silicon Valley in 1991, they were assured that the red flag in the fine print didn’t really matter. The couple, who immigrated to the U.S. from India a decade earlier, had been surprised to learn that the deed to the roomy house in the San Mateo County town of Ladera still included a ban on all owners and occupants “other than...

By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, October 25, 2021 Mirna Arana was pregnant and didn’t feel well. But if she didn’t clean houses, she wouldn’t get paid. So she went to work. She kept cleaning even as cramps racked her body. Then she began to bleed and eventually miscarried. House cleaners, nannies and others who work in private homes rarely get paid sick leave, sometimes forcing them to choose between their health and their paycheck. Now San Francisco is poised to become the first...

By Madison Pauly, Mother Jones, October 14, 2021 Early on a Saturday morning in June 2015, a passerby notices a silver BMW stopped at an off-ramp in Oakland, California. The car’s turn signal is on, and the motor is running, but it doesn’t move as the traffic light cycles. Through the tinted windows, the driver appears passed out in the front seat. So the bystander calls 911 to report a medical emergency. Soon, armed police officers swarm the scene. If they are concerned the driver might...

By Sara Kassabian, The Oaklandside, August 27, 2021 Every night, Guadalupe Muñoz lays awake listening to her 7-year-old daughter Carla breathe. If she hears a whistling in Carla’s chest, she knows an asthma attack is imminent. Muñoz, who works in housekeeping at a local hotel, lives in a two-bedroom apartment with her two daughters in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood. In an interview conducted in Spanish, Muñoz said she is certain it is her home that is causing her youngest daughter to suffer...

By JJIE Staff, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, August 19, 2021 Juvenile offenders participating in a 30-year-old project diverting youth from detention to community-based programs were less likely to cycle back into incarceration than those not enrolled in such projects, according to an evaluation recently released by the San Francisco organization launching that pioneering program. By comparison, 51.3% of youth in the diversion program and 73.7% of those on probation recidivated ,...

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...

By Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2021 In the basement of Reign Salon in Antioch, a brick wall is a reminder of a dark past. More than a century ago, Chinese people built tunnels under the city because they were forbidden by law from going outside after sundown. Then, white residents burned Chinatown to the ground. Today, few traces of the old Chinatown remain — some tunnel entrances such as the one in Reign, wood pilings in the San Joaquin River that were the foundations of houses. [...

Pride is 365/24/7 - Joy, Resilience, and Healing. Post includes resources for finding LGBTQ therapists of color and other healing resources, as well as resources for further reading.

By Jesse Bedyan, The Mercury News, June 23, 2021 Since 2020, the top 10 Silicon Valley moguls have more than doubled their net worth to $571 billion while the average per capita income among Latinx residents in the valley increased by 5.4% to $30,618, according to the second annual Silicon Valley Pain Index released Tuesday. At the same time, the average income of Black residents declined by 1 percent to $40,381. “We’ve created Kings,” said Scott Myers-Lipton, the report’s lead author, “and...

By Ali Tadayon, EdSource, June 21, 2021 T he name Juan Crespi never meant much to eighth grader Anaya Zenad and her classmates, other than it was the name of their middle school in El Sobrante. But after the students researched the Franciscan missionary — and his role in expeditions that paved the way for the brutally oppressive California mission system in the 1700s — they felt the name had to go. Earlier this year, Zenad joined with faculty to lead a series of community meetings on the...

By Molly Solomon, KQED, June 11, 2021 Cheyanne Wright felt stuck. The 23-year-old was renting a room from her boyfriend’s mother in Stockton. Her relationship with the woman had soured during the coronavirus pandemic after an argument exploded over using the kitchen. Things became so tense that Wright no longer felt safe leaving the room she shared with her boyfriend and her 4-year-old son. Space got even tighter after she gave birth to their son, Romeo. “It just wasn’t working and it was...

By Malavika Kannan, San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 2021 Even before COVID-19 canceled San Francisco’s iconic Pride Parade for the second straight year, gay teen Steven Sutton was finding celebration and solidarity online. On his TikTok account, between videos celebrating gay love and trolling Millennials, the 15-year-old San Mateo high schooler posts raw, vulnerable updates about his daily life and challenges. While Sutton is out to his family, he said he feels most comfortable among...

Community violence researcher Dr. Shani Buggs shares the research base about the drivers of violent crime, and the game changing systemic solutions that could turn the tide.

By Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, June 8, 2021 Growing up, Chantel Parnell would round up all the kids in her neighborhood to hold “school” on her front lawn. Toting a chalkboard and her clipboard, she’d teach her neighbor-students arithmetic in her free time. In high school, Parnell worked in a local elementary school in her community of south Los Angeles. While a student at the women’s college Bryn Mawr, she helped coordinate a tutoring program for high school students. [ Please...

Phoenix Robles and Dorcas Monari hug each other near the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Minnesota after Robles, who was passing by, stopped to protect Monari, who was protesting in the street. (Photo: Nick Pfosi/Reuters)

Join 4CA on Tuesday March 30 at 1pm PST for the first of 3 webinars in 2021 to examine trauma informed policy in California and beyond.

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.

Just one week after Sacramento City Council voted to condemn anti-Asian violence, the Sacramento community and the nation, grieve a mass shooting fueled by anti-Asian hate.

In this webinar from Miss Kendra Programs, we will discuss the research on stress hormones and the immune response, and what to expect from our students and ourselves as the pressure from the pandemic is released.

Free brief healing practices during election time. Tap in!

Register for A Better Normal- Our reckoning with race and equity at ACEs Connection

ACEs Connection race and equity workgroup staff reflect on our process thus far.

Indigenous People's Day is a time to reflect on the fact and impacts of one of America's original sins, the genocide and mass displacement of Native Americans; and to honor the cultures, traditions, and experiences of Native Americans today. Learn more about the impacts of historical trauma and community resilience of Indigenous communities.

Join us 9/29/20 @ 11:00 am PST to hear trauma informed policy experts discuss the state and federal legislative/budget context, and provide actionable information for California advocates who are working to advance policy on children’s resilience/adversity in 2021.

The team at Resilient Strategies share their perspectives on trauma and resilience under conditions of oppression, and how to heal. Link to full podcast is within this blog post.

Find in this post the slides from the Systems Transformation Better Normal call, featuring RYSE Youth Center's Associate Director Kanwarpal Dhaliwal. A link to the call recording is also provided.

Note new time for Friday, May 8 Better Normal discussion on systems transformation. We will meet from 1:00-2:00 and hear from RYSE Associate Director, Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, about the rapid emergency community response initiative, West Contra Costa Covid Community Care.

Join us in reflecting on the pandemic challenges shared by our ACEs Connection community members so far

"This day-and-a-half opening workshop focuses on the political and social factors that impact trauma and healing".

Disability Rights California released this report based on 150 interviews with children detained at the border, illustrating the trauma that many of them have experienced.

Join us on May 1 for the 3rd Annual 4CA Policymaker Education Day! Register now: bit.ly/4CA2019Register

Kalamazoo joins school districts nationwide who are recognizing that alternatives to expulsions keep kids in school.

Funding opportunities for programming focused on healing ACEs

ACEs Conference Registration closes in 1 week on Friday 9/28! Note: There is a very limited cap on on-site registrations, so registering online by September 28 is the only way to guarantee your admission.

Use links within this post to book a hotel room at a discounted rate, register for the ACEs conference, and find out about group rate registration discounts.

“When those preschool ladies embraced me with such love and affection, I almost cried because for the first time in my young life I felt like adults were thoughtful to my needs.” (Liz Huntley, “Be a Game Changer”, Tedx Birmingham)