It’s Imperative People In Medical Field And Educational System Recognize Effects Of Childhood Trauma, Advocates Say
Advocates gathered to discuss what could be done to help children in communities who experience trauma, especially children of color. Event organizers hope the forum will serve as a first step and lead to tangible results within Sacramento communities.
Sacramento Bee:
Sacramento Health, Education Officials Discuss Community Trauma
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. (Holzer, 7/25)
In other public health news —
Orange County Register:
Orange County Portrait: Low Wages, Child Poverty, Costly Housing
Not far from Newport Coast’s glittering enclaves, Fullerton’s tidy subdivisions, Disneyland’s fantasy rides and Irvine’s corporate towers lies another Orange County. It is a place where child poverty is rising, students are failing, opioid addiction is epidemic, rents are sky-high and businesses pay workers less than they did a decade ago. (Roosevelt, 7/24)
San Francisco Chronicle:
In Search Of A Miracle: Stem Cells Are A Mother's Last Hope To Heal Her Son
Luane Beck dressed her son while he was still asleep, his limbs heavy and loose, getting him into jeans, brown Vans and his favorite blue hooded sweatshirt. It was dark outside, two hours before sunrise. She needed to have Jordan in front of their hotel in San Diego by 5:30 a.m. to meet a bus that would drive them across the border to Tijuana. In a storefront medical clinic there, Jordan was scheduled to get a treatment he couldn’t get in the United States, one provided by an American doctor stripped of his medical license. A treatment she’d pay $15,000 for: an infusion of stem cells she hoped would change his life. (Allday, 7/12)