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The Representation Project hosted a timely and insightful discussion with Dr. Jason Katz on the correlation between masculinity and mas shootings.
The Representation Project hosted a timely and insightful discussion with Dr. Jason Katz on the correlation between masculinity and mass shootings.
California Children’s Trust announces the members of its Youth Advisory Board, ensuring youth are at the forefront of their mental health advocacy efforts.
California Children’s Trust announces the members of its Youth Advisory Board, ensuring youth are at the forefront of their mental health advocacy efforts.
Futures Without Violence makes available Community Impact Grants for community-based organizations to support victims of hate violence, and promote healing.
Futures Without Violence makes available Community Impact Grants for community-based organizations to support victims of hate violence and promote healing.
UC San Francisco Study finds Prenatal Mindfulness Program Improves Stress Response in Infants
Infants whose mothers participated in a mindfulness-based program during pregnancy had healthier stress responses at 6 months old.
LSPFF grantee brings stress resilience science to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
On December 8 (Indian Standard Time), His Holiness the Dalai Lama will engage in conversation with stress scientist Elissa Epel and emotions researcher Michelle Shiota on how to embrace the current moment with compassion, courage, and purpose.
Diego Rivera’s rarely seen “Pan American Unity,” which celebrates the Americas, has been carefully extracted from its home at City College and moved to SFMOMA.
Photo courtesy of Katherine Du Tiel/SFMOMA
Read about “The Courage of Esta Soler,” president and founder of Futures Without Violence
Esta Soler, president and founder of Futures Without Violence, has been a champion for justice her entire life.
Conservation International’s Dr. M. Sanjayan and his team uncover the complex dynamics of the African ecosystem in the PBS Special “Life at the Waterhole”
Over the course of the show, CI’s CEO, Dr. M. Sanjayan, leads a team to uncover the complex dynamics of the water hole in the African ecosystem.
Just released, “Whole-Child Development, Learning, and Thriving: A Dynamic Systems Approach” by Turnaround for Children's Founder, Pamela Cantor, M.D., et al.
The book makes a case for using 21st century science to design a 21st century education system that reveals the boundless potential of all children. The authors dig deeply into the science to explain how children develop through a system of dynamic relationships and the collective set of contexts that they experience across their life spans.
New California Preventive Mental Health Coverage Puts ACEs Science Front and Center
“A mother, frantic with worry, brought her newborn in for a checkup at the pediatric clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. But there wasn’t anything wrong with the baby. And over the next several months, no amount of reassurance could convince the mom that her child was eating, sleeping and growing just fine. If anything, the mother’s worry led to behavior that raised alarm bells for her health care providers.”