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UC San Francisco Study finds Child-Parent Therapy Has Biological Benefits for Traumatized Kids
Psychotherapy sessions with caregivers may help prevent serious disease later in life for young children who have experienced significant trauma.
Matching Medicine, Social Justice for the Bay Area’s Black Community
With a mission to rid children’s care of disparities serving as a personal and professional backdrop, Long has managed to match medicine and public service for more than 20 years
Read Children Now’s 2024 California Children’s Report Card
A Review and Roadmap to Improve the Well-Being of California’s Kids.
CA Children’s Trust reports on how the Legislature and Governor have recently agreed to a budget that includes the creation of a bold new rate structure for children in foster care.
The new rates are designed to meet the needs of each individual child, focused on their strengths.
SF students are chronically absent in huge numbers—California must help, read the Op-Ed by Ted Lempert, President of Children Now
Children cannot learn if they miss school. While this may sound like an obvious statement, it’s one that bears repeating, as newly released data makes all too clear.
Bill to Fund Stillbirth Prevention and Research, Championed by Healthy Birth Day, Passes Congress
The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that, for the first time, expressly permits states to spend millions of federal dollars on stillbirth prevention.
The Reproductive Freedom Alliance Taps its First Leader
A nonpartisan coalition of 23 governors working to protect and expand abortion rights has selected its first leader, according to an announcement shared exclusively with the Health Brief.
New Clinic Is Attempting to Raise Healthier Families
East Bay’s BLOOM has created an atmosphere that Black families can turn to because workers understand social, cultural, racial challenges they may be facing
Envision Returns to San Francisco with “The Future of Work” JVS’s Annual Gala Celebration
Attendees commemorated 51 years of transforming the California workforce and looked toward a future where all jobseekers have access to quality, lasting careers.
These Tech Tips provide best practices for parents and families to establish healthy and balanced relationships with technology
Parenting in a digital world is hard, but there are things we can do to make it easier.
The Promises and Possibilities of California’s Bi-Furcated Mental Health System
ver the past few years, California has taken
admirable steps towards more robust and
fairer access to the mental health resources
young people need in the midst of an
enormous surge in demand.
Sign Up for the Healthy Masculinities Expert Interview Series
Exposing the harms of restrictive masculinity.
A New Day in Wraparound Services for Foster Children
The time is now to ensure that all California children involved in child welfare
and in out-of-home placements get universal access to a defined set of
services, at defined costs, in defined models, and with defined outcomes.
Is California failing women on maternal care? Cal Matters reports.
Expectant mothers in California have been struggling for years to get the healthcare they need, and a new report from the state auditor underscores just how difficult it is for the state to keep tabs on vulnerable mothers-to-be.
How IsraAID’s evolving programming continues to support displaced communities in Israel
Four months after October 7 2023, almost 218,000 Israelis remain internally displaced. Mostly from communities nearest the Gaza border, many of them experienced extreme violence and loss, and continue to process individual and communal grief, trauma, uncertainty, and stress.
Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, talks about their Summit on America’s Kids and Families on the Today Show
Millions of parents who may face challenges around youth mental health, social media, and lack of optimism about the future, were tuning in for advice on how to navigate these complex times.
Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab and CA Partners Project have produced two playbooks to help corporate boards maximize effectiveness by recruiting and retaining top women directors
This partnership has produced two playbooks to build diverse and inclusive boards.
Nancy Adler, ‘Icon in American Medicine’ and Architect of Health Psychology and Social Determinants of Health, Dies at 77
Nancy will be remembered for her unwavering commitment to social justice. She was a fierce advocate for marginalized communities, using her platform to speak truth to power and dismantle inequities in healthcare.
JVS Celebrates 50 Years of Service. Read about their work across the decades.
As our 50th anniversary year comes to an end, we invite you to take a look back at the legacy JVS and our supporters have built in San Francisco and beyond. We partnered with J. The Jewish News of Northern California to create this special issue containing a collection of articles featuring JVS stories since our inception.
The All-Payer Fee Schedule will roll out in January, making all schools in CA automatically “in-network” for reimbursement of mental health services. Read the overview by the CA Children’s Trust.
Because of the hard work of our team and many of our allies, the All-Payer Fee Schedule makes all schools automatically “in network” for all managed care plans.