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The California Children’s Trust Shares Five Essential Strategies to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis
CCT shares five essential strategies to address the youth mental health crisis.
California families battling addiction fight for their lives after insurance denials
California requires insurers to cover medically necessary mental health treatment. But to patients, the separation between what that law requires and what health plans provide often feels like a gaping chasm.
TECH/LIFE BALANCE: HELPING FAMILIES THRIVE IN A DIGITAL WORLD
Raising kids today can be overwhelming. In a world dominated by screens, finding balance is key.
Steinberg Institute sponsored Assembly Bill 1907 has been signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom
AB1907 aims to improve the behavioral health of children and youth in the child welfare system across California.
Healthy Birth Day, Inc. chosen as Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Commitment-Maker
Our innovative new AI technology and research project was unveiled this morning in New York at the 2024 CGI Annual Meeting.
Celebrate 10 Years of the Children’s Movement
Some of the Children’s Movement’s accomplishments during its first 10 years – include historic school equity reform, a critical helpline for foster kids, expanded access to health insurance, and securing billions of additional dollars for child care, home visiting and youth mental health.
California Partners Project shares expert advice to help implement smartphone restriction policies
Studies show that97% of students use their phones during the school day, and it's a major distraction for both students and teachers.
Bay Area Study Finds Early Childhood Trauma Therapy Can Prevent Serious Disease
The study shows that the treatment not only has psychological benefits but is making a difference on a biological level, according to a team of researchers at UCSF.
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.