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What We Need to Thrive: A Youth-Led Vision for a Just Alameda County
August 1, 2023In July of 2021—after decades of organizing by young people and their families—California made a bold decision to close the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). As a result, California counties are now responsible for treating, caring for, and even locking-up young people who would have otherwise been reprimanded to DJJ.To facilitate this realignment, California is distributing over $500 million in grants to local counties, including Alameda. It has been nearly 3 years since these funds began flowing in, but according to young people themselves, they still do not have access to improved services. So we asked ourselves, where is the money going? And perhaps more importantly, we asked the youth: where should these funds be going? What is the county doing since realignment funds first began flowing to Alameda in 2020? Are they receiving the support they need? What services do they prioritize for youth justice in their county? What aspirations do they hold?To find out, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) and Ceres Policy Research conducted a youth-led, community-driven research project in Alameda County. This project aimed to assess the impacts of the current youth justice system, gathering input from impacted families, youth, and community leaders to build a shared strategic vision for youth justice in Alameda County, and beyond. The results are outlined in this report.
Young, Feminist, and Fearless: Holding the Line - State of Youth Civil Society Report
July 19, 2023We live in uncertain times! Worldwide, we are witnessing attacks on the rights of women, girls and non-binary persons , threatening our foremothers' hard-fought gains. From preventing access to sexual health services in the United States and banning girls from education in Afghanistan, to restricting digital feminist organising in China and brutally suppressing feminist activism in Iran, the global rollback of rights is coordinated, wellfunded, and gaining momentum everywhere.Young feminist activists are revered as sheroes and are often at the frontline of democratic struggles, employing creative methods to hold the line- yet we fail to realise the toll of activism on their wellbeing, mental health, and hopes for the future. This is particularly critical for young women and non-binary young people involved in feminist movements, as they are both uniquely vulnerable and forced to be increasingly brave. Their actions appear fearless from the outside, but this work is fraught with danger and comes at a personal cost.This year's State of Youth Civil Society Report - Young, Feminist, and Fearless: Holding the Line, focuses on feminist movements and their critical role in making the world more equitable, safe and accessible for everyone. Young feminists are fearless and hold the line despite the dangers to their security, the uncertainty that today's world presents, and the cost to their mental health. They are pushing back against tyranny!
Equitable Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Care: An Urgent Need
July 18, 2023Due to the deepening mental health and substance use crisis in the U.S., there's an urgent need for equitable access to care that is timely, clinically effective, and adequately reimbursed by insurers. This need encompasses psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, other counselors, and treatment facilities as well as mental health and substance use care delivered by primary care providers.Multiple studies, including analyses of insurance claims and surveys of employers and providers, have demonstrated that in-network health insurance coverage for treatment of mental health and substance use conditions remains inadequate and not "on par" with access to in-network health insurance coverage for physical health treatment.This patient-experience survey conducted by NORC (Survey) explored key topics such as: 1) how often mental health or substance use care is needed but not received; 2) how difficult it is to find in-network providers accepting new patients; 3) how often and why patients use out-ofnetwork providers for mental health or substance use care versus physical health care; 4) how often patients feel that mental health or substance use care from PCPs and other physical health providers is insufficient; 5) how often services are denied; and more.
New Jersey Tutoring Corps, Inc. School Year 2022-23 Efficacy Report
July 11, 2023With funding from the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund (NJPRC) and the Overdeck Family Foundation (OFF), The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) School of Education launched the New Jersey Tutoring Corps pilot program in summer 2021. The overall purpose of the NJ Tutoring Corps pilot program was to provide tutoring for PK-5 students in New Jersey (NJ) in order to address pandemic-related learning loss.TCNJ's Tutoring Corps pilot program ran in the summer of 2021 and the 2021-22 school year and focused on mathematics, aiming to improve students' confidence in and attitudes toward learning math as well as build their self-esteem and growth mindset. The program partnered with two prominent youth organizations in NJ – Boys and Girls Clubs of NJ (BGC) and the Y Alliance of New Jersey (YMCA) – to implement small group tutoring in under-resourced communities around the state. While at TCNJ, the program also operated in the summer of 2022.
Shifting Power Dynamics: Equity, diversity, and inclusion in the nonprofit sector
July 6, 2023The first study of its kind, Shifting Power Dynamics: Equity, diversity and inclusion in the nonprofit sector, explores what Canadian charities and nonprofits are doing to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) within their organizations. The study provides key insights into our sector's commitment to EDI through an exploration of the following topics:how organizations are integrating EDI into their workthe role of equity working groups in advancing EDIthe factors that enable and hinder organizations as they seek to apply EDI principlesthe role of governance and operational leadership in advancing EDI In addition to research highlights, this post includes recommendations for organizations to improve their EDI practices. We firmly believe that all organizations, regardless of their mission, have a responsibility to advance equity and address systemic discrimination and racism. Funders have a unique role to play so we include specific recommendations for them.
Race, Ethnicity, and American Views of Climate Change
May 25, 2023Asian, Hispanic, and Black Americans are more likely to view climate change as a threat than Americans as a whole, data show.In the United States, definitions of national security threats are shifting, highly politicized, and closely tied to identity. At the same time, the US is more racially diverse than at any time in its past. To better understand how this diversity feeds into threat perception, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the New America Foundation have partnered to conduct novel research on the views of white, Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans as part of the 2022 Chicago Council Survey.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace
May 17, 2023Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand how adults in the United States think about diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the workplace. This analysis is based on survey responses from 4,744 U.S. adults who are working part time or full time, are not selfemployed, have only one job or have multiple jobs but consider one their primary job, and whose company or organization has 10 or more people. The data was collected as part of a larger survey of workers conducted Feb. 6-12, 2023. Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Center's American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP's methodology.
Americans’ Experiences With Gun-Related Violence, Injuries, And Deaths
April 11, 2023The latest polling from KFF finds a majority (54%) of U.S. adults have either personally or had a family member who has been impacted by a gun-related incident, such as witnessing a shooting, being threatened by gun, or being injured or killed by a gun. When asked about their own personal experience, one in five report that they have been threatened with a gun (21%), while nearly as many (17%) say they have witnessed someone being shot. Small but important shares report experiencing other gun-related incidents, including 4% who have been injured by a gun, and 4% who have shot a gun in self-defense. The share who have shot a gun in self-defense rises to 18% among adults whose current or past job included the use of guns, such as military or law enforcement work.When asked about their family members, about three in ten adults (31%) say they have a family member who has been threatened with a gun, while a similar share (28%) say a family member has witnessed someone being shot. One in five (20%) adults say a family member has been injured by a gun, and 19% say a family member has been killed by a gun, including death by suicide. About half of deaths (55%) in the U.S. involving guns are suicides.
Funding Our Future: Solutions for Youth Mental Health Philanthropy
April 11, 2023The state of youth mental health in the United States can be described as nothing short of a crisis. National data shows that the number of youth experiencing anxiety or depression has grown by a third since 2016 and deaths due to overdose among adolescents have more than doubled between 2019 and 2020. In 2021, the CDC reported that 42% of high school students experienced such persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness that they stopped doing their usual activities for more than two weeks during the past year.Yet, funders continue to express barriers to making significant investments that will achieve the impact they seek. Given the lack of overall funding to mental health prior to COVID-19, it is likely that this issue is still seriously underfunded compared to the need. While foundations are cognizant of how mental health impacts their other priorities, funders now have the opportunity to address mental health as a primary focus area.
Food Hardship & Opportunities for Change: Key Findings from Statewide Research Conducted in Fall 2022
March 28, 2023On March 22, 2023, Nourish California shared key findings from a series of focus groups and recent statewide surveys that asked Californians about their experiences accessing the food they need and want. This research was conducted in partnership with Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3).
Operation Iraqi Freedom at 20: Americans and the Iraq War
March 15, 2023The Iraq War changed America and the world, yet its fingerprints appear barely visible in the minds and memories of most Americans. Twenty years after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, only 1 in 4 Americans "often" or "sometimes" think about the Iraq War and only 1 in 5 say the war changed their life. Further, when asked about major events from the war, few Americans are familiar with much beyond the invasion, capture of Saddam Hussein, and the withdrawal in 2011. These findings are stark considering the enormous costs of the war. Over 4,440 service members gave their lives and over 32,000 were wounded during the Iraq War (2003-2011), and the cost to the US Treasury was approximately $800 billion.The picture is more complex, however. While the Iraq War appears remote and invisible for most Americans, they want to learn about it. 77 percent of Americans – with little variation across demographics or ideology – feel it is important, as individuals, to learn about the Iraq War. But Americans are hesitant about whether such learning should be done at the national level. Only 41 percent feel the country needs to do more to publicly learn from the Iraq War and 32 percent say it's better for the country to put the Iraq War behind us and move on. Embedded in this hesitation are likely concerns that any public effort to grapple with the war will devolve into political battles to relitigate blame.
A Year in, Americans Still Support Ukraine
February 13, 2023A majority of the US public continues to back current military and financial aid to Kyiv, recent polls find.The war in Ukraine is about to enter its second year, with rumors of a new Russian offensive being planned to mark the occasion. At the same time, US headlines have warned that some congressional support for US aid to Ukraine may be sliding, and several polls have shown that American public support for continuing to assist Ukraine "for as long as it takes" has slipped from the very high levels seen at the outset of the conflict. But these analyses often overlook the fact that Americans are still paying attention to the conflict one year into it, and their support for current military and financial aid to Kyiv remains at majority levels.
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