California schools saw “massive reductions” in all forms of school violence and weapons use over an 18-year period from 2001 through 2019. Alongside those declines came increases in students’ senses of “school belongingness” and safety, according to a longitudinal study published recently in the World Journal of Pediatrics. 

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) received $2 million in funding as part of state support to further health care research and significantly expand its Division of Young Adult and Adolescent Medicine. CHLA's Division of Young Adult and Adolescent Medicine, also known as DAYAM, addresses the physical, emotional and social needs of individuals ages 12-25.

With technology changing our lives it has changed bullying too. It is so severe kids are dying. Here are important facts for parents, the problem of children being bullied at school and online is getting worse not better. There are a number of school programs designed to decrease bullying but unfortunately they do not seem to be making the impact we hoped they would be making with children.

 A mother in the East Bay accused administrators at St. Raymond School in Dublin with turning a blind eye when her 13-year-old child complained of racially-charged bullying and allowing a teacher to assault her daughter.  Alcian Lindo said nothing was done after her Black daughter was bullied by white students in racially motivated harassment and assaulted by a teacher at the Catholic school in Dublin.

Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightfoot is leading efforts to push the Illinois State Board of Education to create a children's adversity index to measure the exposure to trauma being experienced by students, which will help inform local decision-making and enable stakeholders to engage with local and state leaders around resource allocations and programming.