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UCLA researchers received a three-year $3 million award as part of California’s effort to better understand and address the impact of stress on health.  “Stress is among the leading causes of disability and death in California, especially if experienced early on in life,” said George Slavich, PhD, lead principal investigator and Founding Director of the Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior at UCLA.

Read more: https://www.uclahealth.org/news/ucla-health-researchers-study-impact-stress-health

Dr. George Slavich, Founding Director of the Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research, will help lead California’s new statewide effort to reduce the impact of childhood adversity and toxic stress on health. This new investment is California’s attempt to better understand and mitigate these effects to reduce disparities in human health and opportunity.

Read more: https://www.uclastresslab.org/news/dr-slavich-to-help-lead-41-5-million-effort-to-address-childhood-adversity-toxic-stress/

This opportunity will help youth in or adopted from foster care and their families maintain access to comprehensive mental health services via telehealth and hybrid modalities, equip clinicians with the tools they need to successfully provide services both from home and in the office, and provide trainings in adapting evidence-based practices to telehealth. Moreover, this funding will also enable ongoing program evaluation and quality improvement, including examining racial and ethnic differences and other socio-cultural factors in service utilization and outcomes to inform equitable and effective service delivery.