- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs):
- Potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years).
- Child abuse and neglect:
- All types of abuse and neglect of a child under the age of 18 by a parent, caregiver or another person in a custodial role.
- Community Incubator Lead (CIL):
- A trusted community-based-organization that leads BCLC projects within a particular neighborhood.
- Healing the Hood:
- A BCLC initiative that brings together partners working across seven local neighborhoods to build opportunity and prevent and interrupt violence.
- Infant sleep-related deaths:
- Deaths where a child less than one year old dies while sleeping.
- Kings & Queens Rise:
- A BCLC co-ed youth sports and mentoring league seeking to prevent violence by providing opportunities for Sacramento’s young people through inter-community sports activities.
- Perinatal conditions:
- Maternal health conditions from 22 completed weeks of gestation and until 7 completed days after birth.
- Safe Sleep Baby:
- A BCLC initiative supporting Black families who have restricted access to information with resources that help keep babies safe while sleeping.
- Social determinants of health:
- Conditions in people’s environments that affect their health, well-being and quality of life.
- Steering Committee for the Reduction of African American Child Deaths:
- A community-driven body of dedicated individuals working to reduce deaths among African American children in Sacramento County.
- Third-party homicides:
- The killing of a child by a person with or without malice aforethought, where the perpetrator was not the primary caregiver.
