The California Stress, Trauma & Resilience (CAL STAR) Network works to enhance resilience, promote community health and well-being, and prevent and mitigate toxic stress and health inequities in California related to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
We conduct collaborative, transdisciplinary research at the intersection of cutting-edge stress science and precision medicine to expand the evidence base related to ACEs screening, response, and prevention.
We seek to increase awareness around, and to educate the public and professionals, on timely topics related to stress, health, and resilience
We support and train diverse students and early-career investigators to develop their expertise and skills in science-driven innovation and public health leadership and research.
The CAL STAR Network is on an equity journey. We know that omitting a racial analysis from any work would enable racist organizations, systems, laws, and policies to persist, and we are committed to being actively anti-racist.
The CAL STAR Network acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Los Angeles, the Ramaytush Ohlone people as the traditional land caretakers of UCSF, and the Muwekma Ohlone people as the traditional land caretakers of Stanford.
The CAL STAR Network is made possible by the generous funding of the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.
