Through times of trauma and distress, often all a child needs is to be showered with love. It may sound corny, but for the estimated 100,000 children who are sexually exploited per year around the country, it can be transformative....
The next Alameda County ACEs Connection group meet up will be on Thursday, June 25th, 1pm-2:30 at Children's Hospital Oakland, Bertha Wright room, 2nd floor of the main hospital, 747 52nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609. After checking in at...
A landmark first step was taken today to insure that all public schools in the United States be legally required to address the unique learning needs of children affected by adverse childhood experiences. A class action suit on behalf of...
Hi folks, With lots of great momentum building in Alameda County and beyond, it's time for a meet up! Let's get together and talk shop re: building cross sector ACEs, trauma-informed, and resilience-based families, organizations, systems, and...
Most American children haven’t seen combat or survived natural disasters. So why are so many of them showing symptoms similar to PTSD? What would it mean if as individuals and as members of our schools, health systems, local government, the...
http://ocde.k12oms.org/1250-94...amp;utm_medium=email Recent research on child and adolescent brain development has strong implications for educators and health professionals, especially those working with youth who have experienced trauma....
Hey everyone, here's a great story about how San Diego County made its awesome progress towards becoming trauma informed. Maybe it can give us some pointers on how we can do the same in Alameda. This is a story of how, in six short years, a...
Hey everyone, here are some handouts that our founder, Jane Stevens, discovered as she was writing a story about the trauma-in formed elementary schools in Spokane, WA . We've updated it, and provided three different versions. The text is the...
Save the Date: April 30, 2015
This one's for you Stephanie! :-) A school district in a low-income area of East Palo Alto [California] is hoping to lower dropout rates by launching a health and wellness program that includes yoga. The Ravenswood School District is launching the program in partnership with the Sonima Foundation. “What we’re going to do here in Ravenswood is we’re going to provide 3,400 children with a curriculum in health and wellness. The benefits are basically higher...
Good morning, everyone! As we group our group, I just wanted to share some awesome activities that people in Bay Area are taking on to address social inequity and which, undoubtedly, build resiliency. The Bay Area Inspire Awards are a one-time...
Alameda County ACEs Connection Group Meet Up 1/14/15, 3-4:30pm, Café Leila, Berkeley, CA Participants: Jennifer Lynn-Whaley, Ben Rubin, Rachel Gilgof, Susanne Harkless, Stephanie Guinosso, Rona Renner, Craig McLaughlin, John Torres, Alicia St....
A 10-year restorative justice experiment in city schools that uses a carrot instead of a stick on students with discipline issues will be expanded to all 86 schools in five years, officials announced Wednesday. At the 27 schools that now use...
Jill Tucker, SF Gate, Updated 7:43 am, Friday, December 20, 2013 http://www.sfgate.com/crime/ar...56.php#photo-5625062 Barbara McClung hopes money can be found to fund a program to fight child prostitution in Oakland. Photo: Lacy Atkins, The...
Hello everyone! My name is Jesus and I am a new Community Manager here ACEs Connection. It just so happens that this is one of the groups that I get to work closest with and I wanted to say HAPPY HOLIDAYS before I go on winter break until early...