Tagged With "Butte County"

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In response to last year's wildfires in Sonoma County, my colleagues and I created a resource to help people with emotional recovery from any kind of disaster. It's called the When It's Too Much Toolkit and it offers a variety of ways to think about and address the toxic stress generated during unexpected events.

By Camille Von Kaenel, Chico Enterprise-Record, October, 25, 2019 The North Valley Community Foundation’s Butte Strong Fund has approved $1.8 million in its latest round of grants, with most going to local government programs for trauma response and rebuilding. The largest of the grants, worth $1 million, is going to Butte County’s first responders to provide expanded counseling and health and wellness services in the wake of the Camp Fire. The Butte County First Responders Trauma Response...

By Natalie Hanson, Chico Enterprise-Record, January 16, 2020 At least 70% of Oroville’s high school students are considered socioeconomically-disadvantaged. In Chico, Between 400 and 500 children are categorized as housing insecure at any time during the Chico Unified School district’s school year. Across the county, thousands of students often rely on each district for help just to get to school and to get a meal. In these statistics a tragic side is seen in the Butte County homelessness...

By Natalie Hanson, Chico Enterprise-Record, May 9, 2020 Butte County’s Office of Education has gotten a $1 million grant to help students on the Paradise ridge get services for substance abuse and disaster-related trauma. The Office of Education applied for the 18-month grant, targeted specifically for areas that have experienced disaster, to continue the support process of recovery for ridge schools, students and families. It will focus on four areas for services: Substance abuse services...

By Natalie Hanson, Enterprise-Record, December 18, 2019 As Oroville students continue to face social and economic hardships, high schools are working to improve their experiences and access to opportunities as adults. Staff at Oroville Union High School District’s schools say they are working to address the effects of widespread adverse childhood experiences. In the last decade, Butte County has been reported with the highest number of adverse childhood experiences in California in the...

Thank you so much for sharing these resources, @Suzie Gruber this information is helpful and very timely. Thanks again, Karen