Tagged With "CAARE Center"
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2017 Kids Count Data Book [aecf.org]
Wednesday June 14th the Annie E. Casey Foundation released the 2017 Kids Count Data Book - State Trends in Child Well-Being. This comprehensive report is " a premier source of data on children and families." You can download the report from this post, as well as on the Kids Count website , where you can also access an interactive data map in their Data Center . This is an invaluable amount of data available to the public, relevant to anyone working with children and families - with the...
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2019 Visionary Report from the Center for Learning and Resilience a place for children families and community
*Please see attached for a pdf copy of this important report! Images of the cover and table of contents are copied below. Please see attached for a pdf copy (in printable format).
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ACEs gets a day at the (Sacramento) Capitol!
No matter where you are, be sure to follow the events of the day on twitter: Follow @acestoohigh and #4CAKidsDay17 to get live updates all day.
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ACES Science 101 (FAQs)
What are ACEs? ACEs are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains so profoundly that the effects show up decades later; they cause much of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence. ...
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ACEs/toxic stress color wheel for schools!
If you've seen the documentary Paper Tigers , you may remember the stress target -- or color wheel -- in Lincoln High School Principal Jim Sporleder's office. Now you can have one, too! The steering group members of the Yolo Resilience Network in Yolo County, CA, (you can find them on the Yolo County ACEs Connection group) realized the needed to have some tools that they could give to local educators for whom they did presentations about ACEs and trauma-informed practices. "We'd see people...
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Butte College training for firms with wildfire-stricken staff (Chico Enterprise-Record)
By Laura Urseny, November 3, 2019, Chico Enterprise-Record CHICO — Once again, Butte College is playing a huge role when it comes to the Camp Fire recovery and local businesses. Coming in November will be the start of a four-part series through The Training Place at Butte College designed to help employees strengthen their resiliency. The series called Resiliency Zone Training is free to companies that have suffering employees. The trainings run 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Chico center, 2480...
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California issues update on state residents' ACE scores from 2011 & 2013 surveys
The latest adverse childhood experiences survey from the California Department of Public Health shows that 42% of the population has an ACE score of 3 or higher; 16% have an ACE score of 4 or higher. Those with an ACE score of 4 or higher are: 3x more likely to be current smokers 4x more likely to have a depressive disorder 2x more likely to have asthma 2x more likely to be obese 4x more likely to have COPD 3x more likely to have a stroke Here are a few other highlights from the six-page...
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California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris Launches Statewide Listening Tour (chhs.ca.gov)
California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris yesterday launched a statewide listening tour at Fruit Ridge Community Collaborative (FRCC) in Sacramento to raise awareness about the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences, toxic stress and serious health conditions. “As California’s first Surgeon General, one of my top priorities is to raise awareness that Adverse Childhood Experiences, like emotional abuse or witnessing domestic violence, can increase the risk of major health...
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Virtual Screening of Cracked Up for ACEs Connection Members: June 9-10 - Register Now!
We are excited to offer an exclusive virtual screening to all ACEs Connection members of the new, acclaimed film, CRACKED UP . This documentary film is about the long term effects of childhood trauma, told through Saturday Night Live veteran Darrell Hammond’s journey in discovering adverse childhood experiences at the root of his lifelong battle with self-harm, addiction, and misdiagnosis. The film’s director, Michelle Esrick, and other special guests will join us after the screening window...
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Webinar Series – Putting Trauma-Informed Care into Practice: Lessons from the Field
Learn how two leading San Francisco-based provider organizations are Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Pediatric and Adult Primary Care Settings . View a recent webinar featuring Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris, Center for Youth Wellness, and Dr. Edward Machtinger, Women's HIV Program at UCSF. The webinar is part of a series on Putting Trauma-Informed Care into Practice: Lessons from the Field hosted by the Center for Health Care Strategies and made possible by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Welcome to Butte County ACEs Connection Group!
See attached a one page (2 sided) ACEs Connection Overviewtoadapt and share. For any questions contact: Gail Kennedy: gkennedy@acesconnection.com Community Facilitator, ACEs Connection Network
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Whole People Series & Study Guide (www.pbs.org)
There's a fantastic five-part series, Whole People , done by PBS, " spotlighting the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) through personal and community stories. It explores the long-term costs to personal well-being and our society. While much work needs to be done, there are many innovative developments to prevent and treat ACES. We all play a role in becoming a whole people." It's amazing. The five topics covered are as follows: Childhood Trauma Healing Communities A New...
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Wildfire Resources
For the communities affected by the wildfires, we've compiled a list of resources below. Please comment below if you know of anything else that might be helpful, or if you're looking for any other resources that we can help with. SAMHSA's Disaster Distress Helpline provides 24/7, 365-day-a-year crisis counseling and support to people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region has created a...
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Workshop in Oakland, CA: Adverse Childhood Experiences: Health and Mental Health Consequences
Drs. Vincent Felitti and John Preston will do a presentation about ACEs from 1-5 pm, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, at Kaiser Center Auditorium, 300 Lakeside Drive, 2nd floor, in Oakland, CA. The course is sponsored by the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Program. This is the course description: [The workshop organizers say that this workshop is not limited to licensed professionals, but anyone who is interested. Seats are...
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A Guide for Youth: Understanding Trauma
A resource that may be beneficial for outreach and education workgroup
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Trauma-informed readiness survey
Thank you to Butte Co ACEs Connection member Matthew Reddam for sending this survey tool. He has spoken with the authors of this survey tool and they have administered it in Florida successfully with some good outcomes.
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Toward a Trauma Informed Northern California Summit
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#ChildrenCanThrive Day of Action: How to Address Early Childhood Adversity and Build Resilience in Children - February 18th
On Thursday, Feb. 18, join the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Center for Youth Wellness (CYW) for a day of action to raise awareness about adverse child experiences and the health effects of toxic stress in children.
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Eleven state-specific profiles feature ACEs-related data and ACEs/trauma-informed/resilience-building initiatives
One of the resources shared with participants in the Sept. 13-14 convening of First Spouses in Milwaukee to address trauma was a series of state information sheets that featured data on ACEs prevalence and ACEs/trauma-informed/resilience-building initiatives. These one-pagers provided a succinct summary of state highlights on trauma that in some instances were well known to the First Spouses but for others, provided new information. In partnership with state trauma leaders, ACEs Connection...
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Essentials for Childhood Community Corner Highlights Butte County Work
This community corner features the great work that is happening in Butte County to create baseline awareness about ACEs, in order to implement trauma-informed programs and policies. Butte County leaders became interested in addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) after learning about the high burden of ACEs in their community through the Center for Youth Wellness’ Hidden Crisis report. The Hidden Crisis document uses the same data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System...
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For ACEsConnection members only -- a "sneak preview" of 'Resilience'!
Resilience , a documentary that looks at the birth of the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and how it spawned a movement across the world, will be coming to your personal screen in April, says Lynn Waymer, KPJR Film’s community engagement strategist. The production team is working out the details to make the documentary, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival to sold-out houses, available to ACEsConnection.com members on Sunday, April 10, at 6 pm PT/ 9 pm...
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Governor Newsom announces Nadine Burke Harris to be CA's first-ever surgeon general
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the appointment of Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a national leader in pediatric medicine, to serve as California’s first-ever Surgeon General. There is overwhelming consensus in the scientific community around early warning signs and childhood determinants of serious health outcomes. As California's Surgeon General, Dr. Burke Harris will urge policymakers at every level of government and leaders across the state to consider the social determinants of health,...
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Hanna Boys Center to host renowned UCSF physician, who believes childhood traumas can lead to disease [PressDemocrat.com]
A nationally renowned Bay Area physician, known for his impassioned belief that childhood poverty leads to disease, is bringing that message to the Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma next month as part of an ongoing networking series. Bertram Lubin, associate dean of Children’s Health at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, will speak from 7:30-9 a.m. June 8 alongside Barbie Robinson, Sonoma County’s director of health services and Dayna Long, another physician from UCSF Benioff Children’s...
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How a story about childhood trauma in Paradise became one of community trauma [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
My project for the Center for Health Journalism’s California Fellowship was focused on childhood trauma, zeroing in on a town in Northern California. In the fall, that town — Paradise, California — burned in a harrowing wildfire. The story quickly changed to one of community loss. The story of trauma in two counties My initial project was about Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs. ACEs are one way to quantify how much childhood trauma a person has experienced before the age of 18. Through...
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How the Resources Center Works
Hey, All! In case you didn't hear the news, our new Resources Center is up and running. This is a work in progress, but you can find a host of resources to support your work. Please see Jane's initial post below! - Jen Welcome to the ACEsConnection.com Resources Center! As of October 2016, we are launching this new version. We think that it's a skeleton of its future self, i.e., we'll be adding more categories and more information to each category. Our goal is to make this useful, but not so...
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Interview with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris on Weekend Edition
Listen to the interview "What Do Asthma, Heart Disease and Cancer have in Common? Maybe Childhood Trama". https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/01/23/578280721/what-do-asthma-heart-disease-and-cancer-have-in-common-maybe-childhood-trauma Burke Harris is the founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco. She's spent much of her career trying to spread awareness about the dangers of childhood toxic stress. Burke Harris just released a new book, The Deepest Well: Healing the...
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JOB: Director for the Center for Learning and Resilience
We are delighted to announce that the position of Director for the Center for Learning and Resilience has been released. Please click on the links below for further information or to apply. The Butte County Office of Education (BCOE) is located in Northern California and serves 14 districts and 18 charter schools in Butte County and provides services to students and educators in all 58 California Counties and employs 1500 people in Butte County and across the state. Link to job posting :...
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Lasting effects Local group raises awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences [NewsReview.com]
In Jeremy Wilson’s line of work, it does well to remember that people who act abusively have probably suffered abuse themselves. He offered an example of a schoolyard bully. “When someone is displaying disruptive behaviors,” he said, “you can respond in that authoritarian, knock-if-off way, or you can say, ‘OK, there’s a reason this sixth-grader is pushing other kids down on the playground.’ Most likely, it’s not because the sixth-grader was born a mean, awful kid, but because they’ve...
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Mapping Trauma Informed Care throughout First 5 Associations
On April 15th, representatives from 6 counties met on a conference call to discuss recent First 5 activities around Trauma Informed Care (TIC). Since our first gathering at last year's Association Summit, we have been meeting quarterly via conference call and have learned that there is a lot going on with TIC. So much is going on that we decided to send out a survey gathering data to map all our TIC efforts across the state. Please let us know if you are at a First 5 and are interested in...
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Meet the nonprofit group restoring 'hope' in Paradise four months after the Camp Fire [KRCR News]
PARADISE, Calif. — The Paradise Hope Center is giving people a place to go for help and resources four months after the Camp Fire broke out in Butte County. The center is located at 311 Circlewood Drive in Paradise and is open Monday through Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The nonprofit group, a branch of the Hope Center in Oroville, opened their doors in Paradise in December to help survivors of the Camp Fire recover and remains open currently. Valerie Elizabeth, who is running the...
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Mental health, adverse childhood experiences a serious issue in Butte County (Chico Enterprise Record)
By Natalie Hanson, December 23, 2019 Chico Enterprise Record CHICO — In 2019, treating mental health is still one of Butte County’s biggest concerns, along with higher rates of drug-induced deaths and adverse childhood experiences, than in many other areas in California. The Butty County Public Health Department’s report for 2019 has been released as a result collaboration with Enloe Medical Center, Feather River Hospital and Orchard Hospital beginning in 2018. The Camp Fire led to an...
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New ACEs data on Kidsdata.org
On behalf of California Essentials for Childhood, I am very excited to announce the release of a new Child Adversity and Resilience data topic on Kidsdata.org! This has been a collaborative effort between the CA Essentials for Childhood Initiative's Shared Data and Outcomes Work Group and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. I represent ACEs Connection Network on Essentials and am the co-chair of the Shared Data & Outcomes Work Group so I couldn't be more thrilled about...
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New Grant Opportunity & Program for Bay Area Health Centers: Resilient Beginnings Collaborative
In partnership with Genentech Charitable Giving, the Center for Care Innovations is excited to launch the Resilient Beginnings Collaborative . We’ll select 5-7 Bay Area organizations to participate in this 24-month learning and action community dedicated to addressing childhood adversity in pediatric safety net care settings. We’ll provide access to technical expertise, in-person convenings, site visits to exemplars, and coaching, as well as $80,000 grants to each participating team. If you...
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New Study Shows Communities Can Reduce the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences [Mathematica Policy Research]
[ Ed. note: Following is a media release published yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research. This follows on the heals of the report, "Self-Healing Communities" that Laura Porter, Dr. Robert Anda and WHO wrote for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Both reports and executive summaries are attached to this blog post. Both reports are significant, because they show that community ACEs initiatives -- with "modest investments and limited staff" -- are solving some of our most intractable...
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Pediatricians in Butte County participate in the Reach Out and Read program [First 5 Butte County]
Thank You for all you’re doing for Butte Counties children! To learn more, click HERE
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Resources to Support Wildfires Response & Recovery in Northern and Southern California
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) has compiled resources to assist with response and recovery from the latest California wildfires. Information guides on disaster topics and the Disaster Lit® database provide access to curated, reliable information from vetted Federal, state, and local governments and organizations. Key National Resources NLM Fires and Wildfires Information Guide Content syndication —embed the content of this page...
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Rural California school district with high suspension rates under state investigation [edsource.org]
by David Washburn, EdSource, June 11, 2019. Butte County’s Oroville City Elementary School District, which has a suspension rate that is three times the statewide average, is under state investigation for its discipline policies and practices. The investigation, by the California Bureau of Children’s Justice , is focused on the district’s record of suspending and expelling students and its alternatives to those punishments, according to a district statement . The statement also said the...
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SBA Offers Disaster Loans to Fire Victims
OROVILLE, Calif. - Fire victims in Butte County can now apply for a loan of up to $2 million. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) set up shop at the Fire Assistance Center at 7 County Drive in Oroville this week. The SBA offers federal low-interest disaster loans to businesses and homeowners to help them rebuild. The group is in Butte County following an emergency declaration that will qualify homeowners and renters for help rebuilding and repairing homes, businesses and even...
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Shaping adults Negative experiences in childhood reverberate for a lifetime [Chico NewsReview.com]
Four aces typically make a winning hand in poker. Four ACEs in life, however, means the deck is stacked against you. ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experience. Researchers have identified 10 exposures—abuse, neglect, traumatic household disruptions—that represent risk factors for addiction, violence, criminal behavior and chronic health conditions later in life. The issue is close to home. According to a report recently released by the Center for Youth Wellness, Butte...
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The crucial role of home visitation in preventing and mitigating ACEs
Please take the time to check out this great story about our local heroes in Butte Baby Steps, and the impact their work is having on local families everyday.
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To get clean: Skyway House unveils new detox service for drug addiction [NewsEnterprise.com]
After mustering the will to seek life- changing treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, many Butte County residents have had that decision derailed by a catch-22. Residential programs admit participants only after 24 hours of sobriety but, in their struggle with substances, addicted people often can’t get sober at all—not even for a day—without a program. What they need, and what’s been missing in the North State, is a detoxification center: a facility where alcoholics and other addicts...
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Toxic Stress, Behavioral Health, and the Next Major Era in Public Health by Mental Health America
To view the document, click on the following link: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/issues/toxic-stress-behavioral-health-and-next-major-era-public-health