Durham Resources and Happenings
Do you have an announcement about a new resource, program, or event? This is the spot to share it!
- Follow up conversation on trauma-informed organization assessment: At our May DART meeting we did a 3-month visioning exercise. We will begin to work on some of these activities between meetings in smaller teams. Before our next meeting, we will be looking at assessment of trauma-informed care within organizations. If you would like to be a part of the conversation about how to move that forward, please fill out this doodle poll.
- Durham parents, community leaders, and early childhood providers have come together to work on Durham’s Early Childhood Action Plan (ECAP). Together, they have come up with 21 recommendations and have proposed strategies to bring those recommendations to life. You are the experts working every day to nurture Durham’s future! Your voice and experiences are so important, and we invite you to join us in shaping and implementing Durham’s ECAP. Please visit this website to share your feedback and ideas. If you would like to share flyers with your community, the communication toolkit and flyers are attached.
Resilience in the News
This section contains news articles on topics relevant to resilience and ACEs. Have you read something that informed your practice or made you think about ACEs and Resilience in a different way? This is a place to share with colleagues.
- National Conference of State Legislature database tracks ACEs and trauma legislation since 2018, PACEs Connection, May 26, 2021: Through this interactive database, the National Conference of State Legislatures provides up-to-date information about injury prevention legislation that has been introduced or enacted in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Legislation is searchable by state, topic, keyword, year, status or primary sponsor.
ACEs and Resilience Research
This section contains research—academic, community, and organization—about topics related to ACEs and resilience. Did you recently release a report or publish an article or read something that informed your practice? Share it here!
- Mental Health and Substance Use Considerations Among Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kaiser Family Foundation: This brief explores factors contributing to poor mental health and substance use outcomes among children during the pandemic, highlighting groups of children who are particularly at risk and barriers to accessing child and adolescent mental health care.
- Infographic: Solutions & Challenges for Children's Mental Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic National Institute for Health Care Management, May 27, 2021: The pandemic created the perfect storm of stressors for children and their families. Experts are calling for renewed attention to how this past year may impact children’s short-and-long-term mental health and well-being. The trends in children’s mental health were sobering leading up to the pandemic, with 1 in 5 children experiencing a mental illness and rates of major depression rising dramatically. Now, there is a growing concern that the pandemic has led to increased mental health challenges and suicide risk among children.
- Infographic: Foster Care, LGBTQ Youth & Increased Suicide, National Institute for Health Care Management, May 26, 2021: In partnership with The Trevor Project, this new infographic explores the foster care system in the United States and shines a light on the unique challenges facing LGBTQ youth. LGBTQ youth and young adults, particularly transgender individuals and those of color, are at higher odds of being in the foster care system and face an increased risk of suicide. While the challenges are substantial, there are some clear solutions and strategies to support these children and youth, including improving access to LGBTQ-affirming health services and schools.
Funding Opportunities
This section contains local, state, federal, and foundation funding opportunities for work related to ACEs and resilience. If you would like to further discuss an opportunity with other DART members and would like support coordinating conversations, let Jess know.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau
Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) Demonstration Sites
Grants & Funding | The Administration for Children and Families (grantsolutions.gov)
Deadline: July 2, 2021
Description: This funding opportunity announcement will fund 6 Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) sites for five-year intensive projects of national significance to demonstrate integrated, cross-sector approaches that engage communities in developing child and family well-being systems. Projects will be informed by public health models and approaches and work to improve overall child and family well-being by strengthening the whole family and reducing the likelihood of child maltreatment and unnecessary contact with the formal child welfare system. FSPP sites will develop approaches to work directly with families, communities, and a broad array of stakeholders across the public, private, faith-based, and philanthropic sectors to design and implement highly coordinated and comprehensive family support systems that will mitigate the causes of family vulnerability by enhancing community protective factors and parental protective capacities in racially and culturally appropriate ways.
- Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime
Fostering Resilience and Hope: Bridging the Gap Between Law Enforcement and the Community
https://www.grants.gov/web/gra...ty.html?oppId=333683
Deadline: July 6, 2021
Description: This program will support demonstration sites in implementing a hope-centered framework to 1) address trauma experienced by law enforcement and 2) build trust with the communities they serve. Collective hope is a "shared desire for a better society articulated through a broad set of agreed upon goals and principles and elaborated through socially inclusive dialogue," (Braithwaite V. Collective Hope. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2004;592(1):6-15. doi:10.1177/0002716203262049). This initiative will increase training, capacity, advocacy, outreach around Hope Theory as an organizing framework in order to repair and rebuild trusted relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Ultimately, this work is intended to result in increased trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, enhancing law enforcement officers’ ability to effectively engage with community members, as well as increasing the likelihood that the community will assist in investigations to make communities safer and hold offenders accountable, and make it more likely that crime victims will report their victimizations to the police, reducing the likelihood of re-victimization. Under this program, OVC will augment OVC-funded work done by the Healing Justice Alliance Initiative, which explored demonstrated strategies for implementing a trauma-informed and collaborative approach to build trust between communities of color and law enforcement agencies. Informed by young men of color who are survivors of violence, the project’s outcomes improved lives, by pointing to ways to manage trauma, and focusing on changing community conditions that produce trauma.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources Administration (forecasted post date: June 15, 2021)
Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Health Professional Workforce https://www.grants.gov/web/gra...ty.html?oppId=333786
Deadline: July 15, 2021
Description: The purpose of this program is to provide support to entities providing health care, health care providers associations, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), taking into consideration the needs of rural and medically underserved communities, to establish, enhance, or expand evidence informed or evidenced-based programs or protocols to promote resilience, mental health, and wellness among their providers, other personnel, and members.
Webinars, Conferences, and Trainings
- Investing in Children’s Health and Well-being, National Institute for Health Care Management, June 17th 1:00-2:15 pm: In addition to its physical toll, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the emotional and psychological well-being of children and young adults across the country. The pandemic has exposed the need to address the rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide among young people. Care providers fear that the pandemic, and the lack of action to address issues related to it, could have a long term negative impact on young people, especially LGBTQ, black, and brown youth. This webinar will bring together experts to discuss the opportunities and strategies to help care for children and young adults' mental and physical health after a year of unprecedented challenges. Speakers will discuss:
- The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the mental, emotional, and behavioral health problems of children and adolescents in the United States and efforts to promote children’s well-being
- An organization's efforts to prevent suicide among LGBTQ youth by providing free resources, support centers, and access to 24/7 crisis services
- A health plan foundation’s commitment to partnerships to strengthen and protect children’s mental health throughout the community
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