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Do You Have a Story to Tell? Speak at the 2018 Fall Trauma-Informed School Conference
Beyond Consequences is excited to announce that our Call for Proposals for the 2018 Fall Trauma-Informed School Conference has been extended. If you have a great story to share about your experience in working with students who’ve had adverse childhood experiences, we would love to hear from you! Here are some examples of sessions that fit in at our nationally recognized conference: Administrative/School-Wide Track • Mindfulness Instead of Suspension • Special Education Law & Advocacy •...
Possible CA Legislation- AB 2691 Pupil health: pupil and school staff trauma: Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative
AB 2691, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Pupil health: pupil and school staff trauma: Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative. Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work. This bill would establish within the State Department of Education the Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative to address the impact of...
Family Hui - Parenting Support
Learn about Family Hui: http://www.familyhui.org/ Reach out to Lucy Roberts, Family Hui Program Director to see about bringing Family Hui to Fresno County! Lucy Roberts <lroberts@lead4tomorrow.org> Hui (hoo’ee) is a Hawaiian term for a cooperative group working together for a shared purpose. The Family Hui program’s shared purpose is creating healthy, thriving families and communities. Our mission is to develop sound families, thriving communities, and a more peaceful world. Family Hui...
Welcome to the Fresno County Trauma & Resilience Network!
Hi and welcome to the Fresno County Trauma & Resilience Network page on ACEs Connection. In Spring of 2017 a handful of local organizational leaders decided to convene others that had a desire to learn more about ACEs and the affects of trauma in our kids and families. Knowing that trauma is generational, we knew that trauma was a major player in the low health, academic and community ratings our county possessed. We also knew that we were a region with grit and heart, thus we knew we...
The Children's Advocates Roundtable - Screening of Resilience
RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress. Extremely stressful experiences in childhood can alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health and behavior. However, as experts and practitioners profiled in this documentary are proving, what’s predictable is preventable . Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, CEO and founder of the Center for Youth and Wellness in San Francisco is featured in...
Fresno County Data Dashboard: Child Adversity and Well-Being
A product of the Essentials for Childhood Initiative (EfC), the Child Adversity and Well-Being Dashboards contain indicators of child adversity, health and well-being utilizing data available on kidsdata.org . For more information about the dashboards, please refer to the California Data Dashboards page. The Fresno County Data Dashboard contains select indicators of child adversity and well-being. The dashboard is a product of the Shared Data and Outcomes Workgroup of the California...
2018 Policymaker Education Day on Childhood Adversity - REGISTER NOW!
The California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA) invites you to participate in our 2018 Policymaker Education Day on Childhood Adversity. Last year, we had over 100 4CA representatives who participated in the day-long event. Policymaker Education Day is an opportunity to come together as advocates to educate policymakers about childhood adversity, the long-term consequences of childhood adversity on communities, and garner support for 4CA endorsed legislation. Please register...
The Power of a Trauma-Informed Ministry
ACE Overcomers: The Center for Resiliency and Trauma-Informed Training The Valley Dream Center of Fresno, California hosted a 2-day training, conducted by ACE Overcomers. 40 individuals gathered for the 2-day training on The Power of a Trauma-Informed Ministry. Most participants were from California's Central Valley, along with attendees from San Diego, Oregon and New Mexico. The primary goal was to increase an understanding of trauma and adverse childhood experiences and introduce a...
Linking chronic disease to adverse childhood experiences [K-12 Daily]
In another part of his community, Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula is known as Dr. Armabula, and before he decided to run for the Legislature he was an emergency room physician at the Adventist Hospital in Selma. It is from this perspective that the Fresno Democrat is looking for support for a for a novel wellness program aimed at reducing childhood exposure to adverse experiences as a means of preventing chronic disease later in life. The concept, known as adverse childhood experiences, or ACE,...