Understanding the need for fresh, powerful framing strategies, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America) and the newly merged Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and Council on Accreditation asked the FrameWorks Institute to update framing recommendations that have served our field well since 2004. The result is a new strategic brief, Reframing Childhood Adversity: Promoting Upstream Approaches. This actionable guide takes recent science and current communications contexts into account, speaks more directly to racial and social justice, and aligns with efforts to reimagine child welfare systems into child well-being systems. The brief also offers guidance for communicating about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and strategies for helping the public to see how prevention works. Register for a webinar that will discuss the brief in-depth, March 22, 2021, 4:00pm-2:30pm EST.
ACEs Connection's Race & Equity workgroup highlights the five ways ACEs initiatives, including their own, get DEI wrong, and provide helpful, action-oriented strategies for doing better. Watch here.
Check out the Voices for Virginia's Children blog for updates on the 2021 Legislative Session: Trauma-Informed & Equity-Informed Policy Solutions as well as updates on Family Economic Security, Early Childhood, and Healthcare Access
Socially Connected Communities: Solutions for Social Isolation
Nearly 60 people from diverse places and organizations candidly shared their efforts to reduce social isolation in the context of COVID-19 and racial justice during a series of conversations in 2020. These discussions were the genesis and inspiration for a new report. Read the full report here.
The CDC’s Suicide Prevention Technical Package and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Prevention Technical Package share strategies to prevent suicide and trauma based on the best available research. This toolkit offers a foundation for activities during periods of infrastructure disruption due to catastrophic events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The toolkit’s Suicide Prevention Modules offer communities and states guidance and tools to assess their local contexts, populations most impacted by suicide, and promising strategies. The concepts in the modules build on one another, and additional modules will be added in the coming months.
Resilience Week VA is May 2-8!
Visit the Resilience Week website to take a look at potential themes for the week and see a sample flyer. Please feel free to use these or develop your own! You can also access materials from last year. If you schedule any events that are open to folks throughout the state, let us know and we can add them to the website! We're looking forward to hearing about what you do!
Resilience Week VA 2021 shirts are available in a variety of colors and styles. Sales will close on Friday, March 19th in order to allow time for delivery.
This one-minute mindfulness video shows that you can give yourself a moment to center and calm without feeling that you don't have the time. View an entire playlist from Headspace of these "mini meditations" here.
March 16, 1:00pm-3:00pm | Trauma, Parenting and Challenging Behaviors
March 16, 8:00pm-9:00pm | Self-Love Yoga
March 17, 7:00pm-8:30pm | Advocating for Trauma-Informed Care: Teachers and Caregivers
March 20, 12:00pm-4:00pm | ACES and Black Maternal Health
March 23, 2:00pm-3:30pm | Women, Substance Use and Trauma: Creating Comprehensive Services
March 23, 2:00pm-3:30pm | Women, Substance Use and Trauma: Creating Comprehensive Services
March 25, 2:00pm-3:30pm | Strengthening Your Organizational Anti-Racist Practice
The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call or text 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453). Serving the U.S. and Canada, the hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who—through interpreters—provide assistance in over 170 languages. The hotline offers crisis intervention, information, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources for children and caregivers. All calls are anonymous and confidential.
Mental Health America of Virginia's Warm Line is a peer-run service for individuals, family members, and other concerned parties in Virginia who would like someone to talk to, or who request community mental health resources, or who have specific questions about their recovery journey. Call 1-866-400-6428, Mon-Fri 9am-9pm and Sat-Sun 5pm-9pm.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline provides 24/7 support for survivors and their loved ones. Call 1-800-799-7233, use the website's live chat function, or text LOVEIS to 22522. They also provide services for those who are deaf and hard of hearing.
SAMHSA (the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) offers a Disaster Distress Helpline for immediate crisis counseling for people who are experiencing emotional distress related to any natural or human-caused disaster. For services in both English and Spanish, call 1-800-985-5990. To connect with a trained crisis counselor, text TalkWithUs (for English) or Hablanos (for Spanish) to 66746.
Please feel free to share any resources or events that you would like to see in the next eNote by replying to this one or emailing Charlotte Eure at ceure@grscan.com.
For questions and support, contact:
Melissa McGinn, MSW, LCSW
State Trauma Informed Community Networks Coordinator
mmcginn@grscan.com
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