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What: Multi-county initiative in North Carolina funded by Healthy Blue involves resiliency initiatives in the PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities in hopes of improving the health and wellbeing of foster children and families, as well as caregivers. A large part of this work will be to make available trainings about the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) and a skills-based stabilization program, the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) ® , which helps users...

Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...

Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...

In support of Ukrainians aligned with EdCamp Ukraine, members of the New Hanover Resiliency Task Force met Sunday afternoon to create a banner and a video to be shared during daily Zoom Support Meetings offered to the Ukrainians; by the Trauma Resource Institute (TRI). An international volunteer team led by TRI’s executive team members, Elaine Miller-Karas and Michael Sapp have offered daily Zoom Support Meetings reinforcing the skills of the Community Resiliency Model. Since the beginning...

We are looking forward to our next mini-conference, “The Power of Collective Healing ” on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 from 9am-11am . If you haven’t already, register today for a calendar invitation and zoom link. In this mini-conference, we will focus on the concept of resilience and strengths within ourselves and communities. We’ll discuss adversity with an intersectional lens and share specific skills and strategies that individuals, communities, and organizations can implement in the...

Please join us in honoring the Trauma Resource Institute's 2021 Ambassadors of the Year, Magdalena Sunshine Serrano, LCSW, and New Hanover County, North Carolina!

We are looking forward to our next mini-conference, “The Power of Collective Healing ” on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 from 9am-11am . If you haven’t already, register today for a calendar invitation and zoom link. In this mini-conference, we will focus on the concept of resilience and strengths within ourselves and communities. We’ll discuss adversity with an intersectional lens and share specific skills and strategies that individuals, communities, and organizations can implement in the...

Hello Naimah - I hope this email finds you well, and that what I'm sharing will be a help to you as you prepare information for the Bids process. I am hoping we have more information for you in the coming days. For now, though, as I said in the prior email, we don't have outcomes data per se. There's not a metric showing that we've increased school attendance, prevented expulsions, or that we've reduced visits to the Emergency Room in the six counties where we are doing the work. We do have...

Hello Naimah - Just wanted to let you know that I am on your report for you to have by tomorrow afternoon. We don't have outcomes as in, "expulsions decreased by XYZ," or "hospital visits decreased by xyz" - as right now we are working on establishing relationships or deepening with Department of Social Services workers in the counties establishing or deepening relationships with Guardian ad Litem volunteers establishing or deepening relationships with SAYSO representatives establishing or...

The Healthy Blue Initiative Leadership Team was joined by a young man who was recently adopted to share his insights about learning resiliency skills and how we can reach more youth in foster care and youth in high schools. HBI Team Meeting Date: 4/13/22 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Attendees: Zyante, Carey, Amy, Kelly Purcell, Kristy Blackwell Goals: Discussing/creating plan for paying CRM trainers in HBI counties Explain how to input presentations in presentations tracker Presentations Tracker Provide...

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda January 19, 2022 4:30-5:30 p.m. Check ins Items to Discuss: -Discuss long range goals/plans Healthy Blue Initiative Long Range Goals to Discuss Meeting with State DSS: Tuesday, January 25 at 4:00 Ask how we can measure success? What would success look like to you? Imagine if you could retain folks? Benefits? How many foster youths are moved/displaced from one foster home to another due to a youth's trauma response and/or behavior annually? Please share...

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda April 27, 2022. 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Zyanta, Kristy Blackwell, Carra Osborne, Kelly Purcell, Carey Sipp Notetaker: Kelly Purcell Check ins/Celebrations Trainings Scheduled Collaborative Screening 4/28/22 Items to Discuss/Updates: Kelly - DSS upcoming trainings - need for brainstorming plan to support trainings HBI Training Document Presentations Tracker/Healthy Blue Site - Please continue to add to the page and presentations tracker Amy/Kristy -...

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda May 18, 2022 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Kristy Blackwell, Carey Sipp, Amy Read, Melanie Garner, Carra Osborne, Kelly Purcell Notetaker: Kelly Purcell Celebrations: Guilford County CRM for DSS for 40 people and community CRM for 30 people, Amy success with CRM for students at DC Virgo, CRM workshops scheduled with YWCA, 15 year old teaching an 11 year old CRM skills. Items to Discuss: Upcoming Trainings - Kelly Trainings YWCA June -Grandparents/Children...

Resilient & Thriving Communities Week June 6-12, 2022 Boone, NC: June 8, 2022: A voluntary statewide coalition of people from local community collaboratives, interested staff from North Carolina non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies has organized and are facilitating the first ever “Resilient & Thriving Communities Week” in North Carolina, June 6-12, 2022! This special week is the result of discussions that began two years ago. A volunteer leader of a local North...

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda June 15, 2022 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Kelly Purcell, Carey Sipp, Kristy Blackwell, Melanie Garner Note Taker: Kelly Purcell Celebrations: ROAR Meeting, Connecting leaders- Robeson County, Items to Discuss: June 7th Meeting - Reflections, next steps Brainstorm ideas for getting it directly to children and families and parents Community Leaders/members trained CRM Teacher Trainings Potential to add in other NC folks 12-15 Folks to get trained, hoping to...

Brunswick County had a successful strategic planning meeting on June 20, 2022 where 14 members got together in 3 work groups to collaborate, create goals, and connect to move Resilient Brunswick forward. The next continuation for strategic planning will be on July 18 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the 4H Cooperative Extension.

The HBI Team met with members from participating counties in the initiative to share updates and information about the initiative and invite feedback from folks. See the slides and recording of the video posted below. Topic: Healthy Blue Initiative Group Meeting Start Time: Jun 7, 2022 01:58 PM Meeting Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/S018BdTCUru3JDw8EFH-LvPRIMJ6SeLQ4dn0JFKZYz-8crpzH25WbVpdJRYbheo2.whvTvSqbShJOIPni Access Passcode: f38Bt+u3

The HBI leadership team had the opportunity to share updates and the progress that was also shared with stakeholders at the June 7th meeting, with members from the Foster Family Alliance, and members of the Healthy Blue Foster Care Division team who are the funders of this initiative. Attendees: Carey Sipp, Kelly Purcell, Amy Ready, Kristy Blackwell, Kate Schultz, Erica Burgess, John Thacker, Erica Burgess, Jamilah McClain, Naimah Dye, Dr. Keith Cradle Topic: HBI Team Meeting Start Time: Jun...

The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative leverages Smart Start’s deep roots in local communities across North Carolina and honors the powerful work of local ACEs and resilience collaboratives. In collaboration with state and local partners, the initiative fosters a common understanding and shared approach for local collaboratives to support the health and well-being of children, families, and community members across the lifespan in North Carolina—in a way that broadens the...

For the last eight months the Medicaid plan provider has engaged community resiliency-building experts and organizers to help children, families, and caseworkers in the state’s foster care program to boost resilience and better manage stress. The innovative project is called the Healthy Blue Initiative . “We all know kids in foster care have higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than most children. They are often in foster care due to loss of a parent from death, illness —...

Best practices for students who have experienced the death of a caregiver (ednc.org) Katie Dukes June 8, 2022 Behind the Story In January, EdNC reported that evidence suggests at least 3,600 children in North Carolina have experienced the death of a caregiver due to COVID-19. Experts now put that estimate closer to 6,000. In February we distributed a survey to principals, school counselors, and EdWeekly newsletter subscribers asking how they and their communities support grieving children.

April 13, 2023: Today we honored April as Child Abuse Prevention month, discussed upcoming events and opportunities, and celebrated many accomplishments. Click here to access the slides from this month's meeting. See the summary below and required coalition member tasks follow. If you have any questions, please contact Stacie Kinlaw at skinlaw@rcpartnership4children.org or 910-738-6767 2023 COMMITMENTS TO ROAR EVERY stakeholder is encouraged and invited to COMPLETE the 2023 Commitments...

Amy Read of Coastal Horizons introduces the panel following a viewing of "Resilience: The Biology of Stress, The Science of Hope", at the Pender Resiliency Task Force Mini Conference Thursday, June 8 ,at Heide Trask High School in Rocky Point. A "dream team" of subject-matter expert panelists (L-R) were Ryan Estes of Coastal Horizons, Ben David, district attorney for Pender and New Hanover counties, Judge J. H. Corpening, district court judge for New Hanover and Pender counties, Taylor...

“YES!” was the response of Gaile Osborne, executive director of Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina (FFANC), when asked for input on a new program to help foster and kinship care families learn how to support the brain development of young children. “I love these Brain Insights materials. How soon can we start?” said Osborne upon receiving the "The First 60 Days ” booklet on myths about newborns and their caregivers and the eight “ Neuro-Nurturing ” ringed books. The materials delivered...

As we head into our full CRC curriculum this January, we invite current and future CRC Accelerator participants to join us with collective care and self care in mind.

As we’ve recently announced, the CRC Accelerator is taking an indefinite hiatus, but this moment of growth is anything but goodbye. Two years into this unique program, we are aware of the incredible impact access can have on PACEs initiatives and we now have a CRC Fellowship that grows with each CRC graduate.