Tagged With "Amy Read"

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...

By Atiya Jordan, Photo: Brandon Harris, Black Enterprise, February 16, 2022 A North Carolina college student turned an independent advocacy study into a life-changing battle for his childhood friend to be released from prison 12 years early. Maryland natives Brandon Harris and Sura Sohna grew up together in Annapolis, attending the same elementary and middle schools. By 12, Sohna’s troubles with the law began after he was arrested for stealing a bike. By 2018, he was facing 15 years in...

Join trainers Amy Read and Bo Dean for a FREE virtual full day Community Resiliency Model training to learn skills to help manage stress and support your well-being. You will learn how stress and trauma impacts the human nervous system and the six wellness skills to support your well-being to feel like your best self again. Register with the QR code or email aread@coastalhorizons.org

Join trainers Amy Read and Bo Dean for a FREE virtual full day Community Resiliency Model training to learn skills to help manage stress and support your well-being. You will learn how stress and trauma impacts the human nervous system and the six wellness skills to support your well-being to feel like your best self again. Register with the QR code or email aread@coastalhorizons.org

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...

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...

By Ingrid M. Duva, Jordan R. Murphy, and Linda Grabbe, Photo: Unsplash, American Journal of Public Health, June 9, 2022 Abstract The wrath of COVID-19 includes a co-occurring global mental health pandemic, raising the urgency for our health care sector to implement strategies supporting public mental health. In Georgia, a successful nurse-led response to this crisis capitalized on statewide organizations’ existing efforts to bolster well-being and reduce trauma. Partnerships were formed and...

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

By Jeremy Loudenback, Photo: Kitchens for Good, The Imprint, July 27, 2022 Still reeling from the pandemic’s blow to jobs and the economy, the state of California is set to spend heavily on training young people who tend to have the most fragile links to the workforce: youth who’ve grown up homeless, in foster care or on probation. In the state budget deal approved late last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and lawmakers committed $65 million to expand apprenticeship opportunities in a range of...

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 —...

By John Kelly, Image: Screenshot from article, The Imprint, November 1, 2022 The number of youth in foster care dropped below 400,000 for the first time since 2012 last year, according to data released today by the Administration for Children and Families. There were 391,098 youth in foster care in 2021, according to today’s report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, which uses a point-in-time count from September 30 of a given year to track the nation’s foster...

ACEs: What do I need to know as a foster parent? Obviously, I'm glad you asked me. Let's recap what the ACEs study is and the results of the study. Here is the introductory post I did, where you will find a link to the study and the results. https://impressingminds.com/aces-what-are-they/ From the CDC, we find that... As foster parents, we should crave information. We should create concern about the ACE questions. The entire study refers to the respondent’s first 18 years of life. Just the...

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...

Photo Credit: Walt Stoneburner, Flickr Creative Commons By Michelle Crouch, The Charlotte Ledger, July 5, 2023 -- With foster homes in short supply, more than 55 children over the past year have spent at least one night sleeping on an air mattress in a Mecklenburg government conference room; “It’s as bad as it’s ever been.” Dozens of children have been forced to sleep on the floor of Mecklenburg County offices over the past year because of a severe shortage of foster homes and crisis beds,...

Our speaker for the August PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities meeting will share ways of building community connections we may not have thought of before – starting with trust in the earliest and most important relationships – as well as some challenging news, exciting resources, and timely inspiration. Cooperative of Communities members and members of their communities are invited to join us tomorrow, August 8, 2023, at 10 a.m. PT, Noon CT, and 1 p.m. ET when we welcome Deborah...

Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.

Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principal author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...

Emotion has an enormous impact on imprinting memory in our brains. I had an experience when I was 6 years old that included emotion and I have the memory of it all of these many years later. It was a 6 year old birthday sleepover party. There were 7 girls invited that lived near each other and played together most days. A girl new to the neighborhood was invited only due to the requirement of the birthday girl’s mother. I was also invited. I lived a block away but did play with these girls...