Tagged With "childhood adversity"

Interested in going further upstream to promote resilience in the Northern CA region through development of “early childhood informed” communities? Strategies 2.0 is extending an invitation to join us in our Learning Community focused on early childhood mental health in a 4-Part Series entitled: “Using the Centrality of Relationships as a Protective Factor in Building Resilience: Infusing Early Childhood Mental Health Principles and Practices Across the Care Continuum for Children and...

We are excited that this year the Children’s Mental Health Summit partnered with First 5 Humboldt’s ACEs/Resilience Project, the 0 to 8 Mental Health Collaborative and the Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council to bring such an amazing opportunity to our community. The collaboration involved in planning this event demonstrates the richness of partnerships present in Humboldt County. Our collective goal was to provide knowledge, strategies and networking opportunities to practitioners,...

Registration is still OPEN for another week to the second annual Policymaker Education Day hosted by the California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA) in Sacramento on May 22nd! Don't miss this opportunity to be able to share your thoughts and expertise with your Assemblymember or Senator on how to address childhood adversity in your communities. Guest speakers include Assemblymember Dr. Arambula of Fresno County, Ted Lempert of Children Now and Sarah Pauter of Phenomenal...

This sounds like a wonderful event, I love the pictures (fist bump!), and this seems like a model that could be replicated elsewhere. Developing a book based on the "Counting on Humboldt" conversations is brilliant! I look forward to seeing the book, and hearing more about all the ways positive ripples travel across the wider community! NICE work! Kudos to all! Karen

By Ryan White, Center for Health Journalism, July 23, 2020 Harvard’s Jack Shonkoff, a luminary in the field of early childhood, has spent years showing that events in the earliest years of life have profound implications for how budding brains develop, and in turn, shape a child’s later potential at school and work. Now, Shonkoff says it’s time to connect the brain to the rest of the body. “The message now is to say that there is a revolution going on in molecular biology and genomics and in...

We train our workforce and community on trauma-informed principles and the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences. We ground our work with families in the Protective Factors framework. We build our programs around creating connection and dialogue between sectors and relationship within community. We have been intentional in ensuring a peripheral lens that encompasses both sides of the resiliency scale, risk and protective factors. What the acronym of HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive...