Community Outreach and Events

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We are thrilled to announce the premiere of Wrestling Ghosts , a documentary about breaking the cycle of trauma, at the LA Film festival on Sept. 27th. “Incredible. Haunting and strange and beautiful and incredibly moving.” -Dan Cogan, Founder Impact Partners Wrestling Ghosts follows the epic inner journey of Kim, a young mother who, over two heartbreaking and inspiring years, battles the traumas from her past in order to create a new present and future for her and her family. In this...

Making Connections Symposium: Exploring the Impact of Gang Culture and Gang Violence on the Mental Health and Community Well-being in Los Angeles County. MAY 11, 2016 8:30 A.M. TO 3:30 P.M. at The California Endowment KEYNOTE SPEAKERS GEORGE WEAVER , BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE LOUISE GODBOLD , ECHO PARENTING AND EDUCATION DR. D’ARTAGNAN SCORZA , SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE & INGLEWOOD SCHOOL BOARD MUSIC PERFORMANCE: THE RHYTHM ARTS ALLIANCE DRUMMERS FOOD: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND LUNCH...

The California Community Foundation , First 5 LA , The California Endowment and The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation sponsored a convening of leaders from county departments, philanthropic foundations and community organizations to discuss and learn how Los Angeles County could become a model for identifying and addressing trauma in children and families in a systematic way. The event was held at the California Community Foundation in Los Angeles. A full summary is available here:...

More than 300 people gathered for the 4th Annual Public Safety/Re-Entry, “Healing our Communities” conference in Los Angeles. The first three conferences were for USC students in the School of Social Work and people who provide social services in the LA area. This year the conference included youth and parents served by those providers. The community safety conference highlighted re-entry initiatives and programs in Los Angeles County organized by agencies such as Homeboy Industries, Project...

Dulce Acosta, ACEs Connection Community Liaison, and Devika Shankar, Co-Chair of TIC Task Force of Greater Los Angeles Over two hundred individuals gathered last week at the University of Southern California's screening of the award-winning document film, Paper Tigers . Hosted by the USC School of Social Work, the screening was sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), USC Alumni, USC Career Development Department, and the Trauma Informed Care Task Force of Greater Los...

Projected on the enormous screen at the front of the room was a blue-tinged image of a brain scan with a seemingly simple phrase next to it: Changing Minds. The striking image and accompanying messages are still being developed by national nonprofit Futures Without Violence (Futures) for a public outreach campaign about the complex issue of childhood trauma. Participants at the Changing Minds and Creating Trauma-Informed Communities convening, hosted by Futures in early February, got a...

The documentary, Paper Tigers, will be screened at USC on Thursday, March 3rd! USC's School of Social Work and the Trauma Informed Care Task Force of Greater LA are co-hosting the evening event. The evening begins at 5:00 pm with an hour of networking, followed by the film. After the film, a panel of people from the community, including task force members Emily Cummins Polk and K-Rahn Vallantine, will discuss the film. Paper Tigers follows six students through a year at Lincoln High School...

Last week, on two separate days in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, about 150 people (total) convened to listen and brainstorm about creating trauma-informed communities. Futures Without Violence, which is rolling out its Changing Minds campaign later this year, hosted both events.  Some very interesting and important themes emerged from the two days: Residents with lived experiences should participate in the decision-making bodies of service providers and vested...

Julie Ellerton / TMT Several agencies worked together during a recent meeting at Malibu City Hall to discuss the needs of homeless in Malibu. Pictured, from left: Timothy Lippman, Leah Randall, Gail Block, Tony Walczuk, Mark Winn and Carol Moss. Although the predicted El Niño has only resulted in a few days of rain in Malibu so far, an interagency group is concerned how the Malibu homeless might fare in the face of heavy downpours, flooding and mudslides that could still occur over...

From Deanna Handel, Ventura County ACEs Connection group Community Manager.    For a different work project, I came across this slideshow on cultivating knowledge through communities of practice, with a focus on online communities, and it...

Please complete the Los Angeles County ACEs, Trauma-Informed, and Resilience-Building Assets and Opportunities Survey . The survey results will be used to inform the community's ACEs, trauma-informed, and resilience-building assets and opportunities...