Tagged With "community development"
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Re: AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE NE MICHIGAN TRAUMA INFORMED COMMUNITY: 7.30.15
I wanted to put this here so that the NE Michigan Group could have some Ideas of how to move forward beyond the school system but that might be able to be tied in through Alcona too? We could try to collaborate with the CAC (Grand Rapids) ---- and Alcona maybe Jacki Fitzgerald ---- and then maybe Western Michigan (NCTSN K-Zoo sight) --- to move the trauma informed care collaboration into NE Michigan. So here is the newsletter from the Child and Family Services in TC. Behavioral Health Team...
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Re: Brain Development Bottom-Up
This very Important Brief Describes the Effects of Child Maltreatment on the Developing Brain in a Very easy to Understand Format ... It contains information that we used to develop our First Alpena Trauma-Informed Schools Presentation. In recent years, there has been a surge of research into early brain development. Neuroimaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), provide increased insight about how the brain develops and how early experiences affect that development.
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Re: followup exchange presentation 9:8
Here is the followup exchange presentation given yesterday 9/8 in Alpena. Wanted to review ACEs, go over toxic stress and give a followup on the work we have been doing in Alpena and where we hope to go. No volunteers to join our group. However, asked that if the group hosts other presenters who may be interested to let them know about us. Making a collection of power points that can be used in our rural community to educate folks on ACEs and Toxic Stress. Any ideas of how to spread the word...
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Re: Northern Michigan Building Resilience
We have formed a trauma task force in our community and are doing our best to pull it together. ACES Connection has been key in our start up. We will keep growing, learning and spreading what we learn.
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Re: Northern Michigan Building Resilience
Daggonit, Here is the link to the entire toolkit... I cannot figure how to add it with the new platform. https://www.pacesconnection.com/...lience-toolkit-v-1-0
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Re: Northern Michigan Building Resilience
Yep we had a meeting today. Cathy, you will have to let me know how the ACEs in children grant is going. We had a great meeting today in Tuscola so I am very much looking forward to continuing with working with you all in Traverse City. Hope the ACEs Children's grant writing is going good. Tina
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Re: Trauma, Toxic Stress, and ACEs: Why Should You Care?
I would love to attend, but it is the same day as the Governor's Task Force conference on human sex trafficking. It is held at the GT Resort.
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Re: Northeast Michigan Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative
Here is the Actual Power Point. The poll everywhere are slide slots from an app service that allows interactive audience polling which we used for the 10 ace questions which were texted in live during the presentation. We had 20 participants in addition to the 4 presenters. Below is an example of what the slide would look like with the poll.
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Re: Resilience Coffee
I'd like to attend. So let me know. But I probably will not attend a lot. I am not even close to a morning person, unfortunately. On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:15 PM, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: Resilience Coffee
Mark, I completely understand. When I lived in Miami, Florida, afternoon coffee (Cuban coffee) was a time to gather. Maybe we should also add an afternoon coffee! ~ Cathy
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Re: Resilience Coffee
If it works. This is a subject that is dear to me. On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:10 PM, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: Family Struggles May Affect Boys' Brain Development (Healthday.com)
So far we know of three major critical time periods in brain development during childhood (birth to three hippocampus/amygdala - fear circuits ; around 8-10 corpus collusum that connects the Right - emotional, non-verbal processing brain with the left Logical Processing and Verbal Brain ; and early adolescence where the prefrontal cortices develop - higher executive functioning and planning along with impulse control). The major contributor to this work and knowledge is Dr. Martin Teicher an...
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Re: Check out "What if ACES were the basis for mental health treatment?" (madinamerica.com)
What if We Could PREVENT Most Mental Health Problems? By Dr. Sandra L. Bloom | August 20th, 2015 | Posted on realmhchange.org The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACEs Study) may turn out to be the most important scientific finding of the late 20th century, opening up windows of opportunity that could vastly improve mental health care, physical health care, and virtually all of our current major social problems. The ACEs study, along with other major epidemiological studies, show that we...
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Re: Innovative, New Approach in Charlevoix County, Michigan Court
Awesome!!!! (With my one caveat --- I HOPE the organization understands that meds do little for trauma and focus heavily on the other strategies like MBSR, Yoga, Trauma-drauma and the expressive arts, equine therapy etc to build SAFE environments, minds and bodies that youth can habitate then develop strong sense of a positive self so youth can heal... They may even consider other strategies at some point in the future like Neurofeedback or biofeedback with breath and heart rate variability...
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Re: Presentation to our Human Services Coordinating Committee
We had a great meeting with our local Human Services Coordinating Committee today. It was a great opportunity to reach out to others. We also received the opportunity to put our survey monkey community ACEs Survey on the Alpena Public Schools Facebook Page which will give us a great opportunity to reach out for a more comprehensive local ACEs survey as they recently had 50,000 views. The powerpoint for the Presentation is below in the attachments with the videos embedded in the presentation.
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ACEs Science in Education: The Next Big Challenge is Systems Change #ACEsCon2018
One of the first sessions of the 2018 ACEs Conference: Action to Access discussed the barriers and opportunities for increasing access in the field of education. The main question was: "How can one achieve systematic changes within the field of education?" The session was moderated by Michelle Flowers, a passionate advocate, and the principal of Kinney High in Rancho Cordova, CA, which is part of the Folsom Cordova Unified School District. It included a dynamic and diverse panel of education...
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Bill would ban gay conversion therapy at youth boot camps (thehill.com)
House lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban the practice of gay conversion therapy and other forms of child abuse at youth boot camps and residential treatment programs. The bill unveiled Tuesday by Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and...
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Broken Crayons Still Color - Northeast Michigan Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative
Hello everyone! Although we had a rather small attendance at our meeting last Thursday, we moved forward on our stated goal of defining an achievable goal to be accomplished within the Alpena Public School System within the coming school year....
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Build a “Trauma-Informed Nation,” an opportunity to learn and plan around the country (By Elizabeth Prewitt)
If you are now (or want to be) part of “Building a Trauma-Informed Nation,” join a national conversation to spur action for two half-days September 29-30 (11:30 am-5:30 pm ET each day). You have the option to attend a...
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Building a Trauma-Informed Nation - Be a Part - Become an Amplifier Site or Sign up Individually
JOIN THE FEDERAL PARTNERS COMMITTEE ON WOMEN AND TRAUMA TO CATALYZE A TRAUMA–INFORMED NATIONAL STRATEGY The United States is experiencing a public health crisis: an epidemic of trauma, violence and toxic stress. In response, efforts to...
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Childhood trauma and its effects: Implications for Policing
Childhood trauma unrecognized or ignored can have life changing implications, forging terrible, new links in the vicious, generational, chain of trauma. We can be the difference to break the chain.
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Coming to a MI County Near You?
The Pathways to Potential Approach We believe everyone has the potential to achieve their dreams. Some just need extra support and assistance along the pathway to achieve their potential. In 2012, we created Pathways to Potential. Pathways is an...
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Community Resilience Cookbook
The National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience (NCAR) met in December 2013 and as a result produced the Community Resilience Cookbook You can read about the five cities and four states in the U.S. and Canada that are...
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Creating and Advocating for Trauma-Sensitive Schools
Creating and Advocating for Trauma-Sensitive Schools Volume 2 of Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Creating and Advocating for Trauma-Sensitive Schools, safe, supportive learning environments that benefit all children offers a Guide...
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Emotional Abuse Is Inadequately Defined and Measured (chronicleofsocialchange.org)
In Michigan, 46 percent of child abuse victims in 2013 suffered from emotional abuse, according to the 2013 report on child abuse and neglect data collected by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. In neighboring Illinois, however,...
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Guess What? WHO doesn't just talk bacon...
Adverse childhood experiences and associations with health-harming behaviours in young adults: surveys in eight eastern European countries Mark A Bellis,a Karen Hughes,a Nicola Leckenby,a Lisa Jones,a Adriana Baban,b Margarita Kachaeva,c Robertas...
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Jones: Day 2: Soda, cigarettes and trauma: How Adverse Childhood Experiences alter brain chemistry, cultivate unhealthy habits and prompt premature death
Patients would carry soda into Dr. Gerard Clancy’s office, with cigarettes tucked away for after therapy. Often victims of abuse or violent crime, they would seek soothing but risky behaviors to cope. Overweight. Chronic pain. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Type II diabetes. His former patients will die younger than they should, he said. Clancy conducted therapy sessions until he became president of the University of Tulsa in 2016. At his psychiatry clinic, he saw firsthand how a...
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Michigan Trauma Informed Education
We are working with PESI, a leader in professional development, to offer a full day training in trauma informed education. This content follows the content of our book on Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students. We will be in Michigan April 19, (Sterling Heights) 20, (LIvonia) and 21 (Ann Arbor) See the attached brochure If this goes well they will continue to offer this next year. Hope to see you there
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Mindfulness for Children (Childtrends.org)
Mindfulness helps poor Children in Brazil deal with Life's Challenges What do actress Goldie Hawn , Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan , and Google employees have in common with children in disadvantaged,...
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National Council for Behavioral Health Conference #NatCon19
Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the annual National Council for Behavioral Health Conference. I have been to my fair share of conferences but #NatCon19 was one of the best. First, I'm biased. It took place in my city, Nashville, TN . And the venue was the world renowned Opryland Hotel's Gaylord Convention Center . And, I love, love, love the Opryland Hotel ! As any seasoned conference goer, I had a strategy when it came to which sessions and events I wanted to attend. My game...
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New Community!!! Ardmore OK Behavioral Health Collaborative
I'm excited to announce the newest ACEs Connection geographic community for my region, the Midwest & TN: Ardmore OK Behavioral Health Collaborative . This community is a partnership of local organizations taking a trauma-informed stance on behavioral health in Carter County, OK. Their goal is to build a healthy, connected and resilient community. The community manager is Ashley Godwin . Ashley Godwin joined Ardmore Behavioral Health Collaborative in March 2017 as the Director where she...
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Northern Michigan Building Resilience
A shift is happening in Northern Michigan. More people, community leaders, service leaders are using the language of ACEs and Resilience. This shift will meet with the greatest success as collaboration, common language, shared goals, and shared resources are leveraged to lead us toward building a more compassionate, informed community. A new Facebook community: Northern Michigan Regional Resilience Coalition is one of the efforts to join us together in all of our varied efforts to educate,...
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Positive Childhood Experiences offset ACEs: Q & A with Dr. Robert Sege about HOPE
Tufts University medical professor Dr. Robert Sege directs the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine and is nationally known for his research on effective health systems approaches that address social determinants of health. He is also the principal investigator for the HOPE framework (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences).The HOPE framework is based on research that shows how positive childhood experiences can mitigate the effects of adverse childhood experiences. Sege and colleagues...
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Preventing child abuse and neglect is a moral and economic imperative (jsonline.com) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
There is nothing more important than the health and happiness of our children, and what they experience in their early years helps build the foundation for them to grow into strong, confident adults. But every year, more than 650,000 children across...
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Resilience Coffee
Spread the word , a group of us are meeting for coffee the 1st Wednesday of every month beginning March 2, 2016, at 7:30 am. We are calling ourselves "Resilience Coffee". Our plan is to talk about ACEs, building resilience, raising awareness, educating, and to enjoy a cup of coffee together. Interested? Send me message with your email address, and I will let you know our location as soon as it is finalized. The location we're finalizing is in Downtown Traverse City. ~ Cathy
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Starting & Growing Resilient Communities: Series Overview [Video]
The first session of the Starting & Growing Resilient Communities: Online & IRL (In Real Life) was a success. Over 100 ACEs Connection members tuned in despite some issues with registration. I have embedded the video in this post. You have also find the video on the ACEs Connection site here . If you have any questions about the series, please contact Ingrid Cockhren , TN & Midwest Community Facilitator.
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Thriving—Beyond Surviving: Resiliency After Trauma (www.phoenix-society.org)
"We studied what it meant to be “mentally tough” and what characteristics the mentally tough athlete possessed. Characteristics of Mentally Tough Performers Cope more easily with setbacks Have control over anxiety and use it productively Have higher self-confidence Use more positive self-talk Have a positive outlook on the future Set specific goals and visualize accomplishing goals Have a support network" "But the reality is that the majority of people who experience stressful or traumatic...
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Trauma Screenings for all Children on MediCal - AB 340 Approved in California!
I cross-posted this blog by Holly White-Wolfe (From Sonoma County ACEs) here. I think we in Michigan have to think bigger. We have to get more done. So....... Several ACEs Connection members should be feeling proud about now. Karen Clemmer, Carla Denner, Jessica Hackwell, Nick Dalton, and several others joined the 4CA Campaign to educate legislators about ACEs and trauma. Our partners with First 5, Maternal Child Adolescent Health, and the County Board of Supervisors also wrote letters to...
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Treating Childhood Trauma Becoming a Public Policy Priority [governing.com]
There’s a lot that’s indisputable about childhood trauma. Emotional or physical abuse early in life impacts health outcomes as children grow up. Community- and family-based approaches to dealing with trauma are better than institutional settings. And children of color are more likely to face traumatizing childhood experiences. Those events can include something as common as divorce, but also encompass circumstances such as having an incarcerated parent, living with someone with a substance...
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Why Screen (for ACEs) if there are no Services? (Pediatric News)
This is an older article but it is appropriate for us as we seek system changes (in all systems affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences) including the Health Care System: The article is from last year's Pediatric News and is by Dr. Howard who...
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Wisconsin state agencies end year one of trauma-informed learning community; goal is to be first trauma-informed state
Here in California, many people think that it’s only liberal Democrats who have a corner on championing the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and putting it into practice. That might be because people who use ACEs science don’t expel or suspend students, even if they’re throwing chairs and hurling expletives at the teacher. They ask "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?" as a frame when they create juvenile detention centers where kids don’t fight, reduce...
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Basic Presentations for Rural Communities - What are you doing in MI? - Can we change the Name of this group?
Hi Fellow ACE prevention and Community Resilience Building Advocates across the state of Michigan. I have some basic questions. I am doing my best working through an organization called MiTeam of Huron-Tuscola counties. (If anyone is associated with the Genessee/Lapeer County MiTeam on this page, could you send me a private message? I would like to see how you are approaching this subject and working across silos.) We need to develop "curriculum" or "training" (I put these words in...
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How to Spread the ACE (Toxic Stress) Word in Michigan?
I love this by the Philadelphia ACE Task Force -- So I am copying it here: This Post is by Leslie Lieberman - Philadelphia ACE Task Force. Thanks Leslie!!! Last year the Philadelphia ACE Task Force created a work group to focus on how to educate...
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What are Your Favorite Resources You Use For Parent Education?
Here are some of mine. I like resources that I can use with parents of pediatric patients. I especially like free resources. What are some of yours? I am always looking to learn about useful resource I am not aware of. Thanks All things Zero to Three has to be my favorite. There are lots of different types of resources on the Zero to three web site. A favorite of mine to give to parents at well child visits is the Healthy Minds Handouts. These handouts were originally offered as a set for...
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