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Free in person summit for Benton and Franklin County School District Educators. Session topics include: Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others, Mindful Self-Compassion for Teachers, Pandemic Recovery: Healing for School Staff, Collaborating with Adults to Support Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Social Emotional Learning and Behavior, and Strategies to Support Resilience in Educators. This event will be held at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco from 8:30-3:30 PM. See the attached flyer for...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law a bill that creates a first-in-the-nation statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people. The law creates a system similar to Amber Alerts and so-called silver alerts, which are used respectively for missing children and vulnerable adults in many states. The system will notify law enforcement when there’s a report of a missing Indigenous person. It will also place messages on highway reader boards and on the radio and social media,...

Has the pandemic stressed you out? Want to learn the self-soothing skills of Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience directly from the author, Dr. Carolyn Curtis? Good news! The Dibble Institute has received generous funding for scholarships to the online, full 12-lesson series, Mind Matters Now . The course helps teachers, social workers, medical professionals, and others manage their stress by building resilience skills and practices for mental well-being. (CEU’s are...

Sharing from the PACEs Connection Event Calendar. California Training Institute is hosting a webinar focusing on Parental Resilience! January 4, 2022 2:00 PM 3:30 PM PST California Training Institute (CalTrin) - www.caltrin.org Register here Parental Resilience is the ability to manage the stressors of daily life and function well, even when faced with adversity. Join us as we learn strategies to help families recognize and increase their ability to handle stress, to build their own...

Sharing a virtual opportunity from the PACEs Connection Event Calendar for those who tend to the well-being of young people in school settings (school leaders, educators, community service providers, guidance counselors in higher education, social workers, etc.). To register click the blue hyper link at the bottom of the post. Strategies for Cultivating Joy and Wholeness: Recovering from School Crisis Though Connection December 16, 2021 9:30 AM 1:00 PM PST...

The Dibble Institute is pleased to present an introductory webinar by Rev. Dr. Bryant T. Marks Sr. of the National Training Institute on Race and Equity , which will provide foundational information on implicit bias. It will focus at the individual level and discuss how implicit bias affects everyone. Strategies to reduce or manage implicit bias will be discussed. Broadly speaking, group-based bias involves varying degrees of stereotyping (exaggerated beliefs about others), prejudice...

Written by: Diane Halo, Program Director GCACH is excited to announce that the first cohort of 14 Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been trained and working for our partnering providers. They have completed trainings on topics including the Department of Health Core Competency training, Trauma Informed Care, and Motivational Interviewing. GCACH seeking to support organizations willing to provide CHW internships. GCACH has funding for another cohort of 5 more CHWs that will start in...

Please join Accountable Communities of Health (ACHs) and Health Care Authority (HCA) for the 2021 Learning Symposium: Advancing Health Through Community Partnerships . The Learning Symposium will be held November 2-4, 2021 . We are excited to welcome keynote speakers Soma Stout with We in the World and Yolo Akili Robinson with the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective. This year’s virtual event will focus on: Social determinants of health COVID-19 impacts Tribal partnerships...

Written by: Laurel Avila, Practice Transformation Navigator Please join us in October to take an in-depth look at the Collective Medical Platform! We are grateful to our Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) for sponsoring this valuable resource for our partnering providers to use. We are also glad that many of you are already experiencing the benefits Collective Medical has to offer. Among these benefits include notification of patient visits to an Emergency Department or hospitalizations,...

Local Health Improvement Network (LHIN) and Third-Party Administrator Report-Out Written by: Brissa Perez, Community and Tribal Engagement Specialist GCACH recognizes that health and healthcare is local and that a collaborative community approach is necessary to achieve Washington’s aims of better health, better care, and lower costs. No single sector or organization in a community can create transformative, lasting change in health and health care alone. Clinical, community and government...

Local Health Improvement Networks (LHIN) A Local Health Improvement Network (LHIN) is a formalized group of individuals who coordinate and collaborate on activities and programs to address the health issues and disparities in their respective communities. Representing nine counties and a tribal nation, Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health (GCACH) works with seven LHINs to identify the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) specific to their area. Once the most critical SDOH are...

The pandemic has had a lasting effect on youth mental health. Moved by a desire to reduce youth’s toxic stress and increase their resilience, The Dibble Institute, in partnership with a team of students and alumni from ArtCenter College of Design and author Carolyn Curtis, PhD, is releasing Me & My Emotions —a new, free adaptation of our beloved Mind Matters Curriculum. The mobile-friendly Me & My Emotions website features engaging graphics and bite-sized lessons teens can access and...