Resilient Bladen (NC)
Tagged With "parenting support"
Blog Post
2011-2021—A decade of steady growth in ACEs and TI laws and resolutions in the states
In 2019 and 2020, dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that reference adverse childhood experiences or trauma. In this post, there's an interactive map that shows them all.
Blog Post
Tribute to Dr. Felitti
By, Felicia Nelson, Christina Velez, and Mark Egan 7/19/21 A pioneer in the field of internal medicine, Dr. Vincent J. Felitti has over 50 years of experience with extensive knowledge in the areas of childhood trauma, the genetic disease Hemochromatosis, and obesity. Here at The Relationship Foundation, Dr. Vincent Felitti is our mentor and an inspiration to us all. He has spent a greater part of his life, serving as a co-principal for the ACEs Study. ACE stands for “Adverse Childhood...
Blog Post
Register now! North Carolina Resilience Peer Connection August 18th from Noon – 1:00
Dear NC partners, Over the past couple of years, by survey and multiple conversations and meetings, we have asked those of you on the ground doing the important work of bringing communities together to prevent and address ACEs what you need to enhance the good work you’re doing. By far, the desire to connect with peers doing similar work has risen to the top as the #1 priority/desire that you and your colleagues wanted us to address and provide. We are excited to announce the first gathering...
Blog Post
Blue Cross NC Forms New Foster Care Advisory Council for Healthy Blue, Enhancing Commitment to Trauma-Informed Care Delivery Across the State
New council will advise Healthy Blue Medicaid plan for a seamless system of care DURHAM, N.C. – Building on its ongoing commitment to improve the health and well-being of children and families in foster care across the state, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) has formed a new Foster Care Advisory Council to work with and advise its Healthy Blue Medicaid plan. The Advisory Council will serve as a valuable resource in ensuring those in foster care are receiving the...
Blog Post
NC Child Legislative and Policy Update call 11 a.m. EST, Fri. Sept.10, 2021
Special NC Child Legislative Update: COVID Delta Variant & Children Presenters: Dr. Zack Moore, State Epidemiologist & Dr. Kelly Kimple, Women’s & Children’s Health Section Chief Friday, 9/10, 11:00 am All Friday updates will be provided live in both English and Spanish. Sign up here to attend. 2021 NC Statewide Virtual Policy Institute The NC Collaborative for Children, Youth, and Families and Prevent Child Abuse NC announce that registration for the 2021 Policy Institutes is...
Blog Post
** NCTSN September 2021 Spotlight ** [mednet.ucla.edu]
While natural disasters can strike at any time with very little warning, families and communities can take steps to prepare in the event that a disaster does occur. With the devastation caused by ongoing events (hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, COVID-19) across the nation, this reaffirms the need for disaster preparedness. Our thoughts are with the families, children, and communities who have been affected by these disasters. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) has resources...
Blog Post
Smart Start Early Childhood Resilience Cohort Here To Help [transylvaniatimes.com]
By The Transylvania Times, October 20, 2021 What helps you cope and get through hard times? How do you face life’s challenges, adversities and crises? The ability to be resilient in times of stress, adversity, failure, challenges or even trauma is a skill that not everyone has. Studies have found that 45% of North Carolina children have experienced one or more adverse childhood experiences and only 57% of adults studied exhibited strong resiliency. Smart Start of Transylvania County (SSTC)...
Blog Post
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Vaccine Hesitancy (Sign On Letter Attached In First Line)
Please sign onto and share this memo supporting using a trauma-informed approach to decreasing vaccine hesitancy! Many of the challenges we are facing with vaccine hesitancy can be better understood by looking at the issue through a trauma-informed lens. The following memo has been developed with input from many of the clinical and academic thought leaders from the trauma healing field to offer supportive guidance to the Administration. To successfully address this challenge, we need to...
Blog Post
A Trauma Informed Approach to Vaccine Fear
PLEASE SIGN ON TO THIS MEMO TO SUPPORT OUTREACH ALONG THESE LINES TO THE ADMINISTRATION! If the goal is to impact meaningful change, it might prove helpful to view vaccine fear through a trauma informed-lens. There is an intentional shift from the use of the word “hesitancy” and instead using the more specific and appropriate term “fear”. We are more likely to change that which we better define and understand. The following memo has been developed with input from an interdisciplinary team of...
Blog Post
Parenting to Prevent & Heal ACEs Handout
This handout is based on the work of Donna Jackson Nakazawa , who worked with us and generously allowed us to paraphrase content from her book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology & How You Can Heal . Donna's book specifically addresses those of us parenting with ACEs (which she also does brilliantly in the powerful documentary, Wrestling Ghosts , which is about parenting and healing from ACEs). This handout can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is...
Blog Post
Stress Busters Handout
We all have inner strengths and resilience that can help us deal with challenges and stress. To help us manage stress, PACEs Connection and ACEs Aware created a handout based on seven evidence-based stress busters , as described in the Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General’s Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health . These interventions can help reduce stress, improve health, and build resilience. Please share widely! The handout is available in the...
Blog Post
Need to fund your resilience initiative? Here’s how.
Chart is sample page from county-by-county funding allocated as part of ARPA. Information is available by clicking here. This is the first of several articles on the importance of any resilience-focused entity, including your PACEs Connection community, seeking out the people in your area allocating ARPA funding and asking for money. Organizations do not necessarily have to be 501 C-3 nonprofits to receive funding. Thanks to federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to states in April...
Blog Post
Community Engagement and Empowerment Team Newsletter
NCDHHS Announces Updated Launch for Behavioral Health I/DD Tailored Plans "The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Ser vices announced that Behavioral Health and Intellectual/ Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Tailored Plans will launch Dec. 1, 2022 , instead of July 1, 2022. Individuals who need certain services to address a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, severe sub stance use disorder, intellectual or developmental disabil ity or traumatic brain injury,...
Blog Post
Register now for "Building the Movement with Coalitions", presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, PACEs Connection, and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...
Blog Post
January 19th CTIPP CAN Call - Trauma-Informed Initiatives in Baltimore and Maryland
Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...
Blog Post
Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience Workshop Series Session 2 - January 21st, 2022 from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Education and Health Care
Lee Johnson III PhD and Sandra Bloom MD to lead discussion on emerging trauma-informed policies and practices in the education and health care fields. What are ways that these fields are taking PACEs, Prevention, and Trauma science into consideration, and what can advocates do to help further advance these and other promising practices? It's free to join, so sign up at this link today! You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement in Education and Health Care , the second of eight...
Blog Post
FREE Community Resiliency Model Full Day Training
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
Blog Post
Third Workshop in the National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience
The focus of this week’s workshop in the Building A National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience Series is Justice Systems and Child Welfare. Our very own, Ben David is on the Justice Systems panel. There is still time to register if you would like to attend: To Register: https://www.npscoalition.org/p...auma-workshop-series . They do make the recordings available after the sessions. Panel 1: Justice Systems Moderator: Becky Haas, Advocate and Trainer Chief Christopher Leusner,...
Blog Post
Register now! Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems February 4, 2022
February 4th, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems Making these sectors trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered You’re invited to participate in the third of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience”. This half-day workshop will occur virtually and focus on promising practices in the child welfare and justice systems, as well as teach...
Blog Post
HIRING: Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant for Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson Counties
Are you passionate about helping create trauma-informed and healing centered communities? You will have the opportunity to work with amazing leaders in Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson County as the Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant. Position Title : Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant Supervised by : Regional Resiliency Workgroup with individual points of contact from Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson Counties. Status : Part-Time, Contract (Through September 2023, with continuation of...
Blog Post
Local organizations in rural Eastern North Carolina pilot trauma-informed programs to support mental health & healing from trauma in educational, religious, and legal system settings
Hello! Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) just wrapped up our first cohort of the Resilient Leaders Initiative , a 9-month program that supported 5 local organizations to pilot trauma-informed practices. This was the first social accelerator program model to that is: -focused on public agencies (not startups) -rooted in a rural community -supporting orgs on piloting trauma-informed practices Click here for the in-depth press release. Click here for a 2-page summary of outcomes. Thank you to...
Blog Post
February 18, 2022 - Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities
Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities February 18, 2022 - 1pm to 5pm ET/10am to 2pm PT Panel 1: Transformative Justice Grant-funded workshop provided by Mazzoni Center and WOAR. This workshop will give a foundational look at transformative justice with the goal of better understanding how to support people who have experienced violence through community-based approaches. The audience will learn about the core tenets of transformative...
Blog Post
Resilient Guilford Network (NC) shares resources for talking with children about war in the Ukraine
In light of recent events, Resilient Guilford Network is sharing resources from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in response to the war on Ukraine. Some are specific to military families, while others are more general resources. Please see the links below and let us know if you have questions and how we can help support your local efforts. Deep breaths as we start a new week together. We look forward to staying connected and are grateful for all you do. General Child...
Blog Post
Resilient Bladen March Monthly Meeting
Angela Mendell Public School Forum of NC, Resilience and Learning Project She reviewed overview training and how it works: school sets up Resilience team, 2 years of coaching, 2 times a month, assessments, trauma-informed school training and presentations. Post on PACEs Connection about North Carolina Public Schools Forum https://www.ncforum.org/ amendell@ncforum.org Our next meeting will be on April 25 th at 11 am. This meeting will be extended to an hour and a half to accommodate our guest...
Blog Post
Resilient Bladen Memorandum of Understanding
Please review, sign, and return to Carra Osborne at carra.osborne@gmail.com.
Blog Post
April Monthly Meeting Notes and Recording - Dr. Wanda Boone Presents
Resilient Bladen Coalition April 25, 2022 @ 11 AM 15 people present Meeting Minutes Meeting recorded via zoom, recording below Dr. Wanda Boone, CEO of Durham TRY (Together for Resilient Youth) was our guest speaker for this meeting. Key takeaways from the presentation: “Children thrive when the adults around them are thriving”- Dr. Boone Individual Humility- Understanding that we are all different, have different likes, dislikes, these are based on who we were around as children and our...
Blog Post
Memorandum of Understanding
We are so excited for you to be part of the Resilient Bladen efforts to create a more trauma-informed and healing centered community. We invite you to review and sign the Memorandum of Understanding and email it to carra.osborne@gmail.com and resilientsenc@gmail.com .
Blog Post
County Commissioners Sign Local Resilient and Thriving Communities Proclamation
Leader of Resilient Bladen, Tocarra Osborne, presented the county of commissioners of Bladen County with the Resilient and Thriving Communities Week proclamation and they signed it to honor of this week in dedication to creating more trauma-informed and resiliency focused individuals and communities. Leader Tocarra Osborne is doing an incredible job leading this group to combine efforts to help create awareness and training to promote healthy and thriving individuals and communities within...
Blog Post
Join us in Recognizing a “Resilient & Thriving Communities Week” across North Carolina’s Local Communities June 6-12, 2022
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...
Blog Post
Join us for the JUNE 2022 round of Creating Resilient Communities!
June event dates listed for the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. JOIN US!!!
Blog Post
A Nurse-Led, Well-Being Promotion Using the Community Resiliency Model, Atlanta, 2020–2021 [ajph.aphapublications.org]
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...
Blog Post
July as National Minority Mental Health Month
Just a gentle reminder of a great opportunity to hear from national presenter Ingrid Cockhren - CEO of PACES Connection and Dr. Tyra Turner Whittaker on the topics of minority mental health in honor of July as National Minority Mental Health month . This topic is so important every month, but this month we highlight the importance of providing culturally relevant support by welcoming and hosting these amazing experts. It's free so don't forget to register here for the link. A flyer is also...
Blog Post
Foster Family Alliance raises funds to recruit resource parents
Help us raise money for Foster Family Alliance while providing a sweet treat for your crew. We are going to use the money to go deeper and wider with our recruitment of Resource Parents in NC. If you are interested, send Gaile Osborne a message on Facebook, email gaile.osborne@ffa-nc.org , or text (828)707-0357 with your email and how many dozens you want to purchase. A request for payment will be sent via paypal or venmo for payment from FFA-NC. Once paid, you will get a code to be used at...
Blog Post
July Monthly Meeting
Brene Brown shares the importance of being able to ask for help non-judgmentally in order to be able to offer support/help non-judgmentally. Brene Brown - Asking for Help Video 18 people joined the July Resilient Bladen Meeting where leader, Carra, spoke about Concrete Supports during times of Need from the Protective Factors training to help us shift the lens on how we see and interact with the folks we serve. There were also skills from the biology-based wellness skills model called the...
Blog Post
Updates! The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative!
The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative leverages Smart Start’s deep roots in local communities across North Carolina and honors the powerful work of local ACEs and resilience collaboratives. In collaboration with state and local partners, the initiative fosters a common understanding and shared approach for local collaboratives to support the health and well-being of children, families, and community members across the lifespan in North Carolina—in a way that broadens the...
Blog Post
Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness and Prevention Providing Trauma Informed Policing Training
The Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness & Prevention (CCSAP) of New Bern, North Carolina is proud to offer an in-person day of trauma-informed training to members of law enforcement facilitated by national subject matter expert, Becky Haas. This event for members of law enforcement is free of charge, however registration is required. A certificate of attendance with contact hours will be provided. Trauma-Informed Police Training: Law enforcement professionals have a history of...
Blog Post
Healthy Blue pilots innovative collaboration to improve health of foster care community in six NC PACEs Connection “Coop” communities
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 —...
Blog Post
2022 Resilience Symposium: Building Hope - Friday, September 30th; features Becky Haas as opening and closing speaker
New Bern, NC – The Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness & Prevention (CCSAP) will be hosting the 2022 Resilience Symposium: Building Hope on Friday, September 30 th from 8am-5pm at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center. This in-person event is only $40, features internationally-respected leader and speaker in the PACEs science movement Becky Haas, and includes lunch and snacks catered by Posh Nosh. The past two years have been stressful, even traumatic form many, helping us...
Blog Post
September Monthly Meeting
Leader of Resilient Bladen, Carra Osborne, collaborated with 15 people who met for the Resilient Bladen Meeting on September 26, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. See the attachment for the notes from the meeting.
Blog Post
How to Help Survivors of Extreme Climate Events (psychologytoday.com)
By Elaine Miller-Karas MSW, LCSW Building Resiliency to Trauma Psychology Today, September 30, 2022 Mental health can suffer after extreme climate events. KEY POINTS Mental health conditions exacerbated by natural disasters include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. After a disaster, the number of people needing assistance from the mental health systems strains or exceeds community capacity. There are simple strategies helpers can use to help survivors restore...
Blog Post
Resilient Bladen MOU
We invite for the leader of your organization to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for Resilient Bladen Coalition and email it to carra.osborne@gmail.com. We are very excited for your organization to join the Resilient Bladen efforts to work toward a healthier and more resilient community in Bladen County.
Blog Post
Bladen County’s plan for opioid settlement money has been in the works for years
By Ivey Schofield iveyschofield@borderbelt.org As Bladen County awaits its share of a $26 billion national opioid settlement, officials say they’re ready to put money behind the plan they’ve been working on for the last five years. In 2017, the county formed a substance misuse task force that created a multifaceted strategic plan to combat alcohol and drug addiction. The plan includes improving coordination among services, implementing a prevention program for school-age children and...
Blog Post
Judges’ order gives NC 10 years to provide more at-home disability services
By Taylor Knopf and Rose Hoban Disability Rights North Carolina celebrates Judge Allen Baddour’s ruling that will help more people with disabilities live at home, but state officials say it may take longer to fulfill his order. In a sweeping judgment handed down last week, a Superior Court judge ruled that the state of North Carolina needs to provide services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the home settings that they choose. In his order , Judge Allen Baddour...
Blog Post
Mental health has a race issue: How misdiagnosis is impacting Black employees
DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY Mental health has a race issue: How misdiagnosis is impacting Black employees By Alyssa Place November 15, 2022, 5:30 a.m. EST 6 Min Read Twitter LinkedIn Email Show more sharing options Photo by Rebrand Cities for Pexels When Dr. Jessica Jackson was called to do an evaluation at the hospital where she was the attending psychologist, what she encountered was not a mentally ill patient, but a persistent and dangerous issue rampant in the healthcare system . "They asked...
Blog Post
Bladen County Department of Social Services Angel Tree Project A Heartwarming Experience
Credit to Bladen Online article here: Bladen County Department of Social Services Angel Tree Project A Heartwarming Experience – BladenOnline Elizabethtown, N.C—Beta Club members from Clarkton School of Discovery have adopted 75 “angels” from the Bladen County Department of Social Services Angel Tree Project. Under the guidance of their club advisor, Elizabeth Priest, and the support of their families, Clarkton’s Beta students are going above and beyond a Beta’s call to serve. “I am so proud...
Blog Post
New Community Center And Improvements Coming To New Town
The New Town section of Elizabethtown will benefit from two grants recently awarded to the Town of Elizabethtown with the development of a new community center and improvements to the streetscape along part of Martin Luther King (MLK) Drive. The Town of Elizabethtown, in conjunction with engineering consultant Paul Mattox, Libby Smith, and E.L. Robinson Engineering, applied for and was awarded $2,575,000 to design and construct an 11,000 sq ft Community Center on Martin Luther King Drive.
Blog Post
State awards $325,000 grant to Bladenboro for community enhancements
Story by WECT Staff B LADENBORO, N.C. (WECT) - Bladenboro received a $325,000 grant as part of $19.7 million in American Rescue Plan funding awarded to rural projects in North Carolina. Governor Roy Cooper announced the funding in a press release on Wednesday, Dec. 14. “More support for North Carolina’s rural communities is on the way with these transformative grants, made possible by President Biden’s American Rescue Plan,” said Cooper. “These funds, backed up by the expertise of our rural...