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The UC Consortium on the Developmental Science of Adolescence will feature speakers with a focus on Adolescence as a Second Period of Transformation.

A new training opportunity is available in Arkansas on March 9, 2017. From Trauma To Resilience: Fostering Hope Through Trauma-Informed Care Studies have shown that adverse childhood experiences and traumatic events can have a lasting, negative impact on a person’s health and well-being. This new training is designed to help you develop the unique skillset needed to support individuals who have experienced adverse childhood experiences and traumatic events. What participants told us they...

DO NOT MISS THIS PLAY! Mark your calendars for March 24 & 25. Playwright is our own DeAngelo Mack! Along with his young people served through SVIP. Trigger follows a small group of young individuals through a journey of discovery and healing.

At the Northern California Construction Training Center in Sacramento County, you can find a number of probationers hard at work learning new crafts. And over the sound of hammers and buzz saws, a four-letter word is frequently heard. That word is H-O-P-E. For many of those taking part in this career training, it’s the first time they’ve had any hope in a long, long time — thanks to a joint program created by the Sacramento County Probation Department, County Office of Education and the...

Brian Goetsch, mindfulness instructor, and Susan Jones, trauma-informed practitioner, will lead a district-focused group of educators to discuss secular mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and restorative practices.

On January 25 2017 De Angelo Mack and I had the privilege of presenting ACEs 101 to an audience of 60+ working to reduce African American childhood deaths. We followed Dr Nadine Burke-Harris's Ted Talk so we had to be creative to keep our audience engaged and introduced the Brain Architecture Game to the group. The goal of the game is to build a brain that is tall, which represents functional brain ability, but is also as strong as possibles so that it won't collapse in later years under the...

Interdisciplinary Research Leaders is a leadership development opportunity for teams of researchers and community partners, including community organizers and advocates. These teams use the power of applied research—informing and supporting critical work being done in communities—to accelerate that work and advance health and equity. Their innovation helps build a Culture of Health , one that enables everyone in America to live longer, healthier lives. For this second IRL cohort (beginning...

Finding culturally competent care is sometimes an issue in Sacramento. There is a group of minority therapist in Sacramento we just found out about from De Angelo Mack. They run the Rosetta Center for Counseling and Wellness right here in Sacramento. See link below. Attached is a 10 week series they are doing with black women around depression. http://www.therosettacenter.com/default.html

Just to let you know that Jennie Joseph, the midwife in Florida who sets up "perinatal safe zones" in marginalized neighborhoods in Florida to emotionally support pregnant moms and families resulting in full term, bonded/attached families will be here on Wednesday, January 18. You are welcome to attend.

Nurses are working with local health leaders to bring free health education directly to a city-designated “promise zone” of Sacramento’s most impoverished neighborhoods, officials announced Friday during a kickoff of the community nursing program. The corridor of struggling neighborhoods stretching from Del Paso Heights down to Florin Road will receive federal funding over the next 10 years to improve health, schooling and employment opportunities. Starting this month, they’ll also receive...

CA Department of Health Care Services and Department of Public Health welcome Dr. Vincent Felitti, Co-Principal Investigator of the O riginal CDC-Kaiser Adverse Childhood Experiences ( ACEs ) Study, 1995-1997 The DHCS Office of the Medical Director and CDPH would like to invite you to hear Dr. Felitti speak about the seminal ACE Study, one of the largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect and later-life health and well-being. The ACE Study now includes more than 80 publications...

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