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"Oakland Unified school board voted unanimously Wednesday night (May 11) to eliminate willful defiance as a reason to suspend any student and to invest at least $2.3 million to expand restorative justice practices in its schools". Our neighbors to the West have done a powerful thing- ending suspensions for willful defiance, which clearly had become an abused strategy for teachers struggling with classroom management. Ending willful defiance and replacing it with relationship-building...

Help wanted. The 3rd Annual Community Networking Conference hosted by Communities & Health Professionals Together is scheduled June 7, 8:30A-1:00P at UC Davis Ambulatory Care Center. I believe this would be a great opportunity to inform the health care professionals about ACEs Connection and Resilient Sac. Unfortunately, I am booked that day. Could we pull together a team tor represent Resilient Sac at the event that day. I would be happy to help with hand out information, etc. for the...

UC Davis map attached. See everyone on Thursday, May 26th!

Vincent Felitti, a Kaiser Permanente physician in San Diego in the 1990s, had a radical idea. Instead of just asking patients about their symptoms, what would happen if doctors asked them about their childhoods? His hypothesis, built on a hunch informed by experience, was that childhood trauma was connected to poor health later in life. Felitti helped lead an exhaustive study of 17,000 patients that seemed to confirm his theory. That was in 1998. But for years Felitti’s study and his...

We have a new name! And other announcements... read the meeting summary notes and please share your feedback.

REMINDER: Monthly Meeting today at 4:00! Click post to view agenda.

RWJ working with ideas42 is currently soliciting applications from communities who are tackling challenging problems in community health and well-being, and who are interested in learning how the field of behavioral science, which provides deeper insights into how people make decisions and take actions, can be used to develop better solutions to these problems. Interested communities will designate an organization or consortium of organizations to submit the application on their behalf. FROM...

Meeting notes from April 12, 2016 are pasted below and attached as well. We had a great presentation from Kaytie Speziale of the San Francisco Traum-Informed Systems Initiative, and Sacramento ACEs members shared concrete ways that they have collaborated to increase trauma-informed work in Sacramento (links provided). Additional materials from the special presentation will be posted separately.

See recent Sacramento Bee article about city budget planning. Funds are being proposed for a couple of priority areas that the Sacramento ACEs Connection group are addressing but is it enough to address what is needed here in Sacramento? Sacramento would direct money toward development in the railyard and along the riverfront, as well as pay for homeless needs and after-school programs under a $961.1 million budget proposed Monday by City Manager John Shirey for the upcoming fiscal year.

On April 15th, representatives from 6 counties met on a conference call to discuss recent First 5 activities around Trauma Informed Care (TIC). Since our first gathering at last year's Association Summit, we have been meeting quarterly via conference call and have learned that there is a lot going on with TIC. So much is going on that we decided to send out a survey gathering data to map all our TIC efforts across the state. Please let us know if you are at a First 5 and are interested in...

Three area housing developments have received $16.2 million in state funds to provide new housing for homeless military veterans and their families. An announcement from Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, says that $6.37 million was awarded through the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention program to the Grantville Veterans Housing project, $3.34 million went to the Vista del Puente in Southcrest in San Diego, and Veterans Village San Diego’s project in Escondido received $6.5...

Just finished reading Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease. Very powerful book. I was telling my daughter about it and how she could help her four sons build resiliency. The prospect that a parent could unknowingly set a child up for adult disease is very troubling. I told her about resiliency methods such as teaching her kids self soothing through breathing. How are we going to approach these very caring parents without scaring them. Would like to hear the groups...