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Last Friday, February 26, 800 people filled the Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Center in the beautiful Twin Peaks area of San Francisco. They were there for a Black History Month event coordinated by the San Francisco Health Network. The event featured presentations from two outstanding clinicians: Dr. Joy DeGruy, researcher, educator, and author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome : America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing; and Dr. Ken Hardy, professor at Drexel University...

Check out the agenda for today's meeting of Sacramento County ACEs Connection Workgroup. Hope you can join us today! We meet from 4:00-5:30 at Kiwanis Family House, located at: 2875 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817

NO MORE Week is a national grassroots activation aimed at making domestic violence and sexual assault awareness and prevention a priority year-round. Mark your calendars – the NO MORE Week of Action is March 6th – 12th! To Learn more go to: http://nomore.org/no-more-week-2016/

Director and producer Vic Compher’s documentary film, Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion. Their Pain , takes a deeper look at the causes of and treatments for what’s called secondary traumatic stress, a condition commonly...

Read below about what Cherokee Point, San Diego Youth Leaders are doing. Something to strive for to engage our youth voices in Sacramento? Some days at work are better than others. Yesterday was one of the best days I've had in awhile! I had the chance to speak to a small group of youth leaders from Cherokee Point Elementary School on Wednesday. As a representative of the Chadwick Center for Children & Families, I came to talk with them about Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) month, which is...

During a two-day convening of Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) grantees in November, stories of adversity and resilience brought a focused hush to the room and underscored one of the gathering’s themes: Stories are essential to social movements, including the growing effort to combat early adversity and build resilience in communities across the nation. Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University, describes three kinds of stories that shape social...

Daniel Cisneros, Administrator of the Sacramento Minority Youth Violence Prevention Collective at the Health Education Council presented a workshop at the 22nd Annual Multicultural Education Conference at Sacramento State. The presentation included a detailed presentation on the ACES Study, trauma and the impact on minority youth of color. There were over 40 participants in the training, with standing and sitting room only. The training also outlined other situations that are traumatic and...

Wisconsin elementary-school teachers are incorporating simple mental exercises in the classroom to promote well-being, thanks to a partnership between the Madison Metropolitan School District and the Center for Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzd444JvjCs

A group of middle and high school students in Compton have filed a first-of-its-kind federal lawsuit saying violence at home and in their neighborhoods has impaired their ability to learn at school. The students, along with three teachers who are also plaintiffs, allege the Compton Unified School District has failed to recognize and address their trauma-induced disabilities, and therefore has denied their legal right to an equal education. ....You have to address trauma in order to do...