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Strategies 2.0 Capitol Regional Learning Community 2019 kick-off
Please join the 2019 kick-off session of the Strategies 2.0 Capitol Regional Learning Community on March 7. The Capitol Learning Community will discuss the State funding opportunities and align them with local priorities at the first meeting in the new year. The meeting will also provide training and evaluation of the Community Resilience Toolkit which was launched late last year. Please see the attachment for more information. Date: Thursday, March 7, 2019 Time: 12PM to 2:30PM Location:...
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STRATEGIES 2.0 -Fires/Floods/Earthquakes: Resiliency in the Face of Disaster (FREE)
Fires/Floods/Earthquakes: Resiliency in the Face of Disaster Friday, February 9, 2018, 8:45 am – 1 pm in Fairfield Remote in Sacramento and Chico Registration is open via the link below RSVP for a convening and learn more at StrategiesCA.org/Learning-Communities Strategies 2.0 facilitates six regional Learning Communities that are your opportunity to engage with your colleagues and leaders in your region about the needs and interests of the communities you serve. Take part in the quarterly...
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Strengthening Families Framework TRAINERS
Thirty more individuals in the states of California, Indiana, and Alabama were just trained to be a trainer of the Strengthening Families Framework from the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds. This is HUGE! That makes slightly over 1,000 total from the 50 states. But what happens now? We have newly trained trainers trying to reach out and converse with everyone and anyone, with local Health and Human Services Agencies, with local schools, fire departments and police...
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Stress Health Virtual Focus Group and iPad Giveaway
Your thoughts on toxic stress are needed: Please join our virtual focus group this Wednesday at 5 pm PST.
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Structural Oppression is Trauma: Resources from the Resilient Sacramento Best Practices Presentation
Our June meeting focused on best practices in broadening the trauma lens to include structural oppression. Key resources attached.
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Supporting Safety and Well-being of Children and Families during COVID-19
The following information is from a tip sheet created by Sacramento County. To access the tip sheet for the full copy, please access it at the link below: The outbreak of COVID‐19 is a concern on everyone’s mind. While we may be comforted to know that the risk to our children’s physical health from the outbreak itself appears to be low, child and family serving agencies are worried about the increased risk for child abuse and neglect during this time of crisis and economic insecurity .
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Sutter, Kaiser and other providers work to fight ‘eye-opening’ physician burnout levels (sacbee.com)
In recent years, the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society has turned its focus to caring for caregivers. The medical society, one of the oldest medical societies in the west, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, is attempting to curb the effects of physician burnout through its Joy of Medicine program. The program is a multi-disciplinary approach to address burnout by encouraging wellness and resiliency among physicians in the region. It was designed with input from all of the...
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Take the Public Health Survey on Community Issues
From preventing diseases and injuries to promoting healthy behaviors, along with preparing for and responding to public health emergencies and ensuring access to safe food, water and clean air, Sacramento County Public Health often works in the background to ensure communities can be healthy. In an effort to improve the health of Sacramento County, Public Health is developing a Community Health Improvement Plan and invite resident input. Public Health is asking residents to complete a 5-10...
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Teaching kids to cope with stress
Everyone needs some stress in their lives to build mental strength and resilience, even children. However, chronic stress in kids damages both their psyche and their physiology. Here’s how one hospital’s innovative care models help...
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8/18/18: The Annual Coalition for Health Equity Conference at UC Davis Medical Center
For more information about this free conference on Saturday 8/18 in Sacramento, see attached flyer. Registration information is here: bit.ly/2uAdCYM
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The Capital Region Climate Readiness Collaborative (CRC) first Quarterly Adaptation Exchange in 2018
The Capital Region Climate Readiness Collaborative (CRC) conducted our first Quarterly Adaptation Exchange in 2018 on how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma can be a detriment to an individual’s physical, social, and mental health that has lasting effects into adulthood. Climate impacts and an individual’s and/or community’s capacity to respond to trauma with resilience is intrinsically tied to access to a support system, resources, and past traumas. The reality is with Climate...
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The Developing Brain & Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Thanks to an explosion in scientific research now possible with imaging technologies, such as fMRI and SPECT, experts can actually see how the brain develops. This helps explain why exposure to adverse childhood experiences can so deeply influence and change a child's brain and thus their physical and emotional health and quality of life across their lifetime. The above time-lapse study was conducted over 10 years. The darker colors represent brain maturity (brain development). I have added...
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The Economics of Child Abuse: A Study of California
While the impact of maltreatment on a child and their family is devastating, child maltreatment also has serious effects far beyond those for the victim. Maltreatment results in ongoing costs to taxpayers, institutions, businesses, and society at large. Local communities bear the brunt of these costs in the form of medical, educational, and judicial costs, though more tragic signs are seen in homelessness, addiction, and teen pregnancy. To create a concrete understanding of the widespread...
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‘The first-graders will cry.’ Schools rethink policies that shame kids at lunch. [SacBee.com]
There won’t be any more cheese sandwiches served at Elk Grove Unified schools. The region’s largest school district will no longer give students a bland, alternative lunch when they run out of meal funds or forget their lunch money. Elk Grove Unified is joining districts across the region and nation that are changing rules so that children who come up short for lunch money aren’t embarrassed with a different meal than what their peers receive – or not fed at all, as has been the case...
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The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement (www.medium.com)
Excerpts from an article by Shawn Ginwright Ph.D.:
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The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development's (GO-Biz) Community Reinvestment Grant Program (CRGP)
The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) has $10 million in its budget this year for its Community Reinvestment Grant Program (CRGP) and plans to make these grants to community-based non-profits and local health departments by June 2019 . The goal of this grant is to support communities disproportionately affected by past federal and state drug policies. This week, GO-Biz kicked off by leading the first 15 local workshops in California which will run through the...
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THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
The 2016-2017 Yolo County Education and Equity Summit Series Presents:THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES Speaker: Daniel Ewon Choe, Ph.D. DATE: November 9, 2016 TIME: 3:00pm - 4:30pm PLACE: Yolo County Of ce of Education 1280 Santa Anita Court, Ste. 120, Woodland Please register by: November 2, 2016 GO HERE to register (http://www.ycoe.org/summit-series/register) SEE ATTACHMENT FOR FULL INFORMATION
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The Impact of Mind Matters: Early Results from the University of Louisville’s Pilot Study
Becky Antle, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work and esteemed University Scholar at the University of Louisville, won The Dibble Institute’s national competition to evaluate Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience in 2019. As a result, Dr. Antle and her colleagues are conducting a randomized control trial to examine the impact of Mind Matters on a host of outcomes related to youths’ emotional regulation, anxiety, interpersonal skills, and resilience. Join the researchers on...
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The man in charge of Sacramento's new anti-gun violence program was once a shooter himself (sacbee.com)
Thirty years before Julius Thibodeaux became the leader of Sacramento's controversial new anti-gun violence program, Advance Peace , he was a shooter himself. He pulled the trigger on his first victim when he was 15 — over a $5 dispute. Now, he has been hired by the city of Sacramento to run Advance Peace as it expands here . The program matches dangerous young people with elders who have lived similar lives. Often felons like Thibodeaux, these mentors have criminal infamy that still carries...
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The many faces — and aspirations — of all of us at ACEs Connection
All of us at ACEs Connection have experienced ACEs during our childhoods, either in our own families or vicariously through friends; some of us accumulated pretty high ACE scores, with not enough resilience factors, and we’ve suffered the consequences. That history propels us up and out of bed every single morning to grow this network of amazing people (that’s you!) to reach even more people so that kids don’t have to repeat what we went through. We want more of our taxes to go to such...
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The National Crittenton Foundation Releases Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey Toolkit for Providers
NEWS RELEASE ...
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The new face of Sacramento’s affordable housing crisis: College students forced to drop out (sacbee.com)
Going to college is tough for many students under normal circumstances. But for tens of thousands of young Californians today, it’s beyond difficult. It’s financially and physically perilous. Faced with tuition escalation and fast-rising rents – particularly in Sacramento – higher-education students find themselves struggling to get a decent night’s sleep, find permanent shelter and put food in their stomach so they can focus enough in class to make it to graduation. Nearly 40 percent of...
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The Power of Home Visits to Connect Teachers with Kids and their Families
The teacher home visit is making a comeback in California because it’s proving to be a good way for teachers to build relationships with families. The state now requires schools to make family engagement a priority, so more districts are turning to the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project in Sacramento that has been training teachers for years to visit students and families on their own turf. Read the full story from KQED's California report.
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The Racial Wealth Gap: What California Can Do About a Long-Standing Obstacle to Shared Prosperity [calbudgetcenter.org]
In the years since the 2007 Great Recession, economic commentary has veered between hailing the subsequent recovery and sounding the alarm about rising inequality. Income inequality is often identified as a sign of both the country’s underlying economic troubles and public policies that disproportionately benefit the wealthy. An alternative indicator of the nation’s social and economic health pertains to wealth, specifically the growing wealth gap among people of different races and...
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The survival gap: Black children accounted for 31 percent of Sacramento County’s childhood deaths last year [newsreview.com]
Despite the efforts of a landmark public health campaign, African-American children remain sharply overrepresented in Sacramento morgues, SN&R has found. According to a review of online coroner records, 75 persons age 18 and younger died in Sacramento County over a one-year period ending March 14. Twenty-three of the young decedents—nearly 31 percent of the total—were black. That’s an 8-point jump in just a couple of years, though the figure needs some contextualizing: Fewer children are...
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The unexpected role librarians are playing in Sacramento’s homeless crisis (sacbee.com)
For many of Sacramento’s homeless men and women, the public library is a haven from harsh weather, a primary source for bathroom facilities, a place to rest from the stress of the streets. But as the homeless crisis deepens in the capital city and around the country, libraries increasingly are seeing people with untreated mental illnesses that cause them to act oddly, or put themselves or others in danger. Now, for the first time, employees of Sacramento’s library system are taking training...
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This Weekend! Cal Expo clinic to provide free dental, medical care to thousands
Even as medical and insurance costs rise, free health care will be on hand at Cal Expo this weekend for anyone willing to wait in line. The three-day medical, dental and vision clinic, hosted by volunteer corps California CareForce, will begin registering visitors at 6 a.m. Friday to offer fillings, extractions, eyeglass fittings, diabetes screenings and flu shots to adults and children for no cost. The clinic will also be held Saturday and Sunday, opening at the same time. People can get a...
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TI Education Focused Training Overview; last one offered this year free sponsored by Schools Insurance Authority
http://www.sia-jpa.org/resources/school-risk-management-and-compliance/trauma-informed-in-education-training/
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To deal with homelessness, California must make room for sobriety (calmatters.org)
Gov. Gavin Newsom is shifting control of the Juvenile Justice Division to the California Health and Human Services Agency, away from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, with the goal to better identify and address early childhood trauma to prevent future incarceration. This same rationale should be extended to the exploding problem of homelessness. California employs a one-size-fits-all policy for homelessness known as “housing first.” But as we have learned through our work at...
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Tools for Healing Systemic Trauma: Immigration and Deportation Community Stress
First 5 Sacramento has developed a toolkit to help families develop material and emotional safety plans to ease and heal the community stress that arises from immigration and deportation fears.
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Toxic Stress, Behavioral Health, and the Next Major Era in Public Health by Mental Health America
To view the document, click on the following link: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/issues/toxic-stress-behavioral-health-and-next-major-era-public-health
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Training: Modernizing the California Victim Compensation Program (CalVCP)
Opportunity for two-day training for pro bono attorneys and legal providers includes an in-depth overview of the legal issues faced by trafficking survivors.
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Trauma and Healing Learning Series Launches on May 30 in Sacramento! Tickets still available.
How does racism impact health? Come discuss this topic and more at the launch event of the Trauma and Healing Learning Series on May 30!
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Trauma and Resilience-Informed Health Care: Overview and Resources
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Noon – 1 p.m. Register for the webinar Join a live webinar with: Edward Machtinger, MD – Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center to Advance Trauma-Informed Health Care, University of California, San Francisco Karen Johnson, MSW, LCSW – Trauma-Informed Services Consultant, National Council for Behavioral Health Brigid McCaw, MD, MPH, MS, FACP – Clinical Advisor, ACE Aware The webinar will provide an overview of trauma-informed care principles that can...
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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Booster Training Conducted by certified trainer Alison Hendricks, LCSW
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a short term, evidence-based treatment model for children ages 3-18 who have been impacted by trauma and their caregivers. TF-CBT has been shown to significantly reduce children’s post-traumatic stress and other trauma reactions as well as increasing caregivers’ ability to support children in their recovery. See attached flyer for information.
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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 2-Day Training Conducted by certified trainer Alison Hendricks, LCSW Another Choice Another Chance
January 15 th , 2016 Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Location: 75 Quinta Court, Suite D Sacramento CA 95823 Objectives for the TF-CBT Booster training: Identify and practice strategies for overcoming common challenges to implementing TF-CBT Learn how to incorporate gradual exposure into early treatment components Practice eliciting detailed trauma narratives Describe the components of Childhood Traumatic Grief Treatment Identify techniques for addressing secondary traumatic stress.
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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 2-Day Training Conducted by certified trainer Alison Hendricks, LCSW Another Choice Another Chance
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a short term, evidence-based treatment model for children ages 3-18 who have been impacted by trauma and their caregivers. TF-CBT has been shown to significantly reduce children’s post-traumatic stress and other trauma reactions as well as increasing caregivers’ ability to support children in their recovery. Objectives for the initial 2-day TF-CBT training: 1. Learn about TF-CBT as an evidence-based model to treat children...
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Trauma-Informed in Education - Training Series (Sacramento, CA)
For more information or to register, click here . See attached flier for detailed information. Bringing together proven systematic behavioral communication and conflict resolution strategies to diffuse, calm and heal so that schools become more resilient. Anxiety and depression in students is running rampant. Workplace stress for educators and staff as well as rising litigation costs for schools are also top concerns for communities across the country. How can we reduce tension and improve...
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Trauma Informed Practices for Schools Training April 23, 2018
Trauma Informed Practices are the link to academic achievement and social/emotional success for students who’ve experienced toxic stress and trauma. Due to repeated triggering of the fight or flight system, the neurology of these students is different than their grade level counterparts, and taking in new knowledge can often be challenging. Navigating social/emotional situations can also be difficult. Trauma Informed Practices help teachers and students to be better regulated, which...
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Trauma Informed Principles through a Culturally Specific Lens (pdf)
This document attempts to define the core principles of trauma informed work through a culturally specific analysis. The content of this resource is primarily intended for culturally specific, communitybased organizations and seeks to provide practitioners with accessible language to describe the trauma informed/culturally specific overlap of their work. In our experience at Casa de Esperanza, as a national technical assistance provider, we come in contact with many culturally specific...
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Trauma-Responsive Schools Conference in Southern California
HERE this NOW is proud to bring its Trauma-Responsive Schools Conference to California, October 23 – 25, 2019, at the stunning Temecula Creek Inn in Temecula, CA (2 hours north of San Diego; 3-hours south of Los Angeles). This is not a typical conference. Participants will be actively engaged in an immersive experience, rendering more growth - personal and professional. Five diversely skilled and experienced pioneers of trauma-informed schools change are coming together for first time, to...
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Trauma Screenings Advisory Group (AB 340) Hosts First Meeting
On Friday, April 20, 2018, the AB 340 Workgroup, otherwise known as the Trauma Screenings Advisory Group, met for the first time to discuss the legislative charge to update, amend, or develop, if appropriate, tools and protocols for screening children for trauma as defined, within the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit in Medi-Cal. Both Children Now and Center for Youth Wellness were appointed members of the Trauma Screenings Advisory Workgroup, and we...
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Trauma Sensitive Schools - June 12, 2017 - UPDATED INFORMATION FOR THOSE FROM OUTSIDE AGENCIES & DISTRICTS
UPDATED NOTE: For Outside Agencies and Districts – Thank you for your interest, we are happy to have you, please complete the form (Attached) below and email to Nicole LoBese (nicole.lobese@sanjuan.edu). by 5pm on JUNE 2, 2017. Brief summary of the day – Keynotes focus on ACEs study, physiology and neurology of the brain and impact of trauma on behavior. Participants would gain basic understanding of the brain science of reactivity and stress, how staff can prevent and intervene with...
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Trauma Training for Educators
http://www.sia-jpa.org/resources/school-risk-management-and-compliance/trauma-informed-in-education-training/
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'Trauma Training Plus' for Schools and Districts
Good Day Educators, I am hopeful your reading this and still enjoying a summer break! Do you have or know of a site struggling with behavior? Staff overwhelm? Have you thought of training in Trauma? Or have had training in Trauma and just do not know what to do next? If yes, please read... Here is the long version of what I offer that most likely is different and Thank you so much for being here, a part of ACES Connection and giving me a platform to share. Here is my website:...
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Traumatic Brain Injury and the Relationship to ACEs
Laura Williams, MA, LPC spoke on the relationship between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and ACEs at the Oct 8 Resilient Sacramento Meeting. One striking research finding was the rate for TBI is increased in children and youth who have pre-injury psychiatric disorders and those who are experiencing high psychosocial risk (ACEs). In her work at the Veterans Treatment Courts in Colorado Springs and Denver, assessments showed over 80 percent of the clients had both ACEs and TBI. A lively...
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Travel ban, targeting of mosques trigger mental health concerns among California Muslims [SacBee.com]
When Ayman Mohamed arrived at the Tarbiya Institute in Roseville for morning prayer on Feb. 1, he saw his religion had been attacked. On the mosque’s white front walls, “Muslims Out” and other hateful messages about Islam had been spray-painted in black. Even a nearby truck had been vandalized. Shocked and saddened, the mosque’s director of Islamic studies opened up the building and ushered in his congregants for the day’s first prayer. His message to his stricken congregation: Stay strong,...
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Treating Stress and Trauma With Mindfulness [HuffingtonPost.com]
READ TH I S FOR LOTS OF RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS!!!! Mindfulness is a committed, concerted, targeted practice -- a life skill. While pausing for a few deep breaths may make you feel better in the moment, practicing and training regularly will allow you...
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Two New Grant Opportunities for Youth Development and Diversion Services
In 2019, more than $40 million will become available to fund community-based, culturally rooted, trauma-informed services for youth in California as alternatives to arrest and incarceration. Thousands of California youth are arrested every year for low-level offenses. Youth who are arrested or incarcerated for low-level offenses are less likely to graduate high school, more likely to suffer negative health-outcomes, and more likely to have later contact with the justice system.
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UC Berkeley Extension Offering Professional Program in Trauma-Informed Interventions
From UC Berkeley's Extension Website : Researchers have documented the prevalence of trauma in the lives of the vast majority of public sector clients. Programs and systems that are seeking to integrate trauma-informed interventions include mental health, substance abuse, criminal justice, victim assistance and child welfare. Post-traumatic stress disorders and other trauma-related disorders and symptoms are increasing in the population of war veterans and those who have been exposed to...