Tagged With "seniors experiencing homelessness"
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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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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 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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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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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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Why are schools in Sacramento seeing more homeless kids? [Sacbee.com]
A growing number of children who attend Sacramento County public schools are homeless or living in unstable housing conditions, new figures show. At a time when affordable housing is scarce and rents are high, the number of students without a stable place to sleep surged 15 percent last year and has risen more than 20 percent since 2011, according to data collected by school districts in the county. Districts use federal guidelines to identify children who are in unstable households,...
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CSSP: On resilience building
The Center for the Study of Social Policy is doing some amazing work on defining and building capacity for resilience in communities. I've attached their Protective Factors framework as a resource for our group.
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Early childhood educators learn new ways to spot trauma triggers, build resilience in preschoolers
A hug may be comforting to many children, but for a child who has experienced trauma it may not feel safe.
That’s an example used by Julie Kurtz, co-director of trauma informed practices in early childhood education at the WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies (CCFS), as she begins a trauma training session. Her audience, preschool teachers and staff of the San Francisco-based Wu Yee Children’s Services at San Francisco’s Women’s Building, listen attentively.
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Eleven state-specific profiles feature ACEs-related data and ACEs/trauma-informed/resilience-building initiatives
One of the resources shared with participants in the Sept. 13-14 convening of First Spouses in Milwaukee to address trauma was a series of state information sheets that featured data on ACEs prevalence and ACEs/trauma-informed/resilience-building initiatives. These one-pagers provided a succinct summary of state highlights on trauma that in some instances were well known to the First Spouses but for others, provided new information. In partnership with state trauma leaders, ACEs Connection...
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February Meeting Summary
We are ready to start a subcommittee on developing informational materials and subcommittee to develop the goals for a steering group for Sacramento County ACEs Working Group. Send a note to Gail (gkennedy@acesconnetion.com ) if you have interest in serving on either of these committees.
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Foster & Homeless Legislative Training on 10/21 in Sac
Placer County Office of Education (COE) and Sacramento COE are hosting a Foster & Homeless Legislative Training on October 21, 2019 in Sacramento. Spaces are still available and the registration link is included in the attached flyer. Focus of Training: Learn about state and federal laws intended to improve educational opportunities, school stability, and academic/social outcomes for foster and homeless youth, from legal experts at the National Center for Youth Law. Target Audience: •...
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Mobile Clinic Treats Homeless Youth, Often For First Time
Some of the 400 patients who visit the teen health van each year have never seen a doctor. Great sounding program in San Jose - something like this for Sacramento? Listen to the KQED article HERE
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Mobile Health Clinic Services in Sacramento
Turns out, the San Juan Unified School District here in Sacramento is served by a mobile health van, called Health on Wheels (HOW) Van, part of a Wellness Without Walls initiative of Elica Health Centers. Elica's goal is to provide medical services to hard to reach populations, and provides these services to MediCal clients, as well as to uninsured patients at no cost.
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New Kaiser Permanente Partnership Aims to End Chronic Homelessness in 15 Communities
Press Release March 11, 2019 AUSTIN, Texas — At the annual South by Southwest Conference, Kaiser Permanente today announced a partnership with Community Solutions to help accelerate efforts to end chronic homelessness in 15 communities (scroll down for list) within Kaiser Permanente’s national footprint. As part of the new partnership, Kaiser Permanente will provide $3 million over a three-year period to Community Solutions’ Built for Zero initiative, which uses real-time data to help local...
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Next "A Better Normal" community discussion series: April 2, 2020/ Secondary Traumatic Stress and Caregivers
Our next COVID-19 "Better Normal" community discussion is Thursday, April 2, with Vic Compher and Rodney Whittenberg, producers of CAREGIVERS (Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their Pain). These wonderful folks are bringing an entire team of people from the secondary traumatic stress committees from the Philadelphia ACE Task Force (PATF).
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Overview of the 2016 Project on Behavioral Health Services For Children and Youth in California [dhcs.ca.gov]
Thank you to Jane Adcock and Arden Tucker from the California Behavioral Health Planning Council (CBHPC) for attending our Resilient Sacramento meeting and for providing information on the Overview of the 2016 Project on Behavioral Health Services For Children and Youth in California. To access the report, click here .
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Racing ACEs Resilient Sac Meeting PowerPoint by DeAngelo Mack
At the Jan 2020 Resilient Sac meeting, De Angelo Mack from Public Health Advocates spoke on the intersection of race and health. His presentation, "Racing ACEs" is attached to this post. HIs contact information is included in the powerpoint if you would like to reach out to him for further information on the topic.
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Recap: Notes from August Meeting
Kristina sent these wonderful notes on the same day of the meeting; I forgot to post! What a wonderful recap full of great resources to refer back to.
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Goodwill, Sacramento County give funds to reopen youth shelter [Sacramento Bee]
Goodwill Industries and Sacramento County are providing a combined $60,000 in seed funding to reopen Wind Youth Services’ shelter for the region’s homeless adolescents, but nonprofit and government leaders are asking the community to match the gifts to keep the operation going this year. Wind operates two shelters for youths in the Rancho Cordova area – one serving clients from 12- to 18-year-old students and the other serving high school graduates from 18 through 24. The nonprofit suspended...
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It shouldn’t take a crisis to address mental illness – let’s find a better way [Sacramento Bee]
As you gather with children this Father’s Day weekend, consider how far you would go to ensure their well-being: If your child had cancer or diabetes, would you wait until the disease were critical before you called doctors to intervene? Of course not. And yet this year, as in every year, thousands of young adults will cross the threshold into serious mental illness and go untreated because of a health care paradigm that California must change. To understand the need, consider that...
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Join us today for the Monthly Resilient Sacramento Meeting focusing on 4CA's day on the Capital and Resilient Sacramento's County Proclamation
Due to a change in speaker availability the Resilient Sacramento Monthly Meeting will focus on 4CA, California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity's May 1st day at the capital. Come learn about how 4CA advocates for public policies in CA that effectively address childhood adversity. Learn what you can do to influence policy in your district and the state. Attached you will find resources provided at the event. Wendie
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Afghan doctor volunteers as a lifeline for new arrivals [SacBee.com]
After a hellish first night in Sacramento, Nazir Ahmad Ahmadi was ready to return to Afghanistan with his wife and 5-month-old son despite the danger of being killed by the Taliban. He took his family to the Sacramento refugee health clinic. There, a tall, well-groomed interpreter listened patiently to his story. Ahmadi told Dr. Fahim Pirzada about the roaches and bedbugs that besieged his family that first night, leaving them with irritating bites and rashes days later. Their refugee...
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An opportunity to shape the Children's Bill of Rights in California
The ACEs/Resilient Sacramento community is ideal for providing insightful feedback about the needs of California's children!
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Census 2020 Presentation by Alejandra Labrado, First 5 Sacramento
Alejandra Labrado provided an insightful look at Census 2020 and the effect inadequate reporting had on children and families in Sacramento. Attached you will find her power point presentation and informational sheets that you can use to spread the word on the importance of the census to Sacramento. Additional information can be found at http://first5association.org/census-2020-resources/ PPT and additional resources can be found at...
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Resiliency for Adolescents- Youth Thrive
I'm cross-posting this to our group page, because we were just talking about this in our Tuesday meeting- how there are not quite enough resources on protective factors for adolescents! Below is a description, the webpage link, and an attached...
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Sacramento emergency school sees increase in homeless kids [SacBee.com]
Loaves & Fishes’ school for homeless children has asked Sacramento County to increase the number of emergency shelter beds for families, citing a spike in the number of children sleeping on Sacramento streets. Mustard Seed School Director Casey Knittel said of the 40 families whose children enrolled in the school in September, 19 were camping in a car or tent. With days getting cooler, rainy weather expected this weekend, Knittel said those children need to be inside at night. Burke said...
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Sacramento region stands to gain ‘tens of millions’ for homeless people [SacBee.com]
Sacramento Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg watched last week from the back of the state Senate floor as his former colleagues passed his $2 billion plan for homeless housing, potentially providing him with the issue and money to extend his influence beyond the city. Steinberg said he hopes to see “tens of millions” of funding locally in the next few years for permanent homes through the legislation, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed last week. Some of that money could arrive early next year,...
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Sacramento’s $961 million budget plan funds development efforts, homeless services [Sacramento Bee]
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.
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Sacramento's only homeless shelter for adolescent youth forced to close [NewsReview.com]
For more than a week, Peter Bell worked the phone lines, trying to get the last of his kids into a home. Bell runs Wind Youth Services 6-bed emergency shelter for homeless adolescentsthe only one of its kind in the five-county Sacramento region. At least he did. Citing a running deficit in the high five digits, one it could no longer keep pace with, Wind suspended its shelter operations on Friday, February 19. Before then, the shelter, which serves homeless youths between the ages of 12 and...
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Seniors on the Streets: Growing Number of Older People in Sacramento are Experiencing Homelessness [abc10.com]
By Mike Duffy, ABC 10, February 5, 2020 There is a growing problem on the streets of California, and it could be the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the country. Seniors are increasingly finding themselves homeless, priced out of highly competitive housing and rental markets. After working for years, many are living on fixed incomes that simply cannot compete with the rise in the cost of living. Without adequate familial and community support, some of these individuals are finding...
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September 18, 2019 Sierra Region Learning Community: Highlights and Resources
The first Sierra Learning Community for the 2019-20 fiscal year focused upon Best Practices in Trauma Informed Care: Building Youth Resiliency. The power point and other materials distributed to attendees is available in the Resources Section. View the recording by clicking here: September 18, 2019 Sierra Learning Community ANNOUNCEMENTS Make sure to visit the Strategies2.0 YouTube Channel to access recordings of all the Strategies2.0 sponsored webinars and Learning Communities. The channel...
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Speaking and training services from a first-hand, tenaciously resilient experience
My name is Rebekah Couch and I am a former teen mother of five children, the youngest child being my only clean & sober pregnancy allowed to remain in my care. I am a survivor of multiple sexual assaults and was afflicted with untreated mental health issues as an adolescent. My destructive journey began with self-medicating and illegal activities in Jr. High and a daily cocaine addiction by the age of fifteen that eventually advanced to methamphetamine abuse. My addiction and criminal...
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$16.2 million given locally for veteran housing (sandiegouniontribune.com)
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...
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Re: Mobile Clinic Treats Homeless Youth, Often For First Time
Hi Gail! There's actually a growing movement here in Sacramento towards mobile health care for those experiencing homelessness (otherwise called street medicine). Most of the focus has been on the adult homeless population, but here are a few links to things you might find interesting if you like this topic: Sacramento Street Nurse Wellness Without Walls Recent News Article about Wellness Without Walls
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Youth Empowerment Summit (Y.E.S) 2018
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Community Forum: SCUSD 24th & Florin Facilities Reuse
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Re: 03.13.2018 Introduction to Best Practices
The related tools have also been uploaded and are also attached here.
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Re: Resources in Sacramento County
Good afternoon - super exciting task! I missed the last meeting, are minutes available? Just want some clarification on what types of resources and information you need! I have tons, and a compiled list of links... and would love to share! I look forward to contributing! Peace, Crystal
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Knowing the Health Needs of the Sacramento Region: Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)
Today I was on a ACEs Connection Community Manager development meeting with Karen Clemmer, ACEs Connection Staff. One of the items for discussion was knowing how ACEs and Resilience align with the community health needs assessments (CHNA), developed every three years by health care organization and required by the federal government. Have you every seen a Community Health Needs Assessment? They are a wealth of information. In Sacramento County Dignity Health, Sutter Health and UCD have...
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ACEs Aware Network of Care Implementation grant totaling $3,000,000.00
The Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) received a grant award notice today for the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Aware Network of Care Implementation grant totaling $3,000,000.00 for the contract period of February 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022. Grant award information can be referenced through the following link: Network of Care Grant Summary - January 27, 2021 (acesaware.org) . This successful proposal is a result of your commitment and support for this work and your role in...
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Methamphetamine Coalition - Thursday May 13, 2021, 2:00pm
Dear Stakeholders, The next Sacramento County Methamphetamine Coalition meeting will be held virtually on the ZOOM platform. Registration will be required in order to attend. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the meeting. Please join us for the next Sacramento County Methamphetamine Coalition Meeting: Date: May 13, 2021 Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location: ZOOM Webinar Registration:...
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WEAVE and notes from 5/11/2021 meeting
Thank you Brittany and Paula for sharing your wonderful services. I have attached the power point and notes with relevant emails for everyone to share.
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Sacramento Mulls a New Homeless Strategy: Legally Mandating Housing [nytimes.com]
By Shawn Hubler, The New York Times, June 30, 2021 The mayor of Sacramento on Wednesday announced a plan to legally obligate California’s capital city to house its growing homeless population, a policy shift that would open a new front in the state’s struggle to address what has become a signature California social ill. Californians “are becoming homeless faster than we can get people the help they need,” said the mayor, Darrell Steinberg, as he proposed a municipal “right to housing” and a...