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We welcome guest author Godwin Higa, Principal, Cherokee Point Elementary School City Heights, San Diego whose work with childhood adversity and trauma is making a difference in the lives of children.  At Cherokee Point, located in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood, nearly all of our students deal with some sort of childhood adversity. A hundred percent of our students receive free lunches, and most live under the federal poverty guideline. Many of our students' families face daily...

The 30th annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment kicks off next week at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina.  This annual event brings an estimated 1,800 - 2,000 multidisciplinary professionals in the child abuse field from around the world each year.  This year, the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) is hosting one of the preconference sessions on Sunday, January 24th from 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM.  This session, titled: Building Trauma...

Poverty in San Diego is not confined to the urban core of the city. New   research   from National University System Institute for Policy Research found concentrated pockets of poverty have increased in suburban neighborhoods around the county. Erik Bruvold, the president of the National University System Institute for Policy Research and the author of the policy brief shared, " Concentrated poverty exists within cities often considered more wealthy than San Diego's urban core",...

Nearly every seat in the Landmark Theatre in Hillcrest was filled for a screening of Paper Tigers, a documentary that   follows six students during a school year at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, the first trauma-informed high school in the U.S. The October 26, 2015 event was the first time the film was screened in San Diego County, but it won't be the last. After the screening, City of San Diego Councilmember Marti Emerald welcomed a  panel...

  MOBILIZING ACTION FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES (MARC) WHAT IS MARC? Fourteen multi-sector, well-established communities throughout the United States have been awarded the MARC grant and we’re excited to announce that San Diego is one of them. MARC, is a national effort coordinated by the Health Federation of Philadelphia with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California Health Endowment to support community projects that create a just, healthy and resilient...

I'd like to introduce myself and am glad to have found ACE Connection Network. I am Betsy Shapiro ATR-BC and have lived and worked in San Diego since 1999 and I have been an art therapist since 1986. For most of my career I have worked in psychiatric hospitals (inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient settings) with children, adolescents and adults.       I am very interested in connecting with other professionals in setting up violence prevention programs...

San Diego is mentioned in this article as a community that's integrating ACEs. The lowest of 31 grades issued in the  2016 California Children's Report Card  released on Wednesday was for dealing with the effects of childhood trauma. In Children Now's biennial assessment of the status of California kids, researchers gave the state a "D-" for how it deals with childhood trauma. The report contends that children who experience traumatic problems such as abuse, neglect and witnessing...

Probation Division Chief Gonzalo Mendez and Supervising Probation Officer Keith Hicks took Julie Hernandez (at right) and her family shopping for Christmas using money from a work crew recycling program. San Diego County Probation selected a 23-year-old woman under its supervision to be the recipient of some holiday generosity thanks to a Probation work crew recycling program.  Managed by Probation’s Work Projects Program, it directs probationers to collect and sort...

Hope to see you at this Friday's meeting! You can look forward to: SAY San Diego's Trauma Informed Journey presentation MARC Grant update And much more Please see attached for a detailed agenda.

San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team January 8, 2016 12:30 PM 2:00 PM Location: San Diego Center for Children All are welcome!  Network and share resources with other agencies seeking to become more trauma informed! ***Please note the  date change  for this meeting - it has been pushed back due to the holiday weekend*** We meet the first Friday of every other month (in the "odd" months).  Feel free to bring your lunch and eat during the meeting

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So far, one of the positive outcomes of Proposition 47 — which last year changed certain low-level felony offenses to misdemeanors —is that it appears to have helped cut down on assaults inside local jails, improving safety for inmates and staff. According to data provided by the Sheriff’s Department, about 30 percent fewer inmate-on-inmate incidents were recorded in the county’s jail facilities between November 2014 and October of this year, compared to the same time...