San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team August 5, 2022 Meeting Minutes
Thank you to all who attended and shared how they maintain Revolutionary Optimism! See meeting minutes and handouts for upcoming trainings attached.
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San Diego Schools Say Giving Tests Is Racist (msn.com)
By Jessica Marie Baumgartner / Image Go2Tutors / August 5, 2022 In the fashion of other failing public schools that have implemented WOKE politics into their curriculum, the San Diego Unified school district is decrying tests as racist. The school's trustee claims that measuring student ability through tests is "rooted in racism." While some agree that standardized testing is not always the best method to determine student progress, tests in and of themselves come in many forms. Hands-on...
San Diego Deploying Free Narcan Vending Machines to Help Combat Opioid Epidemic (msn.com)
Image: © Provided by NBC San Diego Examples of Narcan vending machines that will be placed around San Diego County to help fight the opioid epidemic. County officials are getting ready to install Narcan vending machines across the county. Narcan is a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The first of about a dozen vending machines is scheduled to be installed at McAlister Institute - South Bay Regional Recovery Center in Chula Vista by December. The plan is to allow...
California-mental-health-crisis-hotline 988
All the 988 California Mental Health Crisis and Suicide Prevention Hotline starts 16 July 2022. Dial 988: California’s mental health crisis hotline debuts- CalMatters
One Safe Place Welcome Event 7/2, 9am-1pm in San Marcos
One Safe Place is a new North County Family Justice Center opening in San Marcos. They are hosting a Welcome Event for the community on Saturday, July 2 nd , 9am-1pm at 1050 Los Vallecitos Blvd, San Marcos. Please see more information attached and here . We provide free support services all under one roof to anyone who has experienced family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, hate crimes, elder abuse, human trafficking, violent loss, or other crimes. At One Safe Place...
Opinion: Mass Incarceration Must End; Closing Private Prisons Is a Good Start (msn.com)
Photo: ( Sandy Huffaker/inewsource) © Provided by Times of San Diego The Times of San Diego article, Opinion: Mass Incarceration Must End: Closing Private Prisons is a Good Start Last year, President Joe Biden acknowledged what had been evident for years: Our nation’s reliance on mass incarceration “imposes significant costs and hardships on our society and communities and does not make us safer,” according to the president’s Executive Order 14006 signed just days after he took office. In...
Necessary Conversations: Talking Frankly About Race (rwjf.org)
By Alonzo l. Plough, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 8, 2022 Engaging in honest dialogue about race sometimes means lowering our defenses and acknowledging our feelings so we can walk together toward racial equity. The opening of the Tops Friendly Market in East Buffalo was a triumph of community activism , a victory for residents who struggled for years against food apartheid . In a neighborhood that had long lacked a full-service supermarket, the store became a symbol of local...
Ryan’s story: A hard-charging California firefighter loses his last battle to suicide (calmatters.org)
He was Superman. A skilled surfer, skateboarder and hockey defenseman. A leader much admired and sometimes resented. He was hard-charging, driven by the motto of his unit: “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” Cal Fire Captain Ryan Mitchell was the embodiment of the heroic archetype: 6–foot-4, strong and stoic, brave in the face of danger, the last person anyone expected to take his own life. Until he did. On that bright November morning, Mitchell cleared up the paperwork at the end of his...
San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team June 3, 2022 Minutes
Wow! What a fantastic meeting! Dr. Vincent Felitti joined us as did Godwin Higa! See minutes attached or watch the recording via this link: SDTIGT meeting 6.3.22
Inner-City Athletic Program's FREE "Steppin Up" 8-week Summer Program
June 21st through August 11th Positive Youth Experiences In Partnership with Willie Henderson Sports Complex for boys & girls, ages 7 to 14. * Wellness Lessons * Exercise, Games * Physical Activities * Coping and Social Skills * FREE LUNCH PROVIDED To sign up, call (619)281-6903 Inner-City Athletic Program 4578 Logan Avenue, Suite B San Diego, CA 92113
San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team (SDTIGT) Membership / Visitor meeting
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81377622442 Meeting ID: 813 7762 2442 Call mobile (669)900-6833 I. Welcome (12:30 pm - 12:35 pm) Tri-Chairs Amelia Barile Simon, Dana Brown, and Linda Ketterer ● Type Name/Organization/Role in Chat Box ● Celebrate New Members (2nd Membership Meeting) ● Sign-In on Google Form II. Warm Introductions (12:35 - 1:30) Please share your name, organization and response to our equity-focused question, “The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously...
SDPD Hosts ‘Peace in the Park' Event, Working to Reduce Crime in Neighborhoods (nbcsandiego,com)
Officers and dozens of community groups put together an event called "Peace in the Park" at Mountain View Park on Saturday designed to highlight recent efforts to reduce crime. “What this is…is a collaborative effort by members of the community to take back the park,” said Captain Manny Del Toro, SDPD, Southeastern Division. Captain Del Toro explains the park has been a problematic area in the past. “We found crack pipes…we found a lot of empty liquor bottles…we also found some ammunition,”...
Implementing Adverse Childhood Experience Screening in an Intensive Outpatient Mental Health Program [digital.sandiego.edu]
By Bryan Amaro, Photo: Unsplash, University of San Diego, Digital USD, May 28, 2022 Background and Significance Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been well-studied for over 20 years, with the seminal research performed in San Diego, CA, through Kaiser Permanente and MD internist Vince Felitti in 1998. ACEs are potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood before 18 years of age (Felitti et al., 1998). The stress response is a normal part of life, and is the bodies response...
San Diego’s new ‘zero-waste’ grocery store opens for business (fox5sandiego.com)
SAN DIEGO — A unique grocery store concept opened in San Diego last month, inviting customers to bring their own containers and reduce the amount of waste created by food shopping. The Mighty Bin , located a couple blocks from the iconic North Park Water Tower on El Cajon Boulevard, is a nod to the “zero-waste” movement doing away with single-use plastics and other environmentally harmful packaging. The store displays its wares in “gravity dispensers” — those clear tubs with a release handle...
Three successful Filipino businesses share their stories (cbs8.com)
According to a 2019 Pew Research study, San Diego has the fifth largest Filipino population and it continues to grow. "It's hard work, it's dedication, it's passion," said Fina Surdilla, owner of Fina's Fashion Boutique and Alterations in National City. Fina’s passion for fashion is what drove her to start her own alterations and traditional Filipino clothing business. "It’s a dream for me, really, to be in the United States because of opportunities of course. Life in the Philippines is so...