Tagged With "San Luis Obispo County"
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Employment Development Department COVID-19 Resources
The Employment Development Department, is responding to COVID-19 on a variety of fronts. They have developed a COVID-19 Resources webpage to keep customers, along with you and your families, fully informed about how benefits programs and services can provide some financial support if needed. The job center in San Luis Obispo (America’s Job Center of California) located at 880 Industrial Way has closed until further notice. The Employment Development Department (EDD) representatives from that...
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Enroll today for the 10/3 SoCal Learning Community
Re-visioning Prevention: Exploring Systems Innovation and Best Practices in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect This 4-part series is designed to build leadership capacity to improve outcomes for children and families in the SoCal region. Join us for the first convening in October and participate in this innovative peer learning experience, hear from topic experts and connect with colleagues in the SoCal region. Date: Thursday October 3, 2019 Time: Check in at 9am, begin at 9:30am,...
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Enroll today for the December 5, 2019 SoCal Learning Community!
Welcome to the 2019 - 2020 SoCal Learning Community series! This 4-part series is designed to build leadership capacity to improve outcomes for children and families in the SoCal region. Re-visioning Prevention: Exploring Systems Innovation and Best Practices in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Join us for the second convening in December and participate in this innovative peer learning experience, hear from topic experts and connect with colleagues in the SoCal region. Date:...
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Fewer people being involuntarily held thanks to SLO’s new mental health facility, data show
BY MATT FOUNTAIN OCTOBER 11, 2019 A $1.2 million facility that opened last year to stabilize people who are in the midst of a mental health crisis has had a big impact on alleviating strain on resources needed for more urgent cases, data released by the county shows. Namely, seeking help at the new facility means fewer people — nearly half — are requiring intensive treatment at the county’s in-demand psychiatric inpatient unit, which can only serve 16 people at a time. As part of San Luis...
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Increase your capacity to prevent child maltreatment in SLO County
Preventing child abuse and neglect and improving the well being of children, families, and communities is at the core of the outcome we are all so strongly committed to achieving. However, there's a lot of work to be done. Through the “ The Economics of Child Abuse: A Study of California ,” we know that: There are nearly 500,000 reports of child abuse in California each year — that’s about one report every minute. The economic cost to California for the 71,289 victims in 2017 is $19.31...
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Join CFS to combat 2 major risk factors for child abuse and neglect
Now more than ever, prevention matters. At Center for Family Strengthening every year we raise awareness for April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month—but this year, under these extraordinary circumstances, the designation takes on an even greater and more urgent significance. Suddenly we've been isolated from each other, and from children, our most vulnerable community members. Mandated reporters such as teachers, health care professionals, and even family members, friends, and...
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Link Family Advocate Support During COVID-19 Crisis
A Message of Support from The Link Family Resource Center Please know our thoughts and hearts are with you and your families during this strange and uncertain time. Our mission at The Link Family Resource Center is to foster a safe, healthy, and thriving community by linking children, youth, and families with programs and services to address their unique needs. Our programs remain operational and we are committed to serving families in our community during this unusual time. The Link Family...
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Podcast: Alison Cebulla Discusses Paid Parental Leave, Toxic Stress, and ACEs on Hometown Radio Show
Click here to listen here to the audio recording. This summer I joined Hometown Radio Show host Dave Congalton to discuss a series of public health issues. I'm Alison and I'm a Master of Public Health student at Boston University. I spent the summer interning for ACEs Connection. In this episode, which was broadcast live from San Luis Obispo, CA on July 30, 2019 at 5pm, and was #3 in the series of 4 episodes, we discussed the absence of federal level paid parental leave policy in the United...
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Protecting children from sexual abuse in SLO County
How CFS advocates for the prevention of child sexual abuse. Many San Luis Obispo County community members read the recent Tribune article “ Two girls testify against SLO man in molestation trial ”. The abuser was arrested in 2016 and now three years later two young women who were victimized by him bravely testified in court at the end of June. According to Berkeley Media Studies, news coverage of child sexual abuse is usually tied to a “moment” in the criminal justice process, which means...
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Recognizing mental illness before making an arrest in SLO County
By TYLER PRATT • OCT 2, 2019 One-third of San Luis Obispo County jail inmates have mental illness, and half the jail population is either homeless or doesn’t have stable housing on the outside. That's according to county health experts, who said the numbers have held steady even as they work to improve jail healthcare . The county board of supervisors got an update on jail health care this week and discussed ways to keep some of the area’s most vulnerable from ending up behind bars. But not...
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San Luis Obispo County Data Dashboard: Child Adversity and Well-Being
A product of the Essentials for Childhood Initiative (EfC), the Child Adversity and Well-Being Dashboards contain indicators of child adversity, health and well-being utilizing data available on kidsdata.org . For more information about the dashboards, please refer to the California Data Dashboards page. The San Luis Obispo County Data Dashboard contains select indicators of child adversity and well-being. The dashboard is a product of the Shared Data and Outcomes Workgroup of the California...
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The Power and Purpose of Parent Coaching - Birth to Age Five
This professional workshop will focus on building strengths in the family; addressing parenting challenges with proven and effective guidance strategies; supporting small changes that result in more parenting ease and a stronger parent-child connection; and fostering an understanding of what children need at every stage. Designed for Parenting Educators/Coaches. Participants who complete the 9-hour course will be eligible to apply for the Active Parenting Birth to Five Instructor...
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ACEs Aware Invests in Santa Barbara County, CA
September 10, 2020 Resilient Santa Barbara County is proud to support the efforts of the statewide ACEs Aware initiative, led by the California Department of Health Care Services and the Office of the California Surgeon General. This initiative seeks to change health outcomes and save lives by helping Medi-Cal providers understand the importance of screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and responding to patients with trauma-informed care. ACEs Aware offers Medi-Cal providers...
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Updates from the Coastal Tri-Counties Child Abuse Prevention Coalition
On behalf of the Coastal Tri-Counties Child Abuse Prevention Coalition (CTC-CAPC) I'm delighted to share some exciting updates about our shared initiatives in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. Read more here: https://conta.cc/2SIqYhk Join the CTC-CAPC Email List here ! Be well, Erica Ruvalcaba-Heredia Coastal Tri-Counties Child Abuse Prevention Coalition Innovative Partnerships Project Coordinator Center for Family Strengthening Director of Programs (805) 305-4574 ...
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Bridges to Resilience Conference - Wednesday June 9, 2021 8am-3pm | SLO, SB, & Ventura Counties
The 5th Annual Bridges to Resilience conference is this Wednesday. This live, virtual event focuses on educating and increasing awareness about the widespread impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and provides hopeful strategies to build resilience within our communities and system of care. Wednesday June 9, 2021 8am - 3pm REGISTER HERE! Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress represent a public health crisis that has been recently recognized by the Office of the...
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A Childhood Emotional Neglect Christmas: Humorous & Touching Holiday Stories From The Nurturance Void
Latchkey Urchins & Friends is a podcast by me* and my co-host Anne Sherry, a therapist. We explore different topics within The Nurturance Void, the space left when we experienced childhood emotional neglect. Childhood emotional neglect happens between parents and their kids, within families, across generations, in communities, in nations, and in policies and programs. We seek to heal through humor and holding space. Each week a guest shares their childhood emotional neglect stories,...
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Andrew Holland Foundation merges with mental illness group in SLO County
BY SARA KASSABIAN JANUARY 04, 2022 5:00 AM The boards of two San Luis Obispo County organizations dedicated to serving the needs of people with serious mental illness have merged, according to a news release. The San Luis Obispo County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Andrew Holland Foundation merged effective Jan. 1, according to the release from the National Alliance on Mental Illness San Luis Obispo County. The programs and services that were offered through both...
