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The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is releasing for public comment the below Trauma Screenings proposal. Comments and/or questions should be submitted to DHCS_PMMB@dhcs.ca.gov by March 22, 2019. Background Trauma informed care is a model of care intended to promote healing and reduce risk for re-traumatization. Early identification of trauma and providing the appropriate treatment are critical tools for reducing long-term health care costs for both children and adults. Individuals...

Though I’ve had years of experience interviewing trauma survivors, my National Fellowship project on sex-trafficked foster kids presented a unique set of challenges. For one, the project’s focus was sexually abused children. Even if I could find children who were willing to talk with me, I knew that interviewing them might not be in their best interest, and could potentially be harmful. But as in all forms of gender-based violence, sex trafficking is driven by an abuser’s tactics of power...

3/8/19 update: This meeting has been cancelled. March 12th! Please join us in our next scheduled MCAH Program's - ACEs Network Community Convening Meeting. Santa Clara County ACEs Network Connection – Community Convening Meetings are generally held quarterly on 2nd Tuesday of the month from 9:00a-11:00a. Meetings feature SCC ACEs Network Connection updates. It also provides opportunity for networking, as well as discussions and learning with community partners about best practice models on...

CRI is Proud to Present the 2019 Beyond Paper Tigers Conference Session Descriptions and Presenter Biographies! Join us for the latest information, and strategies to build RESILIENCE! CRI is honored to have expert presenters in their fields to showcase a diverse selection of sessions revolving around the BPT Conference theme, "Building Resilience Across the Life Span." Conference Session Descriptions and Presenter Biographies are now available for review! If you have not purchased conference...

We're back!! Join us for Policymaker Education Day 2019 on MAY 1!

ACEs Screening (AB340) implementation recommendations presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on February 25

EVENTBRITE LINK Saturday, March 9, 2019 9am-2:30pm SEVENTH ANNUAL 2019 STRONG GIRLS, STRONG WOMEN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE FOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS AND ADULT ALLIES CONFERENCE PURPOSE The Strong Girls, Strong Women (SGSW ) high school girls’ leadership conference empowers, inspires and enriches high school girls and their allies to be strong members and committed leaders of their communities. The goal of this conference is to bring together women and girls from diverse backgrounds for dialogue and...

CRI is seeking various levels of sponsors for our Fourth Annual Beyond Paper Tigers conference. We would love if you would consider partnering with us to assist our community's education, best practices, and treatment strategies. Sponsorships will help pay for speakers, meals, supplies, and conference activities. To partner with us at our highest gift level- as a lead sponsor- would bring profound impact to our conference. We would be grateful for the honor of calling you our lead sponsor,...

Dr. Diane Suffridge, a clinical psychologist and director of the University Counseling Services at Dominican University in San Rafael, Calif., has been interested in trauma for many years. But last summer that interest took a sudden and interesting turn. A student counselor she advised had written a research paper on the link between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) health and mental health outcomes in foster youth, and it gave the student a new view of the patients she counseled at the...

CRI Course 1: Trauma-Informed Training Webcast! Date: February 26, 2019 Time: 8am - 3pm Pacific Time A dynamic six-hour WEBCAST course, Course 1 introduces CRI’s capacity-building framework for building resilience, KISS. Knowledge, Insight, Strategies and Structure describes our community’s learning and movement from theory to practice and how to implement evidence-based strategies into action. The training includes three groups of topics: the NEAR sciences , a cluster of emerging scientific...

Dr. Angela Bymaster, a family doctor in San Jose, Calif., was determined to find a way to teach ACEs science to her patients. Teens would come to the Washington Neighborhood Clinic clearly depressed by a range of problems at home that were contributing to risky sexual behavior and marijuana use, as well as preventable health problems like extreme obesity.