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The Santa Clara County Social Services Agency’s Department of Family and Children’s Services (DFCS) is introducing a new toll-free universal phone number to report suspected cases of child abuse and neglect in Santa Clara County. The new toll-free number will reach the Child Abuse and Neglect Center (CANC) 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The new number is (833) SCC-KIDS (833-722-5437). The announcement comes as the County is about to proclaim April as National Child Abuse...

2018 Funding Opportunity Release Date: March 7, 2018 | Application Deadline: April 11, 2018, 3:00 p.m. ET Purpose The Integrative Action for Resilience initiative is a two-phase opportunity for local community leaders—who are interested in designing and implementing rigorous resilience research to generate evidence that can inform their own decision-making about policies and projects needed to build resilience in their community, and for researchers—who are interested in partnering in new...

On Friday, March 2, Santa Clara County ACEs Connection held a second screening of the film Resilience at Santa Clara University. Note: The Santa Clara County ACEs Connection community will begin meeting quarterly to discuss and plan how to educate the entire county about the impacts of ACEs and trauma, as well as transform Santa Clara into a county of resilient communities. Please join the open meeting on March 13, 2018, 9:00 a.m. at First 5 Santa Clara. Everyone is welcome!

When a North Bay fire survivor walks into her private practice office, Santa Rosa psychologist Alisa Liguori Stratton never presumes to know exactly what they’re going through. Liguori Stratton, who lost the Fountaingrove home where she and her family lived, has a pretty good idea of the type of post-fire trauma many are suffering, whether they lost a home or not. But the experience — the 15 minutes she and her family had to flee their home, the loss of everything they own — is not a type of...

Hi, Everyone: Here’s the state profile for California. To review the entire profile, open the PDF that is attached to this post. If you have corrections or additions, please leave them in the comments section of this post. We’ll be reviewing the comments regularly and doing fact-checks. The information you give us will also help us determine how to organize and expand the information in the state profiles. We will be turning this post into a living profile that, with your help and input,...

Presented by the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Santa Clara County Friday, April 27, 2018; 8:00 am to 4:30 pm; Campbell, California Registration Link: CLICK HERE Join professionals and community members from across the Bay Area for a day-long symposium on the impact of child abuse, how our community is working to address child abuse, and new approaches in prevention and treatment services. In its 36th year, the annual Child Abuse Prevention Council Symposium has long been known as an...

Dr. Suzanne Frank has known about the impact of childhood adversity on young lives for decades. She’s seen the fallout in the faces of young people huddled in beds at a children’s shelter where she worked years ago. She’s seen it as the regional child abuse services and champion for the Permanente Medical Group. And she’s seen it in hospital examination rooms where, as a member of the Santa Clara County’s Sexual Assault Response Team, she’s been called in to examine shell-shocked children...

Learn more about all of the elements of this amazing program, and the ways you can learn to bring this to your local schools, at their website (linked here). See short clip from their website embedded in this post!

The Public Health Institute and John Muir Health are excited to sponsor this one-day training. This is a training for providers, educators, and community leaders to better understand Trauma Informed Care. The training will share insights and strategies from the self-healing communities work in Washington State. This training will be held on February 27, 2018 from 9:00am-3:30pm at the First 5 Conference Center. The address is: 1115 Atlantic Ave., Alameda, CA, 94501. For more information,...

On January 30th, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, founder and CEO, Center for Youth Wellness; author, “The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”, was a guest on the KQED Radio program, Forum. Click here to hear the 52 minute audio segment

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.

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris debuted her book, The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity , at the Philadelphia Free Library this evening in a talk and book signing. This first stop in an ambitious book tour that crisscrosses the country reflects a mission that Burke Harris has pursued for nearly a decade: to spread the knowledge about the science of adverse childhood experiences, and about how people can use this knowledge to help solve our most intractable problems.