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ACE'S Aware Peer to Peer Join us for the continuation of our Peer to Peer Sessions. This is a continued opportunity to meet and greet fellow Santa Clara County clinicians who are interested in or are conducting ACEs screenings in clinical practice. During our Peer to Peer Engagement Sessions, we will discuss trauma informed efforts across Santa Clara County for ACEs screening. We hope to embed integrated and supported communities of practice, as well as to collectively (with 360 degree...

https://stanford.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?P=3000&EID=40200Welcome and Announcements 9:00AM - 9:05AM Christopher Stewart, MD Responding to Corporal Punishment: What the medical provider needs to know 9:05AM - 10:05AM Neha Mehta, MD HOPE and Health 10:05AM - 10:50AM Baraka Dechelle Floyd, MD Robert Sege, MD Dora Alvarez, MD Morning Break 10:50AM - 11:00AM Identifying & Responding to Sexual Violence in Adolescents & Young Adults 11:00AM - 11:45AM Tonya Chaffee, MD Case...

English: The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP) , Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative , ACEs Connection , and the Yolo County Children’s Alliance co-created “Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in both English and Spanish. This material is intended for Californian families experiencing the severe economic consequences resulting from...

By Sonya Herrera, San Jose Spotlight, June 23, 2021 Obstacles that disabled residents deal with daily intensified during the pandemic. A new office promises to change that trajectory with a training and information center dedicated to improving services across Santa Clara County. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the new Office of Disability Affairs on Tuesday, a victory that advocates say was hard-won. “There were many pieces that went into this, of many...

Are you finding barriers in primary care with implementation of ACEs screening and workflows? Are you experiencing barriers to information sharing when primary care and behavioral/mental health work as a team to care for a patient? We hope to develop positive ways to eliminate these barriers at Session # 3 SCC ACES AWARE Collaborative : Peer to Peer Engagement Sessions 3-5 The 6/25 Session will focus on identifying where providers are with implementing ACE’s or what barriers exist for...

July 12-15 APSAC Virtual Colloquium Over 100 Presenters | 13 Tracks | Up to 17 CE Credits Register Today Please join APSAC in the celebration of Juneteenth. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The term Juneteenth comes from the date June 19, 1865, when enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas, found out that they were free a full two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation became official. APSAC continues its commitment to fighting racism and bias in...

Trauma informed care and services have been a focus area at School Health Clinics for the past two years. This is based on the wealth of scientific research demonstrating that cumulative adversity, especially when experienced early in life, is a root cause of some of the most harmful and persistent health challenges. With extensive staff training and newly adopted protocols, every SHC patient is now screened for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and provided with resources and mental...

Among PACEs Connection initiatives around the country, it’s well known that our social network is something like a bustling, giant town square where people share ideas, resources and any number of conversations about how to prevent childhood adversity and promote positive childhood experiences. On May 14, PACEs Connection assembled a virtual town square gathering of PACEs initiatives in California, where we have 58 initiatives sparking action all across the state. Speakers at the gathering,...

For anyone who thinks Oregon — long regarded as a liberal, progressive state — was a welcoming place for Blacks and other minorities in the past, a recent webinar sponsored by Oregon health care organizations was a chilling wake-up call. In June 1844, Oregon’s provisional government passed its first Black Exclusionary Act , with language stating that any Black person who set foot in Oregon “would be publicly whipped 39 lashes.” From that time forward, Oregon, like most states, amassed its...

CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY - Session 11 with Robert Sege and Baraka Floyd | June 17 [avahealth.org] Dr. Bob Sege returns with Dr. Baraka Floyd for Part 2: Balancing ACEs with HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) Thursday, June 17, 2021 | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (PT) In this second webinar on HOPE, the focus will move from the evidence and theory underlying the HOPE framework as we roll up our sleeves and dive into ideas for practice transformation. The session will include a review of...

Medical Advocacy in the Face of Discrimination | May 27, 2021| 12:00pm - 1:30pm PT Live presentation with Dr. Sharon Cooper. Link for 30 second summary by Dr. Cooper: https://www.avahealth.org/resources/california-aces-academy/sharon-cooper.html Registration: https://www.avahealth.org/ to register

It’s shocking: Preschoolers are three times more likely to be expelled than children in elementary, middle and high school, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Boys are four times more likely than girls to be kicked out, and African American children are twice as likely as Latinx and White children. One organization with childcare centers and mental health providers in Kentucky and Ohio began a long journey 15 years ago, when they began hearing about...