Monthly Meeting Minutes-October

SCAC Zoom meeting 10.28.21

Agenda

*Welcome

*Mindful Moment- Bryan Clement

*Introductions

*PACES Presentation

*Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos Update

*Policy & Practice Follow-up/CTIPP (Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy & Practice)

*Resilience for ALL Act 2021 Endorsement

*PACES Connection Update

*SCPC/Peacetown collaborative videos celebrating PACES Community Champions

*SCPC Committee Meeting

*Holiday Gathering

*Action/Future Agenda items

Mindful Moment

• Bryan Clement of Dovetail, shared a beautiful ancient blessing with the group that he had shared in a previous webinar, We are Resilient and Surge Capacity Depletion. You can view the Webinar and see the ancient blessing here: We Are Resilient™ and Surge Depletion

-You can also find more events from Dovetail at: https://dovetaillearning.org/upcoming-events/

Welcome & introductions

-Elizabeth Smith, Community Manager, Sonoma County PACEs Connection
-Kathy Kelly, Program Manager, Early Learning Institute

-Esther Barton, Operations Coordinator, Dibble Institute

-Yensi Jacobo, Director of Youth Services Petaluma People Services

-Bryan Clement, Director of Partnerships and Policy at Dovetail Learning

-Liz George, Field Nursing Public Health Nurse

-Dana Swiley, Network Manager, Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos

-Renee Alger, Program Director, Sonoma First 5

-Katherine Ferry, Grants Coordinator, Sonoma County Indian Health Project

-Mariane Raschke, Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos

-Saskia Garcia, Deputy Director, Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos

-Karen Clemmer, PACES Connection

-Alyson Wylie, Health Educator, CSU Chico, Center for Healthy Communities

Presentation: PACES Presentation-

Elizabeth Smith- See slides above

• SCAC has an opportunity to update our name to better reflect the emerging science of POSITIVE childhood experiences changing it from Sonoma County ACEs Connection to Sonoma County PACEs Connection.
• Consider changing the “About our Community” description on: https://www.pacesconnection.co...unty-aces-connection from “We bring the community together to prevent, heal, and treat ACEs while promoting resilience” and adding Positive Childhood Experiences to the description.
• Brains: Journey to Resilience
• Both PCEs and ACEs matter- and both have  dose-response associations! Together- with all of our partners, people, parents, and community members- we have the power to embed The Science of Thriving!

After the Presentation the group as a whole had a conversation and voted to move forward with the official change to Sonoma County PACEs Connection. Feedback was that by adding Positive Childhood Experiences our group is moving in the same direction as national movements.

Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos update- Introduced a new member of the SC/SU backbone team, Mariane Raschke. Welcome!

*SC/SU sent out a Community Feedback Survey in August 2021. The next steps are

• Short-term: (1) Consolidate Community Feedback Survey results for review and feedback by Action Team and Operations Teams. (2) Further  build backbone & lead agency infrastructure for organizing, sharing, and tracking clear goals and metrics
• Medium-term: Define and implement community-led governance structure and decision-making processes
• Long-term: Sustainability planning

For more information contact: Saskia Garcia, sgarcia@sonomaconnect.org Dana Swiley, dswilley@sonomaconnect.org

CTIPP Update- Last month the CEO of CTIPP(Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice) joined our meeting to educate us on as a group we can be a part. There is opportunity for SCPC to join a Campaign that would connect us with a nationwide grassroots campaign to engage congressional offices and other federal leaders in supporting policies, programs, legislation, and appropriations that prevent and respond to childhood trauma and build resilience. There is also an opportunity for a local campaign liaison, this is for someone who wishes to take a leadership role on behalf of their congressional district or state. A committee will be formed, if you are interested in being a part of a Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice Committee please let Elizabeth know. You can also visit:https://www.ctipp.org/nationaltraumacampaign/

Resilience for ALL Act 2021- The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) released a letter to Congress calling for the introduction and enactment of the "Resilience for All Act of 2021."  The letter is endorsed by over 80 national, state, and local mental health and human services organizations from across the nation, and by over 240 individual professionals. Sonoma County PACEs Connection was one of them. The "Resilience for All Act of 2021" will, for the first time, make the prevention and healing of mental health and psychosocial problems through community-based, age and culturally-appropriate, population-level initiatives a national priority. It will also establish an Office of Mental Wellness and Resilience in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a grant program run by the new CDC office to fund community-based mental wellness and resilience building initiatives nationwide. (Was exciting to see one of our partner organizations Dovetail on the endorsement as well)

You can view the Media Release as well as the list of those who endorsed: https://mail.google.com/mail/u...ealattid=f_kvbj9abl0

PACEs Connection Update- Karen Clemmer of PACEs Connection shared that Senate Bill No. 428 passed. This provides coverage for pediatric services and preventive care to additionally include coverage for adverse childhood experiences screenings. https://leginfo.legislature.ca...ll_id=202120220SB428

Holiday Social- Group showed interest in a SCPC social for the holidays. Members agreed it would be wonderful to be in-person. Date TBD

SCPC/Peacetown Videos- Peacetown has a green screen, teleprompter, the equipment, and video crew to make videos similar to others made such as: Peacetown Family Village 2021and Engage our Youth to promote Peace Elizabeth is on the Peacetown Board and runs the Family Village. There is opportunity for SCPC to collaborate and create videos that celebrate our PACEs Champions in the community giving a voice to the organizations doing the work and community with lived experiences. If you are interested in being a part of this exciting opportunity please email Elizabeth.

-Karen shared that in Shasta County they did “FACES of ACES”.

Member shares:

Liz George- Liz sends out a wonderfully informative newsletter. https://myemail.constantcontac...&aid=5qqjdY6Ctz0

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