One Immigrant's Path to Resilience: Community of Practice

One Immigrant's Path to Resilience: Community of Practice will be held April 25th, 2017 from 9:00am-12:00pm.

Sonoma County ACEs Connection and partners brings you together to raise awareness about Adverse Childhood Experiences and resiliency. This Community of Practice Session will help each participant to continuously improve their knowledge and ability to share ACEs science with fidelity, as well as to realize important core values in the work. 

ACEs and Resiliency Fellowship Participants, including Master Trainers and Presenters are invited to attend this session. Master Trainers will be registered by our staff as their participation is required. Presenters will register by purchasing a Presenter Program Participant ticket.

We also invite up to 35 community members to join us.  Please purchase a community member ticket.

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Fee Waiver & Payment

Please type in the discount code "WAIVER" if you need to waive the cost for this event. (Enter this code by clicking the "Enter Promotional Code" blue text just above the green registration button.)  If you can support future activities by purchasing a ticket, please choose to pay with credit card or check when you register.

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Eddy Zheng (鄭小飛), has a passion and lifelong commitment to serving children, youth, and families in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

Eddy is the 2015 Open Society Foundation’s Soros Justice Fellow, whose primary focus is raising awareness around the impact of criminalization and deportation on the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community, and ensures that the API voice and experience is included in the larger movement to end mass incarceration in the United States.

Eddy immigrated to America from China with his family when he was 12 years old. “Like many immigrant youth before and after me, I did not have a choice on whether or not I wanted to come to the U.S.,” he says, “I know firsthand the difficulties, barriers and frustrations the young people in our community are going through, and what can happen when they can’t get the help support they need to succeed.” Eddy’s mission is to use his experiences to inspire and motivate young people to invest in their education, raise awareness about the detrimental impact that the Prison Industrial Complex has on the Asian and Pacific Islander population, and promote racial harmony among people of color.

Appointed by San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee to serve on the Southeast Community Facility’s Commission, Eddy also serves as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisor appointee on the Department of Children Youth and Their Families’ Oversight and Advisory Committee (DCYF’s OAC), the Board of Directors in San Francisco’s Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), and co-chairs the Oakland-based Asian Prisoners Support Committee (APSC). He is a consultant at the Community Youth Center of San Francisco‘s (CYC) branch office in Bayview Hunter’s Point. In 2007, he led a book project which culminated in the publication of “Other: An Asian and Pacific Islander Prisoners’ Anthology.” Eddy is the subject of an award winning documentary, “Breathin’ The Eddy Zheng Story.”

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In the case of course cancellation, fees will be returned to applicants. Refunds must be requested in writing to alea.tantarelli@sonoma-county.org by April 21, 2017 at 5:00pm. Refunds will not be granted after that date and payment will be forfeited.

This program is pending approval by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP 12787, Contact Hours XX of continuing education credits, awarded by the County of Sonoma, Department of Health Services.  

This course meets the qualifications for three hours fo continuing education credit for MTFs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider No. PCE2834 

The next session will be held May 30, 2017.