The nascent steering committee met in the Thomson/Walker Room in the Yolo County Dept of Health Services, at 137 N. Cottonwood St, in Woodland. Attending:
Lisa Musser
Christine Ziccardi
Anna Sutton
Tarin Varughese
Biju Varughese
Tracy Fauver
Alissa Sykes
Cherie Schroeder
Karleen Jakowski
Gail Kennedy
Jane Stevens
Our next meeting is October 24, at either the Dept of Health Services or Yolo County CASA. Anna or Tracy will let us know.
By that time:
- We will have filled in, to the best of our knowledge, the Yolo County Trauma-Informed Assets Map spreadsheet, a Google doc that we all have access to now. Once we have a good start on who's doing trauma-informed work in Yolo County, we'll transfer that information to this group. I have invited all the members of this steering committee to access the spreadsheet.
- We will also start filling out a list of organizations to contact to see they're interested in a presentation about ACEs. I'll have that spreadsheet up soon.
- We will have invited other people to join this steering committee and to attend the October meeting.
During our one-hour meeting, we talked about:
- Collaborative efforts being organized in the county, including a trauma-informed team that emerged from the Positive Youth Justice Initiative (Karleen mentioned), Yollaborate (Anna mentioned), and a couple of others. We can list collaborative efforts that are trauma-informed in the assets spreadsheet, and those that aren't yet on the "opportunities" spreadsheet.
- The Community Resilience Cookbook, including the case studies and the "Essential Ingredients" info graphic, which may be useful resources for us as we figure out out own path to becoming a trauma-informed, resilience-building community.
- The upcoming California ACEs summit, Nov. 5-7 in San Francisco. Karleen and I are on panels.
- Ways to begin educating organizations about ACEs. Anna came up with a great idea about lunch events, in which a free catered lunch and the ACEs 101 speaker are provided. The California Endowment has provided me a small amount of money that can fund such lunches (or breakfasts, as the case may be), and Tracy suggested that local foundations may be willing to fund half the amount. We decided to host about dozen of these over the next year. Tracy volunteered to put together a rough proposal that we can review here on the group and identify foundations to make requests to. Anna suggested providing gifts -- perhaps a thumb drive with ACEs 101 presentation, plus information about ACEsConnection and our group.
- The need to put together a mission statement, official steering committee, etc. -- the first steps on the "Essential Ingredients" roadmap. I will mine the case studies to see if there are some that we can borrow. (The ACEsConnection community is all about sharing, but we will, of course, ask first.) Anna suggested coming up with a link that we can put on our email signatures. Great idea.
- The opportunity to make the Yolo County ACEs Connection group a resource for the county with lists of people who can do presentations, lists of champions, a trauma-informed therapists/clergy/counselors/etc. bank, and training opportunities.
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