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The Student Mental Health Policy Workgroup’s Suicide Prevention Committee is happy to continue to offer the Building A Network of Safety for School Communities Suicide Prevention Monthly Webinar Series . Please join us on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from 10:00-11:30 a.m. for the 5 th webinar: Improving Suicide Prevention Practices in School Communities presented by Dr. Shashank Joshi, Stanford University and Stan Collins, Directing Change. Dr. Joshi and Stan will be sharing strategies on...

This webinar helps with Creating a Healthy and Safe Home Environment with a focus on learning about Financial Freedom in the Family. DATE: March 19th, 2021 TIME: 1:00-2:30PM. Please see contact information in the flyer.

Trauma-transformed is hosting a series of virtual sessions for supporting and promoting Healing Networks in the Monterey/San Benito; Sacramento; and San Bernardino/Riverside/Inland Empire regions. The sessions are open to those who support the community in the focus regions and are designed to recognize, reclaim, and lift up our inherent and collective blessings and resilience. The first session “Recognition and Restoration” is being held on March 25 from 10:00 am-1:00 pm for those in the...

Please see attached flyers for Spanish CREO Platicas that come to us from the CREO program from CommuniCare. Topics for the Spanish Platicas include and will be happening via zoom (5pm) on: March 17 California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation; Farm Workers Rights March 24 The Arc California; Disability Rights conversation March 31 Consulado General de México; Legal Resources Information

A curated collection of over 75 lesson plans, writing prompts, short films and graphs relating to racism and racial justice. By Nicole Daniels , Michael Gonchar and Natalie Proulx March 4, 2021 The summer of 2020 was not the first time that urgent conversations about race and racism were happening in homes, classrooms and workplaces. But the energy of the Black Lives Matter protests, believed by many to be the largest in U.S. history , was unparalleled. Though the demands and chants may have...

Starting on March 23, 2021, Family Nurturing Program virtual classes will be offered in English and Spanish. These classes are open to any parent or person doing childcare in the community, including license-exempt. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nancy Ledesma (her contact information is in the flyers).

EMERGE Center for Social and Emotional Learning is offering a Spanish Language Parent Support Group that starts on March 16 to May 4th. See the attached flyer for more information.

On behalf of the CDSS FURS Implementation Team The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) is proud to announce the launch of: Family Urgent Response System (FURS) MARCH 1, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. FURS includes a 24/7 Statewide Hotline and a 24/7 County-based Mobile Response and Stabilization !! FURS will provide current and former foster youth (up to age 21) and their caregivers with immediate, trauma-informed support by caring and trained professionals when they need it. FURS is intended...

Join Our Next We Are Resilient Free General Online Circle! Do you ever feel stress? Want to Strengthen Your Resilience? Join our We Are Resilient General Circle. Together we will explore how to strengthen your personal resilience, through virtual small group discussion and exercises. You will: Begin to notice Protective Patterns in yourself and others Learn six practical research-based Centering Skills Develop a more resilient mindset This circle meets once a week for six weeks and provides...

Please join us for an interactive, virtual session to learn about the Five Protective Factors Framework and how to leverage a healing approach in the context of screening for Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs). REGISTER TODAY! *CME Credit Available SUMMARY This session will build the capacity of providers serving families with young children (physicians, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, case managers) to approach family interactions with a protective factors framework. As...

This important work by social activist Fania E. Davis addresses the intersectionality of race and the UC criminal justice system. In this timely book, Davis explores the capacity of restorative justice to disrupt patterns of mass in incarceration through effective, equitable, transformative and healing approaches. See the attached flyer for more information.

Interested in learning about the nature of conflict, communication skills, and the medication process? See the attached flyer.