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See attached flyer for 24/7 Support for foster youth.

Open to Anyone Welcome to ACEs Connection Overview of our website and ways to engage -- for new and current members with @Alison Cebulla (ACEs Connection Staff) Monday 3/22/21 1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET for 45 mins >>Click here to register<< T hese happen every month on the fourth Monday at 1pm PT. Starting an ACEs Initiative in Your Community with @Alison Cebulla (ACEs Connection Staff) Monday 3/8/21 1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET for 45 mins >>Click here to...

The Yolo COVID-19 Community Needs Series is a five-week series discussing the impact of the pandemic and its fall-out in Yolo County, sponsored by Sutter Health. Each panel (Thursdays at 11am on Zoom) will feature nonprofit and community leaders discussing a major need. The goal is to better understand how we can all work together on these high priority issues. Register by clicking the dates below, or click here for more details. Feb. 25 : Children & Families Mar. 4 : Food Insecurity...

See attached for a brief history, mission, vision, values and principles of the Resilient Yolo collaborative.

See attached flyer in Spanish and English.

Enterprise article dated February 12, 2021 By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Some of Yolo County’s poorest families with young children will receive a hand up and out of poverty through a universal basic income pilot project approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The 31 families in the CalWORKS Housing Support Program who have children under the age of 2 will receive monthly payments for a year, up to a maximum of $12,155. That cash assistance, combined with the CalWORKS grant they already...

NO GOING BACK: Providing Telemental Health Services to California Children and Youth After the Pandemic, is the first in a series of briefs outlining how technology can make mental health more accessible with concrete recommendations based on providers’ perspectives, and lessons learned during the pandemic. Read the Report When the shelter-in-place mandate started, California’s mental and behavioral health providers quickly pivoted to telehealth delivery for children and adolescents. Recent...

From UC Davis Office of Research, Davis Enterprise, February 9, 2021 Leigh Ann Simmons, a professor and chair in the Department of Human Ecology and co-director of the Perinatal Origins of Disparities Center, has received a $3 million award to build and strengthen community-based health and social supports systems in Yolo County to address adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress. ACEs can include experiences such as witnessing violence in the home or community, abuse or...

1.0 Continuing Medical Education (CME) / Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Credit Available* Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Noon - 1 p.m. Register Here Please join us for our next ACEs Aware webinar to discuss the secondary health effects associated with stress caused by COVID-19. Presenters will share how ACEs Aware training and resources to treat toxic stress can equip providers with the knowledge and tools they need to effectively incorporate ACE screening into patient care, and to better...

Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) is excited to share A Road Map for Ending Domestic Violence in California: A Life Course Approach to Prevention with the ACEs Connection community. The Road Map , a policy paper supported by Blue Shield of California Foundation, draws upon our work at FUTURES as well as research and study on best practices for preventing violence. It presents four evidenced-based prevention and intervention strategies to prevent and end domestic violence in California:...

This opportunity is for Yolo County non-profits working on initiatives that will make a positive impact on gender and racial equality. Grant requests will be accepted up to $3,000. The deadline for submissions is 5:00pm on Friday, February 26, 2021 . Eligibility and criteria are in the attached document. This grant opportunity is provided by the 7th Grade class and their families at Congregation Bet Haverim in Davis, CA.

This Koa Family research study was just opened to Yolo County residents. The focus is wellbeing and weight loss for women. Participants need to be SNAP Ed eligible. See attached flyers for more details.