Attached are 2 flyers (English and Spanish) for next week's drive-up gift give away. This will take place right outside the Help Me Grow Yolo building and masks are required. Please feel free to share with families.
December is Kindness Month! Attached is the Kindness Month image and PDF. Feel free to share the PDF and use the image, or direct people to the website www.yolocountylibrary. org or Overdrive (eBooks) site https://yolocounty. overdrive .com/, or point them directly to Kindness month at https://yolocountylibrary. org/wp-content/uploads/sites/ 71/2020/12/kindness_month_ calendar_bibwithlinks_2020.pdf . People can get an instant digital card using their cell phone number to sign in (if they...
Attached is the executive summary of the Community Conditions That Strengthen Families: Protective Factors at the Community Level Report from the Center for the Study of Social Policy. The link to the full report is also here . Feel free to share.
Mental Health America (MHA) is the nation’s leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and promoting the overall mental health of all. MHA focuses on education and outreach, public policy, and peer advocacy, supports and services. It has resources for staying mentally healthy , including: Living well, 4mind4body Recovery and support Tools for mental wellness. MHA also has a report on COVID-19 And Mental Health: A Growing Crisis
The Transform Trauma with ACEs Sciences FREE Film Festival continues this weekend. Please join us to watch parts 1, 2, and 3 of the PBS Whole People series at your convenience, on ACEs Connection, by clicking play on the videos below: Whole People | 101 | Childhood Trauma | Episode 1 (27 min) Preview: Whole People | 102 | Healing Communities | Preview | Episode 2 Whole People | 102 |Healing Communities Episode 2 (27 min) Whole People | 103 |A New Response | Episode 3 (27 min) This is one of...
The Yolo Opioid Response team with CommuniCare Health Centers worked to develop a video that provides education and awareness for youth opioid risks and services available. Healthcare Providers: https://youtu.be/Fiy3Xupk9l0 Teen: https://youtu.be/upl7iWWWImA Parents: https://youtu.be/KiAk5gs7bYY
The environments we create and the experiences we provide for young children and their families affect not just the developing brain and early learning, but also many other physiological systems and lifelong health. How do all these systems work together to respond to chronic stress? What do these responses mean for early learning and lifelong health? And what can we do to stop early adversity and stressors from leading to long-term consequences? Derived from the science in our most recent...
· Building Responsive Relationships Remotely: Insights from our Community Conversations In the Spring and Fall of 2020, Harvard Center on the Developing Child hosted a series of conversations with members of our Frontiers of Innovation community. Through these conversations, members shared their stories of innovation and resilience as they sought to maintain services to families and innovate not only overnight, but sometimes by the minute! This site has some tips that may help you navigate...
Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General's Report on Adverse Childhood Experience, Toxic Stress, and Health on 12/10 Noon - 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 10 California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris set a bold vision to cut ACEs and toxic stress in half in one generation through a strategically deployed, coordinated public health initiative designed to raise awareness, reduce transmission of ACEs and strengthen our response networks. As part of this work, the Office...
Attached please find flyers in English and Spanish for this year's YCCA toy distribution on 12/19. Please note that this event is for West Sacramento families only. If you would like flyers in Russian or Farsi, please let me know. I didn’t include them because they are larger files. Please share the flyers widely!
RISE will be offering an online safety prevention class on Monday, December 14, 6-7pm, on Zoom. First time participants are eligible to receive a $50 gift card for attending the training. Please share the attached flyer with child care providers. If you have questions, please contact Esthela Chavez at esthela@riseinc.org .
Noon-1pm on Friday, December 11 Join Patelco Credit Union along with guest speaker, a FICEP-certified coach, as they discuss all things savings related! Please see the attached flyer for more information. Register here.
· Ready to Learn: It's More Than the ABC's! : Social psychologist, Kristin Moore, PhD, and colleagues find that school readiness goes beyond knowing letters and numbers. They studied parents' self-reported information from the National Survey of Children's Health for kids ages 3 to 5 and found that preschoolers are better prepared to enter school when they are physically healthy with access to nutritious, balanced meals and when they get adequate sleep (10 to 13 hours a day). During the...
In a new policy brief from the UC Davis Center for Policy & Inequality Research, LillyBelle Deer, Paul Hastings, and Camelia Hostinar of UC Davis investigate the role of executive function in explaining the association between early-life family income and long-term academic achievement. Key Facts: Income-based disparities in academic achievement emerge early in life and persist into later childhood and adolescence. Executive function, an important collection of attention-regulation...
SACRAMENTO – The Office of the California Surgeon General today released the first California Surgeon General’s Report - Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General's Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health. The report serves as a blueprint for how communities, states, and nations can recognize and effectively address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress as a root cause to some of the most harmful, persistent, and expensive societal and...