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COVID-19 Fall Wellness Series in Spanish The Ventanilla de Salud and Ventanilla de Asesoria Financiera is inviting you to a 4-part workshop series on how to stay healthy during COVID-19 this holiday season. You have an opportunity to ask questions and learn valuable information from subject matter experts. NOTE: Series will be in Spanish. The sessions will be 6-7:30pm on the following dates: November 16: Cooking Healthy on a Budget November 18: Financial Literacy November 30: Financial...

"Supporting Patients in Pregnancy: ACEs and Maternal Health" 1.0 Continuing Medical Education/Maintenance of Certification Credit Available* Wednesday, December 2, 2020 Noon – 1 p.m. Register for the Webinar This webinar will provide information for women’s health providers about the importance of ACE screening in improving maternal and child health. Speakers will share resources for providers looking to introduce ACE screening in their practice, examples of how to create a healing...

Join the UC Davis Health Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for our virtual racial healing circle, facilitated by: Mercedes Piedra, MS : Director for UCDH Office for Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Rangineh Azimzadeh Tosang, MA, CPF : Founder of Solh Resolutions International We are creating a safe space to build a community of belonging for a collective impact on racial justice. Date And Time: Wed, November 18, 2020 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PST Add to Calendar Location:...

4:30-6:30pm on November 18 via Zoom At the next quarterly meeting the Cool Davis Coalition is hosting a presentation by Bob Doppelt on Building Community Resilience followed by a panel discussion featuring local community leaders. Bob Doppelt, is the Director of The Resource Innovation Group affiliated with Willamette University. He is author of many books and publications in the Cool Davis library including Climate Communications and Behavior Change and Transformational Resilience . He is...

Nurturing Resilience & Joy in/among Young BIPOC Children, Part 1. Focus on Parents & Caregivers on 11/16 5:30pm on November 16 Join EmbraceRace for this webinar: US society is too often unkind to Black and Indigenous children and children of color (BIPOC children), raising the risk that these children learn to be unkind to themselves and each other. If we are to raise a generation of BIPOC children who fully recognize their own humanity, and that of their peers within and across...

In the face of this uncertainty, ZERO TO THREE’s latest policy report, Building for the Future: Strong Policies for Babies and Families After COVID-19 , weaves together the landscape for babies and families as revealed in the State of Babies Yearbook , as well as research on how they have been faring during the pandemic and economic upheaval, while highlighting the policy gaps that left families of color and with low income particularly vulnerable.

Managing Distance Learning at Home Webinar for Parents This is a Zoom Call for parents to learn some tricks for Managing Distance Learning At Home. We will talk about how to manage your children with their distance learning while caring for younger kids and/or trying to get your own work done. Please share the attached flyer with parents! The link for the call from MOSIAC Children's Museum on November 19th at 6:30pm is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87678548820 . Caring for Young Children While...

Note: I just heard from my contact that they have not received any applicants. Please encourage eligible women to apply ASAP! Please read more below and in the attachment about two Soroptimist Award for $2,000 for women with primary responsibility for their families and who are attending an undergraduate degree program or a vocational skills training program. Applicants must live or go to school in Yolo County. Please share and encourage eligible women to apply ! Soroptimist International of...

The Resilient Yolo collaborative has been working to formalize our processes and our direction. Below is our recently adopted Mission and Vision: MISSION: That Resilient Yolo support and promote partnerships between its membership and the larger community, actively and intentionally prevent and address the traumas associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Community Experiences (ACEs), including those particular to marginalized minority populations, in its outreach, education...

Dear Colleagues --We would like to invite you to an ongoing Racial Equity Learning Group for school counselors and for Yolo County Staff working directly with children and families, led by Tessa Smith of Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency and Kate Snow of Davis Joint Unified School District. Tessa is an Outreach Specialist in the Mental Health Services Act Unit of Yolo County HHSA doing mental health and racial equity education. Kate, as Climate Coordinator for DJUSD, works on...

In an effort to help us all know more about the great work happening in Yolo County, we are sharing the attached spreadsheet with updated information about Yolo County child and family initiatives. This information will increase opportunities for collaboration in Yolo County. For this effort, initiatives are defined as multi-organization or agency collaboratives, meetings, or committees related to children and families in Yolo County. Thank you to all who provided the information included in...

“How to Motivate the Unmotivated Student”: Tools for school counselors, psychologists and social workers on 11/11 12pm on Wednesday, November 11 In this webinar we will discuss how school mental health teams can begin addressing these issues with the highest need students and then how they can help expand this approach to support all students, teachers and staff. Hear from our panel as they discuss how to promote SEL and creating buy-in with administrators teachers and staff. How Trauma...