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Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic is now available in ADA compliant English and Spanish versions! Please share the attached resource with your networks, the families you serve, or where families access meals or food boxes through the school community or food distribution centers. Here’s more information about the document: The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse...

This is an overview of the 2011 -2017 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) data from the California Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Read the report here. This data report has been produced by the California Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative, a project of the California Department of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention (CDSS/OCAP), in collaboration with...

· The State of the LGBTQ Community in 2020: A National Public Opinion Study : A comprehensive new study from the Center for American Progress found that more than 1 in 3 LGBTQ+ Americans faced discrimination of some kind in the past year, including more than 3 in 5 transgender Americans. Find other survey findings here. · GLSEN released findings from its biennial 2019 National School Climate Survey , examining the school experiences of LGBTQ+ students nationally, and offers a broad...

2pm-4pm on Friday, October 30 The State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) is proud to invite you to the community premier of Let’s Work!. This documentary premiered this month at the San Diego International Film Festival as part of NDEAM and we are proud to bring it to you, our community partners. This is a documentary about 8 young people with IDD and their experiences and successes in competitive integrated employment. Now is your chance to see the 45 minute film and join the...

Yolo County Office of Education (YCOE) is in the process of applying for the 2021-2024 federally funded Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) grant administered through the California Department of Education. The intent of the grant is to facilitate the identification, enrollment, attendance, and success in school for children and youth experiencing homelessness. In addition, the grant will help ensure children and youth experiencing homelessness have equal access to the same...

WarmLine was founded by and is staffed by parents who share the common experience of parenting a child with developmental delays or disabilities. WarmLine offers virtual events for families and parents as well as Special Education Workshops. Online registration is required for all WarmLine activities and workshops. For assistance, call WarmLine at 916-455-9500.

A mother, frantic with worry, brought her newborn in for a checkup at the pediatric clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. But there wasn’t anything wrong with the baby. And over the next several months, no amount of reassurance could convince the mom that her child was eating, sleeping and growing just fine. If anything, the mother’s worry led to behavior that raised alarm bells for her health care providers. Dr. Kate Margolis “[The family] wasn’t returning calls from the provider, and...

Register for A Better Normal- Our reckoning with race and equity at ACEs Connection

The COVID-19 Resilience Poll series tracks the experiences, perceptions, concerns, and hopes of people in the Capital region ( demographically representative of the Capital region, encompassing eight counties, including Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado, Placer, Yuba, Sutter, Solano and San Joaquin counties, and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percent) , via three polls conducted through the first twelve months of the COVID-19 pandemic – including health impacts and fears, the...

In a conversational style, join physician Drew Factor who will speak with Dr. Tracy Gaudet, Liza Guroff and An é Watts in a discussion entitled "Reimagining Health Care". Dr. Gaudet will speak about her experience engaging in transformational change at the Veterans Administration and how this has shaped the development of her own Functional Medicine Institute , while Ms. Guroff and Ms. Watts will speak about their knowledge of a Trauma-Informed Approach both at a systems (National Council...

How Poverty and Trauma Affect Brain Development (recorded) In this presentation to the National Press Foundation, Harvard Center on the Developing Child Director Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. discusses how leveraging advances in the biology of adversity and resilience can reduce inequalities in life outcomes. Swati Adarkar, president and CEO, Children’s Institute in Portland, Oregon, also presents. October Educational Online Forum: A Trauma Informed Response to Protests on 10/26 1:00 -2:30pm on...

9am-3pm on October 26-27 Website: https://www.vitalvillagesummit2020.org/ Registration Link Bit.ly: https://bit.ly/VVNReg2020 Join Vital Village Networks for the 7th annual National Community Leadership Summit , themed Our Future, Our Communities , hosted by Boston Medical Center’s Vital Village Networks! This VIRTUAL summit brings together trail blazers from around the country who are dedicated to helping children and families get equitable access to the resources they need to thrive. This...