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To help you as you begin your recovery, we’ve developed “ Here for Each Other .” This family guide offers tips and activities to do with your child that offer comfort and assurance. We hope some of these ideas can help you create a warm and soothing environment that will allow both you and your child to look toward sunnier days to come. And remember, you are not alone. We are here for each other!

Join YCCA on October 24th for Healthy Community Day ! TIME: 10am-2pm LOCATION: Sutter Health Park 400 Ballpark Drive, West Sacramento, CA 95691 Free Drive-Thru Flu Vaccines, Fruits & Vegetables, Health Coverage Information, & more! Please share the attached flyer with your clients!

12-1pm on September 17 Registration for the CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY- Second Free Live Webinar with Free CME/CE is now available. Dr. RJ Gillespie will present Parental ACEs and Pediatrics: Transforming Well Care. This is a supplemental training. For Aces Aware Medi-Cal certification visit ACEsAware.org . Please see the attachment for more information

Policy Brief: COVID-19 Recession Highlights Need for Expansion of Social Safety Net A new policy brief from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research suggests that broad changes to our work-based social safety net could enable it to function more effectively in economic downturns. Key Facts: The recession brought about by COVID-19 has hit low-income families especially hard. Federal relief efforts have eased hardship, but there remains tremendous unmet need, and food insecurity is spiking.

The next Yolo Opioid Coalition meeting is on October 14th from 1-2:30pm. Dr. Corey Waller, a national expert in Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) treatment, will present at this meeting. Please see the attached flyer for more information, including the zoom link for this meeting. You must register to attend.

· FAMILY HUI is starting a group for parents/caregivers in Yolo this September. The group will meet online and is being organized with parents from UCDavis but all are welcome. Please contact mlopez@familyhui.org for more information. These groups (hui) have offer a powerful system of support always but especially at this time. 96% of online participants said they will would recommend the program to a friend. If you know of a parent in need, please reach out. www.familyhui.org · EMPOWER YOLO...

To help families access the internet to complete distance learning, Yolo County Library has purchased 100 hotspots with unlimited T-Mobile data plans that we will assign to select families for the 2020-21 school year. In order to participate, an applicant must have a minimum of one child enrolled in a school located in Yolo County. Please help the Library spread the word about this program. Please share the attachments (in English and Spanish) with potential applicants. To participate,...

FIRST 5 YOLO offers 3 funding opportunities for organizations. Please find more information and applications here ! Childcare COVID-19 Safety Net Funding COVID-19 Emergency Relief Funding Ongoing event sponsorship

Wildfire Response: Hot Foods and CalFresh Benefits Replacement Outreach Materials in Spanish CalFresh Food benefit recipients in Yolo (and many other counties) have been approved for a Hot Foods Waiver and a Timely Reporting Waiver because of the wildfires. Please see the attached flyers regarding wildfire CalFresh benefits in Spanish. From Congressman Garamendi: On August 22nd, California received a Major Disaster Declaration for the destructive wildfires that have destroyed parts of our...

Web Conference Series: “Seeing Survivors in Familiar Spaces: Building Sexual Assault Awareness for Everyone” in September These web conferences are designed for community based organizations (i.e. schools, faith based, recovery programs, etc.) seeking to build their capacity to address sexual assault among their service populations, and who want to work more collaboratively with their local sexual assault agencies. 9/15, 10-11am: It Impacts Us All: Sexual Assault 101 9/16, 10-11am: Children...

HOPE National Resource Center is performing a research study to better understand the relationship between positive childhood experiences (PCEs), ACEs, and health outcomes in adulthood. Please take 5-10 minutes to complete the following anonymous survey . With your help, the researchers hope to find a better way to combat ACEs and to support the development of children into resilient adults. Here’s a little bit more about the survey: This survey is sponsored by the HOPE National Resource...

All Children Thrive, California (ACT-CA) project has two upcoming opportunities to improve child wellbeing that may be of interest to you. Engagement opportunities follow: ACT-CA has opened its Request for Applications (RFA) to public comment. Consider sharing your feedback on the RFA’s city eligibility criteria and funding requirements with Belinda C. Bresnahan, Public Health Advocates, Program Manager, at BC@PHAdvocates.org by September 22, 2020. Please consider attending the Virtual...