Tagged With "Tracy Fauver"
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On Wednesday night, Tracy Fauver did a...
On Wednesday night, Tracy Fauver did a presentation for parents of kids in the Davis Joint Unified School District. Gail Kennedy, who was at her presentation, will provide more details. She said Tracy knocked their socks off. Yesterday...
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3rd annual Building a Resilient Yolo conference October 30th!
Don't miss this year's Building A Resilient Yolo summit. The summit will include discussions and learning opportunities about how to improve and restore the lives of children and families who have experienced adversity and trauma. DATE: October 30th TIME: 8:00am - 4:00pm LOCATION: Yolo County Office of Education Conference Center COST: $25 per person, lunch is included Tracy Fauver, a member of Resilient Yolo and executive Director of Yolo County CASA states, " We come together and take a...
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4-12-15 Free Childhood Trauma Conference in Davis, CA
Please share this flyer and forward it to others: You are cordially invited to attend the 21st Annual Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference, on Sunday April 12, 2015, from 9:30 am – 5:00 pm at the Veterans Memorial Center, 203 E 14th...
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CASA fundraiser tugs on Yolo residents’ heartstrings [DavisEnterprise.com]
Dozens of Yolo County CASA supporters came together under the country sky at Park Winters on Sept. 11 to raise money for the 400-plus foster children in the county. The “I Am For the Child” Dinner and Auction is Yolo County CASA’s biggest annual fundraiser and accounts for a significant portion of the nonprofit agency’s budget. This year’s event was its most successful yet at a time when it is critical in order to meet Yolo County CASA’s 2020 goal of providing every foster child with a CASA...
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December declared “Be the One” Month by Yolo County Board of Sups.
Article from Woodland Daily Democrat. Published: December 17, 2019 https://www.dailydemocrat.com/ 2019/12/17/december-declared- be-the-one-month-by-yolo- supervisors/ December declared ‘Be the One’ Month by Yolo supervisors. Supervisors made their declaration on Tuesday, during their regular meeting. The “Be the One” campaign was organized by Resilient Yolo, in collaboration with Yolo County Library and other departments, agencies, organizations, and individuals the focus of which is to help...
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ACEs/toxic stress color wheel for schools!
If you've seen the documentary Paper Tigers , you may remember the stress target -- or color wheel -- in Lincoln High School Principal Jim Sporleder's office. Now you can have one, too! The steering group members of the Yolo Resilience Network in Yolo County, CA, (you can find them on the Yolo County ACEs Connection group) realized the needed to have some tools that they could give to local educators for whom they did presentations about ACEs and trauma-informed practices. "We'd see people...
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Action Group - about each group. Something for everybody
Would you like to get more involved with the Yolo Resilience Network? Feel you're too busy for a big commitment? Don't worry - there is something for everyone. Check out the Action Groups and find one that fits your interests. Contact a Steering Committee Lead for that group to see what they are working on, share your interests or ideas, and see where you can get involved. The group many be meeting regularly or simply need someone to write a quick blog or print some flyers. By all doing...
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Article: It Starts with the Kids
It Starts with the Kids by Tracy Fauver, Executive Director of Yolo County CASA Even in the very early grades, I noticed my kids had back to school radar. After all, there were a lot of clues. We always went shopping for new clothes to fit their rapidly growing bodies. Then there was the mail. Each day, as the school year was coming around, my girls would start to care ALOT about the mail. They knew class assignments were coming... and they wondered which teacher they would get, and which...
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Building A Resilient Yolo Research Project
Several of Yolo County's community-based agencies (e.g., Yolo County Office of Education, Yolo CASA, Yolo Conflict Resolution Center, Family Hui, Yolo County Health and Human Services, Yolo County Probation, Yolo County Special Education Local Plan Area, etc.) came together to conduct a research project aimed at understanding how to better serve Yolo County’s students and their families. Data was gathered from two sources: 1) literature in academic journals; and 2) six focus groups (i.e.,...
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Does Yolo County Need a Family Justice Center? [DavisVanguard.org]
Here's a write-up of one of the presentations at Sunday's child sex abuse conference in Davis, where Tracy Fauver and I did a presentation about ACEs and trauma-informed, resilience-building efforts in Yolo County. Thanks for sending this, Andrea!...
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February Yolo ACEs Mtg - Summary Notes
Hi all- See below and attached for a summary of our February meeting that Anna Sutton compiled at the Feb. 20th Yolo ACEs meeting. We look forward to seeing you THIS FRIDAY, March 20th from 12-1:30pm at our March meeting . Stay...
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Yolo County CASA: Let’s build the resilience muscle together
This article by Tracy Fauver originally appeared in the Davis Enterprise on July 9, 2017. In response to her husband’s unexpected death in 2015, Cheryl Sandberg contacted Wharton professor Adam Grant, a psychologist, to better understand her trauma and grief, and gain hope for recovery. She learned so much about resilience that she coauthored a book about it with Grant, titled “Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.” In her keynote address at Virginia Tech’s 2017...
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Yolo County Child and Family Initiatives
In an effort to help us know more about the great work that is happening in Yolo County and to increase opportunities for collaboration, Natalie Audage of YCCA created a spreadsheet of Yolo County child and family initiatives. For this effort, initiatives are defined as multi-organization or agency collaboratives, meetings, or committees related to children and families in Yolo County. Natalie will revise this document on an ongoing basis. If you have any additions or changes, please let...
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Yolo County has more abused children than state average [Daily Democrat]
By HEATHER KEMP | hkemp@dailydemocrat.com | PUBLISHED: December 12, 2018 at 8:03 am | UPDATED: December 12, 2018 at 11:10 am Children in Yolo County are experiencing abuse and neglect almost 5 percent more than average in California, according to a presentation given by the local Child Abuse Prevention Council. The presentation at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting served as an annual update and brought up some major concerns. Among them, the fact that the county has a rate of 12.3 per...
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Yolo Resilience Network Community Meeting - Thursday, September 8, 2016
Hoping to see you THURSDAY, September 8, 2016 for the Yolo Resilience Network's Community Meeting. Come hear from Tracy Fauver, Director of CASA how CASA is integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices into the CASA program. TIME: 3:00-4:30pm LOCATION: Yolo County CASA Office, 724 Main St #101, Woodland, CA 95695
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YRN Organizational Plan - Steering Group and Action Groups
Steering Group and Action Group Organizational Description Roles and Responsibilities of Steering Group (SG) Members Commit to serve for a 6, 8, or 12 month term. Co-chairs of SG to serve for 6 month terms. Attend monthly SG meetings Lead or co-lead an action group (some of these will be sector specific, others may be a different project, i.e. toolkit) Participate in another action group to ensure SG representation on every work group Present brief monthly action group updates to the SG (for...
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YRN meeting this Friday
Hello Everyone, We hope you can make it to a Yolo Resilience Network meeting this Friday March 17th at 3pm at the Yolo County CASA office. Come hear about some important new updates, upcoming activities and start the weekend off right by celebrating the Luck of the Irish! Lucy Roberts and I are pleased to announce a proposed change in the structure of the Yolo Resilience Network collaborative. Over the past several weeks we have been in discussion with a number of Steering Committee members...
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NEW: Updated Yolo Child and Family Initiatives spreadsheet
In an effort to help us know more about the great work that is happening in Yolo County and to increase opportunities for collaboration, please find an updated version of the spreadsheet of Yolo County child and family initiatives attached below. For this effort, initiatives are defined as multi-organization or agency collaboratives, meetings, or committees related to children and families in Yolo County. If you have any changes or additions to make for the next version, please email me.
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Notes from August Community Meeting
Attached and embedded below can be found our "meeting minutes". Thanks for compiling notes, Anna! And thanks all for attending and enjoying a birthday celebration for Jane and Ramy! As I promised in the meeting, I created a "Trauma-Informed...
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Real Life Resilience Champions
As she describes in her TED Talk from 2015 , when Nadine Burke Harris stumbled into the world of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), it made her rethink her entire approach to practicing medicine. After finishing her residency, she went to work for California Pacific Medical Center and together they opened a clinic in Bayview-Hunter's Point in San Francisco. As she began her work there, she focused on improving many of the traditional health disparity measures for underserved communities.
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Relationships Make ALL the Difference!
Article by Tracy Fauver, Executive Director of Yolo County CASA As I write this month's column, two mass shootings have again rocked our nation. Like everyone else, these events leave me saddened, shaken to my core, and in deep thought about our future. After these types of events, in a quest for deeper understanding and comfort, two questions seem to arise. 1) What causes these events to happen? 2) How can we prevent this from happening again? The answers to these questions are largely why...
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Resilient Yolo Meeting Minutes - April 6, 2018
Resilient Yolo Network Meeting - April 6, 2018 Attendees: Lucy Roberts, Bonnie Berman, Lori Chelius, Tracy Fauver, Debra Palmer, Allison Rodriquez, Julie Langston, Gail Kennedy UPDATES: Origins Training + Consulting is starting the 2 nd round of their online program NorCal Strategies 2.0 Trauma Informed event is April 18 th at the Library Gallery in Sacramento ACEs Connection will have a 1.5hrs breakout session in the afternoon to find out where folks are and where they are stuck. On April...
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Resilient Yolo Meeting Minutes - Aug 2, 2019
Attached are the revised August 2019 minutes. Topics covered; Visit from Desiree Vigel with Shores of Hope in Sac, Be The One magnets, Big Picture brainstorming about RY goals, and committee updates.
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Resilient Yolo meeting minutes - Dec, 7, 2018
Attached are the December 2018 minutes. Topics covered; Be The One Public Awareness Campaign, RY Committee Formation, Resilient Yolo website No January 2019 meeting. February minutes will be posted soon.
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Resilient Yolo Meeting Minutes - Feb, 1, 2019
Attached are the February 2019 minutes. Topics covered; Hillary Cottam TED Talk video, resilience inspired by Officer Corona, and committee updates.
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Resilient Yolo meeting minutes - Nov 2, 2018
Attached are minutes from the November 2018 meeting. Topics covered; Resilient Yolo Summit debrief, Next Steps, and Other Ideas.
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Weekly update of what's happening in Yolo re: ACEs work!
Hi all- Thanks to all that attended our January meeting of Yolo ACEs Connection and special thanks to Jane Stevens who did fabulous presentation on ACEs for us. I promise that the notes from the meeting will be published in the Meeting Notes...
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World Café Facilitator Training on 11/7/18 in Woodland
Have you heard about the World Café model, but want to learn more? Are you interested in using the model in your work but want help learning how to plan a Café? You are cordially invited to attend a World Café Facilitator Training! Yolo County Children's Alliance and the Yolo Conflict Resolution Center, in collaboration with the Yolo Family Strengthening Network (YFSN), invite you to learn how to effectively design, convene, and host World Café conversations to engage parents and strengthen...
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Yolo CASA: Compassion changes everything, by Tracy Fauver [Davis Enterprise]
Gail's comments: please read this well written overview of Resilient Yolo efforts by Resilient Yolo co-chair Tracy Fauver! I want you to imagine the last time you were cut off on the freeway by a vehicle driving erratically. For most, this is a frustrating experience. We are immediately angry at the other driver and may even act out by way of honking our horn or giving the other driver an unkind look (… OK, maybe an unkind gesture!). We then may mumble something along the lines of, “What is...
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Yolo CASA: Good outcomes shouldn’t feel strange
This article by Tracy Fauver was originally posted in the Davis Enterprise on May 14, 2017 May is National Foster Care Awareness Month. To put this into perspective, the National Foster Care Coalition says that at any given time, there are more than 400,000 children nationally in foster care. To illustrate this, that’s almost twice the number of people who live in Yolo County and six times the size of the city of Davis. In our county alone, there are 506 children in our foster care system, a...
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Yolo CASA hosts California CASA
Tracy Fauver, executive director of Yolo County CASA, hosted a lunch meeting on Tuesday with California CASA officials CEO Cory Pohley, program manager Karen Finan, and legal director Phil Ladew so that Gail Kennedy and I could talk with them about...
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Yolo CASA: We’re grateful … and in need of volunteers
This article by Tracy Fauver first appeared in the Davis Enterprise on October 8, 2017. We are full of gratitude because on Sept. 17, we hosted our most successful dinner and auction yet, thanks to our generous community members. All proceeds will go toward training Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) for foster children, to provide them with consistent and stable relationships, and ensure that their voices are heard and their needs are met in the dependency system. John Martin and...
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Steering Committee meeting 9/10/15 Minutes
Yolo Resilience Network Steering Committee Meeting 9-10-15 Present: Jessica Larsen (YCOE), Julia Langston (B.E.A.R), Regan Overholdt (First 5), Gail Kennedy (ACEsConnection), Jane Stevens (ACEsConnection), Ramy Husseini (HHSA/MCAH), Anna Sutton...
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Steering Committee Notes - May 20, 2016
YRN Steering Committee Noon – 1:30pm 5/20/16 Yolo CASA Woodland, CA Luncheon Notes Welcome - Mindfulness Moment Introductions – see attendance list below Teen & Baby Court Presentation – ####### Evans Pilot project - community collaborator, Goal to prevent toxic stress for infants (0-12 months) by building relationships and teaching teen parents how to reach out for help. Then the positive relationship is passed along to their children to enable normal brain and development progress.
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Meeting notes - Oct. 24, 2014
We met in the Thomson/Walker Room in the Yolo County Dept of Health Services, at 137 N. Cottonwood St, in Woodland. (Next time I WILL remember to take a photo!!!!) Attending: Natalie Audage -- Child abuse prevention...
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Meeting notes - Sept. 24, 2015
Lisa Muller — Child welfare Alison Book -- Child welfare Karleen Jakowski -- CommuniCare Julie Langston -- Bear Valley Megan Overholt -- First Five Tracy Fauver -- CASA Sarah Roseen -- Woodland School District Molly May — PTA Davis Lucy...
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Meeting notes - Sept. 26, 2014
The nascent steering committee met in the Thomson/Walker Room in the Yolo County Dept of Health Services, at 137 N. Cottonwood St, in Woodland. Attending: Lisa Musser Christine Ziccardi Anna Sutton Tarin Varughese Biju Varughese Tracy Fauver...
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Meetup Dec 10, 2014
These notes are from Tracy Fauver. Thanks for putting them together, Tracy!! Notes from Yolo County Trauma Informed Practice Collaborative – December 10 th , 2013 Fancy name for a very informal group. We met on December 10th to share...
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Meetup January 24, 2014
We met at Tres Hermanas in Davis, CA, on January 24, 2014: Tracy Fauver Gail Kennedy Cherie Schroeder Jane Stevens Connie Valentine We made plans for the April 5 conference: "Childhood Trauma: Focusing on Solutions" This is the 20th...
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Meetup Notes for May 16, 2014
Maria's Cantina, Woodland. Attending: Shaunda Cruz, Tracy Fauver, Karleen Jakowski, Susan Jones, Andrea Ransdell, Jane Stevens, Anna Sutton, Michele Threlkel. Following on the success of the four half-day workshops over two days in February that...
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Message from Lucy Roberts and Tracy Fauver
Hi Everyone, Can you all believe that May 2020 is just around the corner? Friday is May 1st. We wanted to let you know that there will not be a Resilient Yolo meeting this month, virtual or otherwise. But there is plenty of resilience happening in our community and behind the scenes. On Friday, June 5th at 2:30pm we will hold a Resilient Yolo meeting - likely via Zoom rather than in person. Details to follow. Until then, we hope that you are finding ways to Be The One - for yourself first...
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Yolo Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC) presentation to the Board of Supervisors
Counties throughout California have a child abuse prevention council (CAPC) charged with evaluating local data and identifying strategies to reduce child abuse and neglect. One of the underlying principles to CAPC’s work is that preventing child abuse is a much more effective intervention than trying to treat the lifelong effects of child abuse . On Tuesday, July 7, Tracy Fauver, the Chair of Yolo’s Child Abuse Prevention Council, provided the Yolo Board of Supervisors their annual report...
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RESOURCE: Family Initiatives in Yolo County
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...
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April is child abuse prevention month
Dear Yolo County CASA Supporters, April is child abuse prevention month and this year is especially important. Schools are often a safe haven for foster children. After all, when their lives become quickly unfamiliar with new family members, foods, and traditions, school is often the place that stays the same. It also used to be a place where about a fifth of child abuse and neglect cases were reported to child protective services. When the pandemic hit and schools closed, we were concerned…...