Tagged With "car seat safety"
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Car Seat Check Event
Yolo County Child Passenger Safety Program & CommuniCare Davis are hosting a car seat check event where nationally certified technicians can help you properly install your cal seat. WHEN: Friday, September 28th TIME: 4:00-6:00pm WHERE: Sutter Health Parking lot; 2000 Sutter Place, Davis For more info call 530-666-8715 or Yolo.CarSeats@yolocounty.org
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Make Time for Yourself—A Self-Care Guide for Busy Parents from Yolo County Children's Alliance
Yolo County Children’s Alliance is excited to share our new self-care resource for parents and caregivers for Child Abuse Prevention Month. Make Time for Yourself—A Self-Care Guide for Busy Parents talks about the importance of self-care and provides many ideas to try. The guide is available in English, Spanish, and Russian at www.yolokids.org/forfamilies/ . To help parents prioritize self-care, the guide divides specific self-care ideas into those that only take 5 minutes to do and those...
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Do You Have a Story to Tell? Speak at the 2018 Fall Trauma-Informed School Conference
Beyond Consequences is excited to announce that our Call for Proposals for the 2018 Fall Trauma-Informed School Conference has been extended. If you have a great story to share about your experience in working with students who’ve had adverse childhood experiences, we would love to hear from you! Here are some examples of sessions that fit in at our nationally recognized conference: Administrative/School-Wide Track • Mindfulness Instead of Suspension • Special Education Law & Advocacy •...
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Empower Yolo: Connecting the county’s most vulnerable
Article in the Davis Enterprise By William Hodges Special to The Enterprise This article celebrates the successful partnership of Dignity Health and Woodland Memorial with Empower Yolo. This partnership created the ER Patient Navigator Program which is focused on health-care navigation, which assists patients in connecting with a medical home and helping them gain a better understanding of their benefits if they do have coverage. Empower Yolo is providing patients health and social services...
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TEEN EVENT: My Future Starts with Me on 10/5
Please help us bolster registration for this 10th annual event scheduled for October 5! Woodland Community College in partnership with Friends-CARE is hosting My Future Starts with Me. Share with families, counselors, teachers, students, etc. There is available space at this time and the registration deadline has been extended to September 25 . The registration flyer and more detailed information is attached! If you have questions, please contact Renee Collins ( renee.collins@ycoe.org ).
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Partners in Prevention workshops
Please share the attached flyers for upcoming Partners in Parenting groups that Children's Therapy Center and Help Me Grow Yolo County will be offering to the community. You will also find a document with all groups that are offered at CTC and new guidelines implemented. Please contact Mayra Gonzalez if you have any questions: 530.668.1010 or Mayra.Gonzalez@ ctcHelpsKids.org
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Pediatric, Child, and Adult CPR & First Aid
Foster & Kinship Care education class with Certified Red Cross Instructors Antonio Acosta & Mike Smith Saturday, Jan. 19 th , 2019 RSVP Required as we are limited to 15 participants -Please Email Cherie if you want a seat. Two Yr. Red Cross Certification (Pediatric, Child & Adult) and First Aid Cards are Issued CPR starts at 9:00 am sharp & First Aid at Noon - Generally 3:30 or 4:00 pm Location: Woodland Community College – Building 100, Room 101
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WEBINAR: Resilience and Self-Care for Helping Professionals in Uncertain Times on 4/3
10:30AM PT on April 3 Resilience is the ability to overcome difficulty. Self-care strategies are how we manage stress to overcome that difficulty. Join this fee live webinar to learn how to effective develop resilience and self-care routines that work. We'll take a deep dive into what self-care and resilience is and review pragmatic and concrete tools you can implement immediately! https://zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_Z9slZFRlQcqJj- 8thN6Qpw?
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WEBINARS: How to keep teens, youth and young children safe in cars
These webinars are part of the Kids Plates Local Coalition Development. CCCSH hosted 13 webinar series planned for 2019-20 fiscal year. 1) The Teen Driver Safety webinar explores the role and actions local coalitions can take to support successful programs to help keep teen and other young drivers safe, especially during their first years of driving. This webinar will provide you with information why this traffic safety and public health issue is so important, and links to resources for...
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WEBINARS related to resilience, racism, child abuse and neglect, self-care, and implementing programs
Tips to help you get into your resilience zone and build your resilience muscle and new video on 4/15 from Origins Building from previous videos, Andi Fetzner from Origins offered some concrete practices that you can do to build that resilience muscle and keep yourself in that resilience zone. Be sure to follow Origins on Facebook @OriginsTC and tune in at 4:00 PST 4/15/20 where we will wrap up this video series and talk about how all of these concepts can be translated into practice in both...
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White Paper on 5 Key Elements to Trauma-Informed Care
The experience of trauma leads to or exacerbates mental illnesses, substance use, and physical health conditions, making it a vital component of any effective treatment plan. A trauma-informed care framework involves real-time strategies to promote staff and organizational wellness and equip organizations to retain their staff, reduce the number of critical incidents, and increase client engagement in their care. This white paper from Relias discusses the 5 key components in implementing and...
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Trauma Sensitive Yoga offerings in Davis
Located in Davis, herSpace offers private sessions and small group interoceptive yoga classes as a healing modality for the treatment of trauma, secondary trauma for caregivers and general well-being for all. A guided meditation and intention setting class is also on the weekly schedule. The practice of yoga from a trauma-informed perspective, is an empirically validated method of bringing your body into the healing process, to integrate and transcend the effects of trauma. The concept of...
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Updated YFSN Parent Resource Lists
Updated YFSN parent resource lists are here! They include the following: Concrete Support in Times of Need Resources Parental Resilience and Social Connections Resources Strengthening Parent-Child Interactions Resources for ages 0-5, 6-12, 13-18 For those of you who aren't familiar with this project, the YFSN (Youth & Family Services Network) Resource List Committee updated the Maternal Mental Health Collaborative's resource lists that were organized by protective factor (...
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RESOURCE: Overviews of some of CommuniCare’s programs
Attached please find documents with an overview of some of the CommuniCare Health Centers (CCHC) Programs. These programs are coordinated by CCHC perinatal (PN), behavioral health (BH) and health prevention and wellness (HPAW) departments.
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RESOURCE: Parent guide information
Please share the with the families you serve the attached a 2-page document for parents and caregivers about the parent guides that Yolo County Children's Alliance has produced as a project of the Yolo County Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC). All of the guides are available at www.yolokids.org/forfamilies . There are some hard copies of the following guides and we would love for them to get into the hands of parents. Please let me know if you would like some of these materials!
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Self-Care - Mobile Apps and more
Developed out of Trauma Informed Oregon, find lots of innovative ways to take care of ourselves with this cool resou rce o f mobile apps for self care. http://traumainformedoregon.or...-apps-for-self-care/ And take a...
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Mardi Gras Fundraiser for Yolo County Children's Alliance.
Let the good times roll! WHEN: Thursday, April 11, 2019 from 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM WHERE: West Sacramento City Hall, Civic Center Galleria 1110 West Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento, CA 95691 Yolo County Children's Alliance has been part of the Yolo County community for 17 years and counting! We have expanded our programs and offer safety net services throughout Yolo County. We hope that you will be able to take part in one or more of the many exciting events that we are offering this year an...
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Re: April 5 conference program
I think we should change it to "registration optional" because most years had people who wanted to register even though they didn't want CEU's. They mailed in the registration form even though it said "no registration". When I told them they didn't need to, they always explained that they wanted to make sure they had a seat reserved. What do you think?
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WEBINARS about COVID-19; Coordinating approaches to support children; ACEs screening; Traffic safety
Talking to Kids About COVID-19 (Relias) 12-12:45pm on Thursday, June 18 The COVID-19 pandemic is incomprehensible for even the most informed adults. For children, many of whom had their daily routines abruptly interrupted and replaced by confusing new restrictions, this can be a particularly confusing and stressful time. Join us Thursday, June 18 for a live webinar to learn how we can speak to children about COVID-19 in ways that support their health and the well-being of the entire family.
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WEBINARS on health, self-care, and child poverty
Rebuilding a Global Approach to Health from Physicians for Human Rights 9am on Thursday, July 16 The devastating spread of COVID-19 has ravaged health care systems around the globe, laying bare the gaping holes in a broken system. When we eventually emerge from this crisis that has changed the world as we know it, our health care systems must change with it. This moment presents an opportunity to reconstruct our global approach to health care in order to create systems that respect health as...
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RESOURCES FOR CLIENTS for free legal assistance and on self-care
· Free legal assistance: Voluntary Legal Services Program of Northern California is a volunteer-based “pro bono” legal aid program that provides free assistance with civil and legal matters to low income clients living in the Sacramento region (Yolo, Sacramento, San Joaquin, El Dorado and Placer counties). Voluntary Legal Services Program is still open and is accepting calls regarding unemployment insurance benefits, bankruptcy and debt collection defense, guardianship and conservatorship,...
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WEBINARS on resilience, self-care, and stress
· Resilience and Self-Care for Helping Professionals in Uncertain Times from the Center for Adolescent Studies (recording now available) · Regulating the Stress Response for Kids: Practical Tips for Primary Care Providers on 8/26 Noon-1pm on Wednesday, August 26 This webinar will offer practical tips and examples on how providers can incorporate stress regulation strategies into their treatment planning for pediatric patients.
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RESOURCE FOR PROVIDERS on Supporting families and child care providers; Adolescent health behaviors
· Supporting Families and Child Care Providers during the Pandemic with a Focus on Equity A new resource from Child Trends outlines the challenges facing families and child care providers disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, and offers potential strategies that state and local policymakers and administrators can use to address those challenges. For example, state and local policymakers should consider that job losses affect parents’ ability to pay for care and that, as a result, more...
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WEBINARS on bridging the digital divide; trauma and suicide prevention; continuous program improvement; poisoning prevention
Navigation Strategies to Bridge the Digital Divide on 10/8 11am on October 8 Connecting adult learners to virtual services is challenging, especially when they don't have the literacy, language, or digital skills to engage in services independently. Join ProLiteracy to hear the strategies used by Kalamazoo Literacy Council to remove the barriers to virtual learning. Michael Evans, Executive Director of Kalamazoo Literacy Council will explain how they established a laptop loaning program and...
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Random Acts of Kindness calendar
The Yolo County Library brings you the Kindness Calendar for the month of December. We have included the link to Be The One California and we hope this will be useful for our partners in the county. Please feel free to share. Elizabeth Gray | Central Services Manager Yolo Reads Adult & Family Literacy Yolo County Library www.yolocountylibrary.org (p) 530.666.8084 • elizabeth.gray@yolocounty.org Ideation • Input • Adaptability • Connectedness • Intellection
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YOLO COUNTY LIBRARY UPDATE: December Kindness Month resources
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...
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Equipping Hope: A Holistic Approach to Building Trauma-Informed and Resilient Communities - $15 Mini-Event
Are you seeking support to build a truly trauma-informed school or community? Trauma-informed work is never a one-size-fits-all program. It is about building a responsive and actionable culture that is rooted in the science of Hope. Building healthy communities takes a full-spectrum approach, from building the buy-in, to implementing and sustaining the process. In this online conference, you will learn the components for building change: understanding how to develop Hope ; learning how to...
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Activity Kits for kids and car seat inspections
Help Me Grow Yolo County and Northern California Children's Therapy Center will be having their Summer Drive-Up Activity Event on June 17th from 9am-11pm or until supplies last at the Douglass Middle School parking lot- 525 Granada Dr., Woodland, CA 95695. Please see attached flyers (English and Spanish). For more information, call Help Me Grow Yolo County at 844-410-GROW or email Information@HelpMeGrowYolo. org.
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Top Reasons for Joining the Summit
Virtual Conference | April 5-6, 2022 Our world gets more complex every day. So it's more important than ever to address the traumas that affect our communities. That’s why we’re coming together at the Hanna Institute Summit: to heal our communities. But why should you join us? Here are the top three reasons people attend the Summit: 1) Learn from Experts From best-selling authors Ibram X. Kendi and Resmaa Menakem to Nancy Dome and Dr. Gary Slutkin, national and Bay Area experts will bring...
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Re: Self-Care - Mobile Apps and more
For someone like me who's always on the move, Toosim.com - buy esim online has been a lifesaver. Their detailed guide on esim around the world is a gem. I've ditched the hassle of swapping SIM cards every time I cross a border. The site breaks down esim providers, plans, and compatibility effortlessly. It's like having a well-traveled friend who spills all the secrets on staying connected without the fuss. If you're a digital nomad, adventurer, or just someone who loves their phone,...