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3rd annual Community Baby Shower!
The Yolo County Children's Alliance - Step by Step Program and the Nurse Home Visiting Program will be hosting the 3rd annual Community Baby Shower for pregnant and parenting moms in Yolo County on September 29th from 10am-2pm . Attached you'll find the flyer (in English and Spanish) for this event. Please share! If you would like to register to have a table at this event, I've also attached the registration form. Please fill it out and submit it to Lilian Marquez at ...
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4th Annual Yolo County Community Baby Shower Fair
The Yolo County HHSA and YCCA Community Baby Shower Collaborative will be hosting their 4th Annual Yolo County Community Baby Shower Fair! DATE: Saturday, September 28th TIME: 10am to 2pm LOCATION: Home Arts Hall, Yolo County Fairgrounds (1250 Gum Ave.) in Woodland. The main goal for this event is to educate families, who are either expecting or parenting a child less than 5 years of age, about Yolo County resources. This event is open to ALL Yolo county families, e.g. families from West...
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Community Baby Shower on 9/28
Please share the attached flyers with your clients! The Community Baby Shower is happening 10am-2pm at the Yolo County Fairgrounds in Woodland on Saturday, September 28 th .
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month - In Oct THINK PURPLE!
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Join Empower Yolo for its Paint Yolo Purple Campaign Month of Action! For full calendar of events go to: http://empoweryolo.org/events/ Or see the attachment. The first event is this weekend, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 @ 2pm. SEVEN: the play, a benefit for Empower Yolo. Winters Theatre Company is presenting six performances of Seven: the Play (September 30th-October 9th) at the Winters Community Center and has chosen Empower Yolo as beneficiary of...
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Free books for all 2019 Woodland newborns!
Woodland United Way is working with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to provide free books to all 2019 Woodland newborns. Each month a new book will be mailed to the child's home. To sign up or become a sponsor go to www.WoodlandUnitedWay.org. See attached flyer for more details or to promote the program.
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Taming the Dragons - Helping Children Cope, ages birth to 12 yrs
Attached find Sue Delucchi's manual for childcare providers. Tips and tools to help kids with trauma heal and develop resilience. Sue was the Director of a crisis nursery in Washington State throughout her career. This manual was developed based on...
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More COVID-19 related resources for parents and educators
Woodland Dignity Health has put together a guide for parents entitled “Emotional Health Survival Kit.” Please share the attachment with parents! Education resources, including mental health, for kids, families during coronavirus pandemic from ACEs Connection: https://www.acesconnection.com/g/yolo-county-ca-aces/blog/education-resources-including-mental-health-for-kids-families-during-coronavirus-pandemic The Creative Mom’s Guide to Learning at Home from ADDITUDE:...
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PREVENTION: A key solution to reducing ACEs
Bringing Baby Home Training of Trainers, Sacramento May 10-11, 2018 A friend of mine recently referred her grandchild and his pregnant wife to a Bringing Baby Home class, because she noticed that the wife had a horrible background of abuse and at times had difficulty functioning. What the grandmother noticed with this couple was a change in the family dynamics. The couple knows how to get along, the father is engaged in parenting, and the baby thriving. This is really starting at the root of...
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Prevention: Teaching people how to create healthy families
PREVENTION: a key solution to reducing ACEs. Bringing Baby Home Training of Trainers, Sacramento, April 25-26, 2019 Building healthy families is key to reducing ACEs. Even the strongest relationships are strained during the transition to parenthood. Lack of sleep, never-ending housework and new fiscal concerns can lead to profound stress and a decline in marital satisfaction — all of which affect baby’s care. Not surprisingly, 67% of new parents experience conflict, disappointment and hurt...
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REPORT: State of Babies Yearbook
ZERO TO THREE and Child Trends has produced a first-of-its-kind publication to answer how the 12 million infants and toddlers are faring in the United States. The State of Babies Yearbook was developed as a part of Think Babies, an effort to make the potential of every baby a national priority. The State of Babies Yearbook set out to create a baseline understanding of how young children in this country are doing in three key domains: good health, strong families and positive early learning...
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RESOURCE: Marijuana and Motherhood
With the legalization of marijuana, new resources have been made available by the California Department of Public Health to educate women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or plan to become pregnant, about the health risks it can pose on their babies. Learn more at the California Department of Public Health's website: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/DO/letstalkcannabis/Pages/pregnantbreastfeedingwomen.aspx Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women - cdph.ca.gov Research shows that if you use cannabis...
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Re: PREVENTION: A key solution to reducing ACEs
Correction: dates of the training are May 17-18, 2018 in Sacramento. Thank you Carolyn
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WEBINARS on health, gun violence, health of babies, organizational policies to prevent child sexual abuse
Primary Care & Telehealth Strategies for Addressing the Secondary Health Effects of COVID-19 on 5/27 Noon – 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27 This webinar will focus on building understanding and identifying primary care and telehealth strategies and tools to address the secondary health effects of the COVID-19 emergency. Widespread stress and anxiety regarding COVID-19, compounded by the economic distress due to lost wages, employment and financial assets; mass school closures; and necessary...
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REPORT: State of Babies Yearbook: 2020
This comprehensive report and advocacy tool from ZERO TO THREE tells the story of how the United States' babies are faring and provides a clear view of the significant disparities in opportunity for our youngest children throughout the country. The State of Babies Yearbook: 2020 shows that the state in the U.S. where a baby is born impacts their chance for a strong start in life. By nearly every measure across all states, children living in poverty and children of color face the biggest...
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17th International Conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma
Septemer 21 & 22 Virtual Format - Four Hours Per Day Every two years, The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome has the privilege of hosting some of our industry’s most knowledgeable and impactful leaders and influencers during our conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma. With all of the unprecedented happenings and concerns around the world, we need information about the prevention, recognition of, and long-standing and life-altering effects regarding SBS/AHT and infant...
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WEBINARS and COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSION on ACEs, COVID, shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma
The Catalyst Center Presents: Community Listening Session #1 Around Addressing ACEs on 8/26 10am on August 26 The Catalyst will be embarking on a yearlong systems change and engagement initiative, in close collaboration with the National Council for Behavioral Health, working to raise the capacity of providers and the agencies that structure their supports to Advance Trauma-Informed Communities. The Catalyst is a proud partner and grant recipient of the ACEs Aware Initiative. In the month of...
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WEBINARS on babies, Supporting Families with Young Children, ACEs, and policy
The State of California’s Babies on 8/25 10am on August 25 Join ZERO TO THREE, Early Childhood Orange County, and the First 5 Center for Children’s Policy on August 25 at 10 am PT for a discussion on the state of babies in California. Register to learn from national and California state and local leaders about how you can use state data to make the case for babies and inform policy and systems change efforts. Supporting Families with Young Children on 8/26 11am-12 on August 26 Reaching...
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April "Shower for the Shelter"
Join the "Friends of Empower Yolo" for an April "Shower for the Shelter" in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and Child Abuse Prevention Month In 2020, Empower Yolo advocates served 119 survivors of sexual assault, 60 were children. 272 domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking survivors (of which 76 were children) received shelter or transitional housing for 15,331 bed nights in 2020. Empower Yolo continues to provide survivors of abuse a place to turn to...
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Yolo County supervisors approve ARP expenditure plan
This is an update on the American Rescue Plan published by Supervisor Don Saylor in his weekly newsletter. On Tuesday, the Board approved the initial American Rescue Plan (ARP) expenditure plan, which included funding for priority projects, priority categories, strategic plan implementation, and other uses. The Board also provided direction on the development of ARP priority category workgroups and approved a Yolo County ARP Policy to guide the use of ARP funds . A recording of the...
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Federal Update: Information on the Build Back Better Act (from Zero to Three)
The following information is from The Baby Monitor, providing Zero to Three Policy and Advocacy News. Know someone who may be interested in receiving The Baby Monitor? Invite them to sign up. Congress, Why Shortchange Babies on the Supports They Need? As Congress continues to negotiate the Build Back Better Act , it is critical to consider the impact of legislation they have already enacted – and what’s at stake if they do not take further action. The expansion of the Child Tax Credit as a...