Tagged With "Neighborhoods"
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Happiness as a Skill: A Different Narrative
This is a FREE class promoted by The Happy Neighborhood Project. They are helping people learn that happiness is a skill not just an emotion. Edwin Edebiri will present ways to raise your happiness level through practice, even when life throws you curve balls. The Yolo County Library is hosting this class on 4 dates at 2 different locations (Davis and West Sacramento) . Please see the attached flyer for more information. Registration is required: www.hnpabc.com/class
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REPORT: Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods
Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods, a new KIDS COUNT® data snapshot was released this week by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Using the latest data available from the U.S. Census Bureau, the snapshot examines where concentrated poverty has worsened across the country, despite a long period of national economic expansion. While California has seen some improvement since the last snapshot was released in 2012, there are still more than 1.1 million children living in...
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Neighborhood Court Panelists
The Yolo County District Attorney's office is recruiting volunteers for their Neighborhood Court program. They will be having a 3-day training in January. For more information, please see the attached flyer, go to the training application or contact Maria Olmedo Jimenez at maria.olmedo@yolocounty.org .
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CORRECTED LINK: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Neighborhood Court Panelists
The Yolo County District Attorney's office is recruiting volunteers for their Neighborhood Court program. They will be having a 3-day training in January. For more information, please go to the training application or contact Maria Olmedo Jimenez at maria.olmedo@yolocounty.org .
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New Toolkit Helps Communities Address Trauma to Shape Their Own Neighborhoods [nextcity.org]
Seven years ago, trying to recover from the death of her daughter, Brenda Mosley was introduced to the concept of trauma-informed care. “I was in a state of grief, darkness and despair,” she says. Then she began a three-year, trauma-informed program offered by an organization in her neighborhood of Kensington, Philadelphia, the New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC). “It was 10 women and we were introduced to all the models of trauma-informed care,” Mosley recalls. “I was...