Tagged With "safe-care"
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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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CONFERENCE: Safer California 2020 (unintentional injury prevention)
Save the date for a Safer California 2020: A Conference to Promote Unintentional Injury Prevention for Children and Youth in Sacramento. WHEN and WHERE; November 17 and 18, 2020 in Sacramento, CA at the Double Tree Hotel. Please see the attached flyer for more information.
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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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Strategies for Promoting Healthy Teen Relationships
Join us for a free webinar to learn important Strategies for Promoting Healthy Teen Relationships. Tuesday, February 25, 2020 @ 11:00AM Pacific Time This webinar presents a compelling case for including teen dating violence prevention in your school’s efforts to improve school climate. Safe Dates, Hazelden Publishing’s evidence-based program, has decades of research showing its ability to prevent and reduce teen dating violence by helping students develop skills for building caring and...
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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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Help Your Community Safely with COVID-19
From California Volunteers, Office of the Governor, March 2020 DELIVER MEALS Vulnerable seniors are at greatest risk amid COVID-19. Let’s help keep them safe and cared for. Contact your local Meals on Wheels organization, visit www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org . DONATE TO A SHELTER OR FOOD BANK During this time organizations are running low on food items, help them stay well stocked for those in need. See below for a list of shelters and food banks in need. VOLUNTEER AT A FOOD BANK Food banks...
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HOW TO HELP Your Community Safely with COVID-19
Every Californian can safely help their community during these difficult times. Here are some ways you can make a difference. https://californiavolunteers. ca.gov/get-involved/covid-19/
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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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Webinar: Strategies for Promoting Healthy Teen Relationships
Join us for a free webinar to learn important Strategies for Promoting Healthy Teen Relationships. This webinar presents a compelling case for including teen dating violence prevention in your school’s efforts to improve school climate. Safe Dates , Hazelden Publishing’s evidence-based program, has decades of research showing its ability to prevent and reduce teen dating violence by helping students develop skills for building caring and supportive relationships. In this presentation,...
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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 on Be the One Campaign; Professional Resilience; Safe Sleep; Primary Care and Telehealth; and NAEYC presentations
RESCHEDULED: Be the One Campaign on 6/2 1-2:30 on Tuesday, June 2 The Be the One webinar will present research and action steps designed to engage community members, agencies, and leaders in trauma/healing and resilience focused work. The overall goal is to present information that will assist agencies, leaders, and community members in building safer, more stable, more nurturing relationships and stronger, healthier communities. This is foundational work and can serve as a base for engaging...
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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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RESOURCE: October is Safe Sleep Month
Did you know that each year about 4,000 infants die during sleep time from SIDS, accidental suffocation or other causes? The OCAP is raising awareness in October for Safe Sleep Month! Learning about safe sleep isn’t just important for parents, but for all caregivers. For more information and free resources to share with your community, visit: https://safetosleep.nichd.nih. gov/ .
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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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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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OCTOBER AWARENESS MONTH: Safe Sleep; Drug Abuse Prevention; Domestic Violence
· Safe Sleep Month : Learning about safe sleep isn’t just important for parents, but for all caregivers, including grandparents, childcare workers and other family members. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) website has fantastic resources to share with parents and caregivers about safe sleep practices, as well as, ways that you can help promote safe sleep practices in your communities. For more information and free resources to share with your community, visit:...
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EVENT: Safer Communities through Racial Justice 10/26
1:00-2:30pm Monday, October 26 Join Prevention Institute on October 26 for the APHA 2020 Day of Action, Safer Communities through Racial Justice . In this virtual action, while we tweet storm for safer communities through racial justice, you’ll hear about and be invited to join Get Out The Vote efforts and critical campaigns to invest in schools and communities. We know that this work has to be sustained, so you’ll also learn about longer-term strategies for community-driven, public health...
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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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Opportunity to provide feedback by 6/2 on The Economics of Child Abuse in 2020: A Study of California & Its Counties
Safe & Sound is excited to share The Economics of Child Abuse in 2020: A Study of California & Its Counties . On this website, you can learn about the cost of child maltreatment in every community in California and how to take action to protect kids, strengthen families, and build communities. We would love your feedback on the site. Please take 5 minutes to complete our survey by Wednesday, June 2, so we can continue highlighting research and building tools that communities need.
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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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