Tagged With "Davis Community Clinic"
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2017 Art Workshop Series with Yolo CANVAS
Yolo CANVAS is a program of Davis Community Meals. Dori Marshall, Vicki Plutchok and Marilyn Moyle will provide materials and ideas for new projects. TUESDAYS, 1-3 p.m. October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 & November 7 , 14 Cesar Chavez Plaza Community Room 1220 OLIVE DRIVE, DAVIS These classes are open to anyone in the community. Fees are $10 per class. * To register or for more information, call Marilyn Moyle at (530) 756-8475 or email marilynamoyle@gmail.com These classes are financed by the...
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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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ACEs Connection Webinar: The trauma toll on pediatric immigrants, refugees and their families
ACEs Connection Webinar: The trauma toll on pediatric immigrants, refugees and their families You’ll receive tips for health care providers in pediatric settings and beyond When: Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, 10:30-11:30 am Pacific Time/1:30-2:30 Eastern Time Please register here for this webinar. Our speakers include: Dr. Heyman Oo , MD MPH is a primary care pediatrician in Marin County and an Associate Physician/Clinical Instructor for the General Pediatrics Department at Zuckerberg San Francisco...
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ACEs is gathering crowds
This was posted by Jane Stevens last night. Read about Yolo Co efforts which are featured prominently in her story! Last Thursday, on opposite sides of the country, two groundbreaking projects launched. In Philadelphia, 14 communities were...
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CLIENT AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: Free Health Clinic in Sacramento in October
California CareForce provides completely free medical, vision, and dental care to anyone who shows up, regardless of income, employment, age, family size, or immigration status. They do not require insurance or ID to serve patients and all services are provided at absolutely no cost to the patients. This event will be held on October 25th and 26th in Sacramento at the Cal Expo . You can learn more information at https://www.californiacareforce.org/patients/sacramento/ Feel free to let your...
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CLIENT RESOURCE: Creating Links to Resources and Opportunities (CREO) at CommuniCare
The Creating Links to Resources and Opportunities (CREO) program provides outreach and health engagement services to Latino/Hispanic individuals and families residing in Yolo County. Their services cover primary care, mental health, case management, advocacy, and educational talks. Check out their attached brochures in English and Spanish for more information, and please feel free to share with your clients!
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COMMUNICARE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES are still available!
All Counseling, Medication Assisted Treatment, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment services are still available, and we are accepting new referrals. In order to support staff and patient safety, we have implemented telehealth options and those services continuing in our clinics will abide by all the recommended precautions intended to reduce exposure risk to COVID-19. While all the Behavioral Health services we are known for continue, we felt it was important to highlight a few: Substance...
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Consumer Rights Clinic - Oct 20th
Legal Services of Northern California with volunteers from King Hall are hosting a Consumer Rights Clinic on Saturday, October 20th. They will be addressing housing barriers and debt collection matters. A flyer in both English and Spanish is attached for you to post and/or distribute. Questions may be addressed to Legal Services of Northern California at the phone number listed above. Please pass this one to anyone that may benefit from these services. Thanks! Date: 10/20/2018 Time: 9:00am -...
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Coping As A Community: COVID-19 - Zoom Webinar with Dr. Andres Sciolla
DATE: Thursday, April 9, 2020 TIME: 12:00PM Many people have questions about ways to cope with stress experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this, the UC Davis Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion has organized a weekly webinar series focused on Inclusive Practices, Holistic Health and Wellbeing. Please join me and Dr. Andres Sciolla, MD as we discuss Stress, Trauma and Resilience this Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 12 PM via Zoom. You can register at...
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CREO PROGRAM FOR PARENTS: Learn about resources and programs in the School District on 2/21 (in Spanish)
The CREO program invites you to our Workshop “Plática” to learn about resources and programs in the School District, that can help prepare your children’s academic growth. Please see the attached flyer and please share this information with your community. If you have questions, please contact MariaIsabel Mandujano at MariaisabelM@communicarehc.org . Also posted on https://www.facebook.com/CEDDCENTROPARALAEXCELENCIAENDISCAPACIDADESDELDESAR/
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CREO workshop for Latino/Hispanic individuals and families in Yolo County
The Creating Links to Resources and Opportunities (CREO) program cordially invites you to our workshop (plática) this Friday, January 17 th . at 5:00 pm . in CommuniCare Hansen Clinic in Woodland . The Creating Links to Resources and Opportunities (CREO) program provides outreach and health engagement services to Latino/Hispanic individuals and families residing in Yolo County. Their services cover primary care, mental health, case management, advocacy, and educational talks. Please forward...
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CREO Workshop on preventive health checkups in English and Spanish
Lorraine Lunden will explain the importance of preventive health checkups on May 17 at the Salud (West Sacramento) and Hansen (Woodland) Clinics. Please see the attached document for more information (scroll down for English version).
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CYW releases "Children Can Thrive: A Vision for California's Response to ACEs"
The Center for Youth Wellness released a new report “Children Can Thrive: A Vision for California’s Response to ACEs”. This report is a follow up to last November’s Children Can Thrive Summit. ...
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DISCUSSION: Coping as a Community: COVID-19- Strength, Inspiration and Hope
12-1pm on April 30 Please join us this week for Coping as a Community: COVID-19- Strength, Inspiration and Hope. Our virtual discussion with UC Davis Health nurse leaders will share the current experiences of health-care providers working on the frontlines across our region. To register: bit.ly/copingasacommunity4-30
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ACES Science 101 (FAQs)
What are ACEs? ACEs are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains so profoundly that the effects show up decades later; they cause much of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence. ...
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ACEs science can prevent school shootings, but first people have to learn about ACEs science
The shooting in Florida isn’t only a gun regulation issue. It’s a systems change issue. All of our systems have to change their approach to changing behavior — whether it’s criminal, unhealthy or unwanted behavior — from a blame, shame and punishment approach, to one that is based in understanding, nurturing and healing….in other words, ACEs science.
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ARTICLE by Yolo County Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC)
Commentary: Support children and families in Davis Enterprise During this extraordinary time, the Yolo County Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC) recognizes that now, more than ever, we need concrete ways to support Yolo children and families. Please read the full article to learn about some of the ways the CAPC recommends supporting children and families in Yolo County.
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Beyond Trauma: Building Resilience to ACEs (brochure)
Wish you had a fairly easy and short way to share all about ACEs? Wish it was in-depth enough to share with teachers, doctors, nurses and therapists but not so long or jargony it puts family and friends to sleep? Here's the perfect thing to share when you've been all up in the faces with ACEs and want to back up your words before, during or after. This brochure is comprehensive but not so long that it remains in the "I'll get to it later," pile. Please feel free to print, forward, download...
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Breaking generational cycles of violence and trauma...ACEs? [NPR]
Is is that simple? Maybe it really is... Clinics in Philadelphia are incorporating ACEs into their pediatric and prenatal clinic visits....good for the current generation. Good for the future generation. http://www.npr.org/blogs/healt...s-legacy-start-young
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Building on Scaffolds of Hope and Strength: Washington MARC Update
Participants in the Community Conversation on Resilience and Equity in Whatcom County, WA, form a human pulse. ________________________ Teri Barila, director of the Children’s Resilience Initiative (CRI), figured few people would venture to Walla Walla to learn about brain science, self-regulation and resilience. She was wrong. A June 2016 conference, “Beyond Paper Tigers,” drew 250 people—some from as far away as Texas, New Mexico and Tennessee—to sessions on “Why Brain Science Matters,”...
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Empower Yolo and Center for Families Have Merged!
We have exciting news: Empower Yolo is now bigger and better than ever as we have merged with Center for Families so as to increase and improve reach of services in our community! A huge thank you goes out to everyone who has supported these two agencies in the past, we look forward to sharing more good news as we move through this first year as one agency. The press release is attached. If you did not receive it by email, please consider joining our list serve. You can send a request...
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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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Empower Yolo: October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month [davisenterprise.com]
By Natalia Baltazar, Davis Enterprise, October 4, 2019 October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and on Oct. 1, Empower Yolo, in partnership with local businesses and organizations in Yolo County, kicked off its fifth annual Paint Yolo Purple — Month of Action campaign. October’s Paint Yolo Purple (the color purple representing Domestic Violence Awareness) campaign is meant to raise awareness about domestic violence, and help fund Empower Yolo’s essential intervention and prevention...
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Empower Yolo: Pilot project aims to better serve survivors of abuse [DavisEnterprise.com]
Empower Yolo, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office and the Yolo County Administrator’s Office have joined forces on a new project to address the needs of victims of family violence, sexual assault and human trafficking as part of the mission of the newly formed Family Violence Coordination Pilot Program. Other community partners include the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency, Victim Services Program, Probation Department, Office of Education and Child Support Services; First...
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Empower Yolo powers up its board after merger (Davis Enterprise)
From Davis Enterprise, Sunday February 7, 2016. By: Cathy Farman Empower Yolo has long served survivors of other forms of violence too, including sexual assault, sex abuse, stalking, trafficking and child abuse. As a board member, I am proud of Empower Yolo’s founding mission to provide survivors of family and sexual violence with counseling and legal services, but even prouder this year as Empower Yolo broadens its mission to promote safety, health and resilience for our entire...
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Empower Yolo: Resiliency amid the crisis
Article in The Davis Enterprise by Natalie Baltazar; Special to The Enterprise https://www.davisenterprise. com/features/empower-yolo- resiliency-amid-the-crisis/ Everyone at Empower Yolo — from volunteers, staff, managers, executive director to the board of directors — has been working tirelessly to ensure Empower Yolo is able to serve the most vulnerable members of our community.
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Empower Yolo's Services Guide (for Providers)
Attached please find Empower Yolo's Services Guide (with walk-in versus appointment only services). Please share with any professionals who may want to refer clients to Empower Yolo, but please do not hand it out to clients . It was intended for professionals to use as a guide.
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Empower Yolo: Support survivors and families in need during COVID-19
- In these trying times you can make a difference - We hope you and your families are healthy and safe. We know that each day brings a new challenge for the community. Empower Yolo's services are considered essential and we remain open during regular office hours to provide services for the community. Empower Yolo's clients have urgent needs, and we need your support now more than ever . Please see how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting Empower Yolo and the clients that we serve: 1)...
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Film ‘Resilience’ explores effects of toxic stress
Two free screenings coincide with Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month - Download the attached movie flyer. Article from The Davis Enterprise published April 15, 2019 WOODLAND — What’s predictable is preventable. This theory is behind research aimed at averting the physical effects caused by negative childhood experiences on an adult’s health. “We’d all like to think of childhood as this time of joy and innocence, but for many of us it’s just not true,” says a narrator in a newly-released...
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For ACEsConnection members only -- a "sneak preview" of 'Resilience'!
Resilience , a documentary that looks at the birth of the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and how it spawned a movement across the world, will be coming to your personal screen in April, says Lynn Waymer, KPJR Film’s community engagement strategist. The production team is working out the details to make the documentary, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival to sold-out houses, available to ACEsConnection.com members on Sunday, April 10, at 6 pm PT/ 9 pm...
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Free Community Workshop by Yolo Conflict Resolution Center
Restorative Circles is a free community Workshop offered Saturday, March 16th by Yolo Conflict Resolution Center. This workshop provides training on how to be a circle keeper in the restorative circle process. The training will discuss the components and uses of the circle process, tools for keeping a circle and also practice how to be a circle keeper. Please see the attached flyer for more information and to RSVP. DATE: Saturday, March 16th TIME: 9am-1pm LOCATION: Redwood Grove, 1001...
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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 Job Fair in Woodland -June 12
Please see the attachments for more information about an upcoming job fair at Woodland Community Center from 9am-4pm on June 12, 2019. Featuring: * Over 60 Employers Ready to Hire you! * Resume Review Clinic * Employment workshops
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Yolo County Libraries promote Be the One in Kindness Month Campaign
Checkout this terrific use of material to promote Be The One at the Stephens - Davis Branch Library for kindness month. Attached is an amazing Kindness Calendar and pamphlet.
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YOLO PROGRAM UPDATES
POSTPONED: Partners in Parenting Groups from Help Me Grow of Children’s Therapy Center Attached please find information about groups for 5/12 (Understand Your Child’s Sensory System) and 6/23 (Sensory Development) that have been postponed until further notice. If you have questions, please contact Mayra Gonzalez: mayra.gonzalez@ctchelpskids. org . COMMUNICARE UPDATE: Davis CommuniCare is undergoing renovation, but services continue in a new location As a temporary measure, Davis Community...
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Yolo welcomes Tim Wise
Today, our nation is led by a White Nationalist. White anger, White fragility, White resentment are new terms for our vocabulary. The [White] Active Shooter phenomenon is a result of this White anger according to Tim Wise. It takes a village to spread Love and end Hate. Come listen to Tim Wise's solution to the current affairs in America and Yolo county. This is a FREE event. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yolo-welcomes-tim-wise-tickets-65770203449?aff=ebdssbdestsearch DATE:...
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YRN &Yolo CASA @ Celebrate Davis
The Yolo Resilience Network and Yolo CASA were one of the many information booths laid out at Community Park in Davis last Thursday night. This is an annual event put on by the Davis City Chamber of Commerce. Besides free brownies, tote bags and pens, this event is a wonderful opportunity for organizations like the Yolo Resilience Network and Yolo CASA to introduce the public to our organizations, show them what we are doing, and listen to learn what is needed. We used our magnet dart board...
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YRN Steering Committee Meeting Notes, March 10, 2016
YRN Steering Committee First Five Woodland, CA Notes Attending: Tracy, Anna, Julie, Regan, Jessica, Emily Kochly Alice Magnusson ( alice.magnusson@ycoe.org ), Alison ( Alison.book@yolocounty.org ), Trisha Luciano, Public Defenders office Juvenile court ( trisha.luciano@yolocounty.org ), Mindfulness Moment – Recap/Debrief February Community Meeting – Trauma informed – what does that mean? If using that term how can we have an oversight or criteria for using term. Plan – research and discuss...
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Strengthening Families Webinar: Technical Assistance Clinic
Join a webinar on Thursday, June 13, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT , to get answers to your questions about Strengthening Families implementation and help answer other people's questions! You can submit questions in advance by emailing cailin.oconnor@cssp. org or typing them in during the webinar. We will also hear from the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds about new resources and opportunities. To register:...
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Summary of AVA Regional Academies: Building Trauma-Informed, Resilient, and Healthy Communities
ACEs Connection staff member Jennifer Hossler writes a summary of the Academy on Violence and Abuse's session, titled: Building Trauma Informed, Resilience, and Healthy Communities: Regional, National, and Global Perspectives. Read about the all-star cast of experts in the field. For those of you that haven't heard Dr. Felitti's story about how he developed the ACEs study, she summarizes it well below... Last week, I was fortunate to be a part of a small group of...
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Teen Yoga - 4 week class, Sundays 2/28-3/20, noon to 1:15pm
Maitri - Unconditional friendship with oneself Introduction to gentle flow yoga and compassion-based mindful meditiation Davis Holistic Center, 1403 5th St, Davis, CA To Register Call: Julie Oddone (415) 361-2877
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The League of Women Voters Davis Area (LWV) and CivEnergy Present "Housing...Past is Prologue"
By League of Women Voters Davis Area, November 18, 2019 The LWV and CivEnergy bring noted author and speaker Richard Rothstein to Davis. Mr. Rothstein's book deals with how our government enacted Housing Policies produced and maintained segregation—and he discusses how this history effects housing and housing policies today. This is an impactful and interesting topic, we hope you will join us. [ Please click here for more information .]
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The 'Overparenting Crisis'
And how schoo ls are handling it. Read this great NPR interview of two authors of books on this subject. One of the authors, Julie Lythcott-Haims, will be coming to Davis to speak through Davis Parent University in December....
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The Parent Empowerment Training - Sept - Dec.
The Parent Empowerment Training for parents, foster parents and caregivers of children with emotional challenges. A 14-SESSION COURSE SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 ——- DECEMBER 16, 2016 Fridays, 10am—12noon LOCATION: Adult/TAY Wellness Center, 500 Jefferson Blvd., Building B West Sacramento, CA 95605 To register or for more information, please contact: Tessa Smith, Family Partner Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency Children and TAY Mental Health Phone: (530) 666-8546 Email: ...
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Toxic Stress, Behavioral Health, and the Next Major Era in Public Health by Mental Health America
To view the document, click on the following link: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/issues/toxic-stress-behavioral-health-and-next-major-era-public-health
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TRAINING: Free Maternal and Adv Perinatal Mental Health Training in May
There are still spots available for the 5/10 Maternal Mental Health (MMH) Training which is designed for front line staff who are not licensed clinicians or healthcare providers. It is also ideal for anyone who wants an all day MMH 101. Tegwin Millard’s training is wonderful, and she weaves in ACEs and trauma informed principals throughout. This FREE training includes lunch and is being hosted by Dignity Health in Woodland. Additionally, there are also still spots for the 5/13 Advanced...
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TRAINING: Integrating Maternal Mental Health Education, Screening, and Referral into Your Clinic
These trainings are for clinical and non-clinical staff serving perinatal women and their families in Yolo County and surrounding communities. May 2nd , 9 AM - 5 PM Woodland Health Care Medical Office Building in Woodland May 10th , 9 AM - 5 PM Woodland Memorial Hospital in Woodland. Please see the attached flyer for more information and to register.
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FUNDRAISER: Multi-Disciplinary Interview (MDIC) Benefit Concert on 6/23
Sunday, June 23rd; 4:30-8:00pm at The Lodge at Odd Fellows Hall; 415 2nd Street; Davis, CA 95616 Please Join Us for an Evening of Music, Fun, and Good Times for a Great Cause! For more information, please see the attached flyer.
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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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Healthy Sundays in Orange County (calhealthreport.org)
On the second Sunday of each month, the Orange County Great Park in Irvine looks like a county fair. Balloons and banners; families with kids in strollers; mobile trucks holding eye catching displays with greeters inviting families in. But instead of deep fried cookies and moon bounce rides, families can dip into healthy snacks, discuss parenting concerns with doctors and nurses, get a flu shot, sign up for health insurance and other benefits, have their teeth checked and take home free...