Tagged With "discussing death"
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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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COVID-19 case tracker by county in CA
Track cases by county: http://www.capradio.org/ articles/2020/03/31/track- covid-19-cases-in-california- by-county/?utm_source= luminate-members&utm_medium= email&utm_campaign=covid19- member-update-03312020 About the data: As of March 23, 2020, case and death data for California counties is collected by hand by reporters for CapRadio, KQED and KPCC from each public health department or county’s individual site each evening. We update the data daily at 7 or 8 p.m, and many...
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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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Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Yolo County & California Children
Christy Bethell did a data run for Yolo County from the Data Resource Center on Child & Adolescent Health. One of five children in Yolo County have an ACE score of 2 or more. The report is attached here, and I've also posted it into the Clips section. Even decades after ACEs have occurred , studies demonstrate a strong dose-response effect between the experience of ACEs and adult health.2 Burgeoning neuroscience, biologic, epigenetic and social psychology studies reveal...
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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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Briefs on ACEs in Children in selected CA communities
Attached are briefs on current ACEs in children in selected California cities, with comparison with state and county data. They were prepared by the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, a project of the Child and Adolescent...
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California issues update on state residents' ACE scores from 2011 & 2013 surveys
The latest adverse childhood experiences survey from the California Department of Public Health shows that 42% of the population has an ACE score of 3 or higher; 16% have an ACE score of 4 or higher. Those with an ACE score of 4 or higher are: 3x more likely to be current smokers 4x more likely to have a depressive disorder 2x more likely to have asthma 2x more likely to be obese 4x more likely to have COPD 3x more likely to have a stroke Here are a few other highlights from the six-page...
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Do you live in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Nevada or the US Pacific Islands? Come to our no-cost mental and school mental health Winter Institute!
Do you live in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Nevada or the US Pacific Islands?If so...Check it out! 👇 NO COST. MENTAL HEALTH & SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH WORKFORCE. AMAZING FACULTY. JANUARY 14, 15, & 16th! LONG BEACH, CA. JOIN US. 🤝 👏 Learn more here: http://bit.ly/mhttc-winterinstitute-flyer Register here: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07egq2f9gaebafa6bd&llr=8wdk4ubab
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Dr. Vincent Felitti ACEs - January 17, 11am-12:30pm DHCS Auditorium
CA Department of Health Care Services and Department of Public Health welcome Dr. Vincent Felitti, Co-Principal Investigator of the O riginal CDC-Kaiser Adverse Childhood Experiences ( ACEs ) Study, 1995-1997 The DHCS Office of the Medical Director and CDPH would like to invite you to hear Dr. Felitti speak about the seminal ACE Study, one of the largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect and later-life health and well-being. The ACE Study now includes more than 80 publications...
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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 Child and Family Initiatives
In an effort to help us know more about the great work that is happening in Yolo County and to increase opportunities for collaboration, Natalie Audage of YCCA created a spreadsheet of Yolo County child and family initiatives. For this effort, initiatives are defined as multi-organization or agency collaboratives, meetings, or committees related to children and families in Yolo County. Natalie will revise this document on an ongoing basis. If you have any additions or changes, please let...
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Yolo County Housing Spring Fling event in March
Yolo County Housing is planning their annual Spring Fling event which will be held at their Public Housing properties in Winters, Woodland, and West Sacramento in late March. If your organization is interested in participating and staffing a booth, please fill out the attached registration form. If you have questions, please contact Ricardo Lopez at 530-669-2264 or rlopez@ych.ca.gov .
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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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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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The Capital Region Climate Readiness Collaborative (CRC) first Quarterly Adaptation Exchange in 2018
The Capital Region Climate Readiness Collaborative (CRC) conducted our first Quarterly Adaptation Exchange in 2018 on how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma can be a detriment to an individual’s physical, social, and mental health that has lasting effects into adulthood. Climate impacts and an individual’s and/or community’s capacity to respond to trauma with resilience is intrinsically tied to access to a support system, resources, and past traumas. The reality is with Climate...
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Tip sheets on supporting children with an incarcerated parent
Two new tip sheets produced by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Technical Assistance and Strategic Dissemination Center in cooperation with the National Resource Center for Children and Families of the Incarcerated provide strategies for maintaining the bond between children and an incarcerated parent. Supporting Relationships Between Children and Their Incarcerated Parents Children who experience the incarceration of a parent, may experience trauma comparable to the loss of a parent...
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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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Gathering for GLORY Conference April 20
This conference seeks to bridge the wisdom, perspectives, and experiences from the faith-based community to those of our Black Child Legacy Campaign communities to reduce African American child deaths in Sacramento County. In Sacramento County, African American children die at twice the rate of any other ethnicity. The four leading causes of death are perinatal conditions, infant sleep-related deaths, child abuse and neglect, and third –party homicide. The Black Child Legacy Campaign is the...
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Identifying & Responding to Non-Fatal Strangulation Cases training
Hosted by: Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig and the Davis Police Department WHO SHOULD ATTEND: • Law Enforcement Officers • Victim Advocates • Paramedics/EMTs • Firefighters • Medical Providers* • Prosecutors* You will learn: The lethality of strangulation; signs and symptoms; anatomy and medical aspects; best practices for investigation, evaluation and prosecution of strangulation events; advocacy for survivors and available resources from the Training Institute on Strangulation...
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National Council Webinar: Organizational Approaches to Effective Trauma-Informed Services - Slides included!
I viewed this webinar a couple of weeks ago and found it quite useful. https://www.thenationalcouncil...ars/webinar-archive/ Scroll down to find Organizational Approaches to Effective Trauma-Informed Services Cheryl Sharp, Senior Advisor for...
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NEW: Updated Yolo Child and Family Initiatives spreadsheet
In an effort to help us know more about the great work that is happening in Yolo County and to increase opportunities for collaboration, please find an updated version of the spreadsheet of Yolo County child and family initiatives attached below. For this effort, initiatives are defined as multi-organization or agency collaboratives, meetings, or committees related to children and families in Yolo County. If you have any changes or additions to make for the next version, please email me.
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OUTREACH OPPORTUNITY: Yolo County Housing Spring Fling events
Yolo County Housing is preparing for their Spring Fling event in late March. Attached is the registration form. Please share it with your contacts/partners. We want to make sure that we have enough agencies to cover our resident's needs. If you have questions, please contact Ricardo Lopez at rlopez@ych.ca.gov or 530-669-2264.
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Presentations, tool kits
PositiveYouthJustice-YoloCounty.pptx -- Panel presentation by Karleen Jakowski and Leanna Libolt at April 5 child abuse conference in Davis. DevelopingTIOrganizationsToolKit.pdf -- Series of questions for organization that wants to become...
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Prevent Child Abuse - Sonoma County
Check out the insert in Sonoma County's local paper. This colorful and helpful resource guide offered stories, tips, resources and tools for helping to strengthen families and reduce child abuse. Page 7 featured an article about "Trauma Informed Care" and included a pocket card folks can use as a tool for letting doctors, dentists, and other care providers know they might need some extra care to avoid feeling triggered or uncomfortable. (Check out the attachment to see the article and pocket...
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What Will It Be Like When the Lockdown Lifts? [psychologytoday.com]
By Bryan E. Robinson, Psychology Today, April 15, 2020 Although we don’t know exactly when, at some point in the future self-isolation will end, and many of us will return to offices, restaurants, and houses of worship. But what will that look like? One thing for sure, we will never return to normal; we will return to “a new normal.” And each of us will have repair work to do as we re-enter the world of physical proximity to coworkers and reconnecting with friends, neighbors, and loved ones.
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Who Helps Our Helpers? "Portraits of Professional Caregivers" Documents in Film Their Passion and Pain.
Director and producer Vic Compher’s documentary film, Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion. Their Pain , takes a deeper look at the causes of and treatments for what’s called secondary traumatic stress, a condition commonly...
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YBRS survey and report from Monroe County, New York
Elizabeth Meeker, an ACEs Connection member from Monroe County, New York shared that her county schools added ACEs questions to their Youth Behavioral Risk Survey (YBRS) in 2015, which is administered to students in schools. They were kind enough to share the instrument as well as a summary report of findings (both attached here). Elizabeth has indicated that she is available to answer questions that you all may have about the implementation of the survey. Thank you Elizabeth, for sharing!
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Yolo CASA in Action
This is wonderful story of how a CASA Volunteer can directly affect a child and family. The Foster Care program provides a safe haven for children during periods of family crisis or serve as a bridge for a child awaiting a 'forever family'. So many times the headlines inform us about times when this system does not match our expectations, and that information is needed to help us improve, but it's also nice to hear success stories to inspire us. Hear is such a story from Yolo CASA! To read...
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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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Want to see the play about treating youth trauma, TRIGGER, in your area?
A groundbreaking new play about trauma, TRIGGER, was most recently featured at part of the training and inspiration provided to community members participating in the 4CA Policymaker Education Day on July 11, 2017 in Sacramento at the state Capitol.
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Webinar: Cultivating Our Best Selves in Response to COVID-19 | Tuesday, March 17 at Noon PDT
How to use the skills of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) for self and others to be the calm in the storm as we face the unknown. Free Webinar Tuesday, March 17 at Noon PDT Speakers: Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC Zoom Webinar Registration Link: https://zoom.us/j/715837300 Additional ways to join are listed at the bottom of this post. About the webinar leaders: Elaine Miller-Karas is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute and...
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RESOURCE: Broken Brain 2 by Dr. Mark Hyman
Dr Hyman is a practicing family physician, a ten-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field. He is dedicated to tackling the root causes of chronic disease by harnessing the power of Functional Medicine to transform healthcare and a proponent of ACEs. Read below about his new docu-series: My new docu-series, Broken Brain 2: Body-Mind Connection , takes a comprehensive look at emotional trauma and your...
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Seventh Annual Promotores Conference March 28th in Winters
From MariaIsabel Mandujano of the CommuniCare CREO program: Me dirijo a ustedes de la manera mas atenta para informarles que si estan interesados en participar con una mesa informativa durante el evento Annual de promotoras, por favor llenen su ficha de registro y haganla llegar lo antes posible, esto debido a que los espacios estan limitados. I inform you that if you are interested in participating with an information booth during the annual event of promoters, please fill out your...
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Sold-out Mental Health Conference featured keynotes from Sacramento mayor, UCSB shooting survivor (theaggie.org)
The second annual UC Davis Mental Health Conference was held at the Conference Center on Jan. 20 and 21. Programming included expert workshops, student and expert panels, a resource fair, a student gallery and a healing space as well as lunch and dinner. The aim of the conference was to promote mental illness de-stigmatization, education, self-reflection and healing through mental health care discourse. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health , one out of five Americans suffer...
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Spring Fling Egg Hunt /Health and Education Fair this March
Yolo County Housing is preparing these events in Winters, Woodland, and West Sacramento. Please consider tabling to share information about your services! See the attached flyers (including the Partner Participation Form) for more information. Thank you! Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:30-4:00pm El Rio Villas 62 Shams Way, Winters Wednesday, March 28, 2018 2:30-4:00pm Yolano Village/Donnelly Circle 1285 Lemen Avenue, Woodland Thursday, March 29, 2018 2:30-4:00pm Las Casitas 685 Lighthouse Drive,...
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Living in Tumultuous Times: Responding to the "Hidden" Public Health Crisis in the U.S.
Living in Tumultuous Times: Responding to the “Hidden” Public Health Crisis in the U.S. We live in tumultuous times. Although our minds might immediately take us to issues with North Korea, or ISIS, or the dysfunction in Washington D.C., these are not the primary focus of this article. Washington’s dysfunction over the past couple decades is a contributing factor, yet the dynamics discussed here go far beyond our nation’s capital. With the ongoing focus on the Affordable Care Act, health...
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Safer CA Unintentional Injury Prevention virtual conference (Nov 17 & 18)
This year’s virtual conference will cover prevention information and issues for all the leading causes of unintentional injury death and hospitalizations suffered by California’s children and youth through age 19, and much much more. (See attached overview of the agenda). The conference is co-sponsored by the CA Coalition for Children’s Safety and Health (CCCSH) and the CA Dept of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (CA DPH IVPB). Please see the two attachments for more...
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POSITIVE PARENTING VIDEOS in English and Spanish
Discussing Death with Kids : Death is a difficult topic to talk about, but child psychologists say even among families who have experienced previous loss, parents can provide kids with supports to help them during these difficult times. Single Moms’ Challenges During COVID-19 : In the United States, almost one in four moms are taking on the challenge of raising kids alone as a single parent. COVID-19 and the social distancing that’s required to keep families healthy during the pandemic may...
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WEBINARS on Raising Multiracial Children, COVID-19 and Native Americans, Racial Trauma Raising Multiracial Children from EmbraceRace
Raising Multiracial Children from EmbraceRace Part 1: Examining the Complexity of Multiracial Identity on 7/23 5:30pm on Thursday, July 23 Roughly one in seven U.S. infants (14%) are multiracial or multiethnic (Pew, 2017), but what does it mean to be multiracial? It’s complicated! During this first webinar of a two part series on raising multiracial kids, our guests break down some of the complexities of identifying with more than one race, including the pivotal role caregivers and families...
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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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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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Portraits of Professional Caregivers documentary available for viewing from ACEs Connection this weekend
Our Transform Trauma with ACEs Science film festival launches this weekend. We are thrilled to share the documentary , P ortraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their Pain on Saturday, September 12th, and Sunday , September 13th. The documentary will be streamed from our Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Communit y . Click here to join. Registration is not required for viewing. You need to be a member of ACEs Connection and join this community site to watch the film this...
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RESOURCES FOR PROVIDERS on ACEs; the link between early childhood experiences and health
Research Paper: Trends in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the United States This paper by David Finkelhor found that “overall, there appear to have been more historical and recent improvements in the burden of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than deteriorations in the 20th and 21st centuries.” Results: “Available trend data on ACEs from the 20th century show multi-decade declines in parental death, parental illness, sibling death, and poverty, but multi-decade increases in...
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NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND: The Repressed Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Adult Well-Being, Disease and Social Functioning: Turning Gold into Lead (Dr. Vincent J. Felitti) [avahealth.org]
The ACE Study reveals how typically unrecognized adverse childhood experiences are not only common, but causally underlie a number of the most common causes of adult social malfunction, biomedical disease, and premature death. Moreover, it enables one to see that the Public Health Problem is often an individual’s attempted Solution to childhood experiences about which we keep ourselves unaware. A renowned physician and researcher, Dr. Vincent J. Felitti is one of the world’s foremost experts...
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New California preventive mental health coverage puts ACEs science front and center
A mother, frantic with worry, brought her newborn in for a checkup at the pediatric clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. But there wasn’t anything wrong with the baby. And over the next several months, no amount of reassurance could convince the mom that her child was eating, sleeping and growing just fine. If anything, the mother’s worry led to behavior that raised alarm bells for her health care providers. Dr. Kate Margolis “[The family] wasn’t returning calls from the provider, and...
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RESOURCE: Family Initiatives in Yolo County
In an effort to help us all know more about the great work happening in Yolo County, we are sharing the attached spreadsheet with updated information about Yolo County child and family initiatives. This information will increase opportunities for collaboration in Yolo County. For this effort, initiatives are defined as multi-organization or agency collaboratives, meetings, or committees related to children and families in Yolo County. Thank you to all who provided the information included in...
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RESEARCH: Adult Health Burden and Costs in California during 2013 associated with Prior Adverse Childhood Experiences
This study found that having at least one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) was associated with $10.5 billion in excess personal health care spending. For more information, please find the study attached or at this link .
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FILM AND DISCUSSION: Whole People Film Discussion on 12/15
4pm on Tuesday, December 15 ACEs Connection, the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP), and the Relentless School Nurse will be hosting a Zoom discussion on Tuesday, Dec, 15th at 7p.m. EST about parts 1, 2, and 3 of Whole People . You can register here . If you have yet to watch the Whole People series, you can still do so by visiting the PBS website. There is no cost to watch. 101 | Childhood Trauma | 102 | Healing Communities | 103 | A New Response |