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Foster & Kinship Care education class Thursday Evening, Dec. 20 th , 2018 – 6:30 to 9:30 pm Resilience is a Strength to Overcome Early Adversity. This workshop will be presented by Debra Wiegel, Marriage Family Therapist with 25 years’ experience working with foster and adoptive families. Date: Dec. 20 th , 2018 - Thursday Evening Time: 6:30 to 9:30 pm Location: At the College: 2300 E. Gibson Rd., Woodland – Room 101 With the holiday season upon us, over and over we hear advertisements...

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...

Dr. Florie Wild will be leading this community event. * Release grief to bring joy and creativity * Feel deeper support and belonging * Live your purpose with out fear or judgement * Find greater peace and meaning Saturday, May 4th from 10am - 12:30pm Rivendell Nursery School, Village Homes, Davis 95616 Follow this link to register: https://drfloriewild.com/grief-event/

Dr. Raul Gutierrez, a pediatrician in the San Francisco Bay Area, said he and his fellow clinicians see constant fear and its health consequences every single day among the largely immigrant and Latino population they serve. It’s all the result of anti-immigrant policies and the news cycle that feeds the fear. Dr. Raul Gutierrez “It is almost inescapable with the repercussions of immigration policy on the radio, television, social media and from friends and family,” Gutierrez told the 69...

Please think about taking part in a FREE Four part series; OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Parenting the Hurt Child - Offers Tips on How to Successfully Parent Traumatized Children Thursday Evening Classes. Great information about building stronger relationships with “reparation” - taking a look at Dan Siegel’s work, “Parenting From the Inside Out” which is a fantastic book for all parents! Location: Woodland Community College: 2300 E. Gibson Rd, Woodland, CA 95776, # 109 Nurturing and guiding a...

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...

Join us on Dec 1st with Peggy Gulshen, LMFT and Certified Art Therapist DATE: Saturday, December 1 , 2018 TIME: 9am-12noon LOCATION: Unitarian Church in Davis, 27074 Patwin Rd, Davis, CA 95616 COST: 3 hours for 3 CEUs. The cost is $40 for non-members, $25 for YSCAMFT members. This workshop introduces the grief weaving art modality, developed for use with bereaved persons. Based on grief theory and brain studies, the project promotes a kinetic crossover of cognitive memory with emotional...

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...

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 (...

Access and Linkage Program This program places a RISE Access and Linkage Specialist at schools in rural communities of Yolo County to provide screening, assessment, and referral to treatment, for children/youth ages 6-18. The purpose is to identify mental health counseling needs and provide timely, effective linkage through warm handoffs to the most appropriate resource. Healthy Communities Through Accessible Counseling RISE Mental Health Services, provides preventative and therapeutic...

In this workshop, we will reckon, rumble and rise with and through our own shame stories, navigating courage, compassion, truth, grief and forgiveness along the way. We will learn how to get curious, reckon with our emotions, rumble with our own stories and learn how to make our new stories so intrinsic in our lives it will feel like a revolution. "The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness - even our...

Wow, thank you so much for this post, it really hit home for me. As the wife a police officer, with my own professional emphasis in community work and ACEs, I often feel like I'm in a delicate balance.... on the one hand how to articulate trauma informed concepts with my beloved, and on the other hand how to hold up the incredibly brave, good, honorable and impossible work that police officers perform. I don't think most people consider the grief and pain the officers are asked to absorb on...

· 2020 Grads and Grief in a Pandemic : For high school seniors, COVID-19 has meant that important events like graduation or prom couldn't happen. Mental health experts say U.S. teens were experiencing alarming levels of anxiety and depression before COVID-19. Now, they say kids have increased feelings of loss. Parents should watch for signs their teen is struggling with depression, validate their child’s feelings of loss, and support them as they move to the next chapter. · Supportive...

Responding to COVID-19 Grief, Loss, and Bereavement This website from Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network (MHTTC) has multiple resources for mental health and school mental health professionals to help patients manage grief, loss, and bereavement especially in the types of situations seen during this pandemic. Resources include: Grief Sensitivity Virtual Learning Institute to support the mental health and school mental health workforce in development and enhancing grief...

Foster & Kinship Care Education offers many parenting classes for foster or adoptive caregivers, but birth parents can attend some as well. If you would like to know more about their excellent offerings, I encourage you to sign up for the listserv by contacting Cherie Shroeder at cherie@yolofostercare.com . Attached please find flyers for the following classes in December: Reparative Parenting Approach: Strategies for Changing a Child’s Challenging Behaviors (4 classes in December)...

It’s an enormous understatement to say that healthcare workers today are suffering. Every day, you hear interviews with nurses, physicians, social workers, and others in healthcare saying they’re pushed to the breaking point and beyond. But, by using skills taught in the Community Resiliency Mode l (CRM), even people under severe stress can weather the onslaught, do their work, and get along with colleagues. CRM is an evidence-based training program that’s being used by millions of people in...

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...

The Stress Busters Handout was created to help us manage stress as we all have inner strengths and resilience that can help us deal with challenges and stress. PACEs Connection and ACEs Aware created this handout based on 7 evidence-based stress busters. These interventions can help reduce stress, improve health, and build resilience. The handout is available on their PACEs Connection Blog and they’re attached below in the following languages: English , Spanish , Arabic, Dari , and Farsi

This is a PowerPoint presentation created by the PACEs Connection staff. See attached PACEs Community below.

Thank you to those who were able to join for today’s “Resilience in Education” webinar with Dr. Thomas Herman and Monica Nepomuceno from the California Department of Education, and Chris Aldaco from Woodland Joint Unified. Today’s webinar was focused on initiatives and projects related to mental health and social emotional learning that will help to foster resilience in K-12 students. It was a very informative presentation loaded with resources for educators, parents and students. To watch...

Read about this Zoom workshop (from the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal Project) on their Event page HERE . The School Crisis Recovery & Renewal Project (SCRR) presents their free workshop where participants will explore the impacts of loss on the brain, body, and behavior, as well as actionable strategies for using this knowledge to scaffold learning environments and assignments that are grief-responsive and examine interpersonal, environmental, and curricular aspects of...

The CREO Program in collaboration with Yolo Hospice present a grief support group in Spanish. See attached flyers in English and Spanish. Contact Maria Isabel at (530)405-2893 for more information or go to their Facebook page . Recurring group - Meet every 2 nd Thursday of the Month. Next Meeting-Thursday, March 10 , 2022 from 4 PM-5 PM . NOTE: the Grief Support Group will be held IN PERSON . Location : CommuniCare Hansen Family Health Center, 215 West Beamer St, Woodland, CA 95695. Note:...

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Awareness about health outcomes are as much about the long-term impact caused by adverse childhood experiences as they are by positive childhood experiences. By providing education on trauma-informed awareness and resilience building frameworks, the CRC Accelerator certification is a tool for both.