Tagged With "Dr. Lisa Damour"
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2018 "4CA" California Policymaker ACEs Education Day
The second annual 4CA Policymaker Education Day on May 22, brought together 75 community members across California to visit 81 legislators or their staff members and educate them about ACEs, trauma and resilience.
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Caring for the Caregiver - Parent Engagement mtg Oct 1st
Yolo County SELPA presents a Parent Engagement night for parents or caregivers of children who have disabilities. WHEN: October 1, 2018 TIME: 7pm WHERE: YCOE Conference Center in Woodland. Please see below for more information and a link to flyers. Please share with parents who you think might be interested! To register or for any requests (interpretation, seating, etc), please contact Lisa Young at lisa.young@ycoe.org or 530-668-3760.
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Davis Parent University (DPU) - Lisa Damour Ph.D., author of "Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood”
Lisa Damour Ph.D. is a psychologist, best-selling author, monthly New York Times online columnist, and regular contributor to CBS News. She blends years of experience with the latest research developments to provide sound, practical guidance to children and adolescents as well as their parents, teachers, and advocates. If you missed hearing Lisa's insightful, funny and frank presentation about raising a teenager (yes, I think there's lot of info here for parents of teenage boys too!), I...
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Davis Parent University Presents A FREE Webinar with Dr. Lisa Damour
Please join Davis Parent University on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 5 pm PT for a free webinar with Dr. Lisa Damour , renowned psychologist and New York Times bestselling author. Dr. Damour explains the psychological science key to understanding how stress and anxiety operate, both under everyday conditions and at times of heightened concern and disruption. Join us to learn more about: · how to keep pressure and tension from reaching toxic levels · how to parent effectively in the current...
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Building A Resilient Yolo Research Project
Several of Yolo County's community-based agencies (e.g., Yolo County Office of Education, Yolo CASA, Yolo Conflict Resolution Center, Family Hui, Yolo County Health and Human Services, Yolo County Probation, Yolo County Special Education Local Plan Area, etc.) came together to conduct a research project aimed at understanding how to better serve Yolo County’s students and their families. Data was gathered from two sources: 1) literature in academic journals; and 2) six focus groups (i.e.,...
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Dr. Mona Delahooke Will Present at The Trauma-Responsive Schools Conference in California
Have you been hearing all the buzz about Dr. Mona Delahooke's new book, Beyond Behaviors ? In my opinion, it’s the best new book of 2019. Dr. Delahooke is a practicing pediatric clinical psychologist of thirty years. She is gaining critical acclaim and grassroots support for challenging the prevalent and pervasive behaviorist bias in schools. As a result, she is an emerging authority in the growing revolution to re-interpret children's misbehavior. She highlights much of the books' content...
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Dr. Mona Delahooke Will Present at The Trauma-Responsive Schools Conference in California
Have you been hearing all the buzz about Dr. Mona Delahooke's new book, Beyond Behaviors ? In my opinion, it’s the best new book of 2019. Dr. Delahooke is a practicing pediatric clinical psychologist of thirty years. She is gaining critical acclaim and grassroots support for challenging the prevalent and pervasive behaviorist bias in schools. As a result, she is an emerging authority in the growing revolution to re-interpret children's misbehavior. She highlights much of the books' content...
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Event educating criminal justice community on ACEs, featuring Resilient Sacramento's Lisa Frederiksen!
Resilient Sacramento's Lisa Frederiksen will be presenting on the impacts of ACEs on neurobiology along with practicing Judge Lawrence Brown. Sure to be a great event, highlighting how ACEs knowledge can impact the judicial sector. Register at the link provided.
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Yolo Housing CEO breathes new life into the county organization [DailyDemocrat.com]
Lisa Baker, chief executive officer of Yolo County Public Housing Authority, has led the charge to bring low-income housing and other services to Yolo County’s neediest citizens. Last year the housing authority celebrated its 65th anniversary and the organization and the new CEO is being credited with helping bring about a positive change to its reputation along with improving is image in the community. According to Yolo County Supervisor Matt Rexroad, Baker has provided excellent leadership...
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Yolo Resilience Network General Meeting today at 4pm!
Sorry for the late notice!!!! Attached, you will find the agenda. Our Steering Committee is meeting from 3-4pm and the General meeting will begin and end promptly 4:00-5:00pm. Thank you!
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YRN Steering Committee Notes Dec 10, 2015
Here are our steering committee notes for December 10, 2015. They're also attached. Introductions & Announcement - Several new members / guest - Tara Thronson, Works with Don Saylor Sara Gavin, CommuniCare Robb Davis - mayor pro-tem Davis 2. YRN website - Gail Reconfiguration of website, ongoing changes, not quite done. Want to add - logo Groups change sunflower to logo Post - at bottom of each post can can like and share on facebook / twitter / google. Can email to someone...
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ACEs 101 - UCDMC - Davis providers - CLOSED PRESENTATiON
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STEAM Tools for Success Conference
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SUPPORT GROUPS: Empower Yolo Teen Sexual Trauma and Parent/Caregiver groups
Empower Yolo is starting two new sexual trauma support groups for teens who have experienced sexual trauma and for parents/caregivers. Groups start 2/21 and registration is required. Please see the attached flyer for more information.
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The Economics of Child Abuse: A Study of California
While the impact of maltreatment on a child and their family is devastating, child maltreatment also has serious effects far beyond those for the victim. Maltreatment results in ongoing costs to taxpayers, institutions, businesses, and society at large. Local communities bear the brunt of these costs in the form of medical, educational, and judicial costs, though more tragic signs are seen in homelessness, addiction, and teen pregnancy. To create a concrete understanding of the widespread...
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Training Series: A Multi-Tiered System of Support for the Mental Wellness of Students
Yolo County SELPA (Special Education Local Plan Area) is hosting a series of three trainings designed for educators to support the mental wellness of students through universal practices, targeted interventions, and analyzing social-emotional assessment data. Two trainings will be held on September 25, 2018 and the other on October 24, 2018 at the YCOE Conference Center in Woodland, CA. Community members are welcome. Please see the attached flyers for additional information and how to register.
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Helping Traumatized Children Learn 2: Creating and Advocating for Trauma-Sensitive Schools
I am reposting from ACEs in Education group a manual on Trauma-sensitive schools from Massachusetts. The release of Helping Traumatized Children Learn 2 represents an exciting next step in the evolution of the cultural movement to...
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In Housing Crisis, Rural Californians Need Greater Legal Protections and Access to Legal Aid
In a new policy brief from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, Zach Newman and Lisa R. Pruitt write that California's legal-aid system should be funded with sensitivity to rural needs in order to deliver adequate legal aid to all Californians, wherever they reside. Key Facts: Rural homelessness in California is rising, sometimes more quickly than its urban equivalent. High rural eviction rates are caused in part by inadequate access to legal assistance in rural communities. New laws...
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Next "A Better Normal" community discussion series: April 2, 2020/ Secondary Traumatic Stress and Caregivers
Our next COVID-19 "Better Normal" community discussion is Thursday, April 2, with Vic Compher and Rodney Whittenberg, producers of CAREGIVERS (Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their Pain). These wonderful folks are bringing an entire team of people from the secondary traumatic stress committees from the Philadelphia ACE Task Force (PATF).
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Notes from August Community Meeting
Attached and embedded below can be found our "meeting minutes". Thanks for compiling notes, Anna! And thanks all for attending and enjoying a birthday celebration for Jane and Ramy! As I promised in the meeting, I created a "Trauma-Informed...
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October Community Mtg Notes
Yolo Resilience I. Introductions Lisa Young, Sarah Baum, Cyndi Hale, Haydee Dabritz, Jacalyn Washington-Ansley, Tracy, Ramy, Karleen , Julie, Regan, Val Crisp II. Summit/Conference in Sacramento Friday – Karleen’s report - Many...
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Policymaker Education Day Registration STILL OPEN!
Registration is still OPEN for another week to the second annual Policymaker Education Day hosted by the California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA) in Sacramento on May 22nd! Don't miss this opportunity to be able to share your thoughts and expertise with your Assemblymember or Senator on how to address childhood adversity in your communities. Guest speakers include Assemblymember Dr. Arambula of Fresno County, Ted Lempert of Children Now and Sarah Pauter of Phenomenal...
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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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Resilience: A Conversation
Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz and I were having an exchange on social media about the word resilience. It went on and on. It lasted days. And days. It started on Twitter, moved to Facebook, and then crossed over to text messaging. There was no last word, no meet-in-the-middle moment or any kind of closure. Just confusion. Rebecca suggested we dive deeper, face to face, via a Zoom conversation to be shared on ACEs Connection. We wanted to know why some recoil at or reject the use (overuse) of the...
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Resilient Yolo meeting minutes - Nov 2, 2018
Attached are minutes from the November 2018 meeting. Topics covered; Resilient Yolo Summit debrief, Next Steps, and Other Ideas.
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WEBINAR: ACEs Aware Initiative Webinar on 2/26
Noon – 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Join a live webinar with: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, MD, MPH – California Surgeon General Dr. Karen Mark, MD, PhD – Medical Director, Department of Health Care Services Dr. Melissa Merrick, PhD – President & CEO, Prevent Child Abuse America Dr. Brigid McCaw, MD, MPH, MS, FACP – Clinical Advisor, ACEs Aware The webinar will provide an overview of the ACEs Aware initiative; why providers should screen for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs); the...
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WEBINAR from Essentials for Childhood Initiative: Health Equity and COVID-19: Opportunities to Improve Child Wellbeing through Policy on 5/13
The Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative invites your participation in a webinar entitled, “Health Equity and COVID-19: Opportunities to Improve Child Wellbeing through Policy” taking place on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM for a special guest presentation with Dr. Flojaune Cofer, Senior Director of Policy with the All Children Thrive (ACT) California project. This interactive webinar will examine what success could look like in addressing COVID-19 by describing equity...
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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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Intensive Trauma Treatment Course: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on How the Body Keeps the Score
Learn how incorporating methods such as EMDR, meditation, neurofeedback, yoga, mindfulness, sensory integration, and the arts can deepen your therapeutic skills and lead to deep, lasting healing. For more information and to register: ...
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Meeting notes - Nov. 21, 2014
Attending: Haydee Dabritz, Gail Kennedy, Regan Overholt, Jane Stevens, Anna Sutton. We spent a lot of the meeting time talking about what organizations and agencies in the county we need to reach out to. We came up with this list, with the goal...
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Meeting notes - Sept. 24, 2015
Lisa Muller — Child welfare Alison Book -- Child welfare Karleen Jakowski -- CommuniCare Julie Langston -- Bear Valley Megan Overholt -- First Five Tracy Fauver -- CASA Sarah Roseen -- Woodland School District Molly May — PTA Davis Lucy...
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Meeting notes - Sept. 26, 2014
The nascent steering committee met in the Thomson/Walker Room in the Yolo County Dept of Health Services, at 137 N. Cottonwood St, in Woodland. Attending: Lisa Musser Christine Ziccardi Anna Sutton Tarin Varughese Biju Varughese Tracy Fauver...
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Re: Workshops on Impact of Addiction on Families - WCC Foster & Kinship Care Education Program
Related info from NurseRona.com: Lisa Fredericksen and Caroll Fowler, MFT were my guests on About Health, on KPFA—94.1 FM, on May 25th to discuss what happens to the people who live or work with a person who misuses alcohol. If you missed the show, here is the link: https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=183126
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020, 3:00pm: When Drinking Causes Secondhand Harm to Others – Secondhand Drinking -- It's a Problem
Greetings! We would like to invite you to our next presentation on Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 at 3:00pm. When Drinking Causes Secondhand Harm to Others – Secondhand Drinking -- It's a Problem Lisa Frederickson, https://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/ , will share current research explaining how the brain wires, maps and develops and the "inputs" that can dramatically change those processes and thus a child/teen/adult's life. These inputs include alcohol or other drug use disorders, ACEs,...
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WEBINARS on children’s social needs and the Power of Play
Is My Child Missing Out? Re-imagining the social needs of young children on 9/10 9am-10 on September 10 Join esteemed UCSF professor Alicia Lieberman, PhD (author of The Emotional Life of the Toddler) in conversation with SAMHSA Infancy and Early Childhood Mental Health project co-director Barbara Ivins, PhD as they delve into the question of what our youngest children need right now, and how we can together to handle the challenges of shelter in place. To learn more, visit here . To...
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RESOURCES for Providers: COVID-19 and the social safety net; Youth Thrive Survey
Policy Brief: COVID-19 Recession Highlights Need for Expansion of Social Safety Net A new policy brief from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research suggests that broad changes to our work-based social safety net could enable it to function more effectively in economic downturns. Key Facts: The recession brought about by COVID-19 has hit low-income families especially hard. Federal relief efforts have eased hardship, but there remains tremendous unmet need, and food insecurity is spiking.
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Davis Parent University presents Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Young People
Dr. Lisa Damour is a renowned psychologist, best-selling author, monthly New York Times columnist, and regular contributor to CBS News who is recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological Association for her work on stress and anxiety. Monday, October 19th, 2020 Virtual Event, 5 - 6 pm PST REGISTER HERE: https://davismedia.org/civicrm/event/info?id=412&reset=1
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virtual Multi-County Suicide Prevention Summit- Sept 30
Announcing a free, one-day, virtual Multi-County Suicide Prevention Summit on September 30 th . This Summit is free due to sponsorships, the Mental Health Service Act, and participating counties and offers 6 continuing education credits. More details are attached below.
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View “Resilience in Education” webinar
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...
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EXCITING NEWS – PACEs Connection is BACK!
Former PACEs Connection employees Dana Brown (L) with Vincent Felitti, MD, co-author of the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences study, and Carey Sipp (R) in San Diego in January, 2024. The last few months have been quite challenging, but we pushed, persevered, and didn’t give up hope. The “we” is Carey Sipp and Dana Brown. We were long-time staff members of PACEs Connection determined to reinstate the website and the resources and information we provide to communities after the platform went...