Tagged With "Dana Brown"
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Changing Minds and Creating Trauma-Informed Communities Convenings - South and North
Last week, on two separate days in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, about 150 people (total) convened to listen and brainstorm about creating trauma-informed communities. Futures Without Violence, which is rolling out its Changing Minds campaign later this year, hosted both events. Some very interesting and important themes emerged from the two days: Residents with lived experiences should participate in the decision-making bodies of service providers and vested...
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Cherokee Point Youth Leaders learn about Child Abuse Prevention month
Read below about what Cherokee Point, San Diego Youth Leaders are doing. Something to strive for to engage our youth voices in Yolo County? Some days at work are better than others. Yesterday was one of the best days I've had in awhile! I had the chance to speak to a small group of youth leaders from Cherokee Point Elementary School on Wednesday. As a representative of the Chadwick Center for Children & Families, I came to talk with them about Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) month, which is...
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Community meeting: MHSA Empowerment and Education Session 2
Please see the attached flyer for more information about the second Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Empowerment and Education Series meeting on June 11th at 1pm at the Davis Branch Library . If you would like more information about MHSA, please see the attached “What is MHSA” and timeline documents. These Empowerment and Education meetings will lay a foundation of knowledge for stakeholders who want to participate in the community planning process that drives the next three year MHSA plan...
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Coronavirus underscores need for healing America’s racial divisions [sfchronicle.com]
By Shawn Ginwright, April 14, 2020 The reports of racial disparities among COVID-19 victims should not surprise us. African Americans and Latinos have typically experienced disproportionate exposure to a range of health issues. For example, African Americans are twice as likely to die of heart disease as their white counterparts. Consider that Latinos are 50% more likely than whites to die of diabetes or liver disease. These issues are not determined by biology, but by a history of policies...
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Could We Have a Revolution in the Lives of Teachers and Students?
Rebecca Pepper Sinkler- former editor of The New York Times Book Review and editor of SafeKidsStories shares the perspective of staff who attended a course given by the Institute for Family Professionals (IFP) , an organization based in Philadelphia that, since 2003, has provided training for professionals who work with children and families. Using recent research on brain theory and the effects of childhood trauma, IFP provides researched and proven best practices on topics such as...
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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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Agenda items for Steering Group - May 7th 3-4pm - Invite only
1. Operational tools: tag line, elevator pitch, action timeline/ logic model, PR tools (ie., table top) etc 2. Upcoming presentations: school district, davis social service, jails, peds. etc 3. Pitch to DPU of speakers for next year (Bruce...
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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 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 FOOD BANK WEEKLY FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS in West Sacramento and Davis
In case your families are in need of food there are 2 food distributions coordinated by the food bank each Saturday (flyers attached): 1) One will be at the West Sacramento City Hall at 9:30 am 2) The other will be at Davis Community Church at 2:30 pm The food bank is asking clients to bring their own bags/carts. If you have any elderly clients or clients with illnesses that prevent them from going to these food distributions, please contact the Yolo County Food Bank to sign up for delivery:...
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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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Teacher Stress and Health [RWJF.org]
Teaching is one of the most stressful occupations in the country, but introducing organizational and individual interventions can help minimize the negative effects of teacher stress. The Issue This research brief examines causes of teacher stress, its effects on teachers, schools, and students, and strategies for reducing its impact. Key Findings Forty-six percent of teachers report high daily stress, which compromises their health, sleep, quality of life, and teaching performance. When...
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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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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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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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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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Next meeting 11:30 - 1 p.m., Friday, Sept. 26.
Hi, Everyone: Thanks to Anna, we have a permanent place for our meetings -- at the Thomson/Walker Rooms, Yolo Cty. Dept of Health Services, 137 N. Cottonwood St, Woodland, CA. The next meeting is 11:30 - 1 p.m., Friday, Sept. 26. Between now and...
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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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Notes from July Steering Group meeting
Attending: Regan O., Tracy F, Karleen J, Ramy H, Susan J, Gail K. (anyone please add to these notes!) 1. Planning for Paper Tigers screening - week of Oct 5th - Davis is confirmed for Brunelle Theatre on Weds, Oct 7th - Woodland - Tracy is...
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Opportunity to meet leader of cutting-edge, trauma-informed online high school!
Meet Dr. Christine Kasitz, leader of a FREE on-line trauma-informed school. Dr. Kasitz, is the superintendent of Mission Academy and will be in the Sacramento area all day Thursday, January 16th and in the morning on Friday, January 17th. Dr. Kasiz is interested in meeting with folks that work with high-needs youth who have disengaged and dropped out of public education. My colleague Dana Brown says that Mission Academy is a cutting-edge, trauma-informed online high school that supports the...
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Our Police, Ourselves
I wrote this article in Sept 2017 after attending a forum on Trauma informed law enforcement. When I send my officers out each day I say to them “Just come back alive. Make sure you come back.” (pauses) I am not sure that that should be my biggest concern but that is what I think about every day. - Police Captain at a community forum on policing I have two adult male children—brown children. When they leave the house, I say “Be careful out there. If you get stopped by an officer get down on...
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Preparations begin for 2018 State Legislative Sessions—Tools to help you communicate with your state legislators
With the majority of states convening legislative sessions in 2018*, now is the time to begin preparations to advance trauma-informed proposals and educate lawmakers on the impact of trauma on the health and wellbeing of their constituents. ACEs Connection Network (ACN) will be sharing tools to help in this process over the next months. Two are now available—“How to Create a Community Profile” and “Tips on How to Build Relationships with Your Legislators.” One of the most effective tools...
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Resilient Yolo Meeting Minutes - April 6, 2018
Resilient Yolo Network Meeting - April 6, 2018 Attendees: Lucy Roberts, Bonnie Berman, Lori Chelius, Tracy Fauver, Debra Palmer, Allison Rodriquez, Julie Langston, Gail Kennedy UPDATES: Origins Training + Consulting is starting the 2 nd round of their online program NorCal Strategies 2.0 Trauma Informed event is April 18 th at the Library Gallery in Sacramento ACEs Connection will have a 1.5hrs breakout session in the afternoon to find out where folks are and where they are stuck. On April...
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WEBINAR: Real Talk: Responding to Challenging Issues in Father Engagement
Tuesday, June 11, 2019: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time (i.e., 11-12:30 our time!) Compelling research makes the case for the importance of father engagement, but sometimes it’s not as easy to do as we would like. In this Digital Dialogue, we will be bringing together fatherhood practitioners from around the country to discuss some of the bigger challenges when trying to effectively engage fathers—and the solutions that work. We’ll be discussing issues ranging from gatekeeping, addressing...
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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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Rising Strong™ Write your Brave New Ending
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...
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Meeting notes - May 21, 2015
Sarah Roseen -- Woodland School District. Working with first-year, second-year teachers to teach them about ACEs, trauma-informed practices. Karleen — As a result of presentation WHEN?, Woodland High School hired a full time counselor....
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WEBINAR: Tackling Child Poverty in the Wake of COVID-19 on 6/18
11:00AM on June 18 https://nasem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nIUySdNGR0eHXwLVYvLcng Growing up in poverty has life-long consequences for a child’s physical and mental health and economic well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated conditions for millions of children and families. Yet, child poverty is not an intractable problem. Join leading national experts in an engaging dialogue on actions that can be taken to address urgent threats to children and our stubbornly high child poverty...
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A Resolution Denouncing Racism and White Supremacy, and Supporting Equity, Wellbeing and the Safety of Black People and #BlackLivesMatter
WHEREA S , since our nation ' s inception , institutional and structural racism and injustice , namely the ma li gnancy and toxicity that i s white suprem acy , ha ve led to deepening racial disparities across all sectors of society and have lasting negative consequences for our communities , cities , and nation , robbing countless lives and futures of people of color in the process ; and WHERE AS , hist o rically , when Black people have fought for a more democratic society , the lives of...
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WEBINARS on race, suicide, remote learning for young children, addiction, nutrition
Same Family, Different Colors: Talking About Colorism and Skin Color Politics in the Family on 9/24 5:30pm on September 24 Colorism—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is related to racism but can be more subtle and, for many of us, feels less familiar. Colorism, at once an interracial and intra-racial phenomenon, can be particularly devastating when perpetrated within racial groups, often within families. Join Embrace Race for a deep-dive...
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WEBINARS on economic mobility, Strengthening Families, race, trauma, and mental health
Resilience Reimagined: Reshaping the Path to Equitable Economic Mobility on 10/7 9am on October 7 The widespread health and economic impacts of COVID-19 have highlighted the critical need to support vulnerable populations, many of whom are disproportionately impacted due to existing inequities. Join the Shared Value Initiative and FSG for a conversation between Shamina Singh (Mastercard), Rebecca Marmot (Unilever), and moderated by Adeeb Mahmud (FSG) to discuss the power of partnership to...
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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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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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ACEs Connection's Inclusion Tool makes sure nobody's left out
We developed ACEs Connection's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Tool — called the Inclusion Tool, for short — to ensure that ACEs initiatives across the world focus on being inclusive when forming a steering committee, recruiting leaders, providing education about ACEs science, recruiting members, or providing resources and services within their communities. The more inclusive your ACEs initiative is, the more diverse it will be, giving your initiative a real shot at achieving equity and...
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Road Map for Ending Domestic Violence in California: A Life Course Approach to Prevention
Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) is excited to share A Road Map for Ending Domestic Violence in California: A Life Course Approach to Prevention with the ACEs Connection community. The Road Map , a policy paper supported by Blue Shield of California Foundation, draws upon our work at FUTURES as well as research and study on best practices for preventing violence. It presents four evidenced-based prevention and intervention strategies to prevent and end domestic violence in California:...
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Yolo County COVID-19 Resources
NEW IMAGE COMING COVID-19 INFORMATION Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Coronavirus (COVID-19) in California: State website ACEs AWARE Resources ACEs Aware supports health care providers, their teams, and all those on the front lines of administering care and interventions as California addresses stress and anxiety related to COVID-19. Yolo County Health and Human Services: Coronavirus website Practices to Counter Toxic Stress Resource 1:...
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Re: FREE bike repair and used bike sales in Woodland & Davis
I'm a neighborhood bicycle shed volunteer. I work to build our program of training and I am seeking for a curriculum in which students learn online, supplemented by in-house instruction. I also read some some helpful reviews at dirtbikeadvisor . I'm seeking for free online bike repair classes, which are more structured and accessible than Sheldon Brown videos, than the Park Tool. Ideally, a full and free online course including videos, text articles and demonstrations would be supported by...
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Historical Trauma in the Midwest
This is a PowerPoint presentation created by the PACEs Connection staff. See attached PACEs Community below.
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Early Relational Health Innovators Partner In Program Supported by PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities Members in Twelve California Counties
Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principal author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...
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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...
