Gail from ACEs Connection says: This story made me happy - a story about taking time to get to know someone and what a difference it can make in someone's life. Read on! For years, Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Swalwell had seen an older man begging drivers for money at one of the city's busiest freeway off-ramps. "It's a safety issue, and that was more of a concern than the panhandling," said Swalwell, who works for the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. He had planned to write the...

Title Photo: (L) Donielle Prince, post author and ACN Bay Area Community Facilitator; (R) Nicole Powell, Branch Librarian at North Branch, Berkeley Public Library at the first gathering for an ACN trauma informed community collaborative in Berkeley. Meeting notes and future plans are described in this post.

How do you build a narrative around ACEs science, bolster it with data and convince your leadership that integrating it is critical for the community you serve? Representatives from San Francisco Bay Area health and social service agencies had an opportunity on December 5 to learn about ACEs science, find data sets to help them make a case for supporting ACEs education and resiliency programs, and then role play ways to deliver powerful messages. Donielle Prince, ACEs Connection Network’s...

A 90-MINUTE PLAN FOR SHOWING "RESILIENCE" "Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope" KPJR Films (2016) is a 60-minute documentary film. Depending on your audience and your circumstances, you might consider the following 90-minute plan for showing the film. PART I (1) Screen first 20 minutes of "Resilience." (2) Ask participants to reflect, "What are your thoughts about the film so far?" Instruct participants to reflect silently and write some notes. (10 minutes) PART II (1)...

In a 2017 annual assessment conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, Alameda County’s homeless population ranks among the largest homeless communities in the nation. The report found that Alameda County has an estimated homeless population of 5,629 people with a 68.6 percent unsheltered rate, giving it the fourth-highest unsheltered rate among the 50 most populated cities in the nation this year. City spokesperson Matthai Chakko said the city has been trying...

TODAY Monday, December 11, 2018 at North Branch, Berkeley Public Library (Community Room), 4:00- 5:30 pm

Genentech is excited to launch a new philanthropic initiative, The Resilience Effect , to address childhood adversity and its long-term effects on health. For more than 40 years, our company has pursued groundbreaking science to improve the lives of people facing serious and life-threatening diseases. That’s why, when we learned about the emerging science behind the effects of toxic stress and the connection between early adverse childhood experiences and diseases later in life, we knew we...

Still looking for Saturday plans? Resiliency Fair at Berkeley Adult School, Saturday, December 2 from 10 am - 2 pm. Address and links within.

A product of the Essentials for Childhood Initiative (EfC), the Child Adversity and Well-Being Dashboards contain indicators of child adversity, health and well-being utilizing data available on kidsdata.org . For more information about the dashboards, please refer to the California Data Dashboards page. The Alameda Data Dashboard contains select indicators of child adversity and well-being. The dashboard is a product of the Shared Data and Outcomes Workgroup of the California Essentials for...

Communities across the country have launched cross sector collaboratives to create resilient, trauma informed communities. Join us, ACEs Connection Network (acesconnection.com) on December 11 as we discuss the potential to launch a similar collaborative in Berkeley. North Branch Berkeley Library, 12/11 4-5:30 pm. RSVP required due to room capacity: dprince@acesconnection.com

To see the conference agenda, list of all-star speakers, and to register go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/california-2018-conference/

A young man told clinical therapist Marissa Snoddy recently that when she calls him a leader, she got it all wrong. “He said, ‘I just came from Juvenile Hall,’ I’m not a leader.” But, she said, “We just kept giving him love. And we said, ‘You’re courageous for showing up and being here,’” The very fact that he was there, she explained, showed he was a leader. Snoddy related the anecdote recently for 80 people attending the Trauma and Learning Series launch led by Rising Youth for Social...