Tagged With "Integrative Pain Center of Arizona"
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31st Annual Attach conference, Oct. 3-5, 2019: Cultivate Calm, Transform Your School
Please see the attached flyer for the National Attach conference coming to Scottsdale this October. Great national conference coming to the valley this year!
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4th Annual ACEs Forum Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Arizona ACE Consortium
Community leaders and members of the Arizona ACE Consortium, along with City of Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and First Lady Nicole Stanton, came together on October 3rd to hear leading voices in the ACEs movement - Vincent Felitti, MD and Nadine Burke Harris, MD - discuss the impact of ACEs and toxic stress, and explore what's needed to promote resilience in individuals and communities. Local experts addressing the opioid epidemic also highlighted the connection between ACEs and addiction.
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5th Annual Arizona ACEs Summit
The Arizona ACEs Consortium and the Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family put on a wonderful event yesterday! Arizona's First Lady, Angela Ducey, delivered a poignant speech about the importance of recognizing ACEs within the Foster Care System, based on personal experience with her nephew. She was authentic in her love of children and concern for their well-being. It was especially wonderful to hear that she is so knowledgeable about ACES!!! The Governor's address also expressed...
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5th Annual Arizona ACEs Summit, Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
5th Annual Arizona ACEs Summit: Becoming a Trauma Informed State - Overcoming Adverse Childhood Experiences to Create a Healthier Arizona "Adverse childhood experiences can negatively impact a child's life well into adulthood - through identification and assessment, we can develop intervention strategies - creating happier communities for current and future generations of Arizonans. These efforts will move us closer to becoming a trauma-informed state, and help solidify Arizona as the number...
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Arizona ACE Consortium: Catalyzing a Statewide Movement [MARC.HealthFederation.org]
The elementary school principal routinely broke into tears. At Wednesday afternoon meetings of the Creating Trauma Sensitive Arizona Schools work group, a committee of the Arizona ACE Consortium , the leader of a high-need, inner-city K-5 school frequently wept as she talked about the trauma her students carried into the classroom and the ways it percolated throughout her campus: in lagging test scores, behavior problems, even teacher retention. The other committee members became her...
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Arizona ACE Consortium's annual ACE summit next week
More than 200 people will gather in the studios of the local PBS station in Phoenix next Tuesday to attend "Creating Safe Environments -- Advocacy, Prevention, and Support for Children in Arizona". And, if you're not one of those 200,...
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Arizona ACE Consortium spreads awareness, influences prevention of childhood trauma
Not long after Marcia Stanton stumbled across the original article from the CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Study , she heard a conference presentation by Dr. Vincent Felitti, one of the study’s co-authors. She invited Felitti to...
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Arizona Among Worst in Helping its Most Vulnerable Children [yourvalley.net]
By Chris Caraveo, Independent News Media, August 12, 2019 Children are the future adults of the world, and some countries are doing more to help their youth better than others. August is Child Support Awareness Month, and with the U.S. having the seventh highest child poverty rate among economically-developed countries, personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2019’s States with the Most Underprivileged Children. Arizona has the 11th most underprivileged children, per the...
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Arizona bill would require trauma-informed training for foster parents
The Health Committee of the Arizona House of Representatives has taken up two bills related to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the current legislative session. In addition to legislation to create an ACEs Study Committee (H.B. 2198), a second bill ( H.B. 2476 ) has been heard in the Health Committee that would require trauma-informed training for foster parents and employees of a child welfare agency who have direct contact with children place with the agency. The Department of Child...
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Arizona Educators Share What's Working to Create Trauma-Sensitive Schools (azednews.com)
Creating a supportive environment is helping reduce student behavior issues in Arizona schools and empowering students to pause before they respond instead of reacting to adverse events. Research shows experiencing six or more adverse childhood experiences increases risk factors for chronic diseases, which can reduce a person’s life by up to 20 years, said Marcia Stanton, coordinator of the Adverse Childhood Experience Initiative at Phoenix Children’s Hospital . Adverse childhood experiences...
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BPC Releases First Comprehensive, Transparent Study of Federal Funding to Fight Opioid Epidemic [Bipartisan Policy Center]
Editor's note: In addition to an overview of how states are spending federal opioid dollars, the Bipartisan Policy Center report also includes 5 state in-depth briefs—Arizona, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Ohio and Tennessee. News release Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Washington, D.C. – In 2017, more than 70,000 people in the United States died from a drug overdose, with almost 50,000 of these deaths involving an opioid. Americans are now at greater risk of dying from an opioid overdose than a car...
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Building Stronger Families and Thriving Children [kyma.com]
By Crystal Jimenez, KYMA, October 25, 2019 A statewide initiative sets in motion to build stronger families and thriving children to prevent adverse childhood experiences. An adverse childhood experience (ACE) is a traumatic event that takes place in a child's life before the age of 18 that harms their developing brains and bodies where the effects show up decades later. Arizona is said to have the highest rate in the country of children who have experienced two or more ACEs. [ Please click...
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CA ACEs Summit: Building the ACEs movement in 3 states
The leaders of the ACEs movement in Iowa, Wisconsin and Arizona shared the histories of how it all got started, the challenges along the way, and what the future holds in their respective states. Martha Davis of the Robert Wood Johnson...
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Cultivating a Culture of Equity - TIPP Presentation, Arizona State University April 23. 2019
APRIL 23, 2019 W H E N & W H E R E A S U M E M O R I A L U N I O N M O H A V E - # 2 3 6 3 0 1 E O R A N G E S T , T E M P E , A Z 9 : 3 0 A M T O 4 : 0 0 P M W H O S H O U L D A T T E N D ASU STAFF & STUDENTS ANYONE WORKING WITH YOU AGES 0-24 FREE LUNCH, RAFFLE & FUN https://cfo.asu.edu/parking Cultivating a Culture of Equity - TIPP CERTIFICATION #1 Arizona's Youth Are In Crises #2 Trauma Informed Primary Prevention (TIPP) #3 Equity in Schools & the Workplace #4 Call Me...
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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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Free Online Hope Forum - Kids at Hope
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 2:00pm Eastern Time 1:00pm Central Time 12:00pm Mountain Time 11:00am Pacific Time (AZ) To register, click here . Rick Miller Founder of Kids at Hope and Professor of Practice and Clinical Director at Arizona State University’s Center for the Advanced Study and Practice of HOPE will be joined by very special guests for a series of weekly Online HOPE Forums exploring the soul, science and practice of HOPE during times of uncertainty. Joining Rick for the first of...
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Funding Opportunity! National Title IV-E Roundtable Conference in Phoenix
Arizona State University's Center for Child Well-Being has invested in helping organizations increase their training budgets through taking advantage of federal funding. The National Title IV-E Roundtable conference which will be held in Phoenix, AZ May 23-25th . 2017 marks the 21 st year of this event and our theme of Examining Efficiency and Increasing Access Across Systems through Collaboration is timely given the changes occurring at the federal level. 20 states will be represented so...
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Health Care System Accepting New Math: Housing = Health [chcf.org]
By Xenia Shih Bion, California Health Care Foundation, November 18, 2019 In the course of a single year, a homeless man named Steve in Phoenix, Arizona, visited the emergency room 81 times. Only 54 years old, Steve is coping with a daunting array of medical conditions: multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, heart disease, and diabetes. Because of his health and reliance on emergency rooms, his medical costs averaged about $13,000 per month that year. Thanks to an innovative housing program run...
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How One Connection at CYW’s ACEs Conference Sparked Awareness into Action
Origins offers a number of training and consulting services. We developed The Basics as a half-day session to provide the foundation to support trauma-informed and resilience practices across sectors and industries. The session includes an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, the neurobiology of toxic stress, the impact of social and historical trauma, and the science of resilience. We have tested The Basics with two cross-sector audiences, in Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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“I AM JANE DOE” SCREENING
Sponsored by AATN, TRUST and the Hickey Family Foundation THIS WEEKEND! March 18 and 19, 2017 I AM JANE DOE, a powerful new documentary film written and directed by Mary Mazzio, narrated by Academy-Award and Golden Globe nominee Jessica Chastain ( Zero Dark Thirty, Miss Sloane ), and produced by Mazzio and Academy-Award nominee Alec Sokolow ( Toy Story ), chronicles the epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their underage daughters who were bought and sold on...
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Indian Country Today to open newsroom at Arizona State; goal is to create national TV news program [Indian Country Today]
This summer Indian Country Today will open a newsroom in Phoenix at the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University. Indian Country Today is on the move. It has a new legal framework — and soon will have a new newsroom and partnership with Arizona State University. Last month the news organization officially incorporated as Indian Country Today, LLC., a non-profit news company, owned by the non-profit arm of the National Congress of American Indians. The new legal structure codifies...
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Miss Arizona, Katelyn Niemiec spreading awareness
As part of her campaign to bring awareness to the negative effects of bullying and the current culture of violence, the reigning Miss Arizona, Katelyn Niemiec, will be speaking at Light Hall Auditorium on Thursday, April 20 beginning at 6:30 p.m. Niemiec was crowned Miss Arizona in June of 2016. While advancing her platform Bullying S.T.O.P.S. Here, she has devoted thousands of hours speaking at schools and communities as an advocate for the prevention of bullying. For the lecture, titled...
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My ACEs Mission
In 2010, I was asked to write an article for a parenting magazine regarding child abuse. My initial response was, "No way!" Having had a decent childhood myself and nearly ready to launch two kids of my own, I could not wrap my mind around writing...
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Nominate a Trauma-Informed Care Champion: #TICchampion
Becoming a trauma-informed organization requires clear communication about the transformation process, and support from staff at all levels of an organization. Often these efforts are spearheaded by “trauma-informed care champions”— individuals committed to raising awareness regarding the health effects of trauma and toxic stress and improving care for people who have experienced trauma. This week, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) invites you to recognize people around you who...
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Osborn School District Board Writes Resolution Supporting Trauma Informed Practices
As a district, we are dedicated to trauma-informed practices and teaching resilience in a manner that is supported by science. At this point, we need our state and national leaders to catch up to the classroom.” says Katie Paetz, Osborn Governing Board President.
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Reaching out with ACEs education
Hello Everyone! I am new to the Arizona ACE Consortium and this group. I recently had the honor of presenting on ACEs at the University of Phoenix 6th Annual Research Symposium, which focused on trauma-informed care. The audience was a mix of students, faculty and mental health care providers who were attuned to the message, and eager for information about Arizona ACE Consortium and how to be a force for change. Bringing awareness of ACEs at the university level is one of the things that we...
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Reporters reveal deep faults in Arizona’s swollen foster care system [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
When Arizona’s foster care system swelled to an all-time-high of over 19,000 children in 2016, the reason should have been obvious to the state’s lawmakers. It certainly wasn’t because thousands of residents were suddenly abusing and neglecting their children, but Arizona approached the problem with that mentality. As a result, thousands of children were taken from their families when in-home services and support would have sufficed. Here’s what was actually happening: Since the Great...
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awards ASU grant to improve regional health care news [asunow.asu.edu]
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is funding a new Arizona State University initiative to provide in-depth health care news coverage about underserved communities across the Southwest. ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is receiving a $500,000 grant to establish the Southwest Reporting Initiative, which will provide timely and accurate health news and information, in particular about Latino and Native American communities. Cronkite News, the student-produced,...
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The impact of just asking
Anybody read today's article "How we Integrated ACE screening into the Health Appraisal Center at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego?"? This one paragraph blew my mind! "an outside data-mining firm tested the incorporation of this medical questionnaire with its trauma-oriented questions into the comprehensive medical evaluation of 125,000 adult patients over a two-year period. To our surprise, they demonstrated this single change coincided, during the year subsequent to evaluation, with a 35%...
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The Impact That Adverse Childhood Experiences and Toxic Stress Have on Students (azednews.com)
While a large amount of research has focused on how poverty affects students’ academic achievement, information about the effects of toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences on learning are just coming to the forefront. Some kids “come into a family that has the resources and the support to provide what they need, but, unfortunately, we know many kids don’t,” and spend much of their lives trying to catch up and overcome challenges, said Marcia Stanton, coordinator of the Adverse...
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Trauma-Informed Conference and Ceremony in Window Rock April 4-5
Dear Members of the Native American Group -- As the attached notice describes, on April 4 th and 5 th , a coalition of national and local organizations will host a trauma-informed conference in Window Rock Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. The goal is to promote the implementation of trauma-informed programs on reservations in the Four Corners area, with a particular focus on education, health care, and law enforcement/courts. Called the Four Corners Warrior Spirit Conference and Ceremony,...
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Trauma-Informed Conference and Ceremony in Window Rock April 4-5
Dear Members of the Native American Group -- As the attached notice describes, on April 4 th and 5 th , a coalition of national and local organizations will host a trauma-informed conference in Window Rock Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. The goal is to promote the implementation of trauma-informed programs on reservations in the Four Corners area, with a particular focus on education, health care, and law enforcement/courts. Called the Four Corners Warrior Spirit Conference and Ceremony,...
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Trauma Informed Congregation Movement in Arizona
As a social work professional, I was involved in the trauma field twenty years ago. But I became a charismatic nondenominational church pastor, starting a college campus prayer movement. With my cultural heritage and training at an evangelical seminary, the focus of my ministry has been intercession, multi-ethnic discipleship and servant leadership. However, the development of community service involvement with the ministry brought me back to the engagement in my previous professional field.
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Trauma screening could help reduce opioid misuse, symposium is told [tucson.com]
Fueled by the opioid-abuse crisis, the medical community is on the cusp of major change in how it treats chronic pain, a first-ever Pima County opioid symposium was told Friday. Chronic pain is the most common pre-existing condition leading to an opioid overdose, state data show. And unresolved trauma, which is a major risk factor for substance-use disorders, is also a characteristic in some chronic-pain patients, Dr. Bennet Davis of the Integrative Pain Center of Arizona told those in...
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Upcoming Hope Forums via Kids at Hope
Kids at Hope, in partnership with Arizona State University's Center for the Advanced Study and Practice of Hope, is keeping hope at the forefront of our minds with their Hope Forums - the next two coming up on April 1st and 8th! On April 1st, founder Rick Miller will be joined by: Special Guest: Erin Gruwell , an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of New York Times bestselling book, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used...
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We Want YOU to be Part of The League of Extraordinary People
You are extraordinary. Writing this post feels like I have come full circle. In April of 2019, Alfred White reached out to me on ACEs Connection. Shortly after, we spoke at length about the plans he had to create a place of healing and hope in Federal Way and King County, Washington, specifically for individuals with a history of trauma and who were now impacted with symptoms such as addiction and homelessness. I recall sharing with Alfred that there was such a need for this in that...
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Welcome to Arizona ACES in Action State Group
Hello Everyone, Welcome to 2017 and the official kick-off of the Arizona ACEs in Action State Group! This is a big year for the Arizona ACE Consortium – our 10 year anniversary! It’s hard to believe that a decade has gone by since we officially launched what started as the Arizona ACE Think Tank and later turned into the Arizona Adverse Childhood Experiences Consortium! A lot has changed over these past 10 years. Originally the problem was finding any information on what individuals,...
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Wisconsin state agencies end year one of trauma-informed learning community; goal is to be first trauma-informed state
Here in California, many people think that it’s only liberal Democrats who have a corner on championing the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and putting it into practice. That might be because people who use ACEs science don’t expel or suspend students, even if they’re throwing chairs and hurling expletives at the teacher. They ask "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?" as a frame when they create juvenile detention centers where kids don’t fight, reduce...
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Re: 5th Annual Arizona ACEs Summit
Thank you Iya for sharing this attachment. I wish I could have been in Phoenix to attend your breakout session. I also wanted to thank you for expressing a sense of hope about the future of Arizona. My family will be relocating in the Phoenix from the Walla Walla area and it is good to hear that I am bringing my family into a state that is as committed to the work of ACEs and Resilience as the state that I am leaving. PS - Was your breakout recorded by any chance?
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COVID-19’s impact on Navajo Nation students, schools
JUNE 3, 2020| LISA IRISH | ARIZONA EDUCATION NEWS SERVICE When COVID-19 hit the Navajo Nation, it limited students’ educational opportunities after schools closed, eliminated essential school services, exposed ongoing inequities, and made health and economic hardships families face worse. Navajo health officials said COVID-19 started spreading across the nation after a tribal member attended a basketball tournament in early March then went to a church revival the next day in Chilchinbeto, a...
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Trauma and Childhood Obesity – LIVE WEBINAR
Trauma and Childhood Obesity – LIVE WEBINAR CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Presented by: Leah N. Owen, MC, LAC Friday, October 2, 2020 8:30am – 4:30pm (Arizona Time) $50.00 Feel confident working with clients with obesity issues Gain resources to share with clients and their families See childhood obesity in a new way Be more effective in assessing clients and addressing the entire person Training Description The session titled Trauma and Childhood Obesity will begin with an overview of childhood...
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The Mind-Body Connection: An Integrated Approach to Trauma
FREE On-Demand Webinar You will need to register to access the webinar. Leah Owen, MC, LAC and Robert Rhoton Psy D., LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S. discuss an integrative approach to trauma treatment. They explore complementary modalities (nutrition, lifestyle, movement, breath-work, mindfulness, etc.) to improve treatment outcomes. Leah discusses how she supports clients transition to more supportive nutrition and lifestyle choices. Leah shares resources and exercises you can start using right away to...
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Fighting substance abuse by understanding the impact of childhood trauma (ASUnow)
By Kimberlee D’Ardenne, July 6, 2020, ASU now. Psychology student wins graduate research fellowship from NSF For a long time, Matthew Broussard has wanted to understand how childhood trauma can lead to substance abuse in adults. Reading a news article about research happening at Arizona State University on this topic is what led him to enroll as a transfer student. The topic also was the focus of his application to the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)...
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Food insecurity amid COVID-19 prompts Native Americans to return to their roots [cronkitenews.azpbs.org]
By Katelyn Reinhart, Cronkite News Arizona PBS, August 3, 2020 From a traditional hogan in a remote area on the Utah-Arizona line, Cynthia Wilson spent much of her spring sourcing drought-resistant seeds, packing them in small manila envelopes and labeling them to ship to families across the Four Corners. Seeds for corn – white, blue and yellow. For squash. For melons. For many of the foods that long sustained her Navajo ancestors, before their land was carved into a reservation and the...
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Building the case for change: Surveying primary care practices in trauma screening
Hello! I am a new member, I am a physician who has been working in the trauma-pain world for over 2 decades here in Arizona, and I am soon to start on an MPH with focus on epidemiology. I am going to survey primary care practices with regard to screening for trauma in children and adults throughout the state, and I would like to know if other members are interested in this project. I would welcome your input! The idea is to get solid data on how many providers are screening for trauma, and...
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Re: Building the case for change: Surveying primary care practices in trauma screening
My husband (Dr. Juan Gabriel Martinez) is piloting an ACEs screening program in his pediatric patients. He says to feel free to contact him if you would like to discuss this further. Thank you Email him at: martinezpediatricsllc@gmail.com or call his cell at 602-367-8867.
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CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY: Parental ACEs and Pediatrics: Transforming Well Care [avahealth.org]
CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY (CAA) , funded by ACEs Aware, is providing free online training to Medi-Cal providers and others featuring: Practical strategies for integrating trauma-informed health care into your team’s practice that improves patients’ well being and the productivity of your practice. Meet colleagues with experience and success providing trauma-informed health care in their practices. Learn from national and local experts. Talk to other professionals from your region in small...
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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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"A Better Normal" Community Discussion: Suicide Awareness and Community Cafes
Join us on Friday November 6, 2020 from noon to 1:00 PST as we come together and join Satya Chandragiri MD, Bonnie O’Hern RN, Denise PNP, & Michael Polacek RN for a discussion around the tender issue of suicide. Together we will discuss ways people and providers can support each other and encourage communities to take action to support one another around suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and the layers of culture and structural barriers to care. A special emphasis will be on...