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With the goal of helping teachers help students, the Oroville City Elementary School District is hiring an expert in childhood trauma to come speak to teachers before the start of the school year. The district is bringing in a licensed marriage and family therapist to discuss adverse childhood experiences and child trauma, and strategies for teachers in the classroom. The consultant will discuss how potentially traumatic events, which can include everything from neglect or abuse to divorce...

Those government statistics prove the scope of the drug problem, and Butte County is an epicenter. Butte County has the third-highest drug-induced death rate in the state among the 58 counties, according to the California Department of Public Health . Data from the county coroner’s office reveals about 63 people die from drug-related deaths each year. The problem is pervasive, with the nation in the midst of a prescription opioid and heroin overdose epidemic. In 2014, opioids were involved...

After mustering the will to seek life- changing treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, many Butte County residents have had that decision derailed by a catch-22. Residential programs admit participants only after 24 hours of sobriety but, in their struggle with substances, addicted people often can’t get sober at all—not even for a day—without a program. What they need, and what’s been missing in the North State, is a detoxification center: a facility where alcoholics and other addicts...

On April 15th, representatives from 6 counties met on a conference call to discuss recent First 5 activities around Trauma Informed Care (TIC). Since our first gathering at last year's Association Summit, we have been meeting quarterly via conference call and have learned that there is a lot going on with TIC. So much is going on that we decided to send out a survey gathering data to map all our TIC efforts across the state. Please let us know if you are at a First 5 and are interested in...

Join this webinar to learn or teach staff how to understand trauma and identify how to apply trauma-informed principles even in non-clinical work.

This was produced by KPJR Films, and edited by Jen Bradwell.

Resilience , a documentary that looks at the birth of the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and how it spawned a movement across the world, will be coming to your personal screen in April, says Lynn Waymer, KPJR Film’s community engagement strategist. The production team is working out the details to make the documentary, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival to sold-out houses, available to ACEsConnection.com members on Sunday, April 10, at 6 pm PT/ 9 pm...

From Tugg.com, March 17, 2016 Tugg Edu is proud to present the highly anticipated ACEs documentary PAPER TIGERS to the educational marketplace. Directed by James Redford ( THE BIG PICTURE: RETHINKING DYSLEXIA, RESILIENCE ), PAPER TIGERS follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families. With over 450...

A wonder story of the impact of ACEs and how community services, such as Parent Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT), which was funded through First 5, provided the help one mom needed to break the cycle of ACEs. This story also provides a great overview of ACEs and some initiatives in California that are working to address ACEs and build resilience. http://www.first5la.org/index.php?r=site/article&id=3682

Findings of the ACE Study have had a swift and substantial impact on MCH policy, practice and research. This issue of the journal is intended to provide a forum to enhance knowledge of the Study and its implications across the field. Topics of interest include: The aims and findings of the ACE Study, The implications of the Study and use of Study findings to shape MCH practice in clinical, program and policy settings, The import of the Study in relation to life course theory and the social...

Did you catch this article posted on the Chronicle for Social Change? https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/analysis/trauma-informed-cities-counties-ask-states/15682

To view the document, click on the following link:  http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/issues/toxic-stress-behavioral-health-and-next-major-era-public-health