Tagged With "Camp Fire"
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6 Months After Paradise Burned, Trauma Endures For Kids And Adults [NPR Weekend Edition]
Six months ago, the deadly Camp Fire swept through Paradise, Concow, and Magalia, small communities all located in Butte County in Northern California. The wildfire killed 86 people and destroyed thousands of homes, schools, and businesses. Now, mental health specialists working in Butte County schools say they're seeing a second wave of trauma from survivors. But there aren't enough counselors to help all of the students, teachers and staff dealing with this second wave of trauma. "We have...
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An Update From Paradise High School After Camp Fire [NPR]
NPR's Susan Davis checks in with Loren Lighthall, the Paradise High School principal, about how he and his students have been coping, months after the Camp Fire destroyed most of their town. To read the interview, click HERE or listen!
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Butte College training for firms with wildfire-stricken staff (Chico Enterprise-Record)
By Laura Urseny, November 3, 2019, Chico Enterprise-Record CHICO — Once again, Butte College is playing a huge role when it comes to the Camp Fire recovery and local businesses. Coming in November will be the start of a four-part series through The Training Place at Butte College designed to help employees strengthen their resiliency. The series called Resiliency Zone Training is free to companies that have suffering employees. The trainings run 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Chico center, 2480...
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Butte Strong Fund's Latest Grants go to Trauma Response for First Responders and Rebuilding [chicoer.com]
By Camille Von Kaenel, Chico Enterprise-Record, October, 25, 2019 The North Valley Community Foundation’s Butte Strong Fund has approved $1.8 million in its latest round of grants, with most going to local government programs for trauma response and rebuilding. The largest of the grants, worth $1 million, is going to Butte County’s first responders to provide expanded counseling and health and wellness services in the wake of the Camp Fire. The Butte County First Responders Trauma Response...
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Camp Fire: Return to school about giving students some long-needed normalcy [chicoer.com]
CHICO — His new math book in hand, 14-year-old George Rood walked over to the impromptu photo backdrop in the Pleasant Valley High School library to get his picture taken for his new student ID card. George never expected to be starting anew this early into high school. The Paradise High freshman was forced out of his Magalia home when the Camp Fire came bearing down on the ridge where his family lived, fleeing with his grandmother and little brother and leaving behind the last sense of...
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Volunteer Trauma Therapists Wind Down Camp Fire Intervention [orovillemr.com]
By Camille Von Kaenel, Oroville Mercury-Register, August 21, 2019 A network of volunteer trauma therapists is winding down its intervention in Butte County after working with more than 500 Camp Fire survivors and training sixty local therapists to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The Northern California Trauma Recovery Network, a group housed under the umbrella of the Humanitarian Assistance Program, deployed around 50 therapists from all over the region who are specialized...
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A Guide for Youth: Understanding Trauma
A resource that may be beneficial for outreach and education workgroup
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ACEs 101
Thank you to local Therapist Matt Reddam who provided an ACEs 101 training to Butte County ACEs coalition members at the March 2016 meeting. Great stuff!
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Disaster Days: How Megafires, Guns and Other 21st Century Crises are Disrupting CA Schools [capradio.org]
By Ricardo Cano, CalMatters, September 17, 2019 Each year, millions of Californians send their children to public K-12 classrooms, assuming that, from around Labor Day to early summer, there will be one given: A school day on a district’s calendar will mean a day of instruction in school. But that fixed point is changing, according to a CalMatters analysis of public school closures. From massive wildfires to mass shooting threats to dilapidated classrooms, the 21st century is disrupting...
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First 5 Butte County names new executive director [Paradise Post]
By Paradise Post staff, Sept 4, 2019 First 5 Butte County Children & Families Commission announced on Tuesday that name Anna Bauer has been named as its Executive Director . According to a press release, Bauer has worked with the Commission since 2008 as a champion of home visitation, maternal mental health, and healing and resilience from adverse childhood experiences. The commission noted that Bauer is now serving as a steering committee member for the Campaign to Counter Childhood...
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Homeless Students Suffer Consequences of Housing, Food Insecurity | Homeless, Butte County [chicoer.com]
By Natalie Hanson, Chico Enterprise-Record, January 16, 2020 At least 70% of Oroville’s high school students are considered socioeconomically-disadvantaged. In Chico, Between 400 and 500 children are categorized as housing insecure at any time during the Chico Unified School district’s school year. Across the county, thousands of students often rely on each district for help just to get to school and to get a meal. In these statistics a tragic side is seen in the Butte County homelessness...
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Meet the nonprofit group restoring 'hope' in Paradise four months after the Camp Fire [KRCR News]
PARADISE, Calif. — The Paradise Hope Center is giving people a place to go for help and resources four months after the Camp Fire broke out in Butte County. The center is located at 311 Circlewood Drive in Paradise and is open Monday through Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The nonprofit group, a branch of the Hope Center in Oroville, opened their doors in Paradise in December to help survivors of the Camp Fire recover and remains open currently. Valerie Elizabeth, who is running the...
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Mental health, adverse childhood experiences a serious issue in Butte County (Chico Enterprise Record)
By Natalie Hanson, December 23, 2019 Chico Enterprise Record CHICO — In 2019, treating mental health is still one of Butte County’s biggest concerns, along with higher rates of drug-induced deaths and adverse childhood experiences, than in many other areas in California. The Butty County Public Health Department’s report for 2019 has been released as a result collaboration with Enloe Medical Center, Feather River Hospital and Orchard Hospital beginning in 2018. The Camp Fire led to an...
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New $1.6 million grant approved for emotional trauma in Butte County schools [Paradise Post]
CHICO — Butte County schools will get $1.6 million more to address emotional trauma after the Camp Fire from a newly-approved Butte Strong Fund grant. The nine community members on the Butte Strong Fund Committee approved a grant request of $1,611,270 from the Butte County Office of Education on Friday. The North Valley Community Foundation manages the fund. The funding will allow more counselors to be hired, adds a parent outreach effort to provide support to families, provides training,...
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New Study Shows Communities Can Reduce the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences [Mathematica Policy Research]
[ Ed. note: Following is a media release published yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research. This follows on the heals of the report, "Self-Healing Communities" that Laura Porter, Dr. Robert Anda and WHO wrote for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Both reports and executive summaries are attached to this blog post. Both reports are significant, because they show that community ACEs initiatives -- with "modest investments and limited staff" -- are solving some of our most intractable...
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OUR FUTURE AFTER THE FIRE: NON-PROFIT DONATES $1 MILLION TO HELP FIRST RESPONDERS WITH TRAUMA (Action News)
By Jafet Serrato, Oct 24, 2019, for Action News BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. - The North Valley Community Foundation has been working on choosing where vital grant money should go after the Camp Fire. David Little is the executive vice president of the organization. "We are both giving direct assistance to fire survivors who need it, through our partners on the ground but also giving to agencies who need help in the longer term," Little said. The Butte County Sheriff's Office is one of those...
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Overcoming a Lifetime of Trauma, Then Facing a New One: Wildfire [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
KQED News Monday, November 19, 2018 Sabrina Hanes has faced a lot of trauma in her life, most of it in her childhood. As part of her healing, she moved to a Northern California town called Paradise. There she built strength and community, but that was upended when the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, burning her home and turning her life upside down. I followed Hanes through her daily routine in Paradise last summer, to learn how she’s developed resilience. I then caught up with Hanes after...
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Paradise educators find resilience amid fire's destruction [EdSource.org]
They can’t dwell on what the fire has taken from them, or the losses still to come. So they focus on Dec. 3. That’s the day people responsible for the Paradise Unified School District want school to be back in session. “What will it look like? We don’t know,” said Kindra Britt, a public information officer with the Placer County Office of Education and one of many from outside Butte County who’ve joined the recovery effort. “People are running on fumes — they’re running on less than fumes.
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Paradise Locals Travel to Sundance Film Festival for Ron Howard’s Camp Fire Documentary Premiere (Active)
By Active NorCal, January 22, 2020, for Active It’s been over a year since the Camp Fire completely destroyed the Butte County town of Paradise, and now residents of the town are about to see the premiere of Ron Howard’s documentary about the recovery efforts surrounding the fire. Eight Paradise residents, all of which were interviewed for the film, are traveling to Park City, Utah this week to see “Rebuilding Paradise” for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival. Locals are hopeful...
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PARADISE MEDICAL GROUP REOPENED FRIDAY May 24, 2019
By Stephanie Schmieding, 5/24/19 for Action NEWS 12 PARADISE, Calif. - Paradise Medical Group reopened for the first time since the Camp Fire on Friday. Doctors with the group said financial support from Blue Shield helped make it possible to restore and enhance health care delivery in the area following the Camp Fire. One of the services they'll offer is a virtual care platform where patients can see some providers via cell phones, tablets and computers. The opening should help those still...
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Paradise students get substance abuse, disaster trauma help [chicoer.com]
By Natalie Hanson, Chico Enterprise-Record, May 9, 2020 Butte County’s Office of Education has gotten a $1 million grant to help students on the Paradise ridge get services for substance abuse and disaster-related trauma. The Office of Education applied for the 18-month grant, targeted specifically for areas that have experienced disaster, to continue the support process of recovery for ridge schools, students and families. It will focus on four areas for services: Substance abuse services...
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Resources to Support Wildfires Response & Recovery in Northern and Southern California
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) has compiled resources to assist with response and recovery from the latest California wildfires. Information guides on disaster topics and the Disaster Lit® database provide access to curated, reliable information from vetted Federal, state, and local governments and organizations. Key National Resources NLM Fires and Wildfires Information Guide Content syndication —embed the content of this page...
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SBA Offers Disaster Loans to Fire Victims
OROVILLE, Calif. - Fire victims in Butte County can now apply for a loan of up to $2 million. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) set up shop at the Fire Assistance Center at 7 County Drive in Oroville this week. The SBA offers federal low-interest disaster loans to businesses and homeowners to help them rebuild. The group is in Butte County following an emergency declaration that will qualify homeowners and renters for help rebuilding and repairing homes, businesses and even...
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Strengthening Families Framework TRAINERS
Thirty more individuals in the states of California, Indiana, and Alabama were just trained to be a trainer of the Strengthening Families Framework from the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds. This is HUGE! That makes slightly over 1,000 total from the 50 states. But what happens now? We have newly trained trainers trying to reach out and converse with everyone and anyone, with local Health and Human Services Agencies, with local schools, fire departments and police...
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Students Return to Dramatically Different Paradise [edsource.org]
By Diana Lambert, EdSource, August 16, 2019 Schools reopen in Paradise today, but nothing is the same. The Camp Fire changed everything nine months ago when it roared through the town and neighboring communities, killing 86 people, destroying thousands of homes and four schools. Many of the 1,000 students who are expected to return — about a third of the student population of a year ago — will be coming on buses from their new homes in Oroville, Chico and Durham. Many of their former...
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The Forest Fire by Erik Ohlsen free downloadable book
Free downloadable book The Forest of Fire follows the journey of a forest from pristine wild to human developed and the roles and risks of fire in ecology and our lives.
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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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Trauma in Paradise: A California school system focuses on mental health after devastating fire [edsource.org]
The flames have long since died down, but Fiona Roberts, a high school senior, remains haunted by the memory of being trapped with her mother in a slow-motion race for their lives on the morning of Nov. 8, the day the Camp Fire swallowed Paradise. Driving from their home in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the left-hand side of the road, they gasped at the pop of backyard propane tanks exploding and the sight of embers the size of butterflies swirling in the air. Their fear held its tightest grip...
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Trinka and Sam and the Big Fire coloring page for children
A free resource for families affected by the fires. This book is part of the Trinka and Sam series, a free coloring book series which began in 2011 after Hurricane Katrina to help children and families affected by disasters. This series is disseminated via the National Child Traumatic Stress Network For more information on other versions for hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes check out: Piplo Productions
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‘How Could This Happen Twice?’: Camp Fire Survivors Who Moved Away Relive Wildfire Trauma (KQED)
By Michelle Wiley, September 14, 2020, KQED. When Corinne and Bruce McCourt woke up to the news that there was a fire burning near their home in Stayton, Oregon, they didn't need any further warning. "When we saw live ash coming down on the roof ... we just said, 'That's it, I can't do this. I'm not going to wait till the last minute and leave,' " said Corinne. That's because the last time the McCourts saw the skies look like this — dark red and orange, with ash sprinkling down — it was...
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Resource: First Responder Support Network (FRSN)
OUR GOAL Our goal is to help the first responder and retirees regain control over their lives and either return to work with a new perspective on stress and coping, move on with their lives if that is a more appropriate decision, or simply enjoy retirement. The mission of the First Responder Support Network (FRSN) is to provide educational treatment programs to promote recovery from stress and critical incidents experienced by first responders and their families. Our goal is to provide first...
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Even when the smoke clears, schools find student trauma can linger (Lake County Record Bee)
By Carolyn Jones, September 29, 2020, Lake County Record Bee. Schools can serve as a hub for an entire community after a disaster, experts say For some students, the fire is only the beginning. The nightmares, the grief and an all-consuming dread can persist for months or even years. That’s what teachers and school employees have observed among students in California’s fire-ravaged areas, especially Sonoma and Butte counties, where deadly wildfires have struck repeatedly in recent years.
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How Do Children Impacted By Wildfires Recover? A Resilient Community’s Trauma-Informed Story Of Healing
Editor’s Note: Do you have a story of a local community creating programs to help their members recover from climate change disasters? Send us your story of a resilient community to editor@kindredmedia.org. We’re honored to feature Thrive , a healing initiative of the North Valley Community Foundation (NVCF), a collaboration of people, organizations and agencies in Butte County, California, whose mission is to address the impact of trauma across generations. In the wake of the devastating...
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PACEs Champion Dr. Lourdes Valdez uses Reach Out and Read as one way to integrate practices based on PACEs science
Our interview for this profile took place over two continents, from the U.S. to Lima, Peru, where Lourdes Valdez, pediatrician in Butte County, California, for 23 years, was attending to family affairs after the death of her mother. Valdez grew up in Lima, and later earned her medical degree in Peru before moving to Iowa City, Iowa, in 1992 for her residency. She said her mother helped make her a resilient person. Although working full time as an economist and statistician, her mother made a...