Tagged With "Dynamic Mindfulness"
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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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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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Ideas for engaging with your state legislators in the home district
Whether or not you participated in the July 11 4CA Policymaker Education Day in Sacramento, there are many ways to build a mutually constructive relationship with your legislators by communicating regularly throughout the year. Ways to build those relationships include meeting face-to-face in the district, attending forums, town halls, or district office hours as well as making phone calls, and sending emails and letters (to the legislators and to local paper). Make the commitment now to...
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ITRC calls for Universal Resilience Education and Skills Training for Climate Trauma
Sneak Preview for ITRC ACEs Connection Members! Next Tuesday, Jan. 8, the ITRC will release a major report Preparing People on the West Coast for Climate Change. The media release about the report is below (and attached). It includes a link to the webpage for the report, where people can download the full report, and find a link to the webpage with examples of resilience programs across the west coast. You can connect with the ITRC CA and PNW Facebook page:...
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Re: Trauma Transformed launches regional effort in San Francisco Bay Area
Fantastic Alicia. I have spoken to Susan from Youth in Mind about this as well. Very exciting. We are going to go coast to coast with this! I've been sharing the T2 model widely with my colleagues here.
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Re: Gov. Newsom proposing to expand services for babies and toddlers [edsource.org]
I'd be grateful if anyone knows who on the Governor's staff is heading this ACE-related project, and help get the attached document into that person's hands.
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Re: NEW BRIEF! Screening for Trauma Birth to 5
The attached article may fit in somewhere here. Please feel free tp pass it on.
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Re: To Truly Transform Health in California, We Need to Invest in Healthy Communities [calhealthreport.org]
If the health care of our State is to be improved, one key step will be to improve the basis for understanding a person's health status. The most important component of that understanding comes from a comprehensive medical history from each patient. Obtained by conventional techniques, this is very time consuming, hence expensive, hence usually carried out superficially. Because of that, I would like to propose that there be created the California Health Index, a uniquely comprehensive...
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Re: HIGHLIGHT!! Live webinar: CA surgeon general and DHCS medical director discuss ACE screening training
The effect of the above-described approach is summarized this paragraph from the attached article. "Another example of the research potential of this approach to preventive medicine was demonstrated by an analysis of 135,000 consecutive adults going through Health Appraisal in a 2.5-year period. ACE Study questions relating to traumatic life experiences in childhood had recently been added to the comprehensive medical history questionnaire that patients filled out at home. A major data...
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Re: Some Immigrants, Fearful Of Political Climate, Shy Away From Medi-Cal [KHN.org]
Hey samamtha....Just reading about this type of "outer enviorment" is a TRIGGER for me...its like I am still in bondage to my past that this type of enviorment has this type of POWER and CONTROL over me as it did when my Biological family had so conditioned me and my lil brain and mind with all that hostility. Rick
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Re: Trauma-Informed PHN Visits to Parents and Children
I have been following the work of in home visitors for the past 15 years and have been deeply impressed by the great success rate. I am delighted that they are including ACEs in their work. Recently published an addendum to my Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience to fit the in home visitor model with 15 to 20 minute activities for dealing with trauma. This would be a great addition to this all day workshop to address the issue of where do we go from here -- or now that...
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ACEs Aware Grantees By County
ACEs Connection will begin highlighting ACEs and Resilience initiatives by county. We're starting this effort off by listing the recent ACEs Aware grantees by county.
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Re: ACEs Champion Dana Kwitnicki — An ACEs Tale of Two Counties
The first sentence in paragraph 10, "If the ACEs screen is not part of a routine visit, they might be undiagnosed for years," suggests the critical importance of a comprehensive medical history, gathered routinely . Ordinarily this is avoided because it is so time consuming, hence costly, and mostly does not seem to relate to the symptom bringing patients in. In my former Department of Preventive Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, we circumvented this by having patients fill out our...
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California reaches milestone with ACEs initiatives pulsing in all 58 counties. Next: All CA cities.
Karen Clemmer, the Northwest community facilitator with ACEs Connection, was already deeply interested in the CDC/Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study when she and a colleague from the Child Parent Institute were invited to lunch by ACEs Connection founder and publisher Jane Stevens in 2012. But that lunch meeting changed everything. Karen Clemmer “Jane helped us see a bigger world,” says Clemmer. “She came with a much wider lens. She didn’t look only at Sonoma County, she...
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Technology Divide Between Senior 'Haves' and 'Have-Nots' Roils Pandemic Response [californiahealthline.org]
By Judith Graham, California Healthline, July 23, 2020 Family gatherings on Zoom and FaceTime. Online orders from grocery stores and pharmacies. Telehealth appointments with physicians. These have been lifesavers for many older adults staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. But an unprecedented shift to virtual interactions has a downside: Large numbers of seniors are unable to participate. Among them are older adults with dementia (14% of those 71 and older), hearing loss (nearly...
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Study Shows Excellent Preschool Experience Can Narrow Racial Achievement Gap [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
By Nadra Nittle, The Chronicle of Social Change, July 1, 2020 Highly trained, well-paid preschool teachers with low-student ratios, clean, safe classrooms with blocks, playdough, art supplies and outdoor spaces where kids can run and play could be key to closing the racial achievement gap, according to a new Rutgers University study. The June policy analysis by the university’s National Institute of Early Education Research concludes that preschools have more influence on the academic...
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Resilience in the Face of Covid-19: What the Data Shows [positiveexperience.org/blog]
Dr. Robert Sege, 7/29/20, positiveexperience.org/blog In times and places when Covid-19 is on the upsurge, most of us worry about our own safety and that of the ones we love. Is it a safe to go to work? It is safe for children to go to school? When will the pandemic and this uncertainty ever stop? At other times, public health restrictions are first in our minds—we can’t gather to celebrate or mourn, we need to wear masks to protect others even if we don’t feel sick ourselves, and every...
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Greater Richmond Trauma Informed Community Network, first to join ACEs Cooperative of Communities, shows what it means to ROCK!
In 2012, Greater Richmond SCAN and five other community partners hatched a one-year plan to educate the Richmond, Virginia, community about ACEs science and to embed trauma-informed practices. Eight years later, the original group has evolved into the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network (GRTICN) with 495 people and 170 organizations. And they're just scratching the surface.
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Confessions of a California Covid Nurse (Bloomberg)
By Michael Lewis, July 30, 2020, Bloomberg. Notes From A Pandemic: A California county’s efforts to stop the spread has also become a battle with the public’s denial. Erica Dykehouse will wait for minds to change. The Humboldt County Public Health department in California is inside what used to be a juvenile jail. The offices are former prison cells. A few of the doors still have the small windows with the sliding panels that allowed guards to observe prisoners. The basement is a dungeon,...
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This wasn't the first time
Going out to buy groceries, going out for a walk, driving your kid back home from school. For most people these activities are normal, everyday things with little to no excitement, as they should be. Unfortunately, getting food, exercising, and supporting my son’s education have been a little more out of the ordinary for me. You see, I am a Mexican Indigenous man, brown skin, shaved head. My ethnicity and physical appearance are by no means unusual, especially in the part of the country...
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Creating Trauma-Informed Schools
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Dynamic Mindfulness Training
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Niroga Institute: Enhance Online Learning Effectiveness
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Living Mindfully: Sustaining Self-Care
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Profound Relaxation w/ Stephanie Voss
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Let’s talk to our kids about suicide prevention [medium.com]
Narges Zohoury Dillon Sep 2 Parents’ role in suicide prevention is on my mind a lot this year with parents taking on the added responsibility of educator as many schools start remotely. Remote education means reduced access to the professional support resources schools offer which is particularly hard at this time of increased stress and mental health challenges for students and families alike. I have pictured talking to my own daughter about the topic of suicide more times than I can count.
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First Ever: Mind Matters Online Facilitator Training
Online: September 21-25, 2020 Confidently teach Mind Matters after participating in this five day facilitator training (3.5 hours a day). Based on current research and neuroscience, Mind Matters helps people develop skills and coping mechanisms to overcome anxiety and build resilience. Mind Matters can be used separately or combined with other programs. It is being used in schools, community agencies in classrooms, online, retreats, and in-home visiting. Jane Stevens says, “Curtis and...
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The Tenth Annual "On the Shoulders of Giants" Scientific Symposium [childmind.org]
From Child Mind Institute, September 11, 2020 Please join us for our 10th annual celebration of scientific achievement in child and adolescent psychology, psychiatry and developmental neuroscience, featuring 2020 Sarah Gund Prize recipient W. Thomas Boyce, MD . This event also includes a powerful roundtable on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice on child and adolescent mental health and the development of the next generation of scientists and clinicians. Moderated by...
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Mind Matters - Online Training
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Niroga Institute Dynamic Mindfulness Training (Part 2)
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Addiction Born Out of ACEs and The Return of Hope [avahealth.org]
The downstream effect of childhood trauma has been well documented regarding the biological and psychosocial impacts. This presentation will highlight the neurobiological changes associated with ACEs that function as a "primer" for the onset of addiction and related behaviors. It will conclude with principles for influencing these same pathways that assist with restoration of the mind and health downstream effect of childhood trauma has been well documented regarding the biological and...
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Hope and Justice Art: Young people can submit their creations! (directingchangeca.org)
The Hope and Justice category was created under the guidance of educators, youth and young adults and community-based partners. While Directing Change will continue to offer it’s core film-focused contest and curriculums, the Hope and Justice category will accept and award submissions on a monthly basis and in multiple art forms. The Hope & Justice category is an opportunity for young people living through history to express their feelings, take action, and to inspire others through art.
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San Diego Organizations Work Together To Shed Light on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
SAN DIEGO – The American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 3 (AAP-CA3 ) together with YMCA of San Diego County , San Diego State University Social Policy Institute and San Diego Accountable Community for Health (SDACH) are joining forces as ACEs Aware grantees to assist San Diego Medi-Cal providers screen and treat Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress. The ACEs Aware initiative is a first-of-its-kind effort led by the Office of the California Surgeon General and the...
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Niroga Institute Dynamic Mindfulness Training (Part 1)
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California Alliance and Catalyst Center Fall Institutes: Better Together: Resilience Through Connection [cacfs.org]
The California Alliance and the Catalyst Center are going virtual! New Fall Institutes with the theme Better Together: Resilience through Connection will bring together Alliance member organizations, educators, mental health professionals and caregivers serving California’s most vulnerable children, youth and families. Instructions for the Fall Institutes Day One "Leadership in Uncertain Times" has been sent out. If you did not receive them, contact Max Geide at mgeide@cacfs.org. To enter...