DART Resilience Resource Review: September 2, 2021
Table of Contents
- Durham Resources
- Resilience in the News
- ACEs and Resilience Research
- Funding Opportunities
- Webinars, Conferences, and Trainings
Durham Resources and Happenings
Do you have an announcement about a new resource, program, or event? This is the spot to share it!
Launch of NurturingDurhamNC.org, Early Childhood Mental Health Taskforce and READY Project
Durham families now have a new resource at their fingertips! Nurturing Durham is an online hub designed to introduce families to free and low-cost programs available in our community to support them during a child’s early years – from the prenatal period through age 8. If you would like communications resources to spread the word, let Jess know.
StepUp Durham Selected as Administrator of City's Guaranteed Income Pilot
With City funding, StepUp Durham will hire a full-time coordinator dedicated to the implementation of this pilot. Through a grant from Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI), 115 formerly-incarcerated individuals will be randomly selected to receive an unconditional, cash transfer of $500 per month. The pilot will last one year. The objective of Durham’s local pilot is to evaluate guaranteed income’s effects on recidivism and re-incarceration, employment, economic security and income volatility as well as physical functioning, mental health, stress and coping, parenting, housing, and interactions with other institutional systems.
Resilience in the News
This section contains news articles on topics relevant to resilience and ACEs. Have you read something that informed your practice or made you think about ACEs and Resilience in a different way? This is a place to share with colleagues.
FORO VIRTUAL: Ansiedad por el regreso a clases (Virtual Forum: Anxiety about going back to school), Univision 40 North Carolina
A Spanish language resource on anxiety around returning to school featuring El Futuro and La Isla.
Help Kids Cope with the 'New Normal,' Back-to-School Stress, Newsweek, August 25, 2021
The pandemic has put an enormous amount of stress on families—and so will the return to in-person classes this year. To assess what this means for parents and children, Newsweek spoke with three leading experts in child psychology about the challenges many families are now facing: Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., professor of child health and development at the Harvard School of Public Health; Scott Russo, professor of neuroscience and director of the Center for Affective Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and Nadine Burke Harris, M.D., the surgeon general of California.
Children's Mental Health Gets Millions in Funding from The Biden Administration, NPR, August 27, 2021
As students head back into another pandemic school year, the Biden administration has announced nearly $85 million in funding for mental health awareness, training, and treatment. The funding includes $10.7 million in American Rescue Plan funds from the Health Resources and Services Administration for the Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program, which trains primary care providers to treat and refer kids for mental health issues. Another $74.2 million in grants is being distributed from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to raise awareness about youth mental health issues and train school personnel and programs that coordinate treatment for young people with emotional disorders.
ACEs and Resilience Research
This section contains research—academic, community, and organization—about topics related to ACEs and resilience. Did you recently release a report or publish an article or read something that informed your practice? Share it here!
Preventing trauma and suicide during catastrophic events and beyond, Prevention Institute
Catastrophic events like the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, or other disasters can cause major upheaval in the lives of individuals and communities as a whole, disrupting the social fabric and cutting people off from much needed support. Preventing trauma and suicide under these conditions, and in the long term, requires dedicated attention and resources. The toolkit’s suicide prevention modules offer communities and states guidance and tools to assess their local contexts, populations most impacted by suicide, and promising strategies. The concepts in the modules build on one another.
Prioritizing equity and community wellbeing in the wake of catastrophic events: trauma-informed systems and long-term systems change, Prevention Institute
In the first weeks and months of the COVID-19 pandemic, news outlets and other media portrayed the pandemic as a great equalizer, its impacts felt equally among individuals and community members regardless of race, income, or social status. But community members quickly realized (and data backed them up), that this was not the case. The brunt of the pandemic has fallen on Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and communities. Concurrently, we are in the midst of a national uprising calling for racial justice and accountability in the face of ongoing violence against Black Americans, and increasingly, Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. While facing these adversities, communities and local governments have an opportunity to implement bold and broad change.
Funding Opportunities
This section contains local, state, federal, and foundation funding opportunities for work related to ACEs and resilience. If you would like to further discuss an opportunity with other DART members and would like support coordinating conversations, let Jess know.
North Carolina Rape Prevention and Education Program: Community Approaches to Preventing Sexual Violence, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Application Due: September 13th
This RFA’s objectives in support of this goal are to:
- Implement local sexual violence primary prevention strategies and activities that are aligned with community needs and strengths and the best available evidence about sexual violence primary prevention;
- Increase local efforts focused on community and societal-level approaches to sexual violence primary prevention;
- Increase coordination among organizations and community groups in support of violence prevention;
- Increase the integration of health equity strategies in sexual violence primary prevention activities and partnerships; and
- Increase process and outcome evaluation of primary prevention efforts.
A copy of the bidder’s conference webinar slides can be found here. If you were unable to join the webinar, the recording can be found here, using the password RFA*2021.
Webinars, Conferences, and Trainings
NC Resilience Peer Connection Gathering, Hosted by the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative, Septmeber 15th from 12:00-1:00pm
Who: Anyone involved/participating in a NC coalition/collaborative working on ACEs and Trauma-informed communities
Where: Online: Registration is required. This link will take you to a brief registration page.
When: Wednesday, August 18th, Noon-1pm
What: A gathering to share ideas, make valuable connections, celebrate wins and problem solve together as we, North Carolina’s community collaboratives, work to create trauma-informed communities to prevent and address ACEs. Breakout groups will be utilized for opportunities to share and listen in small groups and to gather information about what you’d like to see in future gatherings.
Why: Through the 2020 Community Surveys, conversations at the 2021 NC Resilient Communities Conference and other outreach, you have asked for this. Connections build strength and support for this important and ground-breaking systems-change work and build resilience among our organizations.
Reconnect for Resilience Training, Resources for Resilience, September 14-17, 2021
The virtual Reconnect for Resilience™ trainings offer participants a set of practical ways to stay well in the face of stress or adversity. Our simple, easy-to-use tools are meant for people of any age, education, or background. In this workshop, participants learn what happens to their brains and bodies when they are stressed or experience trauma and are given an owner’s manual to their own threat and safety management system. Developed as a response to the public health crisis of Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, these trainings give participants tools to get back into balance on their own or with the help of someone they trust. Through demonstrations and group practice, they learn to apply resiliency tools to: Reconnect with their natural ability to reset after being thrown out of balance by stress and trauma; Reconnect with their ability to reduce shame through self-compassion; and Reconnect with others with a clear mind and balanced nervous system.
Pathways to Prevention Webinar Series: Translating Child Maltreatment and ACEs Prevention Research into Practice, Colorado School of Public Health, 3rd Wednesday of the month at 1:00pm
This program provides free monthly webinars designed for those working in public health organizations, social services, child welfare, and the non-profit sector. These virtual learning experiences feature researchers working on various topics in the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect, as well as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Through these sessions, people working in prevention can learn more about the latest scientific research to apply in their work, while also helping to inform researchers about on-the-ground issues and priorities. Upcoming topics:
- The Empower Action Model: A framework for the prevention of ACEs through the promotion of equity, resilience and well-being (September 15th)
- Indigenous Connectedness for Child Wellbeing (October 20th)
- Substance Use Among Pregnant & Parenting People: Research & Interventions to Promote Wellbeing (November 17th)
- Building a Trauma-informed Community: The San Antonio Experience (December 15th)
A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare, The Kempe Center, October 4-7, 2021, Virtual
The Kempe Center is excited to host the 2nd annual virtual conference, A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare. We will reconvene and expand the international community of practice brought together during the inaugural, groundbreaking 2020 event where 1400 participants from 20 different countries convened to debate, innovate, and discuss ways to transform child welfare. This year's contributors will include children and young people, family members, leading practitioners, advocates, academics, and managers from all over the globe.
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