See the attached flyer for dates and times of Resilience and Paper Tigers showings in Placerville.

Enhancing Resilience for Yourself and Client Populations Most stress management efforts focus on relaxation methods, nutrition and exercise interventions, work-life balance programs, or offering employee assistance programs and resources, but many omit resilience training. Resilience training helps people learn how to train their minds and bodies to bounce back from misfortune using cognitive, affective and physical strategies that can become reflexive. A growing body of research on...

Hello Everyone, I am very excited to share that Nina Jonio of Neuro Developmental Solutions, Certified Practitioner of Neurological Reorganization (NR) is coming to Placerville the weekend of March 17, 2018!!! There are two separate events scheduled, each with a different purpose, so please check out the following links to get more information and to sign up (space is limited). I hope to see you at these events! Presentation Link:...

There was reason to cheer inside the El Dorado Hills Library last Wednesday. Community Hub 1 officially opened — one of five hubs housed in public libraries in each of the five county supervisorial districts. In the fall of 2016 the Community Hubs project was launched in El Dorado County. It’s a partnership between First 5 El Dorado Children and Families Commission, El Dorado County libraries, El Dorado County Office of Education and the El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency.

Families, community members and local dignitaries came out to support the official opening of Community Hubs, an innovative and collaborative project in El Dorado County that is connecting parents to resources and building strong, resilient families. Ribbon cutting events are taking place during the month of February at each of the five Community Hubs located throughout the county to recognize and celebrate the hubs and their teams. The Community Hubs in Placerville and South Lake Tahoe...

A review of kids’ well-being & roadmap for the future. The 2018 California Children’s Report Card grades the state on its ability to support better outcomes for kids, from birth to age 26, through early childhood to higher education systems. This year's grades range from an A on Health Insurance to a D in several areas including Academic Outcomes, Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention, and Youth Justice. Overall, the state’s grades show a disappointing lack of investment and progress in...

Ronald Epstein MD -- family physician, teacher, researcher and writer -- has devoted his career to understanding and improving patient-physician communication, quality of care and clinician mindfulness. Dr. Epstein has conducted groundbreaking research into communication in medical settings and developed innovative educational programs that promote mindfulness, communication and self-awareness. Dr. Epstein directs the Center for Communication and Disparities Research and co-directs the Deans...

A product of the Essentials for Childhood Initiative (EfC), the Child Adversity and Well-Being Dashboards contain indicators of child adversity, health and well-being utilizing data available on kidsdata.org . For more information about the dashboards, please refer to the California Data Dashboards page. The El Dorado County Data Dashboard contains select indicators of child adversity and well-being. The dashboard is a product of the Shared Data and Outcomes Workgroup of the California...

Attached is the El Dorado County ACEs Collaborative Action Plan Workbook for 10/01/16-10/01/18. Action Plans have been updated as of 11/07/17.

To see the conference agenda, list of all-star speakers, and to register go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/california-2018-conference/

Free Training... Everyone Welcome! When: Wednesday, October 25th, 2017, 6-9 p.m. Where: The El Dorado Center, 6699 Campus Drive, Placerville The Community Room, Building C, Room 102 Who: Lorraine E. Fox, PhD See flyer for more information. Please RSVP

See the attached save-the-date for more information.