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Resilient Georgia: National Landscape Scan of Trauma Informed Care and Adverse Childhood Experience Prevention Efforts, April 2019
Shortly after Resilient Georgia was founded in April 2019, our Board of Directors convened a Strategic Planning session which allowed us to identify our No. 1 priority–to learn from our peers. The stakeholders and partners at the table identified that, to be truly successful, Resilient Georgia needed to first look at what other states were doing–and how they were doing it. After many calls, internet searches and conversations, we completed the National Landscape Scan of Trauma Informed Care...
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Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk (nytimes.com)
SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. — Fall is cane syrup season in pockets of the Deep South, where people still gather to grind sugar cane and boil its juice into dark, sweet syrup in iron kettles big enough to bathe in. This autumn, no cane syrup has been more significant than the batches Maurice Bailey and his friends made from the first purple ribbon sugar cane grown here on Sapelo Island since the 1800s. The 11-mile-long barrier island is home to the Salt Water Geechees , who can trace an unbroken line...
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Resilient Georgia Newsletter: Ninth Edition | A Preventative Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
In this latest edition of Resilient Georgia's newsletter, we are maintaining our focus on taking a preventative approach to address the impact of the global pandemic on mental health. We also continue to provide timely, helpful & relevant national & state resources on ACEs, children’s mental health, COVID-19, racial equity & more.
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ACEs Connection/CTIPP Southeastern Leaders’ call: State updates, funding information, and “mind-blowing” information about helping people out of poverty
Southeastern ACEs Connection and national CTIPP leaders on the quarterly leader call welcomed guest speaker Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz (top left) for their quarterly call. Also among those present were (top row l-r) Carey Sipp, Jesse Kohler, Jesse Hardin, (second row, l-r) Patti Tiberi, Mebane Boyd, Jen Drake-Croft, Dan Press, (third row, l-r) Mimi Graham, Christopher Freeze, Margaret Stagmeier, (fourth row, l-r) Emily Marsh, Liz Peterson, Alyssa Koziarski and Janet Pozmantier. Also present was...
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Georgia PACE: D2A Evaluator and Data Coordinator Position Available
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/georgiadph/jobs/2935473/pace-d2a-evaluator-and-data-coordinator
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Resilient Georgia ACEs and TIC Literature Scan
One of our first priorities was to identify and celebrate all the good work that is and has already been done in our state. Over the last several months our organization has been working hard to convene and connect stakeholders from across the state that work to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and implement Trauma Informed Care and/or Awareness. You can view our list of ACEs/TIC Efforts Across Georgia Peer Reviewed Publications here. This serves as the first chapter of a a larger ..
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Introducing Resilient Georgia's 8 Regional ACEs/TIC Coalitions
Introducing Resilient Georgia's 8 Regional ACEs/TIC Coalitions Resilient Georgia , in partnership with the Pittulloch Foundation, has been working with 8 cities across Georgia and the surrounding counties to provide a regional emphasis on trauma informed awareness and care, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and child sexual abuse prevention training as a basis to transform systems and procedures crossing both public and private sectors. Resilient Georgia serves as a supportive and guiding...
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Resilient Georgia Newsletter: Tenth Edition | A Preventative Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: We hope you are all managing to remain safe, well, and resilient as we usher in a new year and resume the school year. Resilient Georgia continues to be here to support you and share as many helpful resources as possible. In this edition of the newsletter, we are maintaining our focus on taking a preventative approach to addressing the impact of the global pandemic on mental health. We...
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Introducing Resilient Georgia’s Trauma Informed Training Roadmap
Resilient Georgia, in partnership with Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, School of Social Work, Professional Excellence Program Child Welfare Training Collaborative, conducted a widespread trauma training inventory in March-April 2020 to begin to assess assets across the behavioral health continuum in Georgia. Resilient Georgia’s Education and Training Committee worked diligently with our partners to develop a Trauma Informed Training Road Map ...
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Eleventh Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: As we welcome a new month, we wanted to promote mindful self compassion . We hope each of you are able to treat yourselves with the same compassion you provide to others during these stressful times. Resilient Georgia continues to be here to support you and share as many helpful resources as possible. Next month we will host our first Resilient Georgia General Meeting of the new year.
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Twelfth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: As the month of February rounds up, we wanted to share another resource outlining how you can celebrate Black History Month with Kids. To continue our theme of mindfulness, here is a great meditation honoring inclusiveness . Next month we will host our first Resilient Georgia General Meeting of the new year. Please mark your calendar for March 11th, from 11:00-12:30. We will be sending...
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Thirteenth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please join us tomorrow on March 11th, from 11:00 am -12:30 pm at our first Resilient Georgia General Meeting in the new year to learn and engage in discussion around Early Childhood Mental Health (0-5 years). Watch this In Brief: Early Childhood Mental Health Video from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University for a quick introduction to the topic. We will have several...
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Resilient Georgia’s ACEs Prevention & Trauma-Informed Efforts Statewide Landscape Scan: Chapter Two
Chapter Two of Resilient Georgia's statewide landscape scan provides an overview of child and adolescent behavioral health services available across the state, and outlines some of our workforce and access issues in Georgia. It also highlights the regional work our regional grantee coalitions, as well as other local coalitions, faith-based efforts and community organizations are doing to prevent ACEs and increase trauma informed awareness in Georgia.
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Fourteenth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Many of us are reeling from recent news events. Here is a heart-warming video of a brother helping his sibling practice mindful breathing and reminding us all to take deep breaths to help ground ourselves. First we center, and then we do everything else. That said, we would like to take a moment to share this article about talking to the children in your life about racism. The end of...
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Last chance to apply for a scholarship for the Creating a Resilient Community Conference!
Apply for a Scholarship In this new video PJI Director, Rachel Allen shares some exciting information regarding what you can expect at the upcoming Conference! Register for the Conference Conference Overview: The Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College, the Early Learning Coalition of Orange County, the Creating a Resilient Community Network and Title Sponsor, Orlando Health, are excited to invite you to register for the Third Annual Creating a Resilient Community (CRC): From Trauma...
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Fifteenth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: We recognize that it has been a hard year filled with social isolation & upheaval, anxiety, stress and mental health struggles for many, and that it has hit some teens the hardest . Here is a free toolkit with 6 yoga and mindfulness tools for youth to help, and if you know a Georgia teen who'd like to make a difference in the mental health of their peers, ask them to check out the...
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Early Childhood Mental Health – Resilient Georgia General Meeting
The first few years of life provide the foundation for children's mental health and brain development. Resilient Georgia recently convened several Early Childhood Mental Health (0 to 5 years) experts from across the state to share exciting updates and leading practices at our quarterly General Meeting in March.
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Sixteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! To help celebrate, we hope you can join the Georgia Parent Support Network and Voices for Georgia's Children, in partnership with DBHDD, for a special, virtual edition of Children's Mental Health Awareness Day at the Capitol on May 6th (R egister here ). DECAL is celebrating children’s mental health by designating May 3 rd –7 th as Children’s Mental...
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Join the Resilient Georgia Conversation on Social Media
Resilient Georgia is dedicated to healing adversity and promoting resiliency in children and families. We do this through the prevention and early intervention of ACEs and by sharing best practices with our 500+ stakeholders and 80+ partners. As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness Month, we’d like to invite you to join the Resilient Georgia conversation on social media. Our Facebook and Instagram accounts are filled with ongoing content on children’s mental health at the intersection of...
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Seventeenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please mark your calendars for our upcoming Resilient Georgia General Meeting focused on Teen Mental Health on June 10th, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. We will have several experts share leading practices & exciting efforts underway to bolster teen mental health across the state. Please use this link to register, and access the meeting agenda and materials on our General Meeting...
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