Tagged With "Supporting Youth"
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Two January programs: Complex trauma, January 11 & Assessing risk for violence with juveniles, January 26
TWO programs in January: Complex trauma and Assessing risk for violence with juveniles
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Help Support Trauma-Informed Policy by Sending a Letter to the VA Commission on Youth
Our partners, Voices for Virginia's Children, have sent out a call for organizations and individuals to respond to several recommendations being considered on state-level trauma made following the September 20 Virginia Commission on Youth meeting. You can review the list of recommendations that COY will consider at the Nov. 7 th meeting here . Attached is a document from Voices for Virginia's Children containing talking points and a sample draft letter. We ask you to consider editing the...
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Job Posting: SCAN Seeks Boys and Girls Club Trauma Informed Specialist
Greater Richmond SCAN (in collaboration with The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond) seeks a qualified individual to fill a full-time position. The Trauma Informed Specialist performs work promoting resilience and trauma informed practice within the clubs to include providing on-site training, consultation, and support for staff; identifying trauma symptoms and assisting with collaborative referrals or direct support for members with a history of trauma as needed. The Trauma Informed...
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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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Petersburg Beyond ACEs: Building Community Resilience Summit - Registration Now Open
Download the Summit Flyer here . The summit’s schedule-at-a-glance is provided below. Full details of the summit are provided in the Summit Packet . Events which are free are denoted with an asterisk (*). Thursday, June 1, 2017 Tabernacle Baptist Church Family Life Center 7:30am – 8:30am: Registration 8:30am – 3:15pm: Workshops on Building Trauma Sensitive Schools and Building Trauma Sensitive Clinical and Support Services 4:15pm – 4:45pm: Meet and Greet 4:45pm – 5:30pm: Dinner and Music...
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Recap- Virginia Summit On Childhood Trauma And Resilience 4/25/19
On Thursday April 25, 2019 Voices hosted over 950 attendees at the Virginia Summit on Childhood Trauma and Resilience . The goal of the Summit was to connect child-serving professionals and advocates across the Commonwealth to best practices to prevent, and better address, the impacts of childhood adversity. California’s first Surgeon General and well-known ACEs expert, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, provided the keynote address. Both Governor Northam and First Lady Pamela Northam addressed the...
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TICN 3.31.17 Meeting!
Attached are meeting minutes from our 3.31.17 meeting! See our picture with Delegate Carr and the TICN copy of Resolution 653 to recognize TICNs across the state.
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TICN Meeting Minutes from 5.25.18
Please find meeting minutes at THIS LINK (and attached). We had an amazing guest speaker and great turnout on a holiday weekend!
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Trauma Informed Care -- Workforce training framework
A colleague of mine -- here in New Zealand!! -- recently passed the attached PDF, from Scotland, onto me. It concerns a relatively recent, and still developing, proposed trauma training framework. This might be helpful to others wishing to go further in introducing TIC in their own services. It includes a consideration of ACEs. Naturally, it needs to incorporate culture-specific additions or modifications to suit your local conditions. The document as it is likely has broad application.
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Trauma-Informed Community Advocacy Day! 1/30/17
January 30, 2017 Trauma informed community advocacy Day Educate your legislators at the Virginia General Assembly on the successes of trauma-informed practice and building resilient communities. Make an appointment to meet with your legislator that day and be recognized for your work by the General Assembly.
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Virginia statewide Trauma-Informed Community Networks
On 9.19.17, the Greater Richmond TICN convened a statewide meeting for Trauma-Informed Community Networks in Virginia. There are currently nine TICNs at various stages of development. Summaries from six of these networks (Fairfax, Greater Charlottesville, Greater Piedmont, Greater Richmond, Harrison burg & Southside) are in the attached document. We are SUPER excited to be connected with so many amazing people who are working to build a more resilient Virginia.
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Virginia Suburb Shows That Diversion, Victim-centered Agreements Work [jjie.org]
Over the last several years, the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court (JDRDC) of Fairfax County, Va., has been working on transformative efforts around juvenile justice in an effort to keep low-risk youth from entering the system and address disparities for youth of color. One large area targeted by these efforts was the diversion programming and Juvenile Intake Office. In Virginia, intake officers are decision-makers. It is their responsibility to review charges from petitioners...
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Re: Virginia statewide Trauma-Informed Community Networks
Hi, Cristy: I was able to open it in Word. The whole thing is embedded below: Summary of Virginia TICNs from 9.19.17 VA Statewide TICN Meeting Fairfax TICN # of members, # organizations, examples of organizations represented: The Fairfax TICN is a network of over 75 individuals representing over 25 partner organizations to include Fairfax County Public Schools, the faith community, private and non-profit providers, and county government human services agencies (courts, social services,...
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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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VA TICNs eNote September 28 2020 [grscan.com]
If you are a coordinator or leader of a trauma-informed community network, you can always reach out to the State Coordinator for the VA TICNs, Melissa McGinn, mmcginn@grscan.com . Melissa is here to offer support and technical assistance for anything related to building and sustaining a TICN, from getting on a call or attending a meeting to connecting you with other network coordinators around the state. Click here for a current list of VA TICNs around the state . Happy Hispanic and Latinx...
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'A Better Normal:' Can universal ACEs screening be equitable? -- Concerns and solutions
Can universal ACEs screening be equitable? A conversation about concerns and solutions. When: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2-3:30 pm PDT/5-6:30 pm EDT This webinar explores what it takes to ensure that equity is built into the process of screening and providing support for families who have experienced trauma and want help. REGISTER HERE Background At the beginning of this year, California, through the ACEs Aware initiative began rolling out universal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs),...
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Hope and Progress, No Matter What! — an ACEs Connection/Cambia Health Foundation “Better Normal”, Oct. 22, 2020
The election is upon us. In two short weeks, we voters in this country decide who will lead us for the next four years. We have the opportunity to embrace — as a national priority — the tenets of understanding, nurturing and healing that underlie the science of adverse childhood experiences and move in a direction that embraces cultural and racial equity and anti-racism. Or not.
What is clear is that no matter what, the ACEs movement will continue.
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VA TICNs eNote October 26 2020 [grscan.com]
Please feel free to share any resources or events that you would like to see in the next eNote by replying to this one or emailing Charlotte Eure at ceure@grscan.com . To build healthy, resilient organizations, nonprofits need to do more than adopt standard diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. They need to acknowledge systemic racism then commit to and implement processes to upend it. Read more about ways to do this in the latest issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review . How do...
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Tools to Mitigate Work Stress and Prevent Burnout: For Health Care Providers during COVID and Beyond
Whether you work in a hospital, a safety net clinic, or in another health care setting, no health care provider working during the COVID-19 pandemic needs to read the flurry of news stories that highlight the extreme stress experienced by people in this line of work – you already know it firsthand. This webinar will introduce health care providers to the Community Resiliency Model ( CRM ), an evidence-based method of managing traumatic stress, preventing burnout and building resiliency. This...
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Richmond Group Nurtures Trauma-Informed Networks Across Virginia
Resilience Week had to live up to its name. Virginia’s recognition of resilience-building efforts, originated by the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network (GRTICN) and planned in collaboration with TICNs across the state, was set for May 3-9, 2020. Then COVID-19 came. A work group of GRTICN members collaborated with businesses, movie theaters, libraries, schools, local government agencies and non-profit organizations to swiftly pivot their plans to take place virtually: story...
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A 50-member team infuses a children's hospital with ACEs science & trauma-informed practices from the ground up
In 2017, Children’s Hospital of Richmond (CHoR) at Virginia Commonwealth University took a huge jump in a new direction. Its CEO assembled 50 leaders from every unit and across disciplines to work on infusing a trauma-informed approach into its entire 182-bed hospital environment. Brittany Corker Kiefer What sent them down this path was a fervent belief that something was missing in standard care. “Being admitted to the hospital can be traumatic enough, without even factoring in past...
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Black HIS-Story Week Celebrates the Stories, Resilience, and Accomplishments of Black Men and Youth
Taking place during the final week of Black History Month, Black HIS-Story Week is a celebration of the stories, resilience, and varied accomplishments of Black men and youth. The idea for the week came from the brilliant mind of Amanda Lynch, author, entrepreneur, and Trauma-Informed Specialist with Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond (BGCMR) and Greater Richmond SCAN . SCAN, who co-sponsored the event with BGCMR, provided coordination and support in creating a week full of daily events...
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FREE WEBINAR - The Impact of Mind Matters: Preliminary Evidence of Effectiveness in a Community-Based Sample
Becky Antle, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work and esteemed University Scholar at the University of Louisville, won The Dibble Institute’s national competition to evaluate Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience in 2019. As a result, Dr. Antle and her colleagues have conducted a randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of Mind Matters on a host of outcomes related to trauma symptoms, emotional regulation, coping and resiliency, and interpersonal skills for at-risk...
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VA TICNs eNote September 27 2021 [grscan.com]
September 15-October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month . View a collection of Hispanic and Latino Heritage Events in the Commonwealth via the Governor's website . You can read about the history of the month and the importance of considerations of language, equity and justice during this month and beyond, as well as peruse a collection of resources , on NPR. Longstanding racism and the harms caused by the COVID-19 pandemic create significant strains on mental wellbeing. The pandemic has...
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Me & My Emotions: A New, Free Resource for Teens
The pandemic has had a lasting effect on youth mental health. Moved by a desire to reduce youth’s toxic stress and increase their resilience, The Dibble Institute, in partnership with a team of students and alumni from ArtCenter College of Design and author Carolyn Curtis, PhD, is releasing Me & My Emotions —a new, free adaptation of our beloved Mind Matters Curriculum. The mobile-friendly Me & My Emotions website features engaging graphics and bite-sized lessons teens can access and...
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VA TICNs eNote January 24 2022
Apply for FACT's 35th Anniversary Community Resilience Awards Awards of $350 are available to help support local community resilience activities led by TICNs throughout VA. Applications have been made simple and straightforward. Visit the FACT website for full details and to apply by January 31 ! Funds may be used during Resilience Week! General Assembly Updates from Voices for Virginia's Children Read about Voices' Youth Advocacy Day , efforts to increase language access and equity in...
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Free to COOPs and your members: RYSE Center Presents: Radical Inquiry session on supporting BIPOC Youth Liberation!
COST: $150 - General Registration F REE - Cooperative of Communities Network Members using code P CCOOP22 Register here and use code PCCOOP22 J oin the RYSE Center and PACEs Connection on July 12. 2022 from 10 am-1 pm PT / 12 pm-3 pm CT / 1 pm-4 pm ET to examine how conventional social science research often produces and replicates unjust and harmful narratives about Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIPOC) capacities, priorities, dreams, and needs. At the same time, research upholds and...
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Check Out New July Dates Added to the 2023 CRC Summer Curriculum and the Official Launch of the Dedicated CRC Community Page
July is a time to celebrate all summer has to offer by building bridges and innovating with community to get to the heart of trauma-informed awareness and resilience building. This month, we’ve added new July dates to the summer 2023 *CRC* curriculum—but that’s only half of the good news. Last year, the CRC began as a pilot program. Now that it's evolved, what better time to bring accelerator participants together in a PACEs Connection CRC community than the summer? We are proud to announce...