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Resilient Bladen Minutes November 28, 2022 Attendance: Tocarra Osborne Scottie Seawell Tyshell Jones Dr. Terri Duncan Welcome/Introductions/Icebreaker was given. Icebreaker question: What is your one wish for the children of the world? Some answers were that children can grow up in healthy, loving environments, that children don't have to grow up too quickly, and that children will be safe from harm. A brainstorm/IdeaBoardz asked: what do you want our focus to be for 2023? What do you want...

With funding from Healthy Blue, a number of new Community Resiliency Model teachers were able to attend the teacher training to complete the first step toward becoming certified Community Resiliency Model teachers. On Friday, November 18th, there was a meet up of already trained and certified Community Resiliency Model teachers and new CRM teachers to connect and collaborate.

By John Kelly, Image: Screenshot from article, The Imprint, November 1, 2022 The number of youth in foster care dropped below 400,000 for the first time since 2012 last year, according to data released today by the Administration for Children and Families. There were 391,098 youth in foster care in 2021, according to today’s report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, which uses a point-in-time count from September 30 of a given year to track the nation’s foster...

The Healthy Blue Initiative supported a 3 series CRM workshops for the Grandparents Support Network (GSN) at the YWCA providing the biology-based wellness skills for grandparents and youth. The series consisted of: First session: An introduction to the Community Resiliency Model for grandparents to learn the skills and be able to use them for themselves and their well-being as well as have a common language to use with their grandchildren. Second session: The children/youth learned the key...

By Elaine Miller-Karas MSW, LCSW Building Resiliency to Trauma Psychology Today, September 30, 2022 Mental health can suffer after extreme climate events. KEY POINTS Mental health conditions exacerbated by natural disasters include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. After a disaster, the number of people needing assistance from the mental health systems strains or exceeds community capacity. There are simple strategies helpers can use to help survivors restore...

New Bern, NC – The Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness & Prevention (CCSAP) will be hosting the 2022 Resilience Symposium: Building Hope on Friday, September 30 th from 8am-5pm at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center. This in-person event is only $40, features internationally-respected leader and speaker in the PACEs science movement Becky Haas, and includes lunch and snacks catered by Posh Nosh. The past two years have been stressful, even traumatic form many, helping us...

You're invited to a one hour introduction to the Community Resiliency Model on Friday, September 23 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. You will learn practical skills and information that can help you during those times when stress and frustration or lack of motivation feel so overwhelming. The objectives for this workshop are: You will learn a common language to recognize and manage stress called the Resilient Zone and what it means to be bumped high and low out of your zone. You will learn about...

In 2020 when I first started working with Coastal Horizons, my co-worker Amy talked about the CRM Trainings she was giving. At that point I was new and wanted to learn more about it so I went to my first 8 hour CRM training. Little did I know this training would become a new way of communicating with the children in my home. See I am a single kinship/foster/adoptive/birth mother to at least four children, all of which have experience a great deal of trauma. At first I started by using the...

For the last eight months the Medicaid plan provider has engaged community resiliency-building experts and organizers to help children, families, and caseworkers in the state’s foster care program to boost resilience and better manage stress. The innovative project is called the Healthy Blue Initiative . “We all know kids in foster care have higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than most children. They are often in foster care due to loss of a parent from death, illness —...