Tagged With "North Carolina"
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Governor signs bipartisan child welfare overhaul bill (carolinapublicpress.org)
Sen. Steve Jarvis, R-Davidson, speaks at the lectern while Gov. Roy Cooper stands behind him at a bill signing, Thursday afternoon at the Governor's Mansion in Raleigh. Photo courtesy of Sen. Jarvis' office. Legislation eliminates red tape in reuniting children with families or finding new permanent placements. New measure sets up study for a statewide child welfare hot line. By Kate Martin, Carolina Public Press, Sept. 2, 2021 Children in North Carolina’s foster care system may be placed in...
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Vibrant, thriving families: moving upstream to primary prevention in North Carolina
In the early years of life, children are building the foundation for their brains and bodies—forming more than a million neural connections every second from birth to age three . Lifetimes of lived experiences and decades of research have proven that adversity in childhood can have profound and lasting impacts on lifelong health and well-being. However, we now also know that these potentially harmful outcomes caused by toxic stress are not set in stone and can be prevented. When our goal is...
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North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign updates
1) The North Carolina Medicare For All Coalition (NCM4A) hosts a Webinar on Thursday October 7th at 7PM called "The Disadvantage of Medicare Advantage". You can join the webinar on their Facebook Page or by registering to join on Zoom . If you want to get active in this Coalition (NC Poor People's Campaign is an active member), sign up for their next orientation HERE. 2) The NC Poor People's Campaign and the NAACP of North Carolina will hold another vigil this Friday Oct 8th at 5:00PM at 200...
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Free Virtual Event: Policy Institute on Federal Advocacy
Hi everyone! Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina and the NC Collaborative for children, youth and families are excited the fourth and final Policy Institute of a series of Institutes focused on advocacy. Join us on October 19th to hear from a variety of speakers on how to impact policy on the Federal Level. CTIPP's own Jesse Kohler will be featured as a panelist for this event. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gnxm0YuyS1CCdBOkOBj8Ow Advocacy on the federal level can...
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Red Ribbon Week is Here
Please see the attached pdf as it discusses events we are going to have during Red Ribbon Week from October 23 to October 31. We are working hard to build protective factors up in our community for our youth!
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Smart Start Early Childhood Resilience Cohort Here To Help [transylvaniatimes.com]
By The Transylvania Times, October 20, 2021 What helps you cope and get through hard times? How do you face life’s challenges, adversities and crises? The ability to be resilient in times of stress, adversity, failure, challenges or even trauma is a skill that not everyone has. Studies have found that 45% of North Carolina children have experienced one or more adverse childhood experiences and only 57% of adults studied exhibited strong resiliency. Smart Start of Transylvania County (SSTC)...
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In North Carolina, a new Civil War memorial honors Black Union soldiers (Washingtonpost.com)
By Kevin Maurer November 1, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT In the early 1900s, two Civil War memorials — both honoring the Confederacy — were erected in the busy downtown district of Wilmington, N.C. They were meant largely to send a message of intimidation to African Americans and “carpetbaggers,” Northerners who came to the South during reconstruction — and there they stood for a century. Five miles away, Heather Wilson, the deputy director of the Cameron Art Museum, wanted to tell a different...
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Weekly Legislative Update Call today at 11 + More from NC Child!
NEW FROM NC CHILD Weekly Legislative Update The next Weekly Legislative Update meeting will take place on Friday, November 19 at 11 a.m. Click here to sign up for reminders. For months you have been asking Congress to make investments in early childhood education, housing, and healthcare. You asked them to extend the Child Tax Credit. The Build Back Better plan will do all that – and more! But it’s not a done deal yet. Will you your representative in Congress and urge them to pass this...
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Alexander Youth Network Continues to Advocate for Trauma Informed Services
In July, North Carolina started the process of Medicaid transformation. Oversight and management of some Medicaid behavioral health dollars transitioned from more regionalized, specialized organizations to statewide organizations that focus on both behavioral health and physical health. During this transition, providers have worked tirelessly to ensure that much needed services continue despite logistics surrounding health plans. During the process of Medicaid transformation, providers have...
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A Call to Continue the Work!
This week, the US Surgeon General issued an advisory entitled, "Protecting Youth Mental Health." This advisory offers insights into the mental health crisis our nation's youth are facing as well as providing recommendations on steps we all can take to improve their mental health. The urgency of this crisis is further supported by the latest data shared this week by the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force, showing that youth suicides in our state had increased by more than 50% from 2019...
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Full report from 2021 NC Statewide Virtual Policy Institutes now available!
We are excited to share the External Report from the 2021 NC Statewide Virtual Policy Institutes co-hosted by Prevent Child Abuse NC and the NC Collaborative for Children, Youth, and Families. We are so glad if you could join us for one or more of the four webinars where we heard from some amazing speakers and advocates. If you couldn't join us, links to each webinar are listed below. These events were an enormous success with 100% of attendees across all four institutes marking that they...
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[NC Child Digest] Build Back Better, the NC budget, and sharing your "why"
This is an incredible moment – the Senate is preparing to vote on transformative legislation for early childhood education, housing, and healthcare, the Child Tax Credit, and more. We need to take action now to let Senators Burr & Tillis know how much our families need Build Back Better! Take Action This is a great time to make a gift to NC Child! Now through December 31st, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. One gift, twice the impact! Please don’t miss this opportunity to...
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Kellin Foundation Issues Plan for Building a ‘Resilient NC’
The science in clear. Resiliency is built – and communities play a key role in promoting safe, secure and nurturing environments where all residents can thrive. Like many states, there has been a lot of momentum in North Carolina to develop initiatives addressing trauma and resilience. But how can agencies, service providers, and other organizations leverage that momentum and align this work across systems to holistically address the needs of community members across their lifespans? The...
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Register now for "Building the Movement with Coalitions", presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, PACEs Connection, and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...
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FREE Nutrition and Cooking Classes starting January 31!
The Carolina Hunger Initiative is hosting free nutrition and cooking classes for children and adults starting January 31, 2022. Information below taken directly from the Carolina Hunger Initiative website. Cooking Matters at Home: Mondays at 7pm Join us online for FREE online nutrition and cooking education lessons! The Cooking Matters at Home program shares information about buying healthy, affordable foods that families can prepare and eat together at home. Spring lessons will be held...
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Register now! Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems February 4, 2022
February 4th, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems Making these sectors trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered You’re invited to participate in the third of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience”. This half-day workshop will occur virtually and focus on promising practices in the child welfare and justice systems, as well as teach...
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HIRING: Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant for Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson Counties
Are you passionate about helping create trauma-informed and healing centered communities? You will have the opportunity to work with amazing leaders in Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson County as the Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant. Position Title : Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant Supervised by : Regional Resiliency Workgroup with individual points of contact from Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson Counties. Status : Part-Time, Contract (Through September 2023, with continuation of...
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Moving From Talk To Action Using the RBA Framework
Together with DHHS Division of Mental Health and Race for Equity Now, The NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative is excited to offer the following opportunity to North Carolina Resilience Coalitions. Whether you’re called a Coalition, Collaborative, or Task Force, if you are part of a multi-sector working group addressing ACEs and Resilience, we hope you’ll choose to find out more about this opportunity. This training is a result of feedback we received from coalitions across the...
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NC Pilot Community Sought for Systems Work with IVPB, IPRC
The NC Division of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (IVPB), UNC Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) and Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) are recruiting a pilot community to participate in spring 2022 (late March or April to June) on using a systems thinking approach for preventing ACEs in NC communities. The project will consist of a webinar and 3 workshops in which teams will learn the causal loop diagram process. Following the workshops, teams will receive...
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Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about [npr.org]
By Elizabeth Blair, Image: William Still's The Underground Railroad , 1872, National Public Radio, February 8, 2022 He has been compared to James Bond and Malcolm X, though his name has largely been left out of the history books. Abraham Galloway was an African American who escaped enslavement in North Carolina, became a Union spy during the Civil War and recruited Black soldiers to fight with the North. That's the short version. The fuller picture would include his work as a revolutionary...
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Local organizations in rural Eastern North Carolina pilot trauma-informed programs to support mental health & healing from trauma in educational, religious, and legal system settings
Hello! Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) just wrapped up our first cohort of the Resilient Leaders Initiative , a 9-month program that supported 5 local organizations to pilot trauma-informed practices. This was the first social accelerator program model to that is: -focused on public agencies (not startups) -rooted in a rural community -supporting orgs on piloting trauma-informed practices Click here for the in-depth press release. Click here for a 2-page summary of outcomes. Thank you to...
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North Carolina College Student's Independent Study Helped Free His Childhood Friend From Maryland Prison [blackenterprise.com]
By Atiya Jordan, Photo: Brandon Harris, Black Enterprise, February 16, 2022 A North Carolina college student turned an independent advocacy study into a life-changing battle for his childhood friend to be released from prison 12 years early. Maryland natives Brandon Harris and Sura Sohna grew up together in Annapolis, attending the same elementary and middle schools. By 12, Sohna’s troubles with the law began after he was arrested for stealing a bike. By 2018, he was facing 15 years in...
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New dashboard examines social health factors for the Cape Fear region
By Zach Solon Published: Feb. 23, 2022 at 9:40 PM EST | Updated: 13 hours ago WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A new dashboard tool aims to provide a central location for socioeconomic health data for the Cape Fear region. The Cape Fear Collective launched the Healthy Communities NC dashboard this week. The site provides a breakdown of 21 social health factors, broken down by region and county. These factors include third grade reading levels and life expectancy. “This data is all publicly...
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Resilient Guilford Network (NC) shares resources for talking with children about war in the Ukraine
In light of recent events, Resilient Guilford Network is sharing resources from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in response to the war on Ukraine. Some are specific to military families, while others are more general resources. Please see the links below and let us know if you have questions and how we can help support your local efforts. Deep breaths as we start a new week together. We look forward to staying connected and are grateful for all you do. General Child...
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North Carolina initiatives featured on today's CTIPP CAN Call. Join us 2 p.m. - 3:30
We invite you to join this month's CTIPP CAN call, which we've mentioned during the Building the Movement workshops . We'll discuss how multi-sector coalitions can address trauma and promote resilience - we hope to see you there! CTIPP CAN: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) Q&A session after presentations Our featured guests include the Winer Family...
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Updates from NC Child
NEW FROM NC CHILD Share This NEWS HEADLINES Governor who expanded Medicaid in a red state pushes it in NC as GOP resistance thaws Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich made an impassioned plea to North Carolina lawmakers to expand Medicaid, making an explicitly moral case for increasing access to health care. - The News & Observer Using Medicaid to fund more mental health supports for schools Quarry Williams spent a lot of time getting to know his students when he became coordinator of the Honor...
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News from Columbus County, NC
Volume 18, Issue 1 Spring 2022 CCPC Introduces New Programs! Ready & Resilient Children funded by NC Community Foundation Through the Ready & Resilient Program families will participate in activities, trainings, and workshops that promote early education and awareness of resilience. Families will learn the importance of early education as well as the types of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and they will learn how to work together to identify, address and ultimately reduce ACEs...
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Trauma Resource Institute 2021 Ambassadors of the Year
Please join us in honoring the Trauma Resource Institute's 2021 Ambassadors of the Year, Magdalena Sunshine Serrano, LCSW, and New Hanover County, North Carolina!
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Empowering Resiliency in Learners: A Pilot Program Opportunity!
Staggering numbers of children have been subjected to adverse life experiences, leaving a lasting impact on our youngest members of society. This trauma often presents itself in outward behaviors. As numbers continue to increase, our education system has the ability to utilize early intervention to combat this trauma and build resiliency. TWI, The Wordsmith Initiative, is looking for one rural Virginia or North Carolina school district to pilot a whole-child, trauma-sensitive program . Our...
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Edgecombe County puts trauma front and center to heal the community [northcarolinahealthnews.org]
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Photo: Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, North Carolina Health News, May 31, 2022 Students in the Honor Opportunity Purpose and Excellence — HOPE — program start each morning by breathing. The alternative high school, nested within Tarboro High in Edgecombe County, is led by Quarry Williams, a man who’s moved up the public school food chain from bus driver to school counselor to administrator and nearly everything in between. Once the students are settled, Williams...
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Join us in Recognizing a “Resilient & Thriving Communities Week” across North Carolina’s Local Communities June 6-12, 2022
Resilient & Thriving Communities Week June 6-12, 2022 Boone, NC: June 8, 2022: A voluntary statewide coalition of people from local community collaboratives, interested staff from North Carolina non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies has organized and are facilitating the first ever “Resilient & Thriving Communities Week” in North Carolina, June 6-12, 2022! This special week is the result of discussions that began two years ago. A volunteer leader of a local North...
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North Carolina Health News
North Carolina Health News Headlines Newsletter July 18, 2022 Top Stories 988 mental health hotline goes live and North Carolina is ready, officials say by Taylor Knopf National experts have said that most states are not prepared for the expected increase in calls to the universal mental health crisis line. But North Carolina officials remain confident.. Read more... Pilot sexual assault nurse training program would get boost from NC budget by Kate Martin, Carolina Public Press Program at...
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Updates! The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative!
The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative leverages Smart Start’s deep roots in local communities across North Carolina and honors the powerful work of local ACEs and resilience collaboratives. In collaboration with state and local partners, the initiative fosters a common understanding and shared approach for local collaboratives to support the health and well-being of children, families, and community members across the lifespan in North Carolina—in a way that broadens the...
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FREE Trauma-Informed Training Opportunity for Law Enforcement and Schools in New Bern, NC on August 18, 2022
Please join us for a FREE trauma-informed training opportunity for law enforcement and schools on Thursday, August 18th at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center in New Bern, NC. Becky Haas will be training law enforcement and Public Schools Forum NC with the Resilience & Learning Project will be training schools. Attached are the flyers for each sector and below are the registration links. Please share within your personal and professional networks! Thank you for your time and...
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Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness and Prevention Providing Trauma Informed Policing Training
The Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness & Prevention (CCSAP) of New Bern, North Carolina is proud to offer an in-person day of trauma-informed training to members of law enforcement facilitated by national subject matter expert, Becky Haas. This event for members of law enforcement is free of charge, however registration is required. A certificate of attendance with contact hours will be provided. Trauma-Informed Police Training: Law enforcement professionals have a history of...
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Public service reporter tracks American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) spending in North Carolina
Carolina Public Press reporter Shelby Harris investigates how localities in North Carolina are spending American Rescue Plan Act funds. August 18, 2022 - Covering how 18 counties in western North Carolina spend government funding might not sound like a thrilling beat for a reporter, even if she really enjoys writing about government finance. But Shelby Harris, an Asheville-based reporter for the Carolina Public Press, has been finding more stories than she expected in those counties, their...
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Plumbing, truck driving, construction skills get boost from Haywood ARPA funds [carolinapublicpress.org]
By Shelby Harris August 22, 2022 - Carolina Public Press Haywood County is currently the only mountain county using federal pandemic relief dollars to support local community colleges. Sparks fly off a small metal pipe as Corey Isbell presses an electric blade against it on a cloudy August night in Haywood County. When a small piece of pipe clinks onto the ground, Isbell turns around, lifts the clear screen covering his face and says, “Who’s next?” One by one, the adult students at Haywood...
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NCFASD Informed Conference
Target Audience: This project has been planned for medical professionals (physicians, mental health professionals, and allied health), parents, provider agencies, MCO/LMEs, educators, attorneys, and other legal system professionals. Program Description This virtual conference will discuss how exposure to alcohol is the leading cause of intellectual and other developmental disabilities in the US and results in a variety of developmental disability diagnoses collectively referred to as Fetal...
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Call In For Involvement: Early Childhood PCEs in WNC
Attention Early Childhood Education Leaders and Learners. Please check out this month's successes and annoucements from our Raising Resilience Western North Carolina team members and leaders. We'd love your voice, feedback and involvment! PLEASE READ OUR NEWSLETTER BELOW .
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Philanthropy in the Deep South: Know Your Funding History and Share The Wealth (givingcompass.org)
By Vichi Jagannathan , Rural Opportunity Institute Co-Founder — October 27, 2022 (2019 Camelback Ventures Fellow | 2020 Capital Collaborative Alumni Board Member) I first moved to rural Eastern North Carolina in 2011 as a Teach for America corps member. Up until then, I had only lived in cities and suburbs. My parents, both immigrants from India, always stressed the importance of education, so I dutifully attended the best educational institutions I could access, including Princeton,...
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Kiwanis of Elizabethtown Gives Christmas Shopping Spree
The Kiwanis Club of Elizabethtown was excited to continue with tradition this past Tuesday. Members of the local civic group met girls from the Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina (BCHNC) Lake Waccamaw campus at Leinwand’s to give them the gift of a shopping spree. “They really enjoyed themselves,” Ray Cockrell, CFP® Interim President of the BCHNC, said about the young ladies shopping at Leinwand’s. “I appreciate the Kiwanis. The girls had a great time shopping.” Dr. Cathy Gantz,...
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EdNC Toolkit: Best practices for supporting students who have experienced the death of a caregiver
Best practices for students who have experienced the death of a caregiver (ednc.org) Katie Dukes June 8, 2022 Behind the Story In January, EdNC reported that evidence suggests at least 3,600 children in North Carolina have experienced the death of a caregiver due to COVID-19. Experts now put that estimate closer to 6,000. In February we distributed a survey to principals, school counselors, and EdWeekly newsletter subscribers asking how they and their communities support grieving children.
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Inaugural Statewide Trauma Summit, ”Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma” dates announced!
Shared by Diana Fishbein : Momentum is growing in NC for building trauma-informed systems that strengthen resilience and weed out systemic and often intergenerational sources of child trauma. To advance this work, it is critical that community-research-policy partnerships are forged to promote the widespread adoption of science-based strategies and encourage a transformational shift from a reactive to a preventative approach. This inaugural Statewide Trauma Summit, ” Leveraging North...
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Check Out the Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina Family Support Awareness Month Toolkit!
Family Support Awareness Month will be recognized during February 2023! This is an excellent opportunity for you to share the work of home visitors, parenting educators, and other family support programs in your community. The Communications Toolkit is full of resources for social media messaging, media outreach, images you can use (you can add your own logo to them if you’d like), how to contact legislators and more. Throughout February, we encourage you to recognize Family Support...
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Honor Black History Month with the Wisdom of J'vanet Skiba, associate director of equity, education and engagement, New Hanover Resiliency Task Force
J’vanete Skiba shares her perspectives from her role as the assistant director for equity, education, and engagement for the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force in Wilmington, North Carolina, on the most recent Resiliency Within podcast with Elaine Miller-Karas, show host, and the co-founder and director of innovation of the Trauma Resource Institute and adjunct professor at Loma Linda University. The vision of the task force is a more resilient and compassionate New Hanover County.
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North Carolina moves closer to creating nation's first ACEs-informed courts system
(l-r) Judge J. Corpening; Ben David, district attorney, New Hanover County; Chief Justice Paul Newby; Judge Andrew Heath, executive director, Administrative Office of the Courts of the Chief Justice's ACEs Informed Courts Task Force. David and Heath serve as Task Force co-chairs . “There is not any more important work going on in the State of North Carolina,” said Ben David, District Attorney for New Hanover County and co-chair of the Chief Justice’s ACEs-Informed Task Force . The Task force...
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Register Now for Inaugural Statewide Summit: Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Childhood Trauma — Virtually & In Raleigh April 27-28!
Information from Summit Brochure and registration site available here . North Carolina’s first Statewide Trauma Summit – a virtual and in-person summit – will beheld Thursday and Friday, April 27-28, in Raleigh, at The McKimmon Conference and Training Center, Summit leaders announced recently. “Momentum is growing in NC for building trauma-informed systems that strengthen resilience and weed out systemic and often intergenerational sources of child trauma. To advance this work, it is...
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North Carolina Poor People's Campaign Moral Monday Rally TODAY in Raleigh!
By -The North Carolina Poor People's Campaign. Because you believe in living wages, ending poverty, fully funded public education, universal health care, environmental justice, voting rights, women’s rights, immigrant rights, criminal justice reform, gun control, please put April 24 on your calendar and RSVP HERE! Monday, April 24, 2023 @ 5:30pm NC State Capitol - 1 E. Morgan Street, Raleigh, NC Livestream at breachrepairers.org/livestream Spread the word! RSVP HERE and LET's GO FORWARD...
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Community leader Bo Dean uses and shares PACEs Connection information and support to “connect to the best of what and who we are”; urges your support!
Bo Dean with New Hanover area Community Resiliency Model trainers Audry Hart, the late Chris Johnson, and J'vanete Skiba. Bo Dean answered the call for monthly donations to PACEs Connection more than a year ago for many reasons, one of the main ones being that PACEs Connection and the work it supports helps us “live into our humanity.” In addition to his supporting learning and development for some 2200 employees in New Hanover County, North Carolina, Dean also co-chairs the County’s...
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North Carolina Is “Primed and Ready” to Institute Reforms To Protect Children from Harm, say Co-Chairs Following First Statewide Trauma Summit
More than 550 researchers, advocates, educators, community stakeholders, clinical and practitioner groups, persons with lived experience, legislators, and representatives from state agencies, among others, attended a statewide summit in Raleigh, North Carolina—“Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma,” April 27-28. Diana Fishbein, Ph.D., senior scientist in the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG), University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, and the...