Tagged With "Life Quality Support Group"
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New Community!!! Ardmore OK Behavioral Health Collaborative
I'm excited to announce the newest ACEs Connection geographic community for my region, the Midwest & TN: Ardmore OK Behavioral Health Collaborative . This community is a partnership of local organizations taking a trauma-informed stance on behavioral health in Carter County, OK. Their goal is to build a healthy, connected and resilient community. The community manager is Ashley Godwin . Ashley Godwin joined Ardmore Behavioral Health Collaborative in March 2017 as the Director where she...
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New law tying cash benefits to truancy missing definition of truancy (stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org)
Governor Snyder recently signed into a law a set of rules about absences from school. These laws don’t affect every kid and family. but families living in poverty who get cash assistance from the state can lose those benefits...
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Nominate a Trauma-Informed Care Champion: #TICchampion
Becoming a trauma-informed organization requires clear communication about the transformation process, and support from staff at all levels of an organization. Often these efforts are spearheaded by “trauma-informed care champions”— individuals committed to raising awareness regarding the health effects of trauma and toxic stress and improving care for people who have experienced trauma. This week, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) invites you to recognize people around you who...
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Nonprofit collaboration addresses family homelessness (garb.com)
Family homelessness is still a big problem in West Michigan and two local organizations have joined forces to do something about it. For the first time ever, a special partnership between two Grand Rapids nonprofits — Mel Trotter...
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Online child-shaming: Discipline or humiliation? (Freep.com - Detroit Free Press)
A mother posts a video to YouTube of her two small sons. They dump Legos on the floor, sit on unmade beds and get toothpaste on the bathroom counter. They hold up signs for the camera that say: "We got toothpaste everywhere in the bathroom,"...
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NE Michigan Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey The most Common Form of Adversity: Emotional Abuse
A few months ago our Northeast Michigan Trauma-Informed Community Action Group sent out the ACE questions through a survey monkey link to our regional community through a free local advertiser. We didn't receive many responses until the...
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Positive Childhood Experiences offset ACEs: Q & A with Dr. Robert Sege about HOPE
Tufts University medical professor Dr. Robert Sege directs the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine and is nationally known for his research on effective health systems approaches that address social determinants of health. He is also the principal investigator for the HOPE framework (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences).The HOPE framework is based on research that shows how positive childhood experiences can mitigate the effects of adverse childhood experiences. Sege and colleagues...
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Racism Kills: What Community-Level Interventions Can Do About It [Rewire.news]
In the first two installments of this series, we addressed promising approaches for buffering the impact of racism on health—learning cognitive and emotional strategies, known as self-regulation , for coping with stress and building cultural connections that buffer the impacts of toxic stress. Both of those arenas are born out of social science research showing a connection between these elements and improved health outcomes, even in the face of significant adversity. But these individual...
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Report: Child poverty increases in 80 of 83 Michigan counties
MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU)-- Child poverty has increased in 80 out of 83 counties in Michigan, according to reports by the Michigan League for Public Policy advocacy group. According to MLPP's report, child poverty increased 23 percent statewide from 2006-2014 and the rate of child abuse and neglect also increased in most Michigan counties, up 29 percent statewide compared to 2006. Read more at: http://www.mlpp.org/kids-count/michigan-2/mi-data-book-2016.
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Resilience Coffee
Spread the word , a group of us are meeting for coffee the 1st Wednesday of every month beginning February 3, 2016, at 7:30 am . We are calling ourselves "Resilience Coffee". Our plan is to talk about ACEs, building resilience, raising awareness, educating, and to enjoy a cup of coffee together. Interested? Send me message with your email address, and I will let you know our location as soon as it is finalized. The location we're finalizing is in Downtown Traverse City. ~ Cathy
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Resilience Coffee
Spread the word , a group of us are meeting for coffee the 1st Wednesday of every month beginning March 2, 2016, at 7:30 am. We are calling ourselves "Resilience Coffee". Our plan is to talk about ACEs, building resilience, raising awareness, educating, and to enjoy a cup of coffee together. Interested? Send me message with your email address, and I will let you know our location as soon as it is finalized. The location we're finalizing is in Downtown Traverse City. ~ Cathy
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Resilience Coffee April 2016 Notes
Resilience Coffee April 6, 2016 Great Conversation! Foster Care to Success program discussion www.fc2success.org Looking for faculty members at NMC for mentoring Shen Chefalo discussed her training she offered in Washington, “Helping Without Harming” Question raised- how do we measure we are trauma informed? Sue Bolde discussed Zero Tolerance launch postponed Discussed 5 strengthening family’s strengths: parent resilience, social connections, social and emotional competence, concrete...
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Resilience Coffee Notes May 2016
May 2016 Resilience Coffee Notes Present Mike and Sharon Herron, Carrie Douglas, David Lloyd, Paula Smith, Amelia Siders, Emily Quinn, Lance Morgan, Sharon VanDrie, Carey Curran, Deb Frisbie, Sarah Hubbell, Erika Solomonson Conversation about a support group for parents who are parenting a child with ACES (adoptive, foster care or otherwise)- Amelia Siders of the Child Advocacy Center and Paula Smith of Child and Family services offered to work on a series. Amelia mentioned that Child...
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Study from Pediatrics: Some new moms get too little advice from doctors (usatoday.com)
New mothers get a lot of advice, but when it comes to key issues of infant health and safety, some moms hear surprisingly little from doctors, a new study shows. The study, published Monday in Pediatrics , does show moms get more advice...
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Submit a Presentation Proposal for the Midwest ACE Summit!
The Midwest ACE Summit will take place in Minnesota on November 10th and 11th. We hope that you will join us for this opportunity to connect and learn with others across the state and region! We are currently inviting presentation proposals from folks across the Midwest who would like to facilitate workshop (breakout) sessions. The deadline for submissions is August 1st . For more information, please see the attached RFP form. Please share this form across your networks! For more information...
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Teen parent program needs new home
By MICHELLE MERLIN mmerlin@record-eagle.com TRAVERSE CITY — A program that helps teen mothers in the Grand Traverse region might be delivered to a new home. The Doula Teen Parent Program has been administered by the Women’s Resource Center since 2006. But organizers hope someone else will take over the program, which serves more than 70 young pregnant women and parents in the region. Women’s Resource Center for the Grand Traverse Area Executive Director Juliette Schultz...
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The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds (Alliance) series of online training courses on Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework
Michigan uses the Strengthening Families Approach to Increase Resilience for Children and Families in Our State, so I wanted to post the information for the curriculum here. BRINGING THE PROTECTIVE FACTORS FRAMEWORK TO LIFE IN YOUR WORK...
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Thriving—Beyond Surviving: Resiliency After Trauma (www.phoenix-society.org)
"We studied what it meant to be “mentally tough” and what characteristics the mentally tough athlete possessed. Characteristics of Mentally Tough Performers Cope more easily with setbacks Have control over anxiety and use it productively Have higher self-confidence Use more positive self-talk Have a positive outlook on the future Set specific goals and visualize accomplishing goals Have a support network" "But the reality is that the majority of people who experience stressful or traumatic...
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Tools for teachers -- Children's Resilience Initiative (Original Post by Jane Stevens)
The Children's Resilience Initiative's web site, ResilienceTrumpsACEs.org has an assortment of resilience-building tools for elementary school-age children. Because we understand the impact of trauma on a...
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Trauma-Informed is Messy Business…
Words like trauma-informed and resiliency get thrown around a lot these days. And for many, the visions they call up are a bit too glossy. You see resiliency and trauma-informed aren’t always pretty. Resiliency can look like closing the bathroom door and collapsing in tears… but then washing your face and going back into the world, carrying the belief that you can survive and the hope that things will get better. It looks like begrudgingly going on that walk with a friend, when the little...
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Trauma Primer for Juvenile Probation and Juvenile Detention Staff
A Trauma Primer for Juvenile Probation and Juvenile Detention Staff August 12, 2015 Juvenile justice probation and detention workers play an important role in helping system-involved youth and families navigate justice and social service systems;...
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Trauma Screenings for all Children on MediCal - AB 340 Approved in California!
I cross-posted this blog by Holly White-Wolfe (From Sonoma County ACEs) here. I think we in Michigan have to think bigger. We have to get more done. So....... Several ACEs Connection members should be feeling proud about now. Karen Clemmer, Carla Denner, Jessica Hackwell, Nick Dalton, and several others joined the 4CA Campaign to educate legislators about ACEs and trauma. Our partners with First 5, Maternal Child Adolescent Health, and the County Board of Supervisors also wrote letters to...
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Want to make Michigan a top 10 education state? Here are some suggestions (stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org)
Brian Whiston is the new guy in town at the Michigan Department of Education, and it looks like he's got poverty on the brain. Whiston and the state Board of Ed early this week convened a group of folks from around the state to share...
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We Will Be Discussing At our Next Trauma-Informed Meeting Things We can Do to Get our Alpena Schools Trauma-Informed and Help Educate our Traumatized Students, so...
I wanted to put in links to great materials from Dr. Bruce Perry, MD, from Child Trauma Academy. I will be taking notes to share at our meeting on Thursday. There are two great lectures in this series (they may be older but...
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Webinar - Tomorrow -The ACE Study: Measuring Childhood Trauma Exposure and Working to Change the Ending for Survivors and their Children
This is a Little Late but for Those on the Group who are Interested, I wanted to put this event here. I signed up. It is from 12:00 - 1:30 EST tomorrow. GoTo Webinars are easy to sign up for. Just register at the link in this Blog. ...
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Welcome Members of Northern Michigan ACEs Action
Hello everyone, we have our Northern Michigan ACEs Action group set up and so I am inviting everyone to join. Here we can share our ideas, get more information about ACEs, trauma, toxic stress and resilience, share our meeting...
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What If I Told You?
What if I told you that I was a victim of child sex abuse? As a survivor of child sexual abuse , I have a clear understanding of the importance of addressing stigma and shame as it pertains to sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape. Victims, especially young children, often do not disclose sexual abuse. Those who are witnesses of child sexual abuse, or who are trusted by survivors enough that they confide in them, are often ill-equipped to handle the responsibility. And, many times, parents...
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Why Screen (for ACEs) if there are no Services? (Pediatric News)
This is an older article but it is appropriate for us as we seek system changes (in all systems affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences) including the Health Care System: The article is from last year's Pediatric News and is by Dr. Howard who...
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Wisconsin state agencies end year one of trauma-informed learning community; goal is to be first trauma-informed state
Here in California, many people think that it’s only liberal Democrats who have a corner on championing the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and putting it into practice. That might be because people who use ACEs science don’t expel or suspend students, even if they’re throwing chairs and hurling expletives at the teacher. They ask "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?" as a frame when they create juvenile detention centers where kids don’t fight, reduce...
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WORK-LIFE BALANCE Parental Benefits Where One Parent Counts for More
Companies are becoming more generous with family-friendly benefits, but in many cases they have a catch. They are awarded not to all parents of young children, but to so-called primary caregivers. At many companies, primary caregivers get...
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ACEs is not just about kids...
The ACEs study has shown the detrimental effects of trauma and how it creates the most vulnerable and marginalized adults in our community. However, even adults can "heal" from trauma due to the plasticity of the brain. Our ACEs initiatives MUST involve prevention, but also treatment for older children and adults. One form of "treatment" is having one, positive, stable relationship. The article below illustrates how connecting adults with a positive mentor-like person is transforming medical...
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Basic Presentations for Rural Communities - What are you doing in MI? - Can we change the Name of this group?
Hi Fellow ACE prevention and Community Resilience Building Advocates across the state of Michigan. I have some basic questions. I am doing my best working through an organization called MiTeam of Huron-Tuscola counties. (If anyone is associated with the Genessee/Lapeer County MiTeam on this page, could you send me a private message? I would like to see how you are approaching this subject and working across silos.) We need to develop "curriculum" or "training" (I put these words in...
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How to Spread the ACE (Toxic Stress) Word in Michigan?
I love this by the Philadelphia ACE Task Force -- So I am copying it here: This Post is by Leslie Lieberman - Philadelphia ACE Task Force. Thanks Leslie!!! Last year the Philadelphia ACE Task Force created a work group to focus on how to educate...
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Ideas from Members on How to Extend our Reach?
Hello Everyone, We have a group of incredibly varied and diverse members in our Northern Michigan Trauma-Informed Community Action Group. Many of you have links to others outside of work that may also be interested in learning more...
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What are Your Favorite Resources You Use For Parent Education?
Here are some of mine. I like resources that I can use with parents of pediatric patients. I especially like free resources. What are some of yours? I am always looking to learn about useful resource I am not aware of. Thanks All things Zero to Three has to be my favorite. There are lots of different types of resources on the Zero to three web site. A favorite of mine to give to parents at well child visits is the Healthy Minds Handouts. These handouts were originally offered as a set for...
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Roger's City Kiwanis ACE/Toxic Stress/Trauma Informed
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Re: Spectrum Health Launches School-Based Telehealth Pilot Program (mhealthintelligence.com)
What a great way to provide support!
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Re: Basic Presentations for Rural Communities - What are you doing in MI? - Can we change the Name of this group?
Hello Michigan: I am part of the Master Trainer Statewide initiative to Address ACE's . Check out mahp.org/ace-grant We have a lot of trainers that are willing to come to your area. We have started a cross-sector Trauma Champions Network in our county. With the mission of developing a trauma informed community. There is a lot happening here to support the mission. Come join us some day we meet the second Monday of the month at 8:15 at Montcalm Care Network in Stanton Mi.
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Re: Are You A Part of the Michigan ACE Initiative?
Participating in community showings of Resilience and panel participation. Looking at developing a pilot for pediatric practice – awareness, ACE screening and support. Lia
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Re: Are You A Part of the Michigan ACE Initiative?
Hi Lia, Is there any kind of support for rural communities like mine. I mostly see foster kids or foster involved kids. Just wondering. Would like to discuss if that's possible and do you know what's going on in the Rural Peds Section? Thanks
