Tagged With "Orange County Human Relations"
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Nurse to Nurse Bullying: A Sepsis in Healthcare (Webinar)
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Orange County ACEs Task Force Meeting
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(postponed) Orange County ACEs Task Force Meeting
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Orange County ACEs Task Force Meeting
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3rd "Healing Orange County from Childhood Trauma" Meeting
Our 3 rd “Healing Orange County from Childhood Trauma” meeting was held on Wednesday July 20 th , at Laguna Woods Village Community Center - Elm Room. Thank you Betsy S., for reserving our cool and comfortable meeting space. We had a total of 10 attendees; see attached Agenda and Meeting Notes . We were all warmly welcomed by Dana Brown, and we all had the opportunity to give a brief introduction of ourselves and share what we are grateful for. We were most certainly all grateful to listen...
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7th Orange County ACEs Task Force Meeting Agenda
Orange County ACEs Task Force AGENDA November 16, 2016 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Location: Laguna Woods Village Elm Room - Community Center 24351 El Toro Road Laguna Woods, CA 92630 Welcome & Introductions - Share how you’re feeling in your heart presently. E ducation Committee Work Group Resilience: Friday November 18th, 2016 7:00- 9:00 pm Center for Spiritual Living, San Clemente - View Resilience Screening - Update logistics of Friday’s screening (encourage to sit up front rows at Center) -...
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Adversity Is Not Destiny
Childhood adversity can activate the human stress response system, which is primarily made up of the hormones/chemicals cortisol and adrenaline. In the developing brain of a child, prolonged activation of the stress response system can cause these chemicals to actually become toxic. Think of that – a child’s brain being bathed in toxic chemicals due to abuse, neglect, or chaotic household dysfunction. It’s called toxic stress. It’s real, not imagined, and it’s physiological, potentially...
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Broadening Your Network and Identifying Partners for More Resilient, Healthier Communities
Who should you partner with to create lasting change through resilience in your community? The Building Community Resilience (BCR) initiative aims to address, prevent, and reduce the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse community environments (ACEs) on children’s health and wellbeing ( The “Pair of ACEs” ). An essential element of the successes of BCR’s five test sites around the country has been strategic collaborations. In your work to build resilience, identifying...
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California: Drop-In Center Services for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (chronicleofsocialchange.org)
“The County of Orange (County) Social Services Agency (SSA), Children and Family Services Division will be seeking program statements from for-profit organizations, private nonprofit organizations, public educational institutions, or municipalities with experience in providing a Drop-In Center facility that would include offering services and support to victims of sexual exploitation, potential victims and their family members. The Drop-In Center will provide services and programs for...
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California issues update on state residents' ACE scores from 2011 & 2013 surveys
The latest adverse childhood experiences survey from the California Department of Public Health shows that 42% of the population has an ACE score of 3 or higher; 16% have an ACE score of 4 or higher. Those with an ACE score of 4 or higher are: 3x more likely to be current smokers 4x more likely to have a depressive disorder 2x more likely to have asthma 2x more likely to be obese 4x more likely to have COPD 3x more likely to have a stroke Here are a few other highlights from the six-page...
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CSAC (CA State Assoc. for Counties) Seeks County Best Practices for Annual Challenge Awards
The Call for Entries is now open for the 2018 CSAC Challenge Awards, which spotlight California Counties’ most innovative programs. These unique awards recognize the creative and committed spirit of our California Counties as they find new, cost-effective ways to provide programs and services to residents. Program Categories Administration of Justice & Public Safety – Includes programs associated with local law enforcement and public safety, adult and juvenile detention, and probation.
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Hundreds gathered in City Heights last month for the San Diego premier of Resilience -The Biology of Stress and Science of Hope.
The crowd arrived to the aroma of freshly popped popcorn that wafted through the Cherokee Point Elementary School auditorium. With bags of popcorn and plates filled with fresh-cut fruits and vegetables from trays on tables lining the wall, the service providers, policy makers, community advocates, graduate students, teachers and parents settled in for a movie and a panel discussion that brought many to tears. Dr. Dawn Griffin, a professor in Alliant International University departments of...
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'I'm looking for a fresh start,' say ex-cons attending job, resource fair in Anaheim (ocregister.com)
Austin Barry stood outside of the Honda Center on Tuesday looking for a little redemption and a job. Just eight days out of prison for a robbery conviction, the 24-year-old Mission Viejo resident was among 200 former offenders who attended the Orange County Re-entry Resource Fair, which connected felons with employment opportunities, legal advice and drug-treatment programs. “I’m looking for a fresh start, which is kind of hard for any person with a record,” said Barry, who served a 2...
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ITRC 2018 California Conference: Preparing People for Climate Change in California
To See the Conference Agenda, List of All-Star Speakers, and To Register Click Here Why Should Californians Attend This Unique Conference ? From high levels of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), to job and financial struggles, racism and other forms of inequity and injustice, traumatic stress is epidemic today. Climate change will aggravate all of these existing adversities, and add many new ones as well. Yet, California is leading the U.S. in finding innovative new ways to address...
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Join us on May 17, 2019 for the SoCal Learning Community! Achieving Impact through Evaluation and Data for Family Strengthening Programs
Achieving Impact through Evaluation and Data for Family Strengthening Programs Know Your Audience: Program Participants, Potential Clients and Community Members Enroll Here! Date: Friday May 17, 2019 Time: Check in at 9:30am, begin at 10am, conclude at 12:30pm Enroll to join in person or remotely through one of the options below: Otis Booth Campus, Los Angeles Remote sites in Atascadero, Ventura, Lancaster, San Bernardino, Moreno Valley and San Diego LIVE online from your computer...
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Orange County CA First Child Trauma Meeting a Big Success
On April 27, "Healing Orange County from Childhood Trauma" held its first meeting in Mission Viejo, CA at a local restaurant from 6 to 8 pm. We posted it on meetup.com as the founding meeting of Orange County (CA) ACEs Connection. I was honored to co-create the meeting with my dear friend Dana Brown, Southern California director for ACEs Connection. We felt awe as three education activists, six professional trauma therapy providers, individuals suffering child trauma and a total of 12 people...
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Orange County Human Relations Campaign Provides a 'Toolkit' for Schools to Prevent Hate Crimes [latimes.com]
By Ben Brazil, Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2019 In response to increasing hate crimes and incidents, Orange County Human Relations is rolling out its first statewide anti-hate program to equip schools with the resources to launch their own educational and awareness campaigns. The nonprofit will provide schools with a “toolkit” that contains the necessary components for an anti-hate campaign, including templates, documents, posters and digital content. O.C. Human Relations staff will hold...
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Orange County human rights advocates to present evidence of ‘criminalization of homelessness’ to U.N. investigator (ocregister.com)
Orange County civil rights and homeless advocates will meet with a United Nations investigator on Monday, Dec. 4, to present evidence that local governments’ treatment of homeless people constitutes a violation of international human rights. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, is touring the United States for two weeks to research his upcoming report on extreme poverty in America. It will be partially based on his visits to Los Angeles, Washington,...
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Orange County Supervisors approve restaurant meal food assistance program (oc-breeze.com)
Orange County will join eight other counties in a restaurant meal food assistance program that allows CalFresh food assistance participants to purchase prepared food from local restaurants. The Orange County Board of Supervisors has authorized a program to allow those who are elderly, disabled and homeless who participate in the state’s food-assistance program to purchase prepared meals at participating restaurants. Upon implementation, Orange County will join Alameda, Los Angeles,...
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Orange County ACEs Task Force Meeting Agenda 4/18/17
Orange County ACEs Task Force AGENDA April 18th, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Location: Laguna Woods Village - Performing Arts Conference Room Clubhouse #3 23822 Avenida Sevilla Laguna Woods, CA 92630 Please RSVP: Mary Brogdon-Organizer mlbrogdon@mac.com (714)624-4368 Inform Guard at gate that you are attending the Information Meeting. Share highlight of gratitude in your last month Participatory Decision Making Process To create a safe space, our Shared Understandings are : Treat others with...
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Police and community leaders meet to talk race, religion, and bias; will march together in August (ocregister.com)
IRVINE – Police officers, African Americans, Christians, Muslims, Mormons, Sikhs and Jews. On Wednesday morning, they all sat down at Christ Our Redeemer African American Episcopal Church to talk to about the issues that concern them the most today – race, religion, fair policing and implicit bias. This was the fourth meeting of the Orange County Sheriff Department’s Interfaith Advisory Council, which was formed in January to mobilize diverse faith communities and engage with the Sheriff to...
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Putting the Power of Self-Knowledge to Work [NY Times]
Thirty years ago, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing gave a series of lectures, later published in a book, “ Prisons We Choose to Live Inside ,” in which she reflected on the brutality in the world and asked how individuals and societies could evolve into something better. It’s a sobering book, but Lessing is hopeful — and her main source of hope stems from the capacity of human beings to study themselves and learn from their own behavior. “I think when people look back at our...
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States Produce a Bumper Crop of ACEs bills in 2017—nearly 40 bills in 18 states
A scan done in March by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) through StateNet of bills introduced in 2017 that specifically include adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the text produced a surprising volume of bills (close of 40) in a large number of states (18). A scan done a year ago produced less than a handful. NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves both state legislators and their staffs. The shear volume of bills in so many states represents a promising...
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Strengthening Community Trust Sypmposium - Family & Youth Support Partner Initiative
The Diversity Development Center invites you to attend the first in a series of Strengthening Community Trust Symposiums to take place at Marina Village Conference Center Building A, 1936 Quivira Way, San Diego, CA 92109 on July 18th and 19th, 2018. FAMILY & YOUTH SUPPORT PARTNER MODEL A Family and Youth Support Partner is an individual, with lived experiences in the respective system(s), who is trained and hired to help other families as a paraprofessional. We believe trust is the...
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Strengthening Community Trust Sypmposium - Family & Youth Support Partner Initiative
The Diversity Development Center invites you to attend the first in a series of Strengthening Community Trust Symposiums to take place at Marina Village Conference Center Building A, 1936 Quivira Way, San Diego, CA 92109 on July 18th and 19th, 2018. FAMILY & YOUTH SUPPORT PARTNER MODEL A Family and Youth Support Partner is an individual, with lived experiences in the respective system(s), who is trained and hired to help other families as a paraprofessional. We believe trust is the...
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Syrian Children in a state of Toxic Stress
An article posted by BBC News captures what the children of Syria are experiencing and how many of these children don't know anything but war. This is a huge public health concern that could lead to irreversible damage to an entire generation of children. Save the Children shares, "Millions of Syrian Children could be living in a state of "Toxic Stress" due to prolonged exposure to the horrors of war." I have attached the Report, Invisible Wounds produced by Save the Children if you're...
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Taking a look at modern-day slavery Descendent of Frederick Douglass gives talk (mpacorn.com)
Kenneth Morris Jr. was busy running a successful marketing and entertainment company when he happened to see a magazine article about modern-day slavery that led him to make a major life change. Morris is not only the great-great-great-grandson of abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass but also the great-great grandson of early civil rights pioneer Booker T. Washington . Both men were born into slavery. It was Morris’ maternal grandmother, Nettie Hancock Washington , the granddaughter of...
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Kris Perry to speak at the 4CA Policymaker Education Day (May 1) - Still time to register!
Kris Perry to speak at Policymaker Education Day- Still time to register!
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Learn to Be Well (Experience L!fe Magazine)
Captured from an article in the Experience L!fe magazine, Author Courtney Helgoe writes L earn to Be Well . Helgoe introduces studies that reveal the brain’s response to the experience of four traits: resilience, positive outlook, focus, generosity, and how we can cultivate these traits to experience well-being. The 4 Traits of Well-Being Well-being consists of four basic traits: resilience, positive outlook, focus, and generosity. What follows are studies conducted at the University of...
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Meeting Notes - July 20th - Orange County's "Healing Childhood Trauma!"
Orange County’s “Healing Childhood Trauma! 3rd Meeting: July 20, 2016 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Location: Laguna Woods Village Elm Room - Community Center 24351 El Toro Road Laguna Woods, CA 92630 Attendees : (alphabetical) Marguerite Bonnett, Mary Brogdon, Dana Brown, Todd Garrison , Connie Hornyak , Jennifer Swanson Martene, Wayne Munchel, Marlene Sanders, Betsy Starkweather, Amanda Varrone. Welcome & Introductions Thanking Betsy Starkweather for graciously reserving our meeting space, Dana...
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Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience Two-Day Intensive Training
with Author, Carolyn Rich Curtis, Ph.D. 8:30 AM–5:00 PM $399 for 2-day Intensive Training CEUs are available for an additional charge. Each trainee must have a copy of Mind Matters ($299 plus tax (CA and SD only) plus S/H) As a result of this training , you will learn to teach: Self-soothing skills to manage emotions Ways to analyze stressful thoughts How to deal with intrusive memories Ways to develop a protective lifestyle And you, as an instructor, will learn . . . How to provide a safe...
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Orange County ACEs Task Force Meeting Agenda
Orange County ACEs Task Force AGENDA January 17, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Location: Laguna Woods Village - Performing Arts Conference Room 23822 Avenida Sevilla Laguna Woods, CA 92630 Share highlight of your role with OC ACEs Task Force in 2016 - Share how you’re feeling in your heart of your journey as a community leader Participatory Decision Making Process Develop Shared Understandings * Education Committee Work Group Resilience: Friday November 18th, 2016 7:00- 9:00 pm Center for Spiritual...
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Orange County ACEs Task Force Meeting Agenda 2/21/17
Orange County ACEs Task Force AGENDA February 21, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Location: Laguna Woods Village - Performing Arts Conference Room 23822 Avenida Sevilla Laguna Woods, CA 92630 Please RSVP with: Mary Brogdon- Organizer mlbrogdon@mac.com (714)624-4368 Inform Guard that you are attending the Information Meeting. - Mindfulness Moment - Shared Understandings - Welcome new visitors - Sign card of gratitude for Dr. Heather & Rev. Pattie Center for Spiritual Living - Update from...
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Re: 3rd "Healing Orange County from Childhood Trauma" Meeting
Hello Dear Marlene & Dana Forgive me but above "click for Agenda and Meeting notes" does not link to anything. Probably best to wait until you have the promised summary of Connie's talk, then put live urls on both, then re-notify members of this blog. Thank you for all that you do! Hugs Kathy
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Re: Artist paints positive message behind bars at O.C. men's jail (ocregister.com)
Hello Dana, This is a beautiful display of true human compassion! Kindly, Marlene
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ACEs Connection launches Cooperative of Communities
The ACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities launches today. We want to continue to contribute to the ACEs movement for as long as it takes to create a worldwide healing-centered culture based on ACEs science. We want that to take hold in this world in the same way electricity has — we only notice it if it isn’t there.
First, a clarification: Nothing on ACEsConnection.com changes! Membership remains free! Everything our current 300+ communities use stays free, and remains free for new ones.
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Trauma-informed policing: Learn how three highly experienced community leaders strengthen ties between police and community
ACEs initiative participants in communities where there is tension between the community and law enforcement will want to join Becky Haas in a compelling conversation on law enforcement, ACEs science, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement and protests. Haas is a nationally recognized adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) science initiative builder and trainer. She and colleagues Renee Wilson-Simmons, the head of the ACE Awareness Foundation of Memphis, Tennessee, and Maggi Duncan,...
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