Tagged With "ACE Score"
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Peer-to-Peer-Provider Compassion: Coming to Terms with One’s Own Adversity
One of the ways we are expanding awareness of the ACEs Aware initiative is by hosting Facilitated Peer-to-Peer sessions for Medi-Cal and other providers in Orange County. These two-hour sessions are perfect for practitioners who want to learn more about action planning and strategic change in trauma-informed care and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on individuals and communities. Join us on Wednesday 2.03.21. Topic: Provider Compassion: Coming to Terms with...
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Network-of-Care: Building a Roadmap Towards Resilience
One of the ways we are expanding awareness of the ACEs Aware initiative is by hosting Facilitated Network-of-Care sessions for Medi-Cal and other providers in Orange County. These two hour sessions are perfect for practitioners who want to learn more about action planning and strategic change in trauma-informed care and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on individuals and communities. Join us at one of the upcoming events on: Tuesday 01.26.2021 - 10-12 pm PST Tuesday...
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Cultural Differences in Crisis Intervention
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Understanding ACEs: Stories of trauma and resilience
Over the past few months, the OCDE Newsroom has cast a light on ACE’s – or Adverse Childhood Experiences . Through the process of exploring ACEs, we’ve discovered that while childhood trauma can have an influence on who we are and how we engage with the world around us, it is resiliency that truly defines who a person becomes. Thankfully, despite tragic situations, some people take their painful experiences and use their stories for the greater good of their communities — and that is where...
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"Women and Stress" Provider Engagement Training
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Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: What You Need to Know and How You Can Help
Toxic stress can have lifelong impacts. Here’s what you need to know about adverse childhood experiences and how you can help to mitigate the effects.
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Peer-to-Peer-Resilient Parenting: Tools and Strategies that Work
Peer-to-Peer - Resilient Parenting: Tools and Strategies that Work. A two-hour discussion of tools and strategies that providers can use with parents to buffer toxic stress and build resiliency in their children. Learn how to talk to parents about ACEs, support the process of parental coregulation, and promote buffering through healthy coping. Join us on Wednesday 3.03.21.
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Resilience Film Screening and Training
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Resilience Film Screening and Training
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Play Therapy and ACEs Training
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Resilience Film Screening and Training
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Resilience Film Screening and Training
Western Youth Services CEO Dr. Lorry Leigh Belhumeur in collaboration with the Orange County Community Foundation’s Impact Philanthropy Group are hosting a screening of the highly acclaimed documentary "Resilience - The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope" and a discussion after the screening all on Zoom.
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Every Day is About Mental Health Awareness at WYS
Although mental health and wellness is our primary focus EVERY DAY at Western Youth Services (WYS). May is Mental Health Awareness month
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OCDE Program Empowers Students to Raise Mental Health Awareness, Reduce Stigmas
It’s been well-documented that the COVID-19 era has taken its toll on the mental health of children and adults. Yet data also shows student anxiety and depression were on the rise even before the pandemic. According to the 2019-20 California Healthy Kids Survey, one quarter of seventh-graders and 35 percent of 11th-graders reported feeling chronically sad or experienced feelings of hopelessness within the previous 12 months. Alarmingly, more than 10 percent had suicidal thoughts during the...
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Resilience Film Screening and Training
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Upcoming Peer-to-Peer and Network of Care Events
Western Youth Services is hosting various Peer-to-Peer and Network of Care Events for May and June 2021.
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VIDEO: With Mental Health in Focus, School-Based WellSpace Centers Offer ‘A Space of Calm’
Imagine a space on a middle or high school campus that resembles a tranquil coffee house or the lobby of a high-end spa, replete with soft lighting, comfortable chairs, relaxing literature and light snacks. And imagine all that’s asked of students who enter is that they take a moment to unplug, relax and recenter. As part of a multifaceted effort to fortify the mental health of children and teenagers across the county, the Orange County Department of Education and CHOC have teamed up to...
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"Ending Violence Against Children" Workshop
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Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: What You Need to Know and How You Can Help
Toxic stress can have lifelong impacts. Here’s what you need to know about adverse childhood experiences and how you can help to mitigate the effects.
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How an ACE Score Impacts a Life, a Family, a Community
As a mental health agency for children, we have witnessed the impact of an ACE Score in the lives of children, families, and our community of Orange County since 1972.
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Mitigating the Impact of ACEs and the Toxic Stress Response During and After COVID-19
Ways to mitigate the toxic stress reponse resulting from COVID-19 and often associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACEs.
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Combining ACEs and PEARLS Assessments to Provide Healing Solutions
The ACE Study provides insight into the traumatic experiences that occurred in childhood. PEARLS was developed to learn more about related life experiences
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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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ACEs Aware: Supporting & Building Resilience in Children in the Office & School
Join the Children's Hospital of Orange County & a group of local experts in this 2-part ACEs Conference! Deepen your understanding of short and long-term physical and psychological effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Enhance your skills in identifying children with ACEs Learn how to approach overall care for children with increased clinical risk for toxic stress. Featuring: Dr. Michael Weiss Dr. Heather Huszti Dr. Reshmi Basu Dr. Sheila Modir Rebecca Hernandez Register in...
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Understanding ACEs: What is a 'number story'?
Why is Your Number Story important? An “ACEs number” is the amount of different Adverse Childhood Experiences a person has had. Read to learn why an ACEs score is important & how ACEs impact health: https://newsroom.ocde.us/understanding-aces-what-is-a-number-story/
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For All the Givers Out There
Excited to share that I’m having a book launch party. Come one come all! The book is, especially for anyone who has children and youth in their care, including parents, teachers, leaders of youth. They depend on us, and we have a moral obligation to strengthen our resilience muscles, so we can help them do the same. Here's what Jane Stevens says about my book, Mastering Resilience:Transforming Into Your Purpose: "Lorry Leigh Belhumeur has written a very personal, instructive and engaging...
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Early Relational Health Innovators Partner In Program Supported by PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities Members in Twelve California Counties
Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principal author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...
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Creating Resilient Communities in 2024: The Year of Cultivating Resilient Networks Through Healing Centered Cultural Wisdom
As we head into our full CRC curriculum this January, we invite current and future CRC Accelerator participants to join us with collective care and self care in mind.
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California PACEs Connection Members: We'd Like to Learn More About Your PACEs Initiative Impact
In an effort to keep our free programs accessible to California during a critical time in the PACEs movement, we'd like to learn more about the role PACEs Connection programs have played in your California PACEs initiatives and the impact of your programs.
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CRC Accelerator Hiatus Reminder & April “Hour of Power” to Support CRC Participants With Only One Event to Completion Learn CRC Fellowship Next Steps
As we’ve recently announced, the CRC Accelerator is taking an indefinite hiatus, but this moment of growth is anything but goodbye. Two years into this unique program, we are aware of the incredible impact access can have on PACEs initiatives and we now have a CRC Fellowship that grows with each CRC graduate.