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No matter your feelings towards the holiday season, we would like to invite you to a no-host social to celebrate our work and community this past year. Please RSVP to Alicia (adoktor@acesconnection.com) by Friday 12/8 if you would like to attend. Friends, family or coworkers are welcome! Resilient Sacramento's No-Host December Social Tuesday, December 12 from 5:00pm-7:00pm Kasbah Lounge 2115 J St, Sacramento, CA 95816

After years of mental health patients inundating Sacramento area emergency rooms, Sacramento County will open a new mental health urgent clinic to provide an intermediate level of care for people struggling to find the right treatment, county officials said. The clinic will open Nov. 29 on Stockton Boulevard next door to the county’s Mental Health Treatment Center. It will offer a variety of services from clinical and psychiatry services, to alcohol and drug screening, medication, peer...

The California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS) is pleased to invite you to submit a proposal for an oral presentation or an E-Poster Session at this year’s Evidence-Based Practices Symposium 2018: Building Lives Beyond Trauma . This year’s symposium will be held at the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown Arena, in Sacramento, California on Thursday, April 5 th – Friday, April 6 th , 2018. Our theme is, “Building Lives Beyond Trauma,” this is a theme that inspires hope that...

Thanks to everyone who came out to the meeting yesterday! To view the notes from our community dialog and to access resources from our speaker, Kelly Young from Warmline Sacramento click here . I also created a Google Drive folder with the resources from Warmline here .

Featuring 9 Wellness Stations designed to reflect the 8 Dimensions of Wellness, the morning activities were followed by a World Cafe style (the Wellness Cafe) discussion of the meaning of, and need for, healing in daily life. This blog post captures Part I- the adventure through the wellness stations. Part II will highlight the afternoon activities, including Wellness Cafe and the Wellness Cookout.

Sacramento County foster kids are being mistreated at a rate not seen since the recession a decade ago, the latest state data show, but the county has no immediate answers about what’s causing the increase in confirmed cases of abuse of children in its care. County officials substantiated 85 reports of maltreatment in Sacramento County foster homes between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. That's an increase of 30 cases, or 55 percent, from the same period the prior year, according to state...

Are you interested in making a difference in the lives of fellow Californians while achieving your career goals? Do you set high standards for yourself and enjoy a collaborative and challenging work environment? The Department of Social Services serves, aids and protects needy and vulnerable children and adults in ways that strengthen and preserve families, encourage personal responsibility and foster independence. We are looking for compassionate self-starters interested in contributing to...

To see the conference agenda, list of all-star speakers, and to register go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/california-2018-conference/

Becoming a trauma-informed school helps ensure your students feel safe. Many students who have experienced trauma have challenges with self-regulation and with learning. But, it’s not always easy to recognize a student who may be suffering. Frustration can mask symptoms, causing those students to act out and make that behavior easy to misrecognize. So, it’s imperative your staff know how to recognize the signs. Not sure where to start? Here are nine resources so you can start educating your...

Welcome by Recovery Happens Clinical Director Dr. Angela Marie Chanter Tuesday, Nov 14th 8:00 am - 2:30 pm Granite Bay Golf Club 9600 Golf Club Drive, Granite Bay Please RSVP by Friday, Nov 10th to info@recoveryhappens.com $50.00 Registration Paid On-site Lunch Provided Limited to the first 50 RSVPs AGENDA 8:00 am - 8:30 am : Registration, Networking, Welcome by Dr. Angela Chanter 8:30 am - 11:30 am : Amy Rose, CADAC II 11:30am - 12:00pm : Lunch Provided, Networking 12:00pm - 2:00pm :...

For our October 2017 meeting, we had the honor of hosting two guests: California State Assemblymember McCarty and Sacramento County Supervisor Serna. Assemblymember McCarty and Supervisor Serna are both allies of ACEs work. They joined our Resilient Sacramento meeting to share their ACEs-related efforts and to learn from the expertise of our community partners. We, Resilient Sacramento, had several primary goals for the meeting. First, we wanted to give our partners an opportunity to share...

Don't miss the 6th Annual Boys and Men of Color Summit! Tuesday, October 31, 2017 9:00 AM -4:30 PM , located at California State University, Sacramento (Ballroom). Please see flyer below for more details. You can register youth here: https://goo.gl/VPZK4w For additional information on the Boys and Men of Color Summit, please contact Kim Williams, BHC Sacramento HUB Director, at kim@sacbhc.org