Meeting summaries

Kristina sent these wonderful notes on the same day of the meeting; I forgot to post! What a wonderful recap full of great resources to refer back to.

Resilient Sacramento Meeting Summary for September 13, 2016 (For attendees, see attached version of notes) Welcome and Mindfulness Minute We practiced vagus nerve breathing exercise. Included handouts on this exercise and other ways that mindfulness calms stress. Introductions and Celebrations Action Group Report Backs Outreach : We have materials (at meeting for people to take away and share) and multiple trainings and information sessions scheduled to get the word out about ACEs Policy :...

Major Announcement: Nadine Burke Harris confirmed her availability for November 1. Other logistics are still being worked out. The goals of the event are: getting policy stakeholders to become informed about the work of Resilient Sacramento and its relevance to creating a healthy Sacramento community. Join us for our September meeting as we continue to build out this event.

Resilient Sacramento held our first workgroup meeting on July 12, 2015. As of this July, we have been meeting for one year!

Featured Presentation: Educating Health and Behavioral Staff about Trauma-Informed Care at WellSpace Health Presented by DeAngelo Mack and Dr. Piri Ackerman-Barger

We have a new name! And other announcements... read the meeting summary notes and please share your feedback.

Meeting notes from April 12, 2016 are pasted below and attached as well. We had a great presentation from Kaytie Speziale of the San Francisco Traum-Informed Systems Initiative, and Sacramento ACEs members shared concrete ways that they have collaborated to increase trauma-informed work in Sacramento (links provided). Additional materials from the special presentation will be posted separately.

What's new: ACEs impacts in the community; presentation materials available to you to share with your colleagues about ACEs; new ways to participate in the Sacramento ACEs Working Group

We are ready to start a subcommittee on developing informational materials and subcommittee to develop the goals for a steering group for Sacramento County ACEs Working Group. Send a note to Gail (gkennedy@acesconnetion.com ) if you have interest in serving on either of these committees.

On December 8, 2015, Sacramento ACEs Connection came together to begin the process of developing a shared mission, vision, and set of guiding principles that will help provide focus and direction to the group’s future collaborative strategies and activities.  13 ACEs partners were in attendance, with the overall objective of understanding the core values for each individual, so that we could better understand the values that would drive us as a group. At the beginning of our...

Hi everyone and welcome to the Sacramento County ACEs Connection group!  We had a great first in-person meeting a couple of weeks ago and decided to meet monthly.  Our monthly meetings will be held the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 4-5:30pm...