October 2022

Jim Groth sits in front of newspapers from November 1978 from The San Diego Union and the Los Angeles Times taken at Harborside Elementary School in Chula Vista. / Photo by Ariana Drehsler Author: To read Jakob McWhinney's article, please click here. Jim Groth moved to Chula Vista in early 1975. He’d come from Minneapolis, where he worked in community education, largely on summer school programming. John Pletcher, the principal of Harborside Elementary in Chula Vista, had recently come back...

We are reaching out to you from the National Center on Child Trafficking (NCCT), a new collaboration of professionals with expertise in child trauma and human trafficking that aims to improve the lives of impacted children and families and to support the professionals who serve them. The NCCT is inviting mental health and substance use treatment professionals who have worked with trafficked or exploited youth to participate in a national survey. The purpose of the survey is to learn more...

Networking (12:15 – 12:30 pm) Welcome and Introductions (12:30 – 12:45) Tri-Chairs Amelia Barile Simon, Dana Brown, and Linda Ketterer Amelia read aloud the Land Acknowledgement. Learning Exchange (12:45 – 1:45) Melissa Tran Chamblin introduced speakers. Shulamit Ritblatt and Audrey Hokoda Reviewing SD-TIGT Goals and book, From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma - Informed Practices for Working with Children, Families, Schools & Communities Shulamit Ritblatt: Read aloud goals of the SDTIGT...