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Hey everyone, its Anissa here! For those of you who may not know I am the Youth Systems Navigator for TAY Oceanside! TAY Oceanside is a drop-in and outreach program for youth experiencing instability in North County San Diego. A week ago, I drove down to St. Vincent’s Shelter to help do a supply drop off to help our young participants. I got lost in the drive, I got lost in my mind, as I reflected deeply on this year. I realized how drastically my life has changed. How I went from a...

When San Diego County first imposed stay-at-home orders in March, officials said they hoped the region would return to some semblance of normalcy within a few weeks. Nine months later, now on our second lockdown order, COVID-19 cases and deaths are skyrocketing. Currently, 0% of Southern California’s ICU beds are available as more people are hospitalized with the virus. Already, more than 1,200 county residents have died from COVID-19. We recently caught up with some of the families who lost...

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81127657786?pwd=YzI5bFFzdXp2TzNYU0poR3hHNWtjUT09 Meeting ID: 811 2765 7786 Passcode: SDTIGT Call mobile (669)900-6833 Passcode: 471428 I. Networking (12:15 - 12:30) II. Welcome (12:30 pm - 12:35 pm) - Chairs Dana Brown and Linda Ketterer * Type Name/Organization/Role in ChatBox * Celebrate New Members (2nd Membership Meeting) III. Mindful Breathing Technique (12:35 pm - 12:40 pm) - Dana Brown, HeartMath IV. Community Mini-Grant Awardees Share-Out -...

KUSI Newsroom, December 8, 2020. SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The United Way of San Diego County announced Tuesday it received a grant of nearly $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health intended to give families more economic resources and support to improve childhood experiences. The nonprofit was one of 23 across the nation to receive the funding. The organization will use the money from the Office of Minority Health to form a three-year partnership...

On Nov. 3, Todd Gloria, Tlingit, was elected mayor of San Diego, the nation’s eighth-largest and California’s second-largest city. Gloria, 42, is the first openly gay and the first person of color to be elected as San Diego’s mayor, as well as the first Native American and Filipino-American mayor elected in a U.S. city of over 1 million people, according to the Los Angeles Times . He was born in San Diego. In a 2009 interview he said he’s Native American, Filipino and “a little bit of Dutch...

Our first virtual Learning Exchange was a success! Melissa Tran-Chamblin, AMFT provided an informative presentation, illustrated by her personal experiences, on Trauma-Informed Care Through a Cultural Lens, after which attendees divided into virtual break out groups to discuss their responses to Melissa's presentation. See attached for meeting minutes and Melissa's PowerPoint presentation.

CARING AND CAPABLE KIDS 51 Songs with Resources for Social Emotional Learning Music Therapy and Developing Resilience Empathy Trauma-Informed Lens Caring and Capable Kids book INNERCHOICE Publishing https://www.innerchoicepublishing.com/book/caring-and-capable-kids/ A two-pager is attached with links, too.

San Diego — Every year, about 260 of the tiniest premature babies in California hospitals develop an often-fatal bowel disease known as necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. Nobody knows what causes NEC, but a common factor in many cases is the use of formula to feed these very low-birth-weight babies because the mother’s breast milk is not available. Replacing that formula with pasteurized breast milk in every California hospital newborn intensive care unit could be a positive step in reducing...

San Diego is California’s second biggest city. Its population of roughly 1.4 million also makes it the nation’s eighth biggest city , just after San Antonio and before Dallas. It often feels like a smaller town, though — especially in its local politics. As the Voice of San Diego reported recently, its mayor-elect, Todd Gloria, currently a state assemblyman, aims to change that. Mr. Gloria will be the city’s first mayor of color and first openly gay mayor. He may also be the most powerful...

This training series for primary care, acute care, and behavioral health providers focuses on “Advancing Trauma-Informed Communities” and improving knowledge and capacity for utilizing community resources in the referral process. The goals of these trainings are to: a) increase provider insight into ACEs prevalence, b) develop screening capacity, c) explore tools to assess your local communities who experience ACEs, and d) identify strategies to facilitate a warm handoff by utilizing...

**Sending on behalf of Dr. Jennifer Tuteur, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Medical Care Services Division, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency** On October 22, 2020, the Leon L. Williams San Diego County Human Relations Commission met to discuss the election climate. The Commission released the following statement: The Leon L. Williams San Diego County Human Relations Commission promotes positive relations, respect, and the integrity of every individual regardless of gender,...

A VIETNAMESE-BILINGUAL AND BI-CULTURAL MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST IN THE GREATER SAN DIEGO AREA. SHE IS A CERTIFIED TRAUMA-FOCUSED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY THERAPIST. SHE’S CURRENTLY THE PROGRAM MANAGER WITH MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS,. INC. SERVING ADULT AND OLDER ADULT (AOA) INDIVIDUALS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS (SMI). PRESENTING ON HOW TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE COULD BE PROVIDED THROUGH A CULTURAL LENS, WHERE WE WOULD EXAMINE OUR OWN CULTURAL SELF-IDENTIFY AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR CULTURAL...