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Thanks to all who participated in the this past week's webinar on trauma informed policy with our guest speaker Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, Assistant Professor at the Dorsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Jonathan outlined a very useful typology of trauma informed policies one of which is "trauma preventive policies." Jonathan describes these as "policies that are not necessarily designed with the explicit intent of addressing traumatic stress, but have great potential to do so by...

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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Issues New Guidelines to Encourage Secure Sharing of Information Between Schools and Child Welfare Agencies to Better Serve Foster Youth Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that the California Department of Justice’s Bureau of Children’s Justice (BCJ), the California Department of Education (CDE), and the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) have jointly developed statewide guidelines for school districts, county offices of...

Agenda for Sep 2, 2016 12:30pm-2:00pm Located at San Diego Center for Children 3002 Armstrong Street, San Diego, CA 92111 (Please sign in at Lobby) Mission Statement: To promote the development and provision of trauma-informed services in San Diego County’s agencies and systems through collaboration, advocacy and education to achieve transformation. I. Introductions II. Agency Overview and *Updated* Trauma Informed Journey Presentation:Harmonium, Inc. – Rosa Ana Lozada III. Mobilizing Action...

Webinar happening now! Join webinar at http://air-org.adobeconnect.com/ncssle/ (Webinar slides are attached - see bottom of post) From: NCSSLE [ mailto:ncssle@air.org ] MBK Communities and Stakeholders -- President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Task Force, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE), is pleased to host a Webinar tomorrow on Building Trauma-informed Communities for Youth ( Wednesday,...

Eight county organizations receive grants to help improve former service members’ lives. With her combination of musical training, youthful enthusiasm and quiet compassion, Megan Wong could serve as the poster child for the healing and transformative power of the arts. “We’re finding out at a neurological level about the transformation that happens through music. We heal each other,” she says, “because the best thing we have to help us through difficulty is human connection. This is why...

August 29, 2016 (San Diego) - On August 10, 2016, Congressman Scott Peters (D-San Diego), along with city and county officials, met to discuss the issue of homelessness in San Diego. The key question is how funding by the U.S. Department of Housing and Development (HUD) can be updated so that San Diego gets its fair share of money each year. A recent Voice of San Diego report found that despite having the nation’s third largest homeless population, San Diego gets less than many other cities...

Hello All! The San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team (SD-TIGT) would like to invite you to a special meeting Friday, September 2, 2016 from 12:30 PM-2:00 PM at the San Diego Center for Children. At our last meeting we unveiled the new strategic plan that set the course for the SD-TIGT for the next two years. The plan included the expansion of the SD-TIGT and raising the capacity of the SD-TIGT to promote resilience and prevent/ reduce ACEs through training; integration of youth, family, and...

This is the first in an occasional series providing answers to commonly asked questions about the homeless. Homeless people in San Diego are sober, sane, addicted, mentally unstable, veterans, young, old and of many different races. The Regional Task Force on the Homeless conducts a count of homeless people each January as one of the requirements for funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. This past year’s count showed 8,669 homeless people in San Diego County, a...

The City Attorney’s Office and various city and county partners are launching a program to house and rehabilitate people who repeatedly commit misdemeanor crimes such as public drunkenness or trespassing downtown. The offenders often are homeless people who commit quality-of-life crimes, meaning offenses such as disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and trespassing. City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said the SMART initiative — the acronym stands for San Diego Misdemeanant At-Risk Track — is an...

From the organizers of the 2016 ACEs Conference , San Francisco, CA, October 19th -21st, 2016. Please consider submitting your project today! We know building connections and learning across fields is the best way to advance practices that support children. That’s why we’re very excited to invite you to submit your work to the 2016 Conference on Adverse Childhood Experiences Project Showcase . We’re looking to highlight research, programs, tools or other initiatives that: Highlight the role...