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Gain new tools to support the mental health and wellness of young people on your campus with a free webinar series from the San Diego County Office of Education in partnership with Scripps Health and the Transforming Mental Health Initiative at Rady Children's Hospital. District and school administrators, teachers, nurses, social workers, counselors, and other staff who support the mental health and wellness of students are welcome to attend the virtual lunchtime sessions. Register to join...

A HHSA RFP that was just posted on 2/2 for Safe Parking. It is attached, the Statement of Work is on pages 48-56 . Key notes below: 2 sites, one at Magnolia in El Cajon and the other on Bancroft in Spring Valley. Start dates are 8/1 for El Cajon (contingent on site improvements), and 5/1 for Spring Valley. Referrals may only be made from OHS Outreach Teams, there are no self referrals allowed No RV or large van parking No cooking Open 7 days/week, from 7pm-7am Information required to be...

The (click here for the Regional Plan) Regional Community Action Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in San Diego sets forth a shared vision and foundation for ending homelessness throughout the San Diego region over the next five years. The Regional Plan identifies system and resource gaps, promotes evidence-based approaches for the homelessness crisis response system including person-centered orientations like Housing First, Trauma Informed Care, and progressive engagement, places a focus...

We welcome you to our San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team's 2023 Membership / Visitor bi-monthly meetings on the first Friday of each even month. Networking is from 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm. Our meeting is from 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm. SDTIGT will also host Learning Exchanges during some of these meetings. We encourage you to join us, dialogue, learn from, and share with like-minded professionals integrating PACEs Science within practices, policies, and programs. Thank you, to each of you, for your...

A HUGE Thank YOU to Debbie Bock for her informative and understandable presentation on ACEs and Epigenetics! Please see attached for meeting minutes, epigenetics resource sheet and other meeting handouts. A recording of Debbie's presentation can be seen on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXTZHCggSqc Happy Holidays! We hope to see you in January!

The listening sessions will be conducted by HARC (Health Assessment and Research for Communities), a local research non-profit, on behalf of the County of San Diego. If you have any questions or need language translation services at one of these events, please contact HARC at ARamos@HARCdata.org . For general information, please visit https://harcdata.org/client-projects/ Listening Sessions fliers in English and Spanish are attached.

Deborah Bock is presenting for 45-minutes on Friday, 12.2.22 during the San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team membership meeting. The meeting starts at 12:15 pm - 12:30 for networking. Following the welcoming by the Tri-Chairs, Deborah will be presenting following with a Q & A after her presentation. Please join our Zoom meeting. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81377622442 Meeting ID: 813 7762 2442 Call mobile (669)900-6833 Our meeting will end at 2:00 pm

Hello, Join us for a live virtual training, Who We Are: An Introduction to African American Communities this Thursday, December 1, 2022 from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, virtually. This training is open to anyone working with children, youth and families. Instructions for how to register are on the flyer. If you have any questions, please email RIHS@sdsu.edu . Thank you!

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. We are asking for support, from you, our 57,586 members, to help cover the loss of foundation funding that was promised and did not come through. Pay and hours have been cut for our staff—most of us will be laid off for the month of December. Another grant will pick up in January, but we will still be underfunded. Since sounding the alarm this summer, we’ve raised about $26,000 . Thankfully, about 25% of new donors are making monthly...

Biden Stops Mid-Speech to Recognize San Diego Teen's Sign About His Stutter © Provided by NBC San Diego Author: To read Amber Frias' article, Biden Stops Mid-Speech to Recognize San Diego Teen's Sign About His Stutter (msn.com) Amid a crowd of hundreds watching President Joe Biden speak at a North County campaign event for Rep. Mike Levin on Thursday, Jared Smith and his handwritten sign stood out. It read: “Thank you for having a stutter.” About 20 minutes into the speech, President Biden...

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...