December 14, 2014 By Alicia St. Andrews Original post: http://acestoohigh.com/2014/12...effective/#more-3709 Staff of the San Diego Youth Services TAY Academy welcome all Transition Age Youth (TAY) to drop-in. Left to right: Vanessa Arteaga, Indie...
May this find each of you celebrating an amazing year you enjoyed in 2014 with your family, friends, colleagues and all loved ones! May this find each of you enjoying a wonderful holiday season filled with great health, good food, much...
Attached are briefs on current ACEs in children in selected California cities, with comparison with state and county data. They were prepared by the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, a project of the Child and Adolescent...
Last week, Dana Brown received the Joy McAllister Advocacy Award from Mental Health America of San Diego County, the same award that Dr. Vincent Felitti accepted two years ago! Please join me in congratulating Dana on this special honor for her...
Directions: Based on your assets map, identify people, groups, and organizations that may benefit from receiving presentations on ACEs, trauma, and resilience. Once the person, group, or organization has received 3 presentations, they can be moved...
After a double homicide took his grandson's life last summer, Ricky McCoy Sr. started knocking on doors. He intended to get his neighbors, who retreated inward after hearing more than 40 rounds fired, talking again. Along with the acute trauma of witnessing a fatal shooting, they were experiencing cumulative trauma built up from years of struggling to get by and watching loved ones go to jail or get deported. McCoy and a group of 44th Street residents, whom we started following in November ,...
Hello San Diego County ACES team, Please share your Success Stories and Narratives about your children, youth, families and seniors you serve. Please share your experiential lens you've successfully been engaged with in your organizations. We...
Welcome! Thank you for joining the SD County ACEs Connection Group! Here's how you can get started: 1) Check out the Collections section on the left hand side of the group home page. This can be thought of as the table of contents for all our...
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PURPOSE: Create a historical narrative of ACEs-, trauma-informed, and resilience building activities for San Diego County. DIRECTIONS: Review timeline info below. Add date/s and BRIEF synopsis of major activities/milestones in the comment...
Last Friday Nov. 1, down the road from county Mental Health Services in San Diego, CA, eleven local activists from the mental health, health care, social outreach, and justice systems met for lunch. We discussed the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, research on 17,421 average clients at an average San Diego HMO, who were simply asked if they’d had bad childhood experiences, physical or emotional. The study compared their childhoods, to whether they later developed life-threatening...