Tagged With "African American"
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This Sat Sep 12th Join San Diego Black Health and Harmonious Solutions as they discuss ACEs from an African American prespective and their effect on our health!
Saturday, Sep 12 from 9:00 to 12:00 noon at Jacobs Center Community Room : Adverse Childhood Experiences Conference for Southeast San Diego by SDBHA and Harmonious Solutions at Jacobs Center 404 Euclid Avenue, San Diego, CA 92114. ...
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From Awareness to Action, with Voices of Lived Experience: Wisconsin’s Collective Impact Initiative
Perhaps it wasn’t the optimum time to update the network’s vision and values statements: a virtual meeting held in the midst of a global pandemic. But a record number of people—51, compared to the typical 30—tuned in for the May 1 Wisconsin Office of Children’s Mental Health (OCMH) Collective Impact Council, and they gave the new values statement, which highlights inclusivity and collaboration, an enthusiastic thumbs-up. At the virtual table were members from key state departments—Children...
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Grossmont Healthcare District Helping Refugees With Support to License to Freedom (eastcountymagazine.org)
The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) has awarded a $10,000 grant to License to Freedom, an El Cajon-based nonprofit that assists Middle Eastern refugees and immigrants with cultural assimilation and health education. The grant will support License to Freedom’s community outreach efforts, particularly as they relate to cultural adjustment to American healthcare norms. Outreach includes providing culturally competent health education classes taught in Arabic to recent refugees and...
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Healing our Communities through Trauma Informed Ministries
Thirteen faith leaders, behavioral health providers, and community leaders gathered on August 12 in City Heights for an introduction to the science and practice of adverse childhood experiences, and to hear about an upcoming series of workshops about mental health services in their communities. The series, which is led by Pastor Jesus Sandoval, chair of the Faith Based Academy, intends to bring together 25 Hispanic and 25 African American ministries with staff from San Diego County's Health,...
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Housing Assistance Program for Victims (hotel stays/rental assistance/rental deposits/mortgage assistance)
From: Terra Marroquin, Family Violence Prevention Specialist, San Diego County District Attorney's Office Enclosed is an application for the XC Grant funded Victim Housing program, operated by South Bay Community Services (SBCS). It’s a simple three-page application that staff at your organization can complete with the client and fax or email to SBCS. No crime report is required. The survivor must have experienced victimization within the past 12 months to qualify. This housing program for...
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How a Group of Female Inmates Won the Right to Live with Their Children [Vice.com]
The springtime sun blazes over East Arrow Highway in Pomona, California, and the glare off the whitish-gray concrete walkways forces everyone to squint. Regina Dotson moves busily in and out of her office on the second floor of a residential...
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How we integrated ACE screening into the Health Appraisal Center at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego
In all of medicine, it is important to understand that there are only three sources of diagnostic information: patient history, physical examination, and laboratory studies. While patients overwhelmingly assume that diagnosis derives from lab...
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It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression (San Diego Free Press)
What causes depression and anxiety? I have been a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst for almost 40 years and have seen hundreds of patients suffering from both. In my experience, some factors are obvious. People who suffer from depression and anxiety have experienced stresses and traumas in their development that predispose them to mood disorders. Garden-variety psychodynamic theory teaches us that issues involving loss, neglect, guilt, and rejection usually figure prominently in the...
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ITRC 2018 California Conference: Preparing People for Climate Change in California
To See the Conference Agenda, List of All-Star Speakers, and To Register Click Here Why Should Californians Attend This Unique Conference ? From high levels of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), to job and financial struggles, racism and other forms of inequity and injustice, traumatic stress is epidemic today. Climate change will aggravate all of these existing adversities, and add many new ones as well. Yet, California is leading the U.S. in finding innovative new ways to address...
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Lemon Grove School District presents: FREE film screening of Resilience (Th Sep 26, 2019 5-7pm) Lemon Grove Academy Middle School
Thursday, September 26, 2019 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM Lemon Grove Academy Middle School - Alvarez Auditorium 3171 School Ln., Lemon Grove, CA 91945 FREE FILM SCREENING Join us for a FREE film screening of the 2016 critically acclaimed documentary Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope - Appropriate for Children 11 Years Old and Up - Childcare Available - Childhood trauma doesn’t end in childhood. Its effects ripple through adulthood unless young people are taught how to cope. In...
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Suicide and the Black Male - PSOC Community Forum
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The Love Story of Albert and Margaret Robinson
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The Rocky Road of Developmental Trauma [San Diego, CA]
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Traumatic Grief After Violent Dying (UCSD)
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - CSEC
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - CSEC
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - CSEC
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Filipino-American Community Mental Health Dialogue
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