Tagged With "Cherokee Point Elementary"
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San Diego Youth Services embraces a trauma-informed approach; kids do better, staff stay longer, programs more effective
Staff of the San Diego Youth Services TAY Academy welcome all Transition Age Youth (TAY) to drop-in. Left to right: Vanessa Arteaga, Indie Landrum, Stephen Carroll, and Gillian Leal. In 2010, 16-year-old Indie Landrum ran away from an unstable home...
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San Diego Youth Voice leaders educate European delegation about ACEs science
City Heights youth leaders from Youth Voice met with women leaders from eight countries who visited the San Diego Diplomacy Council on their tour of the United States to learn about and promote citizen safety, economic opportunity, social justice and environmental sustainability. The members of the European delegation came from Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Jessica and Lizette, Youth Voice leaders, shared their expertise on the...
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San Francisco Dept of Public Health Trauma-Informed Systems Initiative
From Jane Stevens.... I thought you might be interested in taking a look at the 2014 year in review from the SF Dept of Public Health's Trauma-Informed Systems Initiative. It's attached, below. The Department made the commitment to...
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Schools to take on 'emotional learning' [SanDiegoUnionTribune.com]
t Cherokee Point Elementary School, first-grade teacher Hagit Patolai roams her classroom to asses student progress on a “fact versus opinion” writing assignment. She crouches down to read over the shoulder of a boy, asking him to point to the words (beautiful and cool) that indicate his illustrated story about a rainbow is based on his opinions. Why are people’s opinions important, she asks. It’s a question that gets at more than the lesson at hand. Patolai keeps detailed records on the...
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SD County Trauma-Informed Guide Team sets county on solid path to resilience
T his is a story of how, in six short years, a relatively small group of people inspired, motivated, and induced a community to turn the approach to helping children and adults who experience domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse,...
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SD Principal & Compassionate Schools
The CA Endowment's addition to Health Happens Here! Filmmaker Rita Grant's video on San Diego Unified School District's Principal at Cherokee Point Elementary in City Heights, Godwin Higa, and his lens and leadership of a compassionate...
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SDTIGT 7/10/15 Meeting Minutes
Please see attached for minutes from our last meeting. Thanks again to Jen Hossler for her presentation on Rady's Children's Hospital Chadwick Center's trauma informed journey!!
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Someone San Diego Should Know: Educator’s emphasis is learning students’ needs (sandiegouniontribune.com)
The increase in hate- and discrimination-motivated incidents in the United States has a major impact on children and their learning journey. These traumatic incidents are the leading factors in childhood trauma, because they pose a threat to the child’s life or bodily integrity. Childhood trauma is also identified as one of the barriers to high academic achievement and success for students. Yet, this issue has largely been ignored by our education system. Godwin Higa is trying to change...
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Tell Us a Story: The Power of Narrative to Build a Social Movement
Rosa Ana Lozada grew up on a two-block-long street in a San Francisco neighborhood pocked with trauma: domestic violence, child abuse, the frequent wail of police sirens. “It was unsafe to walk the two blocks to the bus stop,” she recalled. “In my community, we learned that police officers were not our friends because they were only seen when bad things happened.” For Lozada, now CEO of Harmonium, Inc., and a member of the San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team, home and family were the...
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The CA Endowment's Video on TICS: Trauma Informed Community Schools
The CA Endowment's newest addition to Health Happens Here! Videographer Rita Grant has created an exceptional video on Trauma Informed Community Schools in City Heights. The place-based outcomes (in the home, in the school, in the...
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For ACEsConnection members only -- the official invitation/registration for sneak peek of "Resilience"
(A version of this post was emailed to all ACEsConnection.com members yesterday.) Join us on Sunday, April 10th, for a free sneak peek of Resilience , the critically acclaimed documentary by KPJR Films that chronicles a new movement among pediatricians, therapists, educators and communities who are using cutting-edge brain science to disrupt cycles of violence, addiction and disease. The streaming event will begin at 6 p.m. PT (3 p.m. HAST, 5 p.m. AKDT, 7 p.m. MT, 8 p.m. CT, 9 p.m. ET). For...
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Grow Your Trauma-Informed Mind: Help Them Go For The Gold
Those of us who get the trauma-informed movement understand how to put the dots together when were interviewing a new client. Our ear hears the pertinent details: the ACES, the Big Ts, the little ts and all the complexities as they tell us their story. We sit, knowing the many tools we can offer to help this hurting person cope, heal and recover. We validate, affirm and offer hope for a better future. We know we can help. We have gold to give them. But, not all who have suffered what we...
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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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Hundreds gathered in City Heights last month for the San Diego premier of Resilience -The Biology of Stress and Science of Hope.
The crowd arrived to the aroma of freshly popped popcorn that wafted through the Cherokee Point Elementary School auditorium. With bags of popcorn and plates filled with fresh-cut fruits and vegetables from trays on tables lining the wall, the service providers, policy makers, community advocates, graduate students, teachers and parents settled in for a movie and a panel discussion that brought many to tears. Dr. Dawn Griffin, a professor in Alliant International University departments of...
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Join Us on Tues June 21st for a Premiere Screening of "Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope"
Join Us for a Premiere Screening Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope Dear Colleagues and Friends, We are sending this special invitation for organizational leaders, educators, promotoras, health care providers, caregivers and families to join us for a free Premiere Screening of the documentary film: RESILIENCE: THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS AND THE SCIENCE OF HOPE at Cherokee Point Elementary School - 3735 38th Street, San Diego, CA on June 21st, 2016 from 12:30pm – 4:00pm .
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Juvenile crime rates plummet amid new approaches to tackling youth crime [SanDiegoUnionTribune.com]
When San Diego County went looking for grant funds to help build a 300-bed jail for juveniles, officials argued that the 1950s-era Juvenile Hall on Meadowlark Lane was strained to the breaking point. “There is literally no more room at the inn,” the county warned in a grant application in 1999 seeking $36 million in construction funds for what would become, in 2004, the East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility. [For more of this story, written by Greg Moran, go to ...
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kNOw MORE! Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Curriculum (Point Loma Nazarene University, Center for Justice & Reconcilliation)
kNOw MORE! is a student-centered human trafficking awareness and prevention curriculum, for middle school- and high school-aged youth in San Diego County. It is a comprehensive and engaging program based on the latest sex trafficking research in San Diego and developed in collaboration with experts from various sectors. The curriculum was designed to help young people recognize the red flags and vulnerabilities around trafficking and equip them to take action for themselves and their peers.
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Landmark lawsuit filed in California to make trauma-informed practices mandatory for all public schools
A landmark first step was taken today to insure that all public schools in the United States be legally required to address the unique learning needs of children affected by adverse childhood experiences. A class action suit on behalf of...
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Re: Art therapy as an intervention with ACEs
Hi Betsy and welcome to ACEs Connection! There is a lot of great work happening around San Diego County, including in the education system. I myself do not work in the school system, but am connected with others who do. I would be happy to connect you with some folks that might be able to point you in the right direction if you are interested. I'm a big believer in art therapy and other "non traditional" methods of therapeutic intervention. Great article too! Feel free to connect with me...
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Re: Art therapy as an intervention with ACEs
Hi Jennifer, Thank you so much for reading my post and for your response. I would love to email you and connect with you and some of the people you know in the school system, Thanks again,looking forward to connecting Betsy
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Re: SD County ACEs-, Trauma-Informed and Resilience-Building Time Line
Here are some more dates to add: 2015: Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) Grant awarded to San Diego (as one of fourteen communities from across the country to now have an opportunity to expand their innovative work in addressing childhood adversity through a new project launched by The Health Federation of Philade lphia , with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The California Endowment. ) 2015: City of San Diego passes unanimously the Resolution of Support...
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Re: Join Us on Tues June 21st for a Premiere Screening of "Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope"
Great news! Thanks, Amelia!
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Re: ACEs Connection's Lunch & Learn
Thank you for the fantastic post Dana! What an incredible experience. Thank you so much for hosting. You all have such a beautiful home at Cherokee Point Elementary- so warm and inviting. I am really looking forward to caring for and watching this movement grow with you all. Next steps will be posted shortly!
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Re: SD Principal & Compassionate Schools
Great videos Dana, thanks so much for sharing! This really warms my heart! Cherokee Point is a beautiful place! Keep up the great work y'all.
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Re: The CA Endowment's Video on TICS: Trauma Informed Community Schools
Amazing and inspirational! It is wonderful to see trauma sensitivity spreading in schools and to our elected leaders! I hope everyone who watches this video shares it with at least one other person! And I hope the students, staff and parents of Cherokee Point are proud of all they've accomplished!
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Re: The CA Endowment's Video on TICS: Trauma Informed Community Schools
Bravo Cherokee Point Elementary!!! Thank you for inviting us into your incredible process of becoming a ACE, trauma-informed, and resilience-building school through this moving video.
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Re: Cherokee Point Parent Leaders Inspire at Restorative Practice / Restorative Justice Summit in San Diego!
Their presentation was a wonderful representation of the work at Cherokee Point and the importance of collaboration with residents.
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Re: Poverty in San Diego County higher than during Great Recession (inewsource.org)
Joe's article gives us some really good data but I feel like he points out women with young children as if they were them and the rest of us readers are us...at some point - despite congress and the president or maybe in-spite of them--we as a community should say no more hunger or no more diaper challenge or whatever--one family destitute is one too many...and do whatever we can whenever we can to help families. Ideas?
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ACEs Connection launches Cooperative of Communities
The ACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities launches today. We want to continue to contribute to the ACEs movement for as long as it takes to create a worldwide healing-centered culture based on ACEs science. We want that to take hold in this world in the same way electricity has — we only notice it if it isn’t there.
First, a clarification: Nothing on ACEsConnection.com changes! Membership remains free! Everything our current 300+ communities use stays free, and remains free for new ones.
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kNOw More! online human trafficking education for San Diego County schools.
kNOw MORE! , Point Loma Nazarene University's one-of-a-kind creative human trafficking awareness and prevention program for youth and families, is now available for distance learning! In this moment of pandemic, young people are spending significantly more time online, increasing their vulnerabilities to trafficking. Human trafficking education is more important now than ever. kNOw MORE! utilizes the same student-centered multimedia teaching style with dramas that have shifted to film, live...
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Keeping San Diego’s Urban Indigenous Community Healthy In Mind, Body And Spirit Amid COVID-19 (kpbs.org)
Body, Mind, and Spirit. An indivisible combination that is the cornerstone for holistic wellness for Native Americans. It is also the slogan that appears beneath the medicine wheel on the sign for the San Diego American Indian Health Center . “Da'anzho,” said Ruben Leyva, standing at the corner in Bankers Hill where the clinic is located. “That means ‘hello’ in the Apache language. I am a Chiricahua Chíhénde Apache. I stand here honored and humbled to speak to you on Kumeyaay land.” In order...
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San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team Meeting Minutes for March 2, 2018
Link for Empowered to Connect Conference: http://risecitychurch.com/event/empowered-connect-conference
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We’ve changed our name to PACEs Connection!
We have some very exciting news! As of today, ACEs Connection is now PACEs Connection. PACEs stands for Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences.
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PACEs Connection: Not just another social network
At last week’s fabulous HOPE Summit, one person told me that they didn’t realize all the things that PACEs Connection does.
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Report: Number of new homeless people in county doubled in 2020 (sandiegouniontribune.com)
The number of people who became homeless for the first time more than doubled last year, a possible result of the pandemic and a concerning trend that could worsen when eviction moratoriums and rental assistance programs end. In its Homeless Crisis Response System report from 2020, the Regional Task Force on the Homeless found the number of first-time homeless people in the county increased from 2,326 in 2019 to 4,152 in 2020, a 79 percent jump. The previous year saw a 6 percent decrease...
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Opinion: A better workplace for LGBTQIA+ workers means a better world for all workers (sandiegouniontribune.com)
For as long as the Center for American Progress has tracked this data, LGBTQIA+ people have experienced unemployment at rates that outpace the general population. Earlier last year, the same workers were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19-related layoffs . While employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ employees has been broadly illegal in California for some time, inequities remain, and as people who care about both LGBTQIA+ workers and the health of San Diego’s workforce broadly, we...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Learning Exchange August 6, 2021
A HUGE Thank You to Aisha Pope for her informative and thought-provoking presentation at our recent Learning Exchange entitled, Bringing Your Authentic Self to Work: the Costs of Code Switching !! And thank you to everyone who attended and participated in our learning exchange break out groups! We hope to see you back at our next meeting, October 1, 2021 from 12:15 - 2pm. Please see attached for meeting minutes and Aisha's PowerPoint.
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The Link Between Trauma Healing & Weight Loss by Dr. Felitti and Dr. Alman
It’s clear that, in many cases, food is not the real problem, but rather a solution to temporarily relieve stress, feel comforted, and have a temporary escape from the bad memories, shame, and guilt that often come with trauma. Addressing the root cause of weight gain isn’t as black-and-white as simply changing the way one eats or exercises. Learn what it takes and how you can get the support you need along the way.
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*Time-Sensitive* grant opportunity to support violence reduction (CalVIP RFP)
This year, the California legislature approved $209 million for competitive 3-year grants to cities disproportionately impacted by violence to improve safety and promote healing in communities. 53 California cities are eligible to apply for this grant, more than ever before! In San Diego County, community-based organizations (CBOs) that serve the residents of the cities of San Diego, Chula Vista, or El Cajon are also eligible to apply. You are receiving this email either because your...
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San Diego County Supervisors vote 3-2 to redefine ‘woman’ (kusi.com)
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – During Tuesday’s San Diego County Board of Supervisors meeting, they held public hearing on a controversial agenda item item, Agenda Item 34. Tuesday’s Agenda Item 34 was “an ordinance to provide for the local implementation of the United Nations Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW).” Proponents of the ordinance like Democrat Supervisor Nora Vargas, claim it will protect “women from discrimination.” But opponents correctly...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team June 3, 2022 Minutes
Wow! What a fantastic meeting! Dr. Vincent Felitti joined us as did Godwin Higa! See minutes attached or watch the recording via this link: SDTIGT meeting 6.3.22
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Regional Task Force on the Homeless: Regional Community Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in San Diego
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...
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Health, Human Services Agency - Safe Parking RFP
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...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team March 7, 2023 Meeting Minutes
It was wonderful to see so many of you at our first hybrid meeting since the pandemic!! Thanks to Adrienne Markworth from Leah's Pantry and Jeannie Oestreicher from San Diego Center for Children FFAST program for their presentations on the use of their Guide Team mini-grants! See attached for meeting minutes, their presentations and more!
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team June 2, 2023 Meeting Minutes
It was wonderful seeing those who could attend - both in person and virtually! Congratulations to Shor Denny, our new Guide Team Co-Chair! See attached for meeting minutes and handouts.
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Nurturing Beauty From the Inside Out (Learn4Life young ladies and Community Wrapround Mentor)
Four Learn4Life students enjoyed a wonderful experience of having facials with Community Wraparound’s Community Mentor, Christina Vargas, on August 24th, at Community Wraparound’s office in the Jacobs Center in San Diego, Facial supplies were provided and the youth laughed and giggled as they enjoyed the experience together. Angelina shared that her favorite part was meeting everyone and having a different space to hang out with girls. Amy was grateful to be invited to express her feelings,...
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Early Relational Health Innovators Partner In Program Supported by PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities Members in Twelve California Counties
Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principal author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Member Meeting Minutes 10-06-23
Hi All, Thank you to all who attended our last SDTIGT Member Meeting on Friday, October 6, 2023 from 12:30-2pm. Attached you will find the meeting notes, as well as the handouts from our guest speakers from Center for Community Solutions. Please save the date for our next meeting on December 1, 2023.
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Our Trauma-Resilient Educational Communities (TREC) Model's website launched on 1.25.24 with our Award Ceremony!
The culmination of thousands of hours from our Trauma-Resilient Educational Communities (TREC) team in developing our TREC Model, we launched TRECeducation.com website on Thursday, January 25, 2024. Craig Beswick, Vice-President, School Development Division, Lifelong Learning Administration Corporation (LLAC) opened up our exciting launch, which was hosted by the beautiful UCSD Park & Market in downtown San Diego. Craig warmly welcomed over 200 attendees to our Awards Ceremony and TREC...
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CRC Accelerator Hiatus Announcement: Limited Time Left to Complete the CRC Accelerator Program, Certificate of Participation Toolkit & The Road Ahead
March marks the final month of the granting period for the CRC Accelerator. Here are the next steps for certification or a certificate of participation.