Tagged With "San Diego Center for Children"
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11/28/18 Webinar: Addressing the Needs of People with Disabilities in Public Health Emergencies
Join the next EPIC Webinar – TOMORROW November 28, 2018 Addressing the Needs of People with Disabilities in Public Health Emergencies November 28, 2018 1:00 PM Eastern Time Please join CDC’s Cindy Hinton and the CDC EPIC Team for a discussion on how community leaders, community members, emergency response workers, and caretakers can plan to lessen the harm of emergencies on people with disabilities. Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Time: 10:00am (Pacific Time) Please click the link below...
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12 Myths of the Science of ACEs
The two biggest myths about ACEs science are: MYTH #1 — That it’s just about the 10 ACEs in the ACE Study — the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study . It’s about sooooo much more than that. MYTH #2 — And that it’s just about ACEs…adverse childhood experiences. These two myths are intertwined. The ACE Study issued the first of its 70+ publications in 1998, and for many people it was the lightning bolt, the grand “aha” moment, the unexpected doorway into a blazing new...
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13th Annual Forum for Healthy Minds (Sat, October 5, 2019 ▪ 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM)
Saturday, October 5, 2019 ▪ 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM 13 th Annual Forum for Healthy Minds at California State University, San Marcos 103 Campus View Drive, San Marcos, CA 92096 The Power of Your Story: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou “Together we can change the landscape of mental health in our communities.” 2019 program information & registration at www.cahmsd.org POWERFUL WORKSHOPS s For individuals, family members, young adults, advocates,...
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$16.2 million given locally for veteran housing (sandiegouniontribune.com)
Three area housing developments have received $16.2 million in state funds to provide new housing for homeless military veterans and their families. An announcement from Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, says that $6.37 million was awarded through the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention program to the Grantville Veterans Housing project, $3.34 million went to the Vista del Puente in Southcrest in San Diego, and Veterans Village San Diego’s project in Escondido received $6.5...
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2018 Children Youth and Families (CYFSOC) Conference Presenter Announced!
To view the Conference Registration Form CLICK HERE Visit the BHETA CYF-SOC webpage for additional information. We are pleased to introduce our presenter for our workshop, Educating Students Experiencing Homelessness at this year's CYFSOC Conference: Susanne Terry, MPH Susanne Terry has 25 years of experience in human services and education. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California; was the Administrator of Maui County Drug Court; spent 11 years as...
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34th annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment
The 34 th annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment, will take place January 26-31 st at the recently renovated Town and County Hotel in Mission Valley. We expect upwards to 2000 professionals from 30 or more countries. Once again this year we are offering a reduced registration rate for the entire conference to San Diego professionals who would like to attend. Attached is a copy of the advance brochure and a flyer outlining how your staff can take advantage...
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44th Street Residents Ask SD Unified To Get Trauma-Informed (kpbs.org)
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 ,...
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4th Annual: Beyond Paper Tigers: Building Resilience Across the Life Span
Tickets now available for the 2019 Beyond Paper Tigers Trauma-Informed Care Conference The 2019 Beyond Paper Tigers Trauma-Informed Care Conference on June 26 & 27, 2019 will revolve around the theme, “Building Resilience Across the Life Span,” with Pre-Conference Trainings, Social/Networking event, and film screenings beginning on Tuesday June 25, 2019. The conference will be held at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco, WA. Early bird conference ticket pricing is being offered until March 15,...
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5pm TODAY: San Diego Unified votes on School Climate Bills of Rights!
Amelia -- Just a friendly reminder that today is the big day! San Diego Unified School District will be voting on the School Climate Bill of Rights. We will meet at 4:30pm at 4100 Normal Street, San Diego, CA 92103. The board meeting will start at 5pm and the School Climate Bill of Rights is the first agenda item (E.1.). If you have not done so, please rsvp at the following link: http://www.midcitycan.org/sdusd_school_board_votes_on_school_climate_bill_of_rights Come out and show support!
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A Public School That Not Only Keeps Children Safe, But Heals [nonprofitquarterly.org]
After the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida earlier this year, schools are at the epicenter of national debates on gun violence and mental health. How can teachers and administrators deal with troubled students? And how can they make schools safer for all? It’s not the first time that schools have been asked to address social problems that originate far outside their hallways. In a nation where more than 40 percent of kids are from low-income families, school teachers and...
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ACE Activists in San Diego: An Example of Trauma Preventive Policy Action!
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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ACEs Connection Network Confab -- Southern California, May 10, 2016
(l to r) Sienna, one of the teens from Youth Voice from City Heights; Dana Brown, ACEs Connection Network regional facilitator and co-founder of Youth Voice; Francisco Mendoza, CEO, Mendoza Consulting; Jessica, Youth Voice; Lizette, Youth Voice; Talitha Thompson, Youth Voice co-facilitator; Joshua Aguirre, RISE Up Industries board of directors; Stephanie Linderman, Youth Voice mentor; Arturo Soriano, Youth Empowerment co-founder; (in front) Adrian, Youth Voice.
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ACEs Connection's Lunch & Learn
Thank you to each of you who engaged in our ACEs Connection Lunch & Learn on Thursday, January 29th from Noon to 2:00 pm. Hosted by Cherokee Point Elementary School, over 55 participants celebrated the the SD-Trauma Informed Guide Team's convergence of their communication platform onto SD County's online group. Honoring the history of the SD-Trauma Informed Guide Team, Amelia Barile-Si mon, Kimberly Beckstead, and Pam Hansen shared the evolution of the Guide Team. ...
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ACEs gets a day at the (Sacramento) Capitol!
No matter where you are, be sure to follow the events of the day on twitter: Follow @acestoohigh and #4CAKidsDay17 to get live updates all day.
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ACLU Files Amicus Brief Supporting Civil Rights of Man Ticketed For Allegedly Living in His Truck (San Diego Free Press)
The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties and Think Dignity filed an amicus brief in the case of a man cited for allegedly living in his truck. The man’s defense attorney, Think Dignity and the ACLU say the law he is accused of violating is vague, discriminatory and unconstitutional. Anne M. Rios, executive director with Think Dignity, an organization that advocates for basic dignity and equitable treatment of people experiencing homelessness, said: “The practice of criminalizing poor and...
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Addressing Childhood Adversity in Schools (edweek.org)
We welcome guest author Godwin Higa, Principal, Cherokee Point Elementary School City Heights, San Diego whose work with childhood adversity and trauma is making a difference in the lives of children. At Cherokee Point, located in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood, nearly all of our students deal with some sort of childhood adversity. A hundred percent of our students receive free lunches, and most live under the federal poverty guideline. Many of our students' families face daily...
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Addressing Islamaphobia - A Church Works Against Bullying of Muslim Schoolchildren (Messenger - Church of the Brethren, October 2017)
Today, Muslim children in the United States are suffering from systemic bullying. In a 2014 California-wide survey of 621 Muslim students, one in five reported offensive comments by school staff. Half of the students surveyed reported harassment by other students. The problem has only intensified since then. First Church of the Brethren in San Diego, Calif., has been blessed to stand with a multifaith community in an effort to fight Islamophobic bullying in our schools. Pastor Sara...
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Adult day centers offer caregivers a respite (sandiegouniontribune.com)
A new daycare program for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients in Chula Vista is a miniature three-dimensional 1950s-style downtown designed to spark the long-term memories of its visitors. Called Glenner Town Square, the 8,500-square-foot village includes 13 storefronts surrounding a faux grass-lined park with benches. It’s built inside a light-industrial building with 24-foot ceilings on Main Street. Each 3-dimensional building offers interactive experiences. Visitors can watch an old movie...
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Advance Practice at the ACEs 2016 Project Showcase
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...
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Advance Practice at the ACEs 2016 Project Showcase
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...
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AG Kamala D. Harris Seeks to Better Serve Foster Youth (sdvoice.info)
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...
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Agenda for Fri, July 7, 2017 San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Meeting
San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Meeting July 7, 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm (Please arrive 5 min early to check in) San Diego Center for Children 3002 Armstrong Street, San Diego, CA 92111 Tomorrow's SD-TIGT meeting will be an important one!!! There will be Trauma-Informed Journey presentations by Youth Empowerment and Youth Voice. Our 2 Co-Chair nominees Dana Brown and Rosa Ana Lozada will each prepare a 2 min BRIEF presentation about their interest and qualifications in serving as Co-Chair.
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Agenda - San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team - September 2, 2016
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...
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Alliant University Course Aims To Professionalize Street Outreach Workers (kpbs.org)
Individuals like Angulo - who have lived the cycles of violence and incarceration in urban communities and come out on the other side - are some of the best to break those cycles. But often their work is informal and unpaid because of their criminal backgrounds. Agencies are hesitant to put them on payroll, or they may lack resources to market and fund their outreach. An eight-week course at Alliant University called the Community Mentors Program is trying to help. Its fourth cohort just...
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Amazing training opportunity with Dr. Felitti and members of the Academy on Violence and Abuse
The 30th annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment kicks off next week at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. This annual event brings an estimated 1,800 - 2,000 multidisciplinary professionals in the child abuse field from around the world each year. This year, the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) is hosting one of the preconference sessions on Sunday, January 24th from 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM. This session, titled: Building Trauma...
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Animal Services Waives Pet Adoption Fees for Military (May 24 - May 26 only)
By Tracy DeFore , County of San Diego Communications Office May. 22, 2019 | 9:26 AM In a salute to military members and their families, County Animal Services is offering them free animal adoptions May 24 through May 26. The department is taking part in the Animals for Armed Forces special adoption event over the Memorial Day weekend. Active duty, reserve and veterans can choose from 25 locations that are waiving or reducing pet adoption fees as a thank you for their service. Animals for...
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Anonymous tips stopped 12 potential school shootings in San Diego (10News.com)
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Authorities in San Diego have confiscated twelve guns from campuses across the county since the anonymous hotline “Students Speaking Out” was implemented in 1999. That’s according to Dep. Adriana Uribe with the San Diego Sheriff’s Department, who helps manage the county’s anonymous tip hotlines. “That’s twelve potential school shootings that didn’t happen because somebody said something,” said Uribe. To read more of Matt Boone's article and to watch the accompanying video,...
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Anti-crime resource center opens in South County (sandiegouniontribune.org)
Center offers programs and outreach for youth, veterans and former inmates. Local officials announced this week that a new resource center has opened in National City with programs aimed at preventing crime and improving quality of life for residents. The Community Action Resource Engagement Center, also known as the CARE center, is the product of a collaboration between the District Attorney’s Office, Probation Department and other city and county agencies. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis...
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Anti-Islamophobia Training Rolls Out In San Diego Schools (kpbs.org)
In the heat of the 2016 campaign season, San Diego Unified board members voted to put together a plan to stop Islamophobia in schools. Part of that plan was in action Thursday — a week after President Donald Trump signed orders to temporarily ban travel from Muslim-majority countries and crack down on immigration . The presentation wasn't altered for the new audience. Pamphlets on how to deal with being bullied said, "Know your rights as a Muslim youth in school." And tips for teachers —...
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Art therapy as an intervention with ACEs
I'd like to introduce myself and am glad to have found ACE Connection Network. I am Betsy Shapiro ATR-BC and have lived and worked in San Diego since 1999 and I have been an art therapist since 1986. For most of my career I have worked in psychiatric hospitals (inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient settings) with children, adolescents and adults. I am very interested in connecting with other professionals in setting up violence prevention programs...
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Artist Draws National Attention With Child Mural at Border Fence in East County (eastcountymagazine.org)
" The history of humanity is the story of people migrating," French artist JR posted on his Twitter feed. Drawing attention to the plight of innocent children denied entry to, or facing expulsion from the U.S. under President Donald Trump's tough policies, JR erected a 70-foot-tall mural titled Kikito. It depicts a one-year-old boy peeking over the border fence in Tecate, visible from the U.S. side of the border in San Diego's East County. The work, which the artist began work on a month...
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Artists in the ACE and Resilience Movement: Creative Avenues to Change
They began with a song and ended with a poem. In-between, there were photographs and giant graphic renderings, movement exercises and a “human pulse” formed when 90 people stood in a circle and squeezed each other’s hands. At a June summit in Whatcom County, Washington, titled “Our Resilient Community: A Community Conversation on Resilience and Equity,” the arts played a starring role. Kristi Slette, executive director of the Whatcom Family and Community Network, one of two Washington sites...
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Arts Beautification Projects Help Build Community (Live Well San Diego)
Mindfulness usually begins as an individual practice, but when the practice of mindfulness is shared between members of a group, each member is likely to receive additional benefits. When people come together to work towards a common goal or project, they can experience strengthened relationships and gain a better understanding of the power of interconnectedness. A Reason to Survive (ARTS) understands the value of interconnectedness to support creative and effective community building. On...
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Assets Map and Opportunties for Growth Chart
Let's build the movement! Please complete the Community Assets and Opportunities Survey and the San Diego County ACEs Connection group community managers will add you and your organization to either the ACEs-, Trauma-Informed, and Resilience-Building...
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At Border, San Diego Bishop Offers Prayer of Hope, Defiance (timesofsandiego.com)
Recalling Mary and Joseph as “illegal immigrants” seeking shelter, San Diego’s Roman Catholic leader made a pilgrimage to the border Saturday to share words of hope and solidarity. “We are praying and hoping that the policies which emerge from the new administration will be focused upon deporting those who have committed crimes,” Bishop Robert McElroy said, “and that they will not begin mass deportations of young people that have lived their lives here and know nothing other than that.”...
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Attending to the Body in Psychotherapy workshop April, 14, 2018
Somatic therapies can be very effective in working through traumatic experiences. Learn more at this introductory workshop on modern Bioenergetic analysis. See attached flyer for more information and registration.
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AVA Regional Academies: Building Trauma-Informed, Resilient, and Healthy Communities
Last week, I was fortunate to be a part of a small group of professionals in San Diego to attend the Academy on Violence and Abuse preconference session for the 30 th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment. The conference draws over 1,800 professionals in the maltreatment field from around the world each year. The session, titled: Building Trauma Informed, Resilience, and Healthy Communities: Regional, National, and Global Perspectives , had an ambitious...
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Rady Children's Behavioral Health Urgent Care in City Heights
Rady Children's Behavioral Health Urgent Care Hours of Operation Walk-in clinic: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday 4305 University Avenue, Suite 150 San Diego, CA 92105 Tel: (858) 966-5484 Fax: (858) 966-5482 Follow up visits by appointment only Closed weekends and Holidays WHO WE SERVE The Behavioral Health Urgent Care serves children, teens and their families struggling with urgent emotional and/or behavioral concerns posing a risk to their safety or the safety of others or creating...
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Rain or Shine- San Diegans Walk to End Mental Illness Stigmatization
On April 30, 2016 Harmonium participated in the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk in San Diego. According to NAMI, 1,845 San Diegans participated and fundraised $142,038 to end stigma related to mental illness. Although it was raining and the temperature was well below what is comfortable for Southern Californians many families came and learned about behavioral health resources within the community. By participating and being out in full force organizations and community...
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Reclaiming Our Stories Narratives of Identity, Resilience and Empowerment
Reclaiming Our Stories: Narratives of Identity, Resilience and Empowerment gathers 19 powerful narratives written by members of the Reclaiming Our Stories Community Writers Workshop located in Southeast San Diego. These authors, almost all of them emerging, reached deeply into their lives to excavate these offerings that, in the end, rise in triumph. Although it wasn’t the intention of the project, most authors chose to write about some of the most traumatic events in their lives. In many...
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Recommendations to the National Governors' Association Meeting
Happy Thursday! Thank you for your feedback regarding the National Governor’s Association. Based on feedback and prior conversations the following three recommendations were sent to the Health Federation of Philadelphia on behalf of the San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team Leadership as multi-generational, multi-sectoral approaches that could improve the quality of life of children: The authentic engagement of community members of all ages when shaping programs and policies. Examples of...
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Record Number Of Meth-Related Deaths Reported In San Diego County (kpbs.org)
Methamphetamine abuse contributed to a record number of deaths in the San Diego area last year, according to a government study released Monday. The San Diego County Methamphetamine Strike Force report reveals there was a total of 377 meth-related fatalities that occurred locally in 2016, with an average of one death every 23 hours. The tally was the highest in a single year and 66 more than in 2015. "The trend line is very alarming and continues to head in the wrong direction," said Dianne...
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Recording available now for What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: Greening and other physical/built environment strategies for preventing sexual and domestic violence
The web conference recording for What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: Greening and other physical/built environment strategies for preventing sexual and domestic violence on Thursday, June 6, 2019 is now available on our website at http://www.preventconnect.org/2019/05/what-surrounds-us-shapes-us-greening-and-other-physical-built-environment-strategies-for-preventing-domestic-and-sexual-violence/ . You will receive another email when the text chat transcript from this web conference is available.
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Refugee Gives City Heights a Big Hand (sandiegouniontribune.com)
San Diego's City Heights neighborhood struggles with crime and poverty and a shortage of everything from parks to doctors. But for 22-year-old resident Jhaga Mahat, the biggest challenge of living in City Heights is getting people to see it the way he does. "When I tell people I live here, they tell me it's a ghetto and there are a lot of gangs here. But for me, City Heights is not like that," says Mahat, who came to San Diego in 2011 from a refugee camp in Nepal. "When I got here, I saw a...
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Refusal of service led Williams to civic service [SanDiegoUnionTribune.com]
As he ordered a salmon salad for lunch at a downtown hotel on Thursday, Leon Williams looked out the window and reflected how much San Diego had changed since he arrived here in 1941. Almost all the buildings in view along Broadway were...
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Register now: Free ACEs Connection Webinar on the Human Impact of Climate Change
A year after 85 people died in the wildfire that swept through Paradise, CA, and nearby towns, one of the town’s survivors will talk about how she and others are using resilience practices in their recovery from the trauma. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, Paradise resident Kelly Doty will have a conversation with Elaine Miller-Karas, who developed the Community Resiliency Model (CRM). Doty, who lost her home in the fire, and Miller-Karas will discuss resilience education skills designed to help...
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Register Now: Learn about Data on Youth in Schools (Th. Nov 8 at 10am)
Dear Fellow Advocate, Our upcoming webinar, Data Briefing: New Data on Youth in Schools , is on Thursday, November 8 at 10 am PST. We recently released a comprehensive suite of data on more than a dozen topics, from bullying and cyberbullying to school climate, school safety and student support. These data come from the 2013-2015 California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) and California School Staff Survey (CSSS) which is the largest statewide surveys of school climate, risk behaviors, and...
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Register TODAY for San Diego County BHS Community Engagement Forums
The County of San Diego’s Behavioral Health Services is holding their community engagement forums this summer. There are several opportunities in August for community members to provide feedback about its behavioral health programs and services. I invite you to register to attend these events and also welcome your help to spread the word about these important forums. We have created a social media kit to help easily you share the information. I have also attached a flyer and an image to...
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Reminder: SDTIGT March 4 meeting 12:30-2pm at San Diego Center for Children
Reminder: San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Meeting is March 4, 2019 12:30pm-2:00pm We are at our new location 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. DRAFT AGENDA Introductions Agency Overview and Trauma Informed Journey...
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Report: Progress made to increase number of youth working, in school in San Diego County (sandiegouniontribune.com)
A report by San Diego Workforce Partnership and Measure of America has found progress is being made in reducing the number of youth living in the county who are not in school and unemployed, factors that put them at greater risk of becoming homeless. “Things are definitely improving,” said Laura Kohn, San Diego Workforce Partnership’s director of communications and local income mobility. “What we learned in this latest data release was the rate of youth disconnection continues to decline,...