Tagged With "foster parents"
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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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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-TIGT May 1, 2015 Meeting Minutes
San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team May 1, 2015 12:30pm-2:00pm Meeting Notes 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. Present: Stephen Carroll – San Diego Youth Services Betsy Knight – HHSA BHS ...
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Showing UP for Sophia: Dear John,
Dear John, Watching Marriage Story on New Year’s Eve was the ending I needed to witness in order to understand our own. Like Charlie and Nicole, we have history, we share a child, and we both want our child to be raised in an environment where she can thrive. While our similarities don’t stop there, the difference in how their ending started inspired me to follow suit. A mediator encouraged them to write a note of positivity to remember why they got married (together) in the first place.
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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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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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The Me I Once Was - A Spoken Word Video from a former foster youth
This is a moving short video from a former foster youth. It speaks to the hope and resilience in these youth - in spite of their traumatic experiences. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYUpdXnFSc8&mc_cid=8bf4247815&mc_eid=552d101b62
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The Ripple Effect, Enhancing Trauma-Informed Practice Across Systems (free training - Chadwick Center)
December 6, 2017 8:30 AM 4:30 PM PST This workshop presents an integrative framework for understanding and communicating across systems about how trauma can affect a child, a family, and a system. The framework was developed by Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Christopher Layne, and Bob Pynoos of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and is adapted from core trauma concepts identified and ratified by the NCTSN Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma Task Force. The Ripple Effect translates...
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Four major ACEs-related offerings from the medical community
Take a framework for trauma-informed primary care.... add an in-depth academic overview of ACEs-related research for physicians. Then couple a 50-slide PowerPoint that physicians can use to educate legislators and members of the medical community who...
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Free San Diego Events sponsored by Parents & Caregivers for Wellness
Parents & Caregivers for Wellness, a collaborative project to strengthen the voice of parents and caregivers and improve services and supports for families, is presenting two events in San Diego: Empowering Professionals on September 13, 2019 from 9a - 3p (for professionals) Supporting Parents/Caregivers on September 14, 2019 from 9a - 3p (for Caregivers) Please see attached flyers for details and information about Parents & Caregivers for Wellness.
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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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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 Childhood Trauma Can Affect Your Long-Term Health (The New York Times)
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris had one of those rare and amazing "aha!" moments a decade ago when reading a scientific paper. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had found that the more traumatic events a person suffered in childhood - things like physical, emotional or sexual abuse, mental illness in a parent, divorce, neglect and domestic violence — the more likely he or she was to also suffer from chronic stress-related health problems like heart disease, obesity...
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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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In Spanish: Handouts for parents about ACEs, toxic stress & resilience
The Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District has come through again, with a Spanish version of the parent handout (in English) that we posted last year , and which has been downloaded thousands of times. The English versions came about whiledoing a story about the trauma-in formed elementary schools in Spokane, WA .I interviewedp ublic health nurse Melissa Charbonneau who said that she'd been giving an...
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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: State Dropping Ball in Dealing With Childhood Trauma, New Report Says [CaliforniaHealthline.org]
Thank you Jane for sharing this. I oversee 21 before and after school programs in San Diego. Our target population is low-income and single parent homes. Every year the number of our children who have already experienced neglect, domestic violence, gangs, and substance abuse in the home continues to grow. We try to offer resources to the families when we notice behaviors and unfortunately, as this article points out, it costs money for these families, and they simply can't afford them, or...
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Re: State Dropping Ball in Dealing With Childhood Trauma, New Report Says [CaliforniaHealthline.org]
Hi Amanda, That is wonderful about your after school programs. Do you have any in North County San Diego? Betsy Shapiro ATR-BC
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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: Trauma-informed program in San Diego teaches parents to train other parents
Please contact Dr. Audrey Hokoda, Chair, SDSU's Child, Family Development Dept. for more definitive information with respect to our amazing Parent Leaders who are now Trauma Informed Community experts. With Dr. Hokoda's exemplary mentoring, leadership and guidance over the last four years with our Parent Leaders, their transformation has evolved to collective efficacy. Dr. Hokoda is available at: ahokoda@sdsu.edu
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Re: Minutes from San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team (SD-TIGT) March 3, 2017 Meeting
Thank you so much for keeping good minutes of the meetings. I appreciate being able to follow the progress of this group. There are so many parallel themes to the work in San Diego and where I find myself in Utah. Attached is some of the work going on in the Trauma Resiliency Collaborative. Debbie
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Re: The Me I Once Was - A Spoken Word Video from a former foster youth
Thanks for sharing, Pam! Powerful video!
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California reaches milestone with ACEs initiatives pulsing in all 58 counties. Next: All CA cities.
Karen Clemmer, the Northwest community facilitator with ACEs Connection, was already deeply interested in the CDC/Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study when she and a colleague from the Child Parent Institute were invited to lunch by ACEs Connection founder and publisher Jane Stevens in 2012. But that lunch meeting changed everything. Karen Clemmer “Jane helped us see a bigger world,” says Clemmer. “She came with a much wider lens. She didn’t look only at Sonoma County, she...
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Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: One-Pager
Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: One-Pager
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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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Re: San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team Meeting Minutes for March 2, 2018
Registration is still open for the Empowered to Connect Conference April 13-14, 2018. Please contact Brianna at rootedinlove@risecitychurch.com or 619-944-4823 if your agency would like to host a free resource table on either date. JOIN US at Rise City Church in Lakeside for the LIVE broadcast of the Empowered To Connect Conference on April 13 & 14. Please register for this free event ! Free Simulcast Friday & Saturday, April 13th and 14th from 9 am to 5 pm. Hosted by Rise City and...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team May 7, 2021 Meeting
It was great to see those who were able to attend this month's meeting. Special thanks to Dr. Eric Hazzard and Dr. Moira Kenney for their presentation on UniteUS. Please see attached for minutes and handouts .
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Resource: Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic One-Pager (English & Spanish!)
English: The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP) , Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative , ACEs Connection , and the Yolo County Children’s Alliance co-created “Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in both English and Spanish. This material is intended for Californian families experiencing the severe economic consequences resulting from...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team October 1, 2021 Minutes
Thank you to all who attended and participated in our follow up conversation to August's presentation by Aisha Pope, LCSW on Code Switching! See attached for brief minutes and flyers for upcoming events and job postings.
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Learning Echange December 3, 2021 Minutes
Linda Ketterer provided a moving and informative Learning Exchange presentation, The Value of the Voice, on the importance and evolution of the voice of lived experience in our system of care. See attached for Linda's PowerPoint presentation and meeting minutes.
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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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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team August 5, 2022 Meeting Minutes
Thank you to all who attended and shared how they maintain Revolutionary Optimism! See meeting minutes and handouts for upcoming trainings attached.
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Hooray for Reading! New Initiative (San Diego, CA)
Click here: Hooray for Reading! for access to their new initiative's website with free books, coloring pages, a resilience book list, parent toolkit, flash cards, and a link to the San Diego County Library.
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Highlighting our four-part Trauma-Informed Learning Community Series!
Committed planning team members met bi-weekly, beginning December 2, 2021, in preparation for the four-part Trauma-Informed Learning Community series which launched in San Diego, California, with Session #1 on May 20th. This series brought together seventy-five cross-sector service providers, agencies, and schools who work with teens, transitional-age youth, and families and was hosted by Diego Hills Central. The series would not have been the success that it is without Area Superintendent...
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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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Stop Fentanyl: Parent and School Guide to Understanding & Addressing the Fentanyl Epidemic With Their Youth (Armand King)
Authored by Armand King, introducing our comprehensive guidebook, designed to educate parents, youth advocates, and school staff on the dangers of the Fentanyl crisis and provide valuable tools for prevention and intervention. In this guidebook, you will find valuable information on the nature of Fentanyl, its effects on the body, and how it is impacting communities across the nation. We also delve into important topics such as recognizing the signs of Fentanyl use, prevention strategies,...
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Shifting from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting Webinar Series
The Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP) is very excited to share an opportunity to join the Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month Professional Webinar series featuring the theme: Shifting from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting . In the series, each session will feature a guest speaker(s) discussing important topics focusing on the shift from mandated reporting to community supporting. Don't forget to register to ensure you don't miss out on these rich and transformative...
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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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August COOP Meeting: Leverage the Latest Brain Science to Build Trust and Community Connections!
Our speaker for the August PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities meeting will share ways of building community connections we may not have thought of before – starting with trust in the earliest and most important relationships – as well as some challenging news, exciting resources, and timely inspiration. Cooperative of Communities members and members of their communities are invited to join us tomorrow, August 8, 2023, at 10 a.m. PT, Noon CT, and 1 p.m. ET when we welcome Deborah...
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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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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Member Meeting Minutes 04-05-24
Hi All, Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our SDTIGT Member Meeting on April 5th. Attached you will find the meeting minutes as well as two flyers, one promoting new services offered through San Diego Center for Children and the other promoting an upcoming presentation from Dr. Bruce Perry.