Tagged With "Assemblymember Dr. Arambula"
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Today 5pm Facebook Live: Improving Child Welfare Practice With the Power of Adolescent Brain Development
Today: Our Experts are Taking to Facebook Live to Highlight the Latest Report on the Adolescent Brain Tune in at 8 p.m. EST (5 p.m. Pacific) today to watch a conversation with the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative on the release of The Road to Adulthood: Aligning Child Welfare Practice with Adolescent Brain Development . Register at - https://www.facebook.com/JimCaseyYouthOpportunitiesInitiative/ Adolescence is a major development period similar to the growth spurt of early childhood.
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Today's Webinar Log-in Information: Building Trauma-informed Communities for Youth Webinar
Webinar happening now! Join webinar at http://air-org.adobeconnect.com/ncssle/ (Webinar slides are attached - see bottom of post) From: NCSSLE [ mailto:ncssle@air.org ] MBK Communities and Stakeholders -- President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Task Force, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE), is pleased to host a Webinar tomorrow on Building Trauma-informed Communities for Youth ( Wednesday,...
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Treating the Lifelong Harm of Childhood Trauma (The New York Times)
Over the past decade, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the founder of the Center for Youth Wellness , in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, has emerged as one of the country's strongest voices calling for a national public health campaign to raise awareness and a sense of urgency about the devastating and potentially lifelong health effects of childhood trauma. Since the original research on adverse childhood experiences , known as the ACE Study, was published in 1998, a growing body of evidence...
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UCSD deepens ties with Deepak Chopra (sandiegouniontribune.com)
The UC San Diego School of Medicine has promoted Dr. Deepak Chopra from assistant professor to full professor to reflect his growing work with the campus to explore and explain how such things as meditation, yoga and diet affect a person's health. The promotion does not come with a salary. The 68 year-old physician-spiritualist will continue to interact with the university on a voluntary, unpaid basis. He will continue to be based out of the Chopra Center in La Costa, which he co-founded in...
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Volunteers and Resource Tables needed: Empowered to Connect Conference April 13-14, 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 or if you would like to volunteer 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...
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What other ACE surveys have additional questions? We know of seven.
We’ll start to populate the new Resource Center next month. One of the sections lists ACE surveys that have additional questions. The CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study revealed that ACEs contribute to most of our major chronic health, mental health, economic health and social health issues. It measured five types of abuse and neglect: physical, verbal and sexual abuse; physical and emotional neglect. And five types of family dysfunction: a family member with mental...
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Who Helps Our Helpers? "Portraits of Professional Caregivers" Documents in Film Their Passion and Pain.
Director and producer Vic Compher’s documentary film, Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion. Their Pain , takes a deeper look at the causes of and treatments for what’s called secondary traumatic stress, a condition commonly...
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Youth Voice and Youth Empowerment engaging with 4CA Policymaker Education Day in Sacramento
Youth Voice and Youth Empowerment leaders will be traveling to our state capitol next week to educate policy makers about how adverse childhood experiences and childhood trauma affect our community and what they can do to help. Damian, Lizette and Salvador (Youth Voice leaders) along with mentors Talitha Thompson, Robert Ontivaros and Louis Vargas will be joined by the founder of Youth Empowerment, Arthur Soriano, as they represent authentic community engagement with legislators and/or...
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Youth Voice students introduce SDSU college seniors to ACEs
Youth Voice leaders (left to right) Katherine, Lizette, Jessica, Adrian, Tatiana, Sienna and Angel Seven youth leaders traveled to San Diego State University last week to explain the science of adverse childhood experiences and the impact of complex trauma, as well as their journey of resilience and transformation to thirty seniors in the university's Counseling and Psychology Department. Youth Voice has created a sanctuary for youth, ages 11 to 20, to share, learn and create messages of...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team - September 7, 2018 Meeting Minutes
Thanks to all who attended September's meeting! Its great to see both new and familiar faces:-) Special thanks to Craig Beswick from Learn4Life for his Trauma-Informed Journey presentation! Meeting minutes are below and attached. Handouts and Craig's PowerPoint presentation are attached. Welcome - Introductions (Name and Organization) 3 people Zoomed in😊; Jeff Weiner & Sara Coupass Clinton Health Matters Initiative, and Betsy Knight & Adrianne Yancy BHS. Our apologies for the sound...
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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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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 Membership Meeting - November 1, 2019 from noon to 2:00 pm
SD-TIGT MEMBERSHIP MEETING AGENDA Noon Networking 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Meeting 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm November 1, 2019 Location: San Diego Center for Children 3002 Armstrong St., San Diego, CA 92111 Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/266467279 Call mobile (720)707 2699 Meeting ID: 266 467 279 I. Welcome - Introductions (Name and Organization) Co-Chairs Dana and Kat, New Members II. Learning Exchange Co-Chairs Training Committee, Cambria, Melissa, Morgan a. Feedback from 1st Learning Exchange...
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Substance Abuse or Survival? (attachmentdisorderhealing.com)
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...
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Suicides still plague county jails (SanDiegoUnionTribune.com)
Jason Nishimoto was not supposed to have a sheet in his jail cell, or anything to hang it from. But he did. The 44-year-old, who’d been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, was supposed to be in a suicide watch cell with special safeguards under new policies from the San Diego County sheriff for people whose cases indicate red flags for taking their own lives. When the jail took Nishimoto in after a family disturbance in September, his mother, Rochelle Nishimoto of Vista, received...
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Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) Certification Training Workshop
The San Diego Institute of Bioenergetics Analysis (SCIBA ) and Living Ubuntu are proud to sponsor this three-day workshop for anyone interested in learning more about trauma recovery, wanting to learn TRE for the first time, or wanting to get...
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The Repressed Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Adult Well-being, Disease, and Premature Death (1 hour video - Vincent J. Felitti, M.D.)
Vincent J. Felitti, M.D., Co-Principal Investigator, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, Fellow, The American College of Physicians, Internist, Kaiser Permanente Please click here to view the one hour video of Dr. Felitti's presentation on February 3, 2017 at the Rady Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds.
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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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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 screening of "Resilience" at the Santa Barbara Int'l Film Festival Feb. 4
Yes, that's at 2 p.m. this Thursday at the Lobero Theater , California's oldest, continuously operating theatre! James Redford, who directed Resilience , will be doing a Q-and-A following the screening on Thursday. (He will not attend the Friday screening.) Resilience premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 22 , followed by several more screenings last week. Here's the description from the Resilience page on the Santa Barbara International Film Festival web...
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Free Trauma-Informed Yoga Summit
Started yesterday but you can still join and read / watch the previously presented information. I am just now doing the lesson from Day 1 (yesterday) and thought it would be great to share with this group. It's not just yoga! Day one has an interview with Dr. Daniel Brown on Healing and Attachment Trauma. What is Attachment Theory and the different types of attachment How does attachment type impact development How does attachment type impact trauma resolution Acute Trauma vs. Complex Trauma...
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Great videos on the what we are learning about telomeres (and how to lengthen them!)
I get daily updates Nutrition.org in which Dr. M Greger reports on the science of the benefits of plant based diets. Here he covers telemores and what science is showing related to meditation, exercise and diet for lengthening telemores. I found these videos very interesting but I won't be eating processed meats anytime soon! Research Into Reversing Aging Does Meditation Affect Cellular Aging? Telomeres: Cap It All Off with Diet
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Home offers mentally ill a new path to recovery (sandiegouniontribune.com)
Tucked away on a quiet cul-de-sac in an Escondido neighborhood, a group of mostly Jewish adults with mental illness are gradually taking back their lives. Chesed Home — “chesed” is Hebrew for “loving kindness”, is a 12-bed board-and-care center for the Jewish mentally ill. Its mission is to help residents build the self-sufficiency, working, coping and social skills to permanently transition to independent living. Since Chesed Home opened three years ago, nearly half of its 20 residents have...
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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 to Talk to Children about Violent Events
Anxiety. Fear. Sadness. Events like the Orlando shooting can generate strong emotions, especially in children. These emotions can last a few days or weeks. The County of San Diego’s Deputy Director for Behavioral Health Services, Dr. Piedad Garcia, offers some advice on how to talk to children–and how to cope in general—with violent events like this: Parents should be aware of their children’s responses and be ready to talk openly about them. “Each child manifests their distress...
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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 Gather for Restorative Practice / Restorative Justice Summit!
The Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices Summit drew more than 400 people to downtown San Diego last Friday for a day of learning about the science of childhood adversity and how San Diego’s organizations and institutions are implementing trauma-informed and restorative justice practices. Co-hosted by the Human Relations Commission and Commission on Gang Prevention & Intervention, the event brought together community residents, victims, service providers, youth, faith and civic...
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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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Job center at women’s reentry facility opens (workforce.org)
Opened in October, the center, managed by grant sub-recipient Second Chance, started enrolling participants, with the goal of offering trauma-informed reentry services to 400 women pre-release and to 100 of those 400 post-release. Enrollment of voluntary participants is based on three criteria. The individual must: be a resident of the facility be within 180 days of release have not been convicted of a sexual offense other than prostitution Though the goals are similar for both men and women...
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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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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: AVA Regional Academies: Building Trauma-Informed, Resilient, and Healthy Communities
This is a great article, thanks for writing it Jen! I wonder if Dr. Weit is able to share her screening tool for us to review and if so, when? Did she mention anything about that?
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Re: AVA Regional Academies: Building Trauma-Informed, Resilient, and Healthy Communities
Thanks Gail! It was truly an honor to be there. I am not sure about her ability to share their screening tool, but I can certainly reach out to Dr. Weit and ask. Will keep you posted!
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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: San Diego County jails make changes to treat mentally ill inmates, curb suicides (sandiegouniontribune.com)
Thank Dana for posting this article. As we know many men and women as well as adolescents and children end up in the prison system due to living adverse childhood experiences. We must work on preventing these and intervening as soon as possible. I appreciate seeing "Resilience" movie on April 28th and meeting Dr. Felitti. I am posting David Gussak's Phd ATR-BC article on "Drawing out the Violence" showing his work with prison population using art therapy. Of course we need to reach them...
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Commentary: Why so many black Americans are dying from COVID-19 and how to make health care equitable (sandiegouniontribune.com)
Evidence suggests that during the early phase of the coronavirus pandemic, blacks are suffering the greatest death rates compared to all other ethnic groups. Why? I can assure you that the coronavirus does not discriminate based upon skin color or ethnicity. Instead, it has a predilection for populations with the highest rates of chronic diseases, poor access to health care and too little information from trusted sources. For decades, the National Medical Association — which represents more...
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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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CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY: Parental ACEs and Pediatrics: Transforming Well Care [avahealth.org]
CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY (CAA) , funded by ACEs Aware, is providing free online training to Medi-Cal providers and others featuring: Practical strategies for integrating trauma-informed health care into your team’s practice that improves patients’ well being and the productivity of your practice. Meet colleagues with experience and success providing trauma-informed health care in their practices. Learn from national and local experts. Talk to other professionals from your region in small...
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A Better Normal Community Discussion - Reimagining Health Care
In a conversational style, join physician Drew Factor who will speak with Dr. Tracy Gaudet, Liza Guroff and An é Watts in a discussion entitled "Reimagining Health Care". Dr. Gaudet will speak about her experience engaging in transformational change at the Veterans Administration and how this has shaped the development of her own Functional Medicine Institute , while Ms. Guroff and Ms. Watts will speak about their knowledge of a Trauma-Informed Approach both at a systems (National Council...
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Public Statement from Leon L. Williams San Diego County Human Relations Commission
**Sending on behalf of Dr. Jennifer Tuteur, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Medical Care Services Division, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency** On October 22, 2020, the Leon L. Williams San Diego County Human Relations Commission met to discuss the election climate. The Commission released the following statement: The Leon L. Williams San Diego County Human Relations Commission promotes positive relations, respect, and the integrity of every individual regardless of gender,...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team January 8, 2021 Meeting
We had wonderful presentations from our mini-grant awardees at our January meeting, including the voice of lived-experience in solving Urban Domestic Human Sex Trafficking from Armand King and Jaimee Johnson and dealing with Workplace Trauma from Cambria Rose Walsh . Please see the attached handout and minutes, which include links to presentations and other valuable information.
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Join Feb. 17 peer learning forum on trauma-informed approaches during catastrophic events
Please see information below regarding the Prevention Institute’s upcoming peer learning forum on trauma-informed approaches during catastrophic events taking place on Wednesday, February 17 th from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM . Registration link below. Join Feb. 17 peer learning forum on trauma-informed approaches during catastrophic events What does it mean for a city or other local government to be trauma-informed and what might this look like during the COVID-19 pandemic? Agencies and...
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Two steps steps forward, one step back in history of racial equity (sandiegouniontribune.com)
San Diego County supervisors last week formally defined racism as a public health crisis, acknowledging for the first time that a broad and baked-in prejudice underpins virtually every aspect of public policy. The unanimous declaration came days ahead of the national holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and after a majority of Democrats was elected to the county board. Among other actions, the vote directed county officials to begin collecting data that will help them...
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Medical Board of California Features AAP-CA3, Dr. Wendy Pavlovich and Dr. Pradeep Gidwani
In a recent article titled, " Adverse Childhood Experiences: Breaking the Cycle in a Time of COVID-19 ," the Medical Board of California newsletter highlighted the work being done by the American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 3 , Dr. Wendy Pavlovich and Dr. Pradeep Gidwani.
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Pediatricians: schools must reopen now to relieve children's suffering [sandiegouniontribune.com]
By Kristen Taketa, The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 7, 2021 Pediatricians across San Diego County say they are deeply troubled by what they see school closures doing to children. Dr. Janet Crow, a pediatrician at UC San Diego, talks every day with middle and high school kids who are heading toward depression or are flat-out depressed, she said. One of her high school patients can’t bring himself to do Zoom school, she said. His mom isn’t there to help him because she is an essential...
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4 Ways The Pandemic Can Grow Your Character And Career (thriveglobal.com)
The pandemic has created a lot of heartbreak, fear and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the workforce. On top of our personal woes, many employees have grappled with fears of loved ones and themselves contracting Covid-19, not to mention the isolation and burnout of remote working and helping children with schoolwork. Although many of us have endured a lot of stress and mental health challenges, there’s good news on the horizon, known as post-traumatic growth (PTG)—the benefits...
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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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New KidsData.org Release: Positive Childhood Experiences During COVID-19 [positiveexperience.org/blog]
By Loren McCullough and Dr. Bob Sege, 3/11/21, positiveexperience.org/blog What’s going on with families during the COVID pandemic? In partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics , Prevent Child Abuse America , and with assistance and financial support from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) , The Lucile Packard Foundation , the California Department of Public Health , and KidsData.org , we surveyed California parents, to find out how they are doing during the...
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Burnout Isn't Just Exhaustion. Here's How To Deal With It (npr.org)
Whether working from home or not, many people are feeling burned out during the coronavirus pandemic. A new survey found that nearly 90% of respondents in more than 40 countries felt that their work lives were getting worse during the pandemic. And more than 60% felt that they were experiencing burnout often or very often. In 2019, the World Health Organization brought some attention to the issue by defining burnout as a syndrome associated with chronic stress at work that goes unmanaged.