Tagged With "May 1, 2020"
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Additional food resource for kinship families this summer: Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT)
While schools are closed due to COVID-19, families with students who were receiving free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at school can get up to $365 per child for groceries this summer. This federal nutrition benefit is called Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) and is available for families in addition to continued grab-and-go meal services at many school sites in San Diego County. Families who are Cal Fresh recipients and have not yet received the P-EBT card (they were sent by 5-25-20) need to go...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Minutes - May 1, 2020
It was nice to see so many attendees at our first all-virtual meeting! Attached are the meeting minutes, including announcements of our mini-grant recipients and how to apply for our next round of mini-grants !
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Local Affiliates Accelerate ACEs-and-Resilience Movement in Montana
In Toole County, Montana, deputy sheriffs call a school counselor, from their patrol cars, after responding to a traumatic incident—a domestic abuse call, an overdose, an arrest—that involves a child. “Handle with care,” they tell the counselor, and they give the child’s name. The counselor passes that information to teachers: a quiet heads-up that the student might be hungry or sleepy, tearful, angry or distracted by whatever happened at home. “My teachers love it,” says Mary Miller, chair...
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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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Hundreds of thousands of San Diego kids eligible for $365 for groceries in addition to grab-n-go meals (msn.com)
On Thursday, the San Diego Hunger Coalition announced that students who are enrolled in free or reduced-price school breakfasts and lunches are eligible to receive a one-time payment of $365 for groceries in addition to grab-n-go meals while schools are closed. It's all apart of the state's Pandemic-EBT program that launched on May 22. According to the San Diego Hunger Coalition, an estimated 250,000 kids are eligible for the payment. “If we can successfully enroll all kids who are eligible...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Meeting July 10, 2020
It was wonderful to "see" everyone at our virtual meeting in July! Attached are the meeting minutes and the Systemic Racism PowerPoint mentioned in our meeting.
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Visitor & Membership Meeting
SD-TIGT MEMBERSHIP MEETING AGENDA Noon Networking 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Meeting 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm September 4, 2020 Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81494025247?pwd=aGtwMzBLL0tvOXhTSTZ6WXRldCtHUT09 Meeting ID: 814 9402 5247 Passcode: RESILIENT Call mobile (669)900-912 I. Welcome: Networking Introductions (12:15 - 12:30) Chair Dana Brown] * Type Name/Organization/Role in ChatBox * Celebrate New Members (2nd Membership Meeting) II. Zoom Poll (12:30 - 12:35) * Geographical Region in...
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Responding to Co-Occurring Pandemics: COVID-19 and Anti-Black Racism
The Behavioral Health Workforce Collaborative presents Responding to Co-Occurring Pandemics: COVID-19 and Anti-Black Racism . The goal of this panel seminar is to discuss the co-occurring pandemics of COVID-19 and anti-Black racism by addressing organization culture and response, supporting workforce and engaging the community. Please see the attached flyer for more information and the link to register.
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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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#MeTooLGBTQ Virtual Conference 2020
Good afternoon. As you may know, the #MeTooLGBTQ Conference was to be held this past May and was postponed due to COVID-19. As an update, it has been re-scheduled to mid-October (10/15-10/17) and will be held virtually. The goal of the #MeTooLGBTQ conference is to increase culturally competent services for victims/survivors of sexual violence and relationship violence that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer and to create space for LGBTQ+ survivors to connect with each...
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Join our Free Virtual Presentation - SEX TRAFFICKING: BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY
SEX TRAFFICKING: BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY Tues Sep 15, 2020 1:00PM – 3:00PM Join us online - https://tinyurl.com/HST-BothSides A virtual discussion with lived experienced experts Jaimee Johnson, CEO Sisters of the Streets www.SistersoftheStreets.org Armand King, COO Paving Great Futures www.PavingGreatFutures.org Hosted by San Diego Domestic Violence Council and San Diego County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls More about our speakers: Jaimee Johnson: Jaimee Johnson is the founder...
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Colleges brace for rising anxiety and depression amid pandemic [edsource.org]
From EdSource, September 12, 2020 With nearly three-fourths of 18-29 year olds reporting they are feeling down, hopeless or depressed, California colleges are attempting to respond to the rising mental health needs of students during the coronavirus pandemic. Isolation, with students confined to studying online, has heightened their sense of loss and hindered colleges’ ability to identify those needing help. California’s community colleges, which serve by far the largest number of college...
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RSVP now! FREE Learning opportunity for CA healthcare providers: Oct 1, 2020 at noon PST
RSVP now for a presentation by Susie Wiet, MD who is an integrative developmental psychiatrist with expertise in holistic treatment of trauma-addiction, dual diagnosis, and complex psychiatric disorders. Target Audience T his activity is intended for CALIFORNIA physicians, physician assistants, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, psychologists and social workers engaged in the care of patients who have experienced violence or trauma. Educational Objectives After completing these...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team March 6, 2020 Meeting Minutes
Oops... Attached are the minutes and handouts from our March meeting. My apologies for the delay in getting the minutes posted. This fell through the cracks at the beginning of the pandemic.
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team September 4, 2020 Meeting Minutes
Thanks to all who attended our last meeting and to Linda Williams, Louise Mettler and Brianda Vargas for the wonderful presentation on the Rowan Elementary School Community Connection Circles they created using the mini-grant they received! Rowan Elementary Community Circles (Community Mini-Grant Award) See attached for meeting minutes and handouts. We hope to see you at our November 6th Learning Exchange meeting focused on culture and trauma!
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La Jolla pediatric office to pilot new childhood trauma screening, citing importance during COVID-19 [lajollalight.com]
By Ashley Mackin-Solomon, La Jolla Light, September 28, 2020 A La Jolla pediatric office is one of a select few to pilot a new screening and treatment program for adverse childhood experiences, known as ACEs, as a way to lessen the possible long-term negative health effects associated with them. Through an initiative known as ACEs Aware, a first-of-its-kind effort led by the California surgeon general’s office and the Department of Health Care Services to cut ACEs and related stress in half...
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Introducing 'A Better Normal': Real Talk With Rafael! October 16, 2020, 12pm PDT
Real Talk with Rafael is joining the A Better Normal (ABN) webinar series. Real Talk with Rafael i s designed to give the ACEs Connection community and guests an opportunity to have a safe space to talk about issues around the intersections of race, identity, and toxic stress. For those of you who attended the ABN “Episode 32: Reinterpreting American Identity, A Community Discussion” , you’ll recognize that Real Talk with Rafael is very similar, and will continue these conversations over...
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Hope and Progress, No Matter What! — an ACEs Connection/Cambia Health Foundation “Better Normal”, Oct. 22, 2020
The election is upon us. In two short weeks, we voters in this country decide who will lead us for the next four years. We have the opportunity to embrace — as a national priority — the tenets of understanding, nurturing and healing that underlie the science of adverse childhood experiences and move in a direction that embraces cultural and racial equity and anti-racism. Or not.
What is clear is that no matter what, the ACEs movement will continue.
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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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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team: Learning Exchange: Membership & Visitor Meeting
A VIETNAMESE-BILINGUAL AND BI-CULTURAL MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST IN THE GREATER SAN DIEGO AREA. SHE IS A CERTIFIED TRAUMA-FOCUSED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY THERAPIST. SHE’S CURRENTLY THE PROGRAM MANAGER WITH MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS,. INC. SERVING ADULT AND OLDER ADULT (AOA) INDIVIDUALS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS (SMI). PRESENTING ON HOW TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE COULD BE PROVIDED THROUGH A CULTURAL LENS, WHERE WE WOULD EXAMINE OUR OWN CULTURAL SELF-IDENTIFY AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR CULTURAL...
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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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Caring and Capable Kids: 51 songs playlist by Linda K. Williams
CARING AND CAPABLE KIDS 51 Songs with Resources for Social Emotional Learning Music Therapy and Developing Resilience Empathy Trauma-Informed Lens Caring and Capable Kids book INNERCHOICE Publishing https://www.innerchoicepublishing.com/book/caring-and-capable-kids/ A two-pager is attached with links, too.
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Learning Exchange November 6, 2020
Our first virtual Learning Exchange was a success! Melissa Tran-Chamblin, AMFT provided an informative presentation, illustrated by her personal experiences, on Trauma-Informed Care Through a Cultural Lens, after which attendees divided into virtual break out groups to discuss their responses to Melissa's presentation. See attached for meeting minutes and Melissa's PowerPoint presentation.
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United Way receives nearly $450,000 for childhood improvement project (KUSI News)
KUSI Newsroom, December 8, 2020. SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The United Way of San Diego County announced Tuesday it received a grant of nearly $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health intended to give families more economic resources and support to improve childhood experiences. The nonprofit was one of 23 across the nation to receive the funding. The organization will use the money from the Office of Minority Health to form a three-year partnership...
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San Diego for Every Child
A year ago, we officially launched San Diego for Every Child . On January 15, 2020, with more than a year of preparation and the help of many individuals, families, and organizations, we declared that the decade to tackle the experience of child poverty in San Diego County was upon us. The time was now. And it was going to take all of us, moving in the same direction, to achieve that goal. Then COVID-19 hit. In honor of our shared vision—a San Diego where every child has healthy food, stable...
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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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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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City of San Diego COVID-19 Housing Stability Assistance Program
The City of San Diego COVID-19 Housing Stability Assistance Program helps to pay past-due, unpaid rent and utilities for individuals and families with low income in the City of San Diego who experience financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Households with income at or below 80 percent of San Diego’s Area Median Income ($92,400 per year for a family of four) may qualify if they are obligated to pay rent, have experienced a reduction in income or other financial hardship due to...
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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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Free Mindfulness Apps Worthy of Your Attention (mindful.org)
There’s no shortage of mindfulness and meditation apps these days, promising to help you combat anxiety, sleep better , hone your focus, and more. In fact, the Wall Street Journal reports that more than 2,000 new meditation apps launched between 2015 and 2018, and offerings have only increased as a result of higher demand during the pandemic—according to the New York Times , mindfulness apps surged in 2020. We took the overwhelm out of finding the most valuable and easy-to-use mindfulness...
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Early Childhood Health Equity Landscape Project (childtrends.org)
Early Childhood Health Equity (ECHE) work strengthen s early childhood systems to support healthy child development and reduce health inequities that can have a lifelong impact. T o help policymakers, advocates, communities, and familie s understand efforts to improve health equity and the well-being of children and families , t he Early Childhood Health Equity Initiative Explorer presents information about 143 cross -sector initiatives that aim to advance health equity for young children...