Tagged With "Relish Life"
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There are more 16- to 24-year-olds not working or in school in San Diego than you might think (sandiegouniontribune.com)
There are 43,210 young people between the ages of 16 to 24 who are not in school or working in San Diego County, says a new report by the San Diego Workforce Partnership. The report, based on an analysis of the 2015 American Community Survey, shows almost 10 percent of the county’s youth are “disconnected” from school or work. Experts say that puts them at higher risk for long-term unemployment and poverty. Andy Hall, vice president and chief program officer at San Diego Workforce...
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From One Survivor to Another, Helping Survivors of Human Trafficking Escape and Stay Safe [sandiegotribune.com]
By Lisa Deaderick, The San Diego Tribune, December 22, 2019 Marjorie Saylor remembers a woman who was looking for help leaving her trafficker. The woman was pregnant and waiting for a bed at a shelter to open up, but she had to wait on the street, alone and in the cold. Her trafficker found her and took her with him. “I never heard from her again. She only had a week left to go before her bed opened up, but the two weeks she toughed it out waiting on the street kept her in harm’s reach,”...
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Symposium- South Region Sat Oct 12th 8:30AM-2:30PM
Please help spread the word about the upcoming South Region Grandparents Raising Grandchildren/Relative Caregiver Symposium to be held on Saturday, October 12 th (see more information attached and below). Thanks much and have a great weekend. Stay cool! We are excited to announce that the South Region Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (GRG) Relative Caregiver Symposium will be held on Saturday, October 12 th , 2019 from 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM at Vista Square Elementary | 540 G St. Chula Vista,...
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Group Advocating For Creation Of “Trauma-Informed” Legislation In Sacramento (kpbs.org)
Could state policies be improved by a greater understanding of the lingering effects of childhood trauma? That's the case that social workers and psychologists will be making to California legislators Tuesday as part a policymaker education day. The California Campaign to Combat Childhood Adversity wants lawmakers to learn about the effects of toxic stress resulting from childhood trauma, which they say can influence everything from health care to the economy . The campaign points to...
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Group Advocating For Creation Of ‘Trauma-Informed’ Legislation In Sacramento (kpbs.org)
Could state policies be improved by a greater understanding of the lingering effects of childhood trauma? That's the case that social workers and psychologists will be making to California legislators Tuesday as part a policymaker education day. The California Campaign to Combat Childhood Adversity wants lawmakers to learn about the effects of toxic stress resulting from childhood trauma, which they say can influence everything from health care to the economy . "California's children are in...
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Grow Your Trauma-Informed Mind: Help Them Go For The Gold
Those of us who get the trauma-informed movement understand how to put the dots together when were interviewing a new client. Our ear hears the pertinent details: the ACES, the Big Ts, the little ts and all the complexities as they tell us their story. We sit, knowing the many tools we can offer to help this hurting person cope, heal and recover. We validate, affirm and offer hope for a better future. We know we can help. We have gold to give them. But, not all who have suffered what we...
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Healing Your Inner Child Somatic & Expressive Arts Therapy Group
Most of us go through life ignoring and exiling our emotional pain and wounded inner child into the basement of our psyche in the interest of practical functioning. Yet, when we repress our difficult emotions, we unknowingly lock the limited beliefs that we formed in childhood firmly in place. During this group we will utilize somatic techniques and expressive arts to instead, witness our wounded inner child with mindful understanding and compassion. This experience is transformational;...
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Helping former foster youth start and finish a new chapter (sandiegouniontribune.org)
Jim Mickelson already had a background in social work, so when his wife became president of a local university and he noticed that the former foster youth who were students on campus weren’t succeeding at the same rate as other students, he came up with a plan. Now, he’s the founder and director of ACE Scholars Services at California State University, San Marcos, which works with former foster youth under the age of 30 who were in the foster care system from the time they were 13 for at...
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How Achieving Emotional Agility Can Help You — at Work and in Life (DailyGood.org)
Just like physical agility, emotional agility is important to overall health, well-being and successful relationships at work. But in a fast-paced world fraught with so much stress and upheaval, how do you achieve it? Psychologist Susan David, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, offers insights in a new book titled Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life . She spoke with Knowledge@Wharton about the "critical skill set" needed to achieve emotional...
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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 One Connection at CYW’s ACEs Conference Sparked Awareness into Action
Origins offers a number of training and consulting services. We developed The Basics as a half-day session to provide the foundation to support trauma-informed and resilience practices across sectors and industries. The session includes an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, the neurobiology of toxic stress, the impact of social and historical trauma, and the science of resilience. We have tested The Basics with two cross-sector audiences, in Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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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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JCCS Students Express Themselves, Learn Skills with Music Program (sdcoe.net)
When asked to express himself through music for the first time, a 17-year-old spending seven months in the East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility wrote a powerful song about what it felt like to miss his daughter's first steps and other milestones while detained. He was one of 24 students from San Diego SOAR Academy's East Mesa site who participated in a six-week program organized by the nonprofit group David's Harp Foundation . "The collaboration with David's Harp is more than music...
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JULY 24th Webinar: Collaboration and Mutuality: San Jose, CA Mayor’s Office of Prevention of Gang Violence
Monday, July 24, 2017 10:00:00 AM PDT - 11:30:00 AM PDT Collaboration and Mutuality: San Jose, CA Mayor’s Office of Prevention of Gang Violence. This collaborative model successfully developed and implemented will focus on prevention of gang violence and facilitating community healing through effective collaborations with grassroots stakeholders, including the faith based community, gang members, community providers, etc. Mario Maciel, Division Manager Mayor's Gang Prevention Task Force...
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Kids and Teens in Court Program at the Chadwick Center (ChadwickCenter.com)
"The Kids and Teens in Court program is one of the many programs at the Chadwick Center designed in accordance with the agency’s mission to provide prevention, intervention, and education programs to children and their families. The program assists children, teens, and their families for the courtroom experience by 1) teaching relaxation skills; 2) providing education about the court process and their rights and; 3) introducing the courtroom and offering an opportunity to participate in a...
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Kidsdata.org: The Generational Effects of Childhood Adversity
The Generational Effects of Childhood Adversity October 10, 2018 Childhood Hardships Among Women Who Recently Gave Birth, 2013-2014 Almost half of women in California who recently gave birth in 2013-2014 had experienced adversity as children. Childhood hardships , including family hunger, parental substance abuse, and basic needs not being met, can influence long term emotional health and impact the next generation. Mothers who had experienced childhood adversity are more likely to have...
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Legislation Signals Growing Support for Significance of Trauma Indicators [CaliforniaHealthline.org]
As a college student, Rob Bonta had a summer job working as a counselor for troubled kids. Now, two decades later he is bringing legislation to address some of the needs he saw then. “I worked with some of these kids as a counselor out of college, and I’d walk them home and hear some of these stories,” Assembly member Bonta (D-Oakland) said. “Shootings they heard. Or shootings they witnessed the night before.” It was the summer of his junior year at Yale, when...
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Life Skills Program Turns Probation Into Opportunity (countynewscenter.com)
Six probation youth, including former gang members, are putting themselves on a path to a brighter future with a new Life Skills program that exposes them to positive options and helps them prepare for a successful transition back into the community. The program is offered to high risk youth ages 16 to 19 by San Diego County Probation, San Diego Police Department and STAR/PAL , a nonprofit that connects members of law enforcement with children from low-income or troubled homes. On Tuesday,...
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Lincoln High dedicates new courtroom facility for mock trials, criminal justice classes (sandiegounified.org)
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Local family of six shares its adoption success story (cbs8.com)
A successful adoption story for, not only for the children, but also for their parents who say they weren't sure if they would even be allowed to adopt. The couple first began looking into adoption more than a decade ago and say they were discouraged by the lack of other gay couples wanting to do the same. But then, they learned San Diego County Adoptions welcomes same-sex couples. First, they welcomed David who was adopted in 2006 ending the turmoil for this little boy, who moved an...
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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: San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team
Lynn Sharpe Underwood Adjunct Faculty - Criminal Justice Systems Department Alliant International University, San Diego's small, private university A: 10455 Pomerado Road, Office: C-3 San Diego Cal, 92101 Note on use of email for confidential communications: This email is for routine matters only. By sending email to this address, you acknowledge that your email does not go through a secure server and communications by email cannot be guaranteed to be confidential. To Beam: Almost anything...
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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