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By Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2020 Students in the Bonny Doon school district had been back in class — virtually — for two days before the wildfires forced them to evacuate, many fleeing for their lives in the middle of the night Wednesday. Teachers and students lost homes to the powerful wildfires raging through the charming, wooded town in the Santa Cruz Mountains. School had just started, but now Superintendent Mike Heffner, who is also the principal of the...

Reminder: Tomorrow, Weds at 3:30 , is our standing Sonoma County ACEs Connection meeting. If you have items for the agenda, let me know. Please consider sharing any updates / asks / new materials etc! Plan to participate via Zoom - with or without the video. Join Zoom Meeting - Click on this link or paste it into your browser. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88112594598?pwd=ZGlyKzBvdndieVk3bW10SmpWVm1tQT09 See you soon!

Thursday, September 3, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT | presented by Dr. Vincent J. Felitti *Priority will be given to Medi-Cal providers* The ACE Study reveals how typically unrecognized adverse childhood experiences are not only common, but causally underlie a number of the most common causes of adult social malfunction, biomedical disease, and premature death. Moreover, it enables one to see that the Public Health Problem is often an individual’s attempted Solution to childhood experiences...

Check out what we are doing at Peacetown Family Village ! Please share your ideas to promote peace, self-care, and neuro regulation!

The California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA) invites your participation in an upcoming 1.5 hour interactive webinar entitled “ The Impacts of COVID-19 on California’s Children, Families, and Communities ” on August 27, 2020, from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PST that will explore the economic impacts of COVID-19 and how it has affected, and continues to affect, California communities. Featuring a panel of experts, Dr. Flojaune Cofer, Public Health Advocates, All Children Thrive, California...

Check out the innovative way we are engaging the community during these times of social distancing! The Peacetown Family Village is creating space for communities to come together and build on the Protective Factors and strengthen communities. View the video for more information. https://youtu.be/DQPZHIqadt4

From CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY, Academy on Violence & Abuse, August, 2020 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...

In Sebastopol although schools will be held via distance learning there will be an in person element available for 12 students per grade at the after care facility with a public school. The students will be either parent pay or be subsidized. It is required the children be full time to be considered for the program. I am working ways ACEs and the Protective Factors can support the children, staff, and families while working with the community as well as how to capture the pulse of how people...

Local Sebastopol non-profit Peacetown is spreading joy and community engagement through the Family Village's project called Peace Bags. Every week for 13 weeks a different local organization "sponsors" a week by providing printed resources and an activity that supports community connection, family engagement, and some fun. The bags are distributed for FREE in collaboration with a local toy store. I happen to come across a conversation on one of the posts I made regarding Peace Bags. The post...

Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: One-Pager

Peacetown Family Village is a concept I have been cultivating around building resilient communities. Creating space for families and community to come together, maximizing resources, sharing knowledge of parenting and child development, have concrete support in times of need, establish positive social connections, and nourish the needs of children's social and emotional well being. https://youtu.be/IyXwMf2IqdA

We’re bringing back our Telephone Town Halls to discuss the latest updates on the recent coronavirus surges in Sonoma and Marin Counties and we hope you can join us. Here’s our bottom line: We want you to have the latest, most accurate information from the medical professionals who are on the front lines combating this virus and know how you can best protect yourself and your family. We’ll provide the very latest updates from the Sonoma County and Marin County Public Health Officers, and...