Tagged With "Sonoma County ACEs Connection"
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Re: Mobilizing our Community
You guys and gals are so lucky to be there. I would give my shirt, pants and my car to be a part of your team. It is kind of hard kind-of going this alone but good thing I am passionate about this. I don't give up. And I can come on this page and ACEs in Philadelphia and Community Managers and steal ideas!!!!!!!!!!! Tina
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Re: Sonoma County ACEs Connection Meeting Minutes June 2017
Hi Remy , Looking forward to connecting on Thursday . I know Holly will be there too so hopefully she will grab us a table as there will be 4 or 5 of us from HSD. Leslie Leslie Weaver Sonoma County Economic Assistance Senior Eligibility Specialist lweaver@schsd.org 707-565-3498
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Re: Plan to participate! May 22, 2018 Policy Maker Education Day in Sacramento!
Thank you, Holly! I'm sorry that I have not gotten back to you re Lilliput - can someone from the speakers bureau do it? I am not trying to make excuses - my geographic area was just up to Oregon - now it includes OR and WA .... so lots to do. My role is to help folks establish AC community groups. I am sorry!! On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:14 PM, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: SCAC meeting notes for 8.28.19 community meeting
Thanks, Jacob - I appreciate you making time to help make these connections! Hope to connect soon. Karen
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Community meeting today at 3:30 via Zoom! Please join us!
Sonoma County ACEs Connection usually meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month - which is today. We cancelled the March and April meetings due to Covid. What do you think of using Zoom during this time of shelter in place? Please know that you can use Zoom with your camera off - only using audio. Or if you feel comfortable joining with video that would be awesome - but no pressure. Do what feels right. If you would like to connect via Zoom today at 3:30 - even briefly - to share thoughts,...
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Re: ‘I wouldn’t raise kids here’: Residents grapple with racism in Healdsburg (Press Democrat)
Thank you, @Sue Stephenson ! I look forward to the next opportunity we have to connect. Wishing you health and peace, Karen
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Re: ‘I wouldn’t raise kids here’: Residents grapple with racism in Healdsburg (Press Democrat)
On Monday, June 22, 2020, 10:47:32 AM PDT, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com > wrote: | == To reply by email, write above this line. == | | | | | Hello, Sue Stephenson: You were mentioned by Karen Clemmer (ACEs Connection Staff) in the following blog post comment. | Title: ‘I wouldn’t raise kids here’: Residents grapple with racism in Healdsburg (Press Democrat) Comment By: Karen Clemmer (ACEs Connection Staff) Subgroup: Sonoma County ACEs Connection (CA) | | Thank...
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ACEs screening is about building relationships, says early adopter
Whether or not to screen for ACEs in primary care is an important debate—and I hear and respect the passion from both sides of the argument. I fall in the “pro-ACE assessments” camp, but with some important caveats. I think that assessments for ACEs are dramatically different from screening for autism or developmental delays. In my opinion, assessments for ACEs in primary care should be primarily about building relationships.
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Family Therapy is now a Medi-Cal Benefit
Medi-Cal has just published new policy making family therapy a covered benefit for children and adults with mental health disorders and for children who are at risk for mental health disorders. This will be especially relevant for children with ACEs. Under the guidance of the California Department of Health Care Services, the Medi-Cal fee-for-service program aims to provide health care services to about 13 million Medi-Cal beneficiaries. The Medi-Cal fee-for-service program adjudicates both...
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Friendly Reminder: our July meeting is Weds 7/22 at 3:30!
Please join our July Zoom meeting - all are welcome! If you prefer, there is a call in option too. ZOOM LINK or see calendar for more details. So much is happening across the county (and beyond) so maybe we can put our heads together and find ways to support this important work! See below for the draft agenda and the attached references: 1 OCAP released their strategic plan 2020-2025 2 MCH released a report on how health inequities emerge before birth 3 EfC just released Trauma Informed...
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CALQIC Announces Grantees for its ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative for 2020-2021 [careinnovations.org]
The Center for Care Innovations and our partners are pleased to announce the grant recipients of the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC). Led by the UCSF Center to Advance Trauma-Informed HealthCare in partnership with CCI, the California Office of the Surgeon General, and the Rand Corporation, CALQIC is the learning and quality improvement arm of ACES Aware, the initiative led by the Office of the California Surgeon General and the Department of Health...
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CALQIC Announces Grantees for its ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative for 2020-2021 [careinnovations.org]
The Center for Care Innovations and our partners are pleased to announce the grant recipients of the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC). Led by the UCSF Center to Advance Trauma-Informed HealthCare in partnership with CCI, the California Office of the Surgeon General, and the Rand Corporation, CALQIC is the learning and quality improvement arm of ACES Aware, the initiative led by the Office of the California Surgeon General and the Department of Health...
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Notes from the July 22, 2020 SCAC meeting!
*Click the green hyperlinks for more information! Thank you to all who found their way to our Zoom call. There were a couple bumps in the road (e.g. me not checking to see if folks were waiting to be added to the call - yikes) and lessons learned. The Sonoma County ACEs Connection meeting invite/agenda can be found here . The afternoon of Wednesday July 22, 2020 nine people representing a variety of organizations such as: a community advocacy group, a community champion, an advisory board...
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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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California ACEs Academy Event: The Repressed Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Adult Well-Being, Disease and Social Functioning: Turning Gold into Lead
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...
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Support: Mothers & Babies group
Mothers & Babies Mondays | September 21 - November 23 | 10 sessions | 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm FREE online group REGISTER NOW Add To My Calendar Being pregnant or becoming a new parent can be stressful in the best of circumstances. The pandemic and recent wildfires have only added to that uncertainty - moms need our support and community more now than ever. Join CPI for Mothers & Babies, a 10-week online support group for pregnant moms or new moms. Connect with other mothers and create...
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"It's All Connected": NJEA ACEs Task Force Reaches Beyond Educators
The March meeting of the New Jersey Education Association’s ACEs Task Force opened without an agenda. It was a virtual gathering with more than 50 people—educators, social workers, professionals in pediatrics, juvenile justice and child abuse prevention. The pandemic had landed emphatically close to home, with a governor’s order to close all schools on March 18, and participants were grappling with what that meant for their students, their families and themselves. So ACEs Task Force co-chair...
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ACE Impact Team Aligns Efforts to Help Newark Residents Reach Greatest Potential
Five years of convening Newark’s ACE Impact Team has taught Keri Logosso-Misurell a crucial lesson: Fight the urge to reinvent the wheel.
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Introducing the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival & Follow-Up Discussions
Transform Trauma with ACEs Sciences Film Festival & Follow-Up Discussions The following weekend watch parties and follow-up discussions are co-hosted by ACEs Connection, The Relentless School Nurse , and The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP) . We appreciated the filmmakers for making these films free to watch for our members and for the public programming of PBS. The films we’ll feature are as follows: Portraits of Professional Caregivers Whole People Part 1...
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Introducing the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival & Follow-Up Discussions
Transform Trauma with ACEs Sciences Film Festival & Follow-Up Discussions The following weekend watch parties and follow-up discussions are co-hosted by ACEs Connection, The Relentless School Nurse , and The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP) . We appreciated the filmmakers for making these films free to watch for our members and for the public programming of PBS. The films we’ll feature are as follows: Portraits of Professional Caregivers Whole People Part 1...
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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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Chalk it up with Peace
Celebrate United Nations International Day of Peace! Although we cannot do a big celebration all together we CAN still connect and be united. Chalk it up with Peace is a Peacetown project designed to bring our community together through the promotion of peace through street art. Take your families out on Monday September 21st and spread the love! You can "chalk it up" at parks, in the Barlow, town square, or even in your own neighborhood. Need chalk? You can purchase chalk at Toyworks or Art...
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Sonoma County ACES Connection Monthly Meeting
We invite anyone to attend our meetings. ALL voices are important. Please note that I am stepping into the position as Community Manager for SCAC and will be facilitating the meeting. If you have something you would like for me to add to the agenda you can email me at: elizabeth@projectwholechild.com or call (530) 329-5109. Guests welcome! Be sure that the zoom link has the last 3 numbers 660, as there was another Zoom link that is no longer being used. September 23rd at 3:30-4:30PM Join...
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ACEs & Trauma-Informed Pediatric Care in COVID-19 [ucsfbenioffchildrens.org]
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Portal & Center for Child & Community Health Register now and be eligible for 5 hours of AMA Category 1 CME credit and ABP MOC Part 2 credit. Saturday, October 10, 2020 8am - 3:30 pm Recognizing & Addressing Childhood Trauma - Dayna Long MD Trauma-Informed Care Principles in COVID-19 - Saun-Toy Trotter MFT & Ken Epstein LCSW, PhD Patient Perspective - Jen Leland MFT & Joan Jeung MD Early Adopters Discuss...
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Free Resilience Training for MediCal Providers
Dovetail Learning is offering resilience training for MediCal providers to increase provider resilience to mitigate the affects of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue that comes with doing the ACEs screening itself. We Are Resilient™ is a research based set of skills for providers and patients to become their most resilient self. Here is the link to register for Part 1 of 2 for a 90 minute training: We Are Resilient™ Training (free to medical providers) in October (date TBD) For a little...
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Data-Driven, Cross-Sector: Bounce Coalition Boosts Trauma-Informed Change in Kentucky
Student suspension rates dropped. Teacher retention rose. Membership in the PTA swelled from zero to more than 200. More kids said in a survey that there was at least one adult at school whom they could talk to if they had a problem. The data—a comparison of the Bounce Coalition’s pilot school and one with similar demographics—told the Kentucky resilience-boosting group that they were on the right track. The Bounce Coalition formed in 2014; the catalyst was a grant from the Foundation for a...
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Sonoma County ACES Connection Meeting Notes 9/23
Welcome https://www.acesconnection.com/g/sonoma-county-aces-connection Grounding activity - Introductions - Invited each of 15 in attendance to introduce themselves and share what brings them to this gathering. Alison Lobb - Mind Body Skills group cohort - these groups count toward parole officer education hours. Now have a waiting list of 3-4 people! Project coordination for mental health collaboration project - during pretrial period - support transition into community and treatment -...
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Ripple Effect: Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Partners with Schools and Service Providers to Build Trauma-Informed Community in Michigan
The week of the fall equinox was Mino-Bimaadiziwin Wellness Week at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy (SCA) in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, a pre-K through 5th grade school of about 130 students. “Mino-Bimaadiziwin” is an Anishinabe phrase meaning “to live the good life.” At the school, it started with “Mindfulness Monday”—students were encouraged to wear their favorite “thinking cap”—then segued to “Take care of our bodies Tuesday,” a “Love Your Community Wednesday" that included talking circles, and...
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From Wildfires to Childhood Trauma, a Resilience Cooperative Transformed the Way Clinics Face the Unthinkable
What helped Sonoma health center staffers navigate one catastrophe after another was what they had learned about trauma in the Resilient Beginnings Collaborative.
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Sonoma County field nurses use ACEs science to educate families
Santa Rosa, CA, resident Lisa Marden watches her 15-month-old baby gleefully play with magic markers and relays how she’s been coping with feeling anxious. (We're using a pseudonym to protect the family's privacy.) “I’m just super stressed out with everything, and as soon as I eat anything, I get nauseous, so I’ve been eating snacks instead of meals,” she explains to Liz George, a field nurse with the Maternal/Child Field Nursing team of Sonoma County, CA, who has been seeing Marden on home...
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Funding Opportunity: California Preterm Birth Initiative
The California Preterm Birth Initiative is pleased to share our spring 2021 request for applications for innovative research proposals on preterm birth! About the Opportunity Twice a year, in the spring and fall, we request research proposals via the UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP). The spring RAP applications are due by March 1st. What We're Looking For We are looking for proposals focused on: Reducing preterm birth rates Addressing racial disparities in preterm birth and/or...
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National Parent Leadership Month Collaboration
Hi all! I am excited to share with you that Sonoma County ACEs Connection has partnered with Project Whole Child, Dovetail Learning, Early Learning Institute, Santa Rosa Junior College, Sonoma Parent Voices, First 5 Sonoma County, and Children's Trust Fund Alliance to offer a small but significant gesture to showing our local families that they are seen and supported. We acknowledge what a challenging year this has been for families and want them to know they are doing a good job! The value...
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Agenda SCAC Monthly Meeting
Monthly Meeting February 24th 3:00-4:30 PM Location: Zoom Sonoma County ACEs Connection About this community: We bring the community together to prevent, heal, treat, and move beyond ACEs while promoting resiliency. Sonoma County ACEs Connection had a focus in 2021, with an emphasis on community, while seeking opportunities to leverage and coordinate with others. The agenda times are suggested and can be flexible. Look forward to seeing you on the call. Agenda Items 3:00-3:05 Introductions-...
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February SCAC Meeting Notes
Wow, what a full and informative meeting we had last month. Thank you to all those that was able to attend. All voices are valued and need to be heard. Everyone has a seat at our table :) Our meeting started out with introductions from over 20 community members in attendance. Ellen Barnett of Imagine YOU shared a mindful moment with the group and guided us through a powerful "What Matters Most" technique. SCAC partnered with Sonoma First 5, Dovetail Learning, Early Learning Institute,...
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Sonoma Connect, a New ACEs network of care is now hiring!
Sonoma Connect is the new initiative funded through ACEs Aware to build a network of care to prevent, address and heal ACEs throughout Sonoma County. We are currently hiring two full-time contracted positions - Network Manager and Initiative Support Specialist - to help rapidly grow and support a system that allows people to get the resources they need, when they need it, to be resilient. As part of the backbone staff for the network you will have the opportunity to work with Medi-Cal...
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CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY - Session 8 with Robert Sege, MD, PhD | April 22
CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY LIVE WEBINAR with FREE CME/CE Educate, Inspire, Connect HOPE: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences presented by Dr. Robert Sege Thursday, April 22, 2021 | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (PT) This interactive session will describe how ACEs screening can be enhanced by also considering HOPE: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Childhood Experiences. Children’s brains develop in response to their experiences, both adverse and beneficial. Just as adverse childhood experiences can...
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NEW TRAINING ACTIVITY RELEASED - SHARING THE SCORE: Responding to an ACEs Questionnaire with Empathy and Care
NEW TRAINING ACTIVITY RELEASED SHARING THE SCORE: Responding to an ACEs Questionnaire with Empathy and Care ______________________________ ACES AWARE We are honored to join The ACEs Aware Initiative, funded and led by the Office of the California Surgeon General and the Department of Health Care Services, which hopes to lead a nationwide movement to significantly improve health and well-being in our communities by providing trainings to Medi-Cal providers and the networks of human serving...
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Sonoma Connect: a Network of Care funded effort
Sonoma Connect is a county-wide, community collaborative to prevent, address and heal ACEs. Providence Santa Rose Hospital was the lead applicant to ACEs Aware for a large partnership of entities committed to the vision of reducing ACEs in a generation. The collaborative received $2.97m to fund systems work that helps clinics adopt screening practices, builds capacity in clinics and within community based organization to respond to those screens, and supports the creation of permanent...
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April Meeting Notes
Agenda *Welcome *Mindful Moment *Introductions *Early Learning Institute-Kathy Kelley *2020 Mortality Report of Sonoma County- Jenny Mercado *Steering Committee Report *ACEs Connection-Karen Clemmer *Action/Future Agenda items Welcome & mindful moment Welcome & introductions -Elizabeth Smith, Sonoma County ACEs Connection Community Manager -Paige Loeven, Project Specialist, West County Health Centers -Michael Ellison, Buckelew Programs Administrative Assistant & Community...
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Upcoming Creative Community Partnerships Conference in your Region!
PACEs Connection is excited to be hosting a conference, in partnership with Genentech, on Friday, May 14, 2021! We are bringing together our most active ACEs champions in a half-day event, to connect, learn from each others’ work, establish long-lasting relationships, and spark opportunities to collaborate. The event will include: Highlights from local county based ACEs initiatives; Special panels on PACEs advances in juvenile justice and education Interactive, toolkit building “World Cafe”...
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Hope for Change Community Circle
Join us for a Hope for Change community circle. The Hope for Change community circle is an invitation to connect and share what your hope for change is in Sonoma County. May 4th 3:30-5pm. For more information email: erika.klohe@stjoe.org
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Sebastopol Community Needs Summit
There will be a Sebastopol Community Needs Summit, which will be held (on Zoom) on May 12, from 4-7:30pm. This is a collaborative effort among many service clubs in the area to assess community needs. As the Community Manager of Sonoma County ACEs Connection, I have been asked to serve on a panel to discuss mental health, and PACEs. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or if you would like to provide your input on what the needs are for Sebastopol specifically around PACEs...
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Racial Equity and Health Justice
Racism negatively affects the mental and physical health of millions of people. The CDC and the AMA release plans to address health inequity. Sonoma County announces Core Equity Team.
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Sonoma County Resources
Did you know you can locate resources in Sonoma County? Here is the link to check it out! http://www.partnershiphp.org/Community/Pages/Sonoma-County-Resources.aspx
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Childcare providers use two- generational approach to help preschoolers from being expelled
It’s shocking: Preschoolers are three times more likely to be expelled than children in elementary, middle and high school, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Boys are four times more likely than girls to be kicked out, and African American children are twice as likely as Latinx and White children. One organization with childcare centers and mental health providers in Kentucky and Ohio began a long journey 15 years ago, when they began hearing about...
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California PACEs Connection initiatives spark new connections in regional meeting
Among PACEs Connection initiatives around the country, it’s well known that our social network is something like a bustling, giant town square where people share ideas, resources and any number of conversations about how to prevent childhood adversity and promote positive childhood experiences. On May 14, PACEs Connection assembled a virtual town square gathering of PACEs initiatives in California, where we have 58 initiatives sparking action all across the state. Speakers at the gathering,...
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June Meeting Notes
SCAC Zoom meeting 6.24.21 Agenda *Welcome *Deep Breathing/Grounding Moment *Introductions *Dovetail Learning Presentation-Bryan Clement *Wildfire Resources to buffer toxic stress *Peacetown outreach opportunity *SCAC Social *Open Discussion *Action/Future Agenda items Welcome & mindful moment Welcome & introductions -Elizabeth Smith, Sonoma County ACEs Connection Community Manager -Paige Loeven, Project Specialist, West County Health Centers -Michael Ellison, Buckelew Programs...
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Peacetown and Sonoma County ACEs Connection awareness
It is that time of year, summer.. Summer means Peacetown! This is a FREE community summer concert series from July 7th-September 8th from 4:30-7:30PM in The Barlow, Sebastopol. One element of Peacetown is the Family Village, this is a space for families to play, engage, and have access to local resources. Every week organizations come and have authentic community engagement and conversation that provides positive experiences for both the families and the children. Sonoma County ACEs...
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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...