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Prevention is Essential: Collective Impact Coalition Promotes Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments for All Maryland’s Children
When members of Maryland’s State Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (SCCAN) began in 2006 to examine what their state was doing in the realm of prevention, they discovered a gaping hole. Many participants in the 23-member Council—people working in child welfare, mental health, law enforcement and advocacy groups—knew about ACEs and about the corrosive effects of early childhood maltreatment. But they discovered, through informational interviews across different sectors and an environmental...
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“Unite in a Common Cause”: Minnesota Tribal Communities Use NEAR Science to Address Trauma and Promote Healing
As the Minnesota trainers expected—and welcomed—the ACE trainings in tribal settings began late and lasted for hours: multiple generations of people from the White Earth and Fond du Lac communities gathering around simmering Crock-Pots of food, sharing stories, standing in line to talk with the trainers afterward. Once, a White Earth elder was the only person to show up for a presentation, recalls Linsey McMurrin, Director of Prevention Initiatives and Tribal Projects for FamilyWise Services...
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100% Community Initiative Builds Vital Services So New Mexico Kids Can Thrive
The deaths of several New Mexico children in recent years—a 13-year-old whose father was accused of fatally torturing him; an eight-year-old who was kicked to death by her mother; a girl raped, strangled and stabbed by her mother’s boyfriend the night before her 10th birthday—drew horror, outrage and scrutiny of the state’s child welfare system. Those incidents drove child welfare and public health specialists Katherine Ortega Courtney and Dominic Cappello to examine the data. Cappello and...
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Listening, Learning and Showing Up: Central Oregon's TRACEs Focuses on Root Causes of Trauma
TRACEs’ work group on youth and children in foster care spent a good portion of the last year’s monthly meetings examining holes in the system: How would foster families be affected by changes in funding from the Oregon Department of Human Services? What would it mean for kids if Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) positions were cut? Most important, what did foster children and youth, their families of origin and their foster families need in order to thrive? “We put together a...
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ACEs science transformed David Magallon’s life, now he’s a parent educator
Learning about ACEs science changed David Magallon’s life in a profound way — and now he’s made it part of his mission to share that knowledge with other parents who really need it. Since 2017, Magallon has served as a court referral programs manager at the Child Parent Institute (CPI) in Santa Rosa, California. The non-profit agency offers child therapy, parent education, and other resources for families throughout Sonoma County. Magallon works with families in a probation program mandated...
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Protective Factors Framework in your work Introduction
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Protective Factors Framework in your work Introduction
Join us for a FREE workshop exploring the Protective Factors Framework Introduction. The Strengthening Families Framework helps ensure optimal outcomes for children and their families by implementing strategies that strengthen families, build protective factors, promote individual growth, help systems be more responsive to families and children, and strengthen communities’ capacities as safe and healthy environments. The workshop will cover: Introduction to the 5 Protective Factors that help...
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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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Nashville’s Purposeful Twist on ACEs: All Children Excel
In 2015, the pieces that became ACE Nashville began to fall into place. A five-year Community Health Improvement Plan included the support of mental and emotional health as one of its three goals. A core team of individuals from the Metro Public Health Department (MPHD), Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee and the Family Center, a non-profit focused on breaking generational cycles of child trauma, began to meet weekly. And a citywide “consensus workshop” in April of that year—drawing 44...
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Empower Action Model Provides Framework for Strategic Coalitions in South Carolina's Marlboro County and Beyond
Lauren Szymonik kept posing the same questions to members of the Empower Action coalition in Marlboro County: “What is the data telling you? What is the data saying about education? What is the data telling you about trauma?” The numbers were clear: according to 2014-16 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) surveys, 56% of the county’s 24,000 adults had experienced at least one ACE. In 2017-18, there were 212 cases of child maltreatment, including abuse and neglect, among the...
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Standards of Quality for Families through Best Practice Webinar
What does it mean to be a quality Family Strengthening and Support Program? What common language can we use for working effectively with families? How can managers, direct service staff, and families work together to develop and sustain quality programs? Based on the Principles of Family Support Practice and the Strengthening Families Framework and its research-based evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors, the nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support...
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FIRST CALIFORNIA SURGEON GENERAL’S REPORT PROVIDES CLEAR CROSS-SECTOR ROADMAP TO ADDRESS HEALTH AND SOCIETAL IMPACTS OF ADVERSITY
SACRAMENTO – The Office of the California Surgeon General today released the first California Surgeon General’s Report - Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General's Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health. The report serves as a blueprint for how communities, states, and nations can recognize and effectively address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress as a root cause to some of the most harmful, persistent, and expensive societal and...
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January Sonoma County ACEs Connection Notes
Jan 28,2021 meeting notes: 6 local parents were recognized for National Parent Leadership Month, acknowledging what a challenging year that has been and supporting a community that sees, values, and supports its families. Castle Daycare and Preschool was recognized as a Community Organization Champion that is going above and beyond to provide elementary students with an in person experience while doing Distance Learning, prevent ACEs, and buffer toxic stress. Thank you! Elizabeth Vermilyea...
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Dovetail offering FREE We Are Resilient Circles
Join Our Next We Are Resilient Free General Online Circle! Do you ever feel stress? Want to Strengthen Your Resilience? Join our We Are Resilient General Circle. Together we will explore how to strengthen your personal resilience, through virtual small group discussion and exercises. You will: Begin to notice Protective Patterns in yourself and others Learn six practical research-based Centering Skills Develop a more resilient mindset This circle meets once a week for six weeks and provides...
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Dovetail offering FREE We Are Resilient Circles
Join Our Next We Are Resilient Free General Online Circle! Do you ever feel stress? Want to Strengthen Your Resilience? Join our We Are Resilient General Circle. Together we will explore how to strengthen your personal resilience, through virtual small group discussion and exercises. You will: Begin to notice Protective Patterns in yourself and others Learn six practical research-based Centering Skills Develop a more resilient mindset This circle meets once a week for six weeks and provides...
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Introduction, Santa Rosa Forward Website, and Survey/ Presentación, Sitio Web y Encuesta de Santa Rosa Forward [srcity.org]
Dear community members, schools, and organizations , My name is Beatriz Guerrero Auna and I am an Equity and Public Health Planner in the City of Santa Rosa. I am part of the team that is working on updating the General Plan. This process will develop a community’s long-term vision for the city and will sets goals and policies that will shape housing, transportation, business, industry, open space, schools, and health, among many others, reflecting community preferences. My work is...
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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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Lisa A Manthe LMFT, ATR-BC
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To solve the Black maternal mortality crisis, start with upending racist practices
It’s been all over the news for months: Black women in the United States are dying from complications during their pregnancies or in childbirth at alarming rates, and those deaths are preventable. Less well explored is how systemic racism and historical trauma have been at the core of what’s driven up these rates over several decades. A March 20 conference entitled The Impact of ACEs on Black Maternal Health took an in-depth look into why Black maternal mortality and complications during...
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Sebastopol Community Needs Summit TONIGHT
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvc-muqz8oGtRROh8WZY6xZooTtP_-YZfm Here are the details for tonight: Date Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Time 4pm - 7:30pm SebSummit Zoom Link SUMMIT DOWNLOADS Sebastopol Summit Program Sebastopol Guide to Nonprofits and Service Organizations Sebastopol Summit Program 4:00pm | Welcome | Una Glass, Mayor, City of Sebastopol 4:10pm | Opening Remarks | Hal Kwalwasser, Rotary Club of Sebastopol 4:25pm | Panel #1: Food & Housing 5:20pm | Panel #2: Mental Health...
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Webinar explores Oregon bill declaring racism a public health crisis
For anyone who thinks Oregon — long regarded as a liberal, progressive state — was a welcoming place for Blacks and other minorities in the past, a recent webinar sponsored by Oregon health care organizations was a chilling wake-up call. In June 1844, Oregon’s provisional government passed its first Black Exclusionary Act , with language stating that any Black person who set foot in Oregon “would be publicly whipped 39 lashes.” From that time forward, Oregon, like most states, amassed its...
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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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Superheroes DO exist!
As young children many of us grew up watching superhero’s in the movies and wishing to one day become one. Here I am living the Dream! Okay, so you won’t find me in a comic book or in a movie(at least not yet😉) or flying around town saving the world. I am my own superhero, saving myself and making my world a better place to live in. When I volunteer it helps counteract the effects of stress, anger, and anxiety . All of these are battles I come up against and have to be mindful about how to...
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Sonoma County: The American Rescue Plan and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (ARPA) (sonomacounty.ca.gov)
ARPA Town Halls: Join us to gather input on where and how Sonoma County might best invest ARPA dollars. Each virtual Town Hall will be hosted by the supervisor for that district and will include an overview of ARPA funding along with small group community conversations. Please make sure to register by clicking on the links below. September 23, 6 - 8 pm (District 3 - Supervisor Coursey) : Register Now September 30, 5:30 - 7:30 (District 5 - Supervisor Hopkins) : Register Now October 4, 5:30 -...
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The Power of Trauma-Informed Care ACEs Aware Provider Supplemental Training
This free training, provided through the statewide ACEs Aware supplemental training grant, aims to enhance provider insight about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Providers will learn how screening for ACEs, assessing risk for toxic stress and responding with trauma-informed care can help inform patient treatment. The earlier we can identify that an individual is experiencing ACEs and toxic stress, the sooner children, adults and families can be connected to the resources and services...
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Personal Resilience Circle
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How We Heal from Adverse Childhood Experiences
It’s not time, but an integrated recovery plan that heals.
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California Screens More Than 500,000 Children and Adults for ACEs [acesaware.org]
California Screens More Than 500,000 Children and Adults for Adverse Childhood Experiences New partnership with University of California will advance ACEs Aware initiative. The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in partnership with the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG), today announced that the ACEs Aware initiative has reached two key milestones less than two years after launching. To date, more than 20,500 California clinicians have been trained to screen...
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Words are powerful - that's not a meme, it's how our brains work
When we interact with persons who have behavioral health challenges, including substance use disorder, the words we use can be in support of healing - or hindering healing.
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Early Relational Health Innovators Partner In Program Supported by PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities Members in Twelve California Counties
Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principle author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...
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Healing Centered Futures through the CRC & the PACEs Movement: Announcing the CRC Fellowship, Celebrating CRC Graduates, and #GivingTuesday Campaign
Something amazing keeps happening in our CRC Accelerator program that we want to shout out from the rooftops this December. Thanks to our committed participants, the number of CRC graduates keeps increasing! The number of graduates has increased by 15x this year. As we head into a new year, w e are grateful for the unique role CRC Accelerator participants have played in expanding the PACEs movement through the willingness to explore healing-centered practices through a PACEs science lens.
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Growing Resilient Communities Embraces the New Year: Welcome CRC Fellows, Grow with Google Partnership Announcement & Unveiling New Interactive Tools
To prepare for the year ahead, we have a few very special announcements we’re excited to share. First, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the 700+ community champions, facilitators, managers, and advocates in our COOP and Growing Resilient Communities program for your commitment.
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Creating Resilient Communities in 2024: The Year of Cultivating Resilient Networks Through Healing Centered Cultural Wisdom
As we head into our full CRC curriculum this January, we invite current and future CRC Accelerator participants to join us with collective care and self care in mind.
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February Collective Care Through the CRC & PACEs Movement: The Way Forward for Civil & Human Rights is Trauma-Informed
Nationally recognized days of awareness remind us of important civil and human rights movements led by Black and African-American communities and social justice advocates. February puts leadership, education, access, justice, policy, and governance under the spotlight. Through a PACEs science lens, this month is an opportunity to consider trauma-informed transformation through a PACEs science lens as the way forward.