Tagged With "Santa Rosa"
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3 to 5 FREE Counseling Sessions for Those Affected by the NorCal Fires
The Redwood Empire California Association of Marriage and Family Therapist have come together to offer 3-5 FREE counseling sessions for anyone affected by the NorCal fires. See attached or click here for the list of 97 counselors who have offered their services List of RECAMFT Counselors The attached Disaster Survivor Handout is very helpful too. Click here to learn more about RECAMT and to find additional resources Redwood Empire CAMFT
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4th Annual Asian & Pacific Islander Health Forum
A New State of Mind: Breaking the Silence on Mental Health Santa Rosa Junior College Bertolini Student Center 1501 Mendocino Avenue Santa Rosa, California 95401 Thursday, May 19, 2016 10:00 - 4:00 Presented by: Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program Seating is Limited - Registration is now open Please visit our website to download registration, Exhibitor, and sponsorship forms: You can fax or email your completed forms to: 707-708-7713 or asianhealthforum@yahoo.com CONTACT : Melissa...
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A Future With Fewer Suicides: Supervisor Shirlee Zane Hosting Special Screening of THE S WORD, July 11th at Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Chambers
Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane will introduce the compelling documentary THE S WORD, which will be screened in the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Chambers on Wednesday, July 11, at 6 pm. Director Lisa Klein will appear with her film for a special audience Q & A after the screening. Seating is limited and free tickets are required. Tickets are available online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-s-word-documentary-tickets-46897799581 In this powerful, poignant documentary,...
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A new opportunity for Sonoma County adult victims of child abuse
Healing your PAST - Santa Rosa If you faced abuse as a child, you’ll be interested to hear that there is new help for your healing in Sonoma County. It’s a brand new non-profit 12 Step Program called Adults Abused as Children Anonymous. Ongoing meetings for the group are held every Thursday Evening, from 6:15-7:15pm. Meetings are Free & welcome anyone wanting a safe & confidential place to heal. First United Methodist Church 1551 Montgomery Dr., Santa Rosa
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A place called home: A year after the Tubbs Fire, displaced families can finally look ahead [SF Chronicle]
About this series: One year ago, more than a dozen fires shot to life in the North Bay. One of them, the Tubbs Fire, would become the most destructive wildfire in California history. In the year since, The Chronicle’s Lizzie Johnson has spent hundreds of hours with two couples to report this series, witnessing some of the most intimate, heartbreaking and joyous moments as they rebuilt their lives California was on fire again. Through this past summer, blazes raged across the state. They...
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A Post by Amma Thanasanti on her struggles she faces as a result of the Santa Rosa CA fires
Personal Reflections on the Impacts of the Santa Rosa CA Wildfires Found Here: http://awakeningtruth.org/ blog/grace-amidst-heart-break Grace Amidst Heart Break Thursday, 04 January 2018 Inner landscape These last two months have seen a cascade of change. I write from a pause – a time of calm from my warm room looking out at the treetops. The clouds are low. It is raining today. From this vantage point, I share some of what has been going on. October Fires The first week of October, Northern...
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A Post by Amma Thanasanti on her struggles she faces as a result of the Santa Rosa CA fires
Bob Doppelt shares Amma Thanasanti 's Personal Reflections on the Impacts of the Santa Rosa CA Wildfires originally found Here: http://awakeningtruth.org/ blog/grace-amidst-heart-break Grace Amidst Heart Break Thursday, 04 January 2018 by Amma Thanasanti Inner landscape These last two months have seen a cascade of change. I write from a pause – a time of calm from my warm room looking out at the treetops. The clouds are low. It is raining today. From this vantage point, I share some of what...
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A Wonderful New Movie -- 3 Free Showings in Santa Rosa
Over one million children are being exposed to a toxicity that dooms them to become obese, drug and sex addicts, risk-takers and criminals. This toxin is very real and very damaging. You can’t hold it, see it or smell it, but it can kill just...
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A Year of Ripples and Streams: Sonoma County MARC Update
Holly White-Wolfe, an analyst for the Sonoma County Human Services Department , marvels at the changes that have happened in a short amount of time. A few months ago, she and Karen Clemmer, then Coordinator of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health for the County Department of Health Services , were comparing notes on how their respective agencies were building trauma-informed capacity among employees and trying to embed that knowledge in practice. “A year ago,” Clemmer said at the time, “we...
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ACEs and Resiliency Fellowship - New Offering for Trauma-Informed Action
We are excited to report we secured additional funding and support to continue the ACEs and Resiliency Fellowship! We are now ready to offer all of our Master Trainers and Presenters additional training opportunities as “Trauma-Informed Agency Champions.” (Limited spots will also be offered to other community members who want to join in.) Our new program will combine two tracks, led by Sonoma County Office of Education: Trauma-Informed Agency Champion workshops (register for 1-3 workshops)...
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ACEs & Resiliency Master Trainer Program - Apply Today
ACEs & Resiliency Fellowship Master Trainer Program Sonoma County ACEs Connection received a grant from the Health Federation of Philadelphia to establish the Master Trainer program. Program This Master Trainer Program is designed to build a group of local experts on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and resilience science. Learn to promote understanding and how to apply the science to improve health and well being across the lifespan. Application Click here for your application (PDF)...
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ACEs Connection Agenda 2/28/18
Hi everyone, Attached you will find the agenda for the upcoming Sonoma County ACEs Connection meeting. I hope to see you all there! This is a special meeting that will be held at Sonoma County Office of Education with Laura Porter as our guest. Holly Wolf-White will give us a summary of all of our accomplishments to this date and we will talk about the future of our coalition. Sonoma County Office of Education 5340 Skylane Blvd Santa Rosa, CA 95403
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ACES Science 101 (FAQs)
What are ACEs? ACEs are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains so profoundly that the effects show up decades later; they cause much of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence. ...
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Action Alert: Provide feedback on the county fire recovery plan!
If you were unable to make it to any of the Fire Recovery Community Listening Forums hosted by the Sonoma County Office of Recovery and Resiliency has in July and August, you still have a chance to provide your feedback to the Draft Recovery and Resiliency Framework. The framework covers five strategic areas: Community Preparedness and Infrastructure, Housing, Economy, Natural Resources, and Safety Net Services.
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Addressing Trauma and Building Resiliency as Comprehensive Disaster Planning and Response
The attached memo is intended to make observations about communities affected by disaster-related trauma, and to offer recommendations for trauma-informed recovery. Community examples provide case studies or models for other communities grappling with similar issues. Suggested resources and tools provide communities with support for accelerated action. Memo authors represent active cross sector networks that contribute to resilient community infrastructure development, awareness building,...
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After 5-year journey to integrate ACEs science, Santa Rosa, CA, pediatric clinic is trauma-informed, from head to toe
Dr. Meredith Kieschnick was among the first physicians in the U.S. to hear the term, "adverse childhood experiences". That was in 1998, early on in her career as a pediatrician, when the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study) published its initial findings in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine . “I attended a conference at which (Dr. Vincent) Felitti spoke,” she recalls. Felitti, at that time director of the Health Appraisal Center at Kaiser Permanente...
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Agenda for 1.23.19 meeting
ACEs Enthusiasts Community Meeting PUBLIC ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND! Date: January 23, 2019 Time: 3:30 to 5:00 Location: Child Parent Institute : 3650 Standish Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95407 About this community: We bring the community together to prevent, heal, and treat ACEs while promoting resiliency. New Year - New Focus! With start of new year, Sonoma County ACEs Connection will re-start fresh with a community focus, while seeking opportunities to leverage and coordinate with others. Welcome...
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Alternatives to Violence Project Basic Workshop in Santa Rosa June 9-11
AVP sees conflict in our country, schools, communities and even homes as fertile ground for creativity, peaceful cooperation and personal growth. And now you can too! AVP’s community workshops allow everyone to grow when it comes to their interpersonal skills, while having a good time. Get ready for focus on integrity, respect and shared humanity through interactive exercises, stimulating games and role-playing. You’ve got everything to gain, so give AVP a try! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED: CALL...
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Alternatives to Violence Project: experience the gifts!
I've been thinking a lot lately about the full spectrum of trauma and resilience. Certainly our internal dialogue, what we tell ourselves, is near the root of other communication and actions. Can we shed light on this "intrapersonal communication" to help heal trauma and support resilience? How do we access what's in our heads? One way is to ask ourselves deep questions and speak our truths in a safe environment. This is one of the ways Alternatives to Violence Project brings humanity and...
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ANNOUNCING: $700,000 GRANT TO SONOMA LAND TRUST TO PROTECT CRITICAL OPEN SPACE LAND AT SONOMA DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER [CFSC]
By Caitlin Childs, June 26, 2019, Community Foundation Sonoma County We are so pleased to announce this wonderful news: Thanks to the vision of a family that cared deeply about the future of Sonoma County, the Sonoma Land Trust has received a $700,000 grant from Community Foundation Sonoma County and our regional affiliate the Sonoma Valley Fund to protect more than 700 acres of open space, trails and natural resources at the site of the former Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC). This grant...
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Antidote for Sonoma County homelessness: Homes, job training [PressDemocrat.com]
Mateo Swaim-Brouwer, 21, shoveled gravel in the hot sun Tuesday at a home under construction on a Cotati cul-de-sac. It was manual labor, without pay, rewarded only by a pizza lunch break with his co-workers. Swaim-Brouwer, wearing a neon green Habitat for Humanity T-shirt, was happy to be there. A simple matter of payback, he said, recalling the six months he and his mother were homeless, living in a shelter and on the streets of Santa Rosa. The two-bedroom wood-frame home, beige with white...
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Attachment Theory and Perpetrators of Intimate Violence: From Reactivity to Responsiveness with Daniel Sonkin, Ph.D.
Dr. Sonkin will describe how attachment can offer insights into the causes of, and treatment for intimate partner violence (IPV). Daniel Sonkin, Ph.D. is a License MFT in independent practice. Since 1978, his work has focused on the treatment of couples and individuals experiencing IPV. As one of the early specialists in the field, Dr. Sonkin has developed a widely-used protocol for treating perpetrators. He is an international speaker on IPV and the author of numerous publications. Friday,...
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Aurora Santa Rosa Hospital adding 49 new beds for mental health facility, says 100 more needed [North Bay Business Journal]
By Cheryl Sarfaty, July 8, 2019, North Bay Business Journal Aurora Santa Rosa Hospital, a freestanding acute psychiatric hospital in Santa Rosa, is growing in a health care segment that historically has been shrinking. Aurora, which currently has 95 licensed beds, is adding another 49. And construction is underway on a building expansion that will double the size of Aurora’s outpatient program, adding 3,500 square feet. The hospital will begin filling the additional 49 beds in January,...
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Aurora Santa Rosa Hospital Plans to Add 49 Beds in 2019 [Sonoma County Gazette]
Tucked away from the cross-town traffic, off Fulton Road in West Santa Rosa, is a dedicated mental health hospital and Outpatient Program Center situated on 10 grassy, tree-lined acres. Since 2013, when Aurora Santa Rosa [ASR] opened, the facility has offered a full range of mental health services including 95 available beds for those in need. Thirty-eight of those beds are dedicated to adolescent-only units. This is a very nice facility. CEO, Susan Rose , has been at Aurora since 2015. She...
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Brain Development Training in Santa Rosa
Explore the neurobiology of resilience as it develops through attuned primary relationships. See how brain structure and function, and how the social environment mediates changes in the brain. Learn techniques to support...
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Briefs on current adverse childhood experiences in children in selected California cities
Attached are briefs on current ACEs in children in selected California cities, with comparison with state and county data. They were prepared by the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, a project of the Child and Adolescent...
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Building Resilience - Mind Body Medicine Hike
Mind Body Medicine workshops and hikes in Santa Rosa and Glen Ellen
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Materials from our Building Resilience on a Solid Foundation: Community of Practice Event
Thank you to all who attended our Building Resilience on a Solid Foundation: Community of Practice. Attached are the materials from our day together. Also, here is the link to Got Your ACE Score? , which has the 10-question ACE survey, an explanation of what it means, and a resilience survey. You can register for our April 25 th Community of Practice event featuring Eddy Zheng at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/o...-tickets-31517247937
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Building trust is now a critical part of health care
In a video clip , a hospital patient turns away in protest as a physician enters the room. “Why do you all keep coming in my room!” she asks in frustration. The physician moves a chair out of the way and sits down at eye level with the patient. “You’ve had to see so many people,” he acknowledges. “And I’m tired of it!” she yells. “I already know I have to get both of my legs cut off. That’s what they keep saying. I don’t have a choice!” “You don’t feel like you have a choice,” he repeats...
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CA announces robust perinatal depression prevention for Medi-Cal recipients
Melinda Coates experienced a tumultuous pregnancy. “I was really mentally upset literally from day one (of the pregnancy),” she says. (Melinda Coates is a pseudonym. To protect her and her children’s privacy and safety, we are not using her real name.) Coates had hoped to get counseling last October, when she was seven months pregnant. That’s when she enrolled in the state’s Medi-Cal program, shortly after she and her abusive husband moved to California, “but nobody was able to get me in...
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Change in Meeting Dates for Sonoma County ACES Connections
Our meetings are usually on the fourth Wednesday of the month. But with both Thanksgiving and Christmas occurring so close to our next regular meeting dates, we were concerned that people might not be able to attend these two important meetings....
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Child-Friendly Space Offering Transitional Support and Relief
CHILD-FRIENDLY SPACE UPDATE: "Hello! You are receiving this email because either you or someone you know has been greatly affected by the recent wildfires . I am writing this email from a facility that has graciously opened its doors and allowed The School Box Project to create a child-friendly space to provide support and relief for children of all ages with various special needs. The operation will be framed with trauma-informed care and Universal Designed Learning principles in mind. The...
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Child Parent Institute Resiliency Support List of Offerings
CPI has been working with their staff and community partners to contribute some help to the families in our community. Here is a flyer of free services that we can offer now and in the coming months. Please see the attached file for the complete schedule of offerings.
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Chris Smith: Santa Rosa landlord surprises tenants, won't collect rent due to coronavirus outbreak (Press Democrat)
Chris Smith, March 21, 2020, for the Press Democrat The full spectrum of misery being inflicted by this damnable pandemic isn’t only terrible but terribly uneven. Some, including all whose livelihoods have evaporated or are in stark danger of doing so, are hurting far more than others. Those worse off are on the minds of people like Marv Hyman and like Dennis Wilkes’ landlord and Deana Abramowitz, who devise ways to level out some of the pain. To read the full story, please open this link:...
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Come to our final meeting of 2015!
Dear Sonoma County ACES Connection members, I am excited to remind you that our next meeting is Wed 12/16 from 12:30 to 2:00 in the Public Health building located at 625 Fifth Stree t Santa Rosa, 95404. Several members indicated that they were feeling conflicted, they wanted to be at our meeting and also attend the training at Child Parent Institute, and as such we will push back our start time to 12:30 and end at 2:00 so everyone has the...
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County Supervisors Approve Recovery and Resiliency Framework
SANTA ROSA – On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors approved the Recovery and Resiliency Framework which serves as a vision and approach for how Sonoma County will recover and emerge more resilient from the October 2017 wildfires. The Framework was prepared by the County’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency in collaboration with other County departments and agencies, cities and other jurisdictions, nonprofits, and other community stakeholders. “In 2017, a catastrophic wind storm created a...
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Customizing ACEs Screening for High School Students in Santa Rosa, CA
August 25, 2015 9:20 PM by Sylvia Paull When students show up for an appointment at the Elsie Allen Health Center , which is located on the Elsie Allen High School campus in Santa Rosa, CA, one of the first things they...
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Customizing ACEs Screening for High School Students in Santa Rosa, CA
Repost with permission by Sylvia Paull When students show up for an appointment at the Elsie Allen Health Center, which is located on the Elsie Allen High School campus in Santa Rosa, CA, one of the first things they do is take an ACE survey. Instead of answering the 10-question survey developed for the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study), they respond to 16 questions. That’s because the questionnaire was designed by the clinic staff to address the...
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Disaster Funds List
Attached you will find a list of participating organizations donating funds to victims from the Northern CA fires. If you or someone you know is seeking assistance, please check out this list.
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Documentary follows Santa Rosa woman’s quest to know her prison inmate father [Press Democrat]
Shortly after Jessica Stillman celebrated her ninth birthday in the mid-’90s, her father went to prison. She has spent much of her life after that just trying to get close to him. Her story is at the center of “Invisible Bars,” a new documentary by Benicia filmmaker John Beck about the children of incarcerated parents, airing Tuesday through Thursda y on KQED-TV in San Francisco and April 15 on KRCB-TV in Rohnert Park. The film follows Jessica behind bars for a rare sit-down interview with...
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Don't let the ACES train leave without you!
By: Kate Jenkins, M.A. As a member of the Sonoma County ACEs Connection, I would like to help stir interest among folks to be part of the ACEs Connection. Over the months that I have been part of the ACEs Connection, I have observed that your...
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DRAFT notes from our October 2019 meeting
Draft notes from our October 23, 2019 meeting Welcome: For all who could join our meeting on October 23rd, thank you for your participation! Together we can broaden our understanding of how ACEs impact our communities and what folks are doing to address ACEs. In October we welcomed David Beck MD a local Psychiatrist, Lynn Burke from Drug Abuse Alternatives Center (DAAC) Perinatal Program and we welcomed the return of Carla Denner LCSW who is now with DHS - BH- Alcohol and Other Drug...
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Better Beginnings is hosting a garden party on...
Better Beginnings is hosting a garden party on Saturday, May 2 at 5:30 at the Sebastopol Masonic Center, 373 North Main Street, Sebastopol. Food, silent auction, activities for the kids. Dr. Mark Sloan will speak on "Stress! How it affects the growing...
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The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) & Resiliency Fellowship Begins!
Tomorrow in Sonoma County, a constellation of passionate folks is coming together to begin an incredible journey of working to heal our community by addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences and promoting Resiliency. 60 folks applied and were selected to participate in the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) & Resiliency Fellowship. These local leaders will serve as community educators on the topics of toxic stress and resiliency. Some of the school counselors, peer advocates, home...
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The Board of Supervisors Needs to Hear From You - Please Attend
Please consider attending the February 27 event and sharing your perspective on the needs to support coping and healing from our recent fires as well as existing family and community adversity! Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to Host Recovery Workshops Supervisors seek public input to guide recovery efforts at three upcoming workshops The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors invites community members to attend and provide input to guide post-fire recovery efforts at three upcoming public...
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The Power of Photovoice
Today I was able to sit down with Salvador Sanchez Strawbridge, who is apart of the Santa Rosa Violence Prevention Partnership. Sal shared with me how his life experiences lead him to where he is today and how he is giving back to his community. Sal did not have an easy childhood and was affiliated with a gang at a young age. I personally do not know a lot about the dynamics of a gang and he was able to provide me with a little more insight. He shared that being apart of a gang filled a void...
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Three Sonoma County commissions seek local applicants [Sonoma Index Tribune]
First District Supervisor Susan Gorin invites community members to apply for positions on local policy making bodies. Applications and a list of all boards, commissions and committees to which the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors appoints members is available online at sonomacounty.ca.gov/Board-of-Supervisors/Boards--Commissions--Committees/Boards-Commissions-Committees-and-Task-Forces/. Click HERE to access website. The “vacancy” list on the site shows available opportunities for...
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Today FREE Diapers and Baby Wipes
FREE Diapers & Baby Wipes Free diapers and wipes for families and providers serving families with young children! Cook Middle School ... 2480 Sebastopol Road Santa Rosa, CA 95407 West parking lot Tuesday, October 17 & Wednesday, October 18, 2017 11:00 AM - Providers 12:00 PM - Public While supplies last For more information, please contact Marta Tilling at (707) 544-6911 ext. 1025 This is made possible by a collaboration between SupplyBank.Org , First 5 Sonoma County , Santa Rosa...
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Trained: Sonoma ACE & Resiliency Fellowship Offers Science, Compassion, Community
In Sonoma County, invitations to speak about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and resilience kept pouring in. There simply weren’t enough qualified trainers to go around. When Sonoma County ACEs Connection leaders applied for the MARC grant, they proposed using some of the money to develop a speakers’ bureau. Then they decided to expand that vision: Why not a nine-month fellowship for a cohort of 25 “master trainers”—two days of intensive education with Robert Anda and Laura Porter,...
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“Trauma Informed Care and Feelings” at Interlink Self Help Center
Interlink Presents: Introduction to Peer Support April’s Topic: “Trauma Informed Care and Feelings” Tuesdays from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm at Interlink Self-Help Center 1033 Fourth Street Santa Rosa A new series of classes is being offered at Interlink Self-Help Center based on handouts, videos, research and conversation on a variety of topics. We will be exploring the world of mental health recovery and how our recovery journeys can be of help to others. Topics will include: Self-Awareness Lived...