Tagged With "Bay Area"
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Update on Bumper Crop of State ACEs bills in 2017—46 bills in 20 states
The latest update of state legislation considered by state legislatures in 2017 reveals the growing interest by state policymakers across the country in addressing trauma across sectors. The attached “At-A-Glance” table shows 46 bills in twenty states reference Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) or trauma-informed policy and practice. Take a look at the attached “At-A-Glance” table and leave a comment if your state considered ACEs/trauma legislation that is not included here. A handful of...
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Violence Profile of Sonoma County
Several months ago, the Violence Profile of Sonoma County was published online. The profile aims to deliver three messages: (1) Violence Impacts Health (2) Violence is More than Physical (3) Violence is Preventable In addressing these aims, the profile provides a strong explanation for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) having lasting effects on health and behaviors, including violent behaviors such as emotional abuse, intimate partner violence, and suicide attempts. The profile also uses...
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Virtual Screening of Broken Places on March 21st & Registration for ACEs Connection Members!
Please join us on Thursday, March 21st for a special virtual screening of Broken Places , the latest U.S. documentary on early childhood trauma and resilience. The film will be offered via a private Vimeo link with passcode to all registered members of ACEs Connection, for free, accessible in the United States and internationally. REGISTER TODAY: To register, please visit : https://goo.gl/forms/apdoINwgtQmydEXK2 The viewing portal for the film will open on Vimeo at 6am EST and close at 11pm...
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Watch documentary "Invisible Bars" April 15th, at 9 pm on KRCB TV
On April 15, KRCB TV 22 will present Invisible Bars , about new California programs that take into account the damage done to families in the age of runaway incarceration. Filmmaker John Beck came to our studios with Fred Stillman, who served more than two decades in California prisons for murder. and his daughter Jessica – one of his seven children – who works in Santa Rosa. Jessica started visiting her dad in prison at age 9 – she’s now in her early 30s. Her visits used to be behind glass...
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We Need a Healing Movement
What if you had developed a cure for the most painful and costly public health problem in America, you had proven that it worked, and you were offering it for free, but could not reach those who need it most because no one wants to talk about the problem? Tragically, this is my reality and the truth about human nature. It is easier to suffer in silence than acknowledge the painful things that happen to us. Over 20 years ago, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser...
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West county doctor recognized for work with homeless [Sonoma West Times & News]
HOMELESS SERVICES TEAM — Staff of West County Health Center take a moment to point out this year’s “Leaders In Healthcare” award winner, Dr. Jared Garrison-Jakel.
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What Wildfires Do to Our Minds
A Northern California community offers mental health first-aid to survivors of devastating fires. Yes Magazine-- posted Aug 07, 2018 https://www.yesmagazine.org/ issues/mental-health/what- wildfires-do-to-our-minds- 20180807/ It’s late spring, and I’m hiking Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in Sonoma County with therapist, ecopsychologist, and California naturalist Mary Good. A mist is drifting down, and we have the park mostly to ourselves. In October 2017, 80 percent of Sugarloaf’s 3,900 acres...
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Sonoma County ACES Connection Meeting Notes from 1-17-16
Dear Sonoma County ACES Connection Enthusiasts, Guess who is coming to our town? Dr. Macy is a tireless pioneer in the field of psychological trauma, psychosocial recovery and resiliency in research, interventions and violence prevention initiatives for children, youth, their families, and adults and their communities exposed to traumatic events including large-scale disasters, terrorist events, and political, school based, community and armed conflict violence. Check out his upcoming...
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Sonoma County homeless population among the biggest nationwide [Press Democrat]
Manuel Santiago, a 52-year-old Pomo Indian, has been homeless for many years. He’s lived in tents, RVs, motels — anywhere but a shelter. In and out of state prison since 1979, Santiago said his many years behind bars include several stints in solitary confinement. That’s left him with an aversion to crowded places like the Sam Jones Hall homeless shelter in Santa Rosa. “I can’t be around people,” he said Friday, crouched in front of a tent he shares with another person in the city’s...
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Sonoma County Housing Insecurity Part of Bay Area Regional Health Inequality Initiative Describes
This report highlights how housing insecurity can have tremendous impact on the mental health and well being of children and families. Are there ACE's to prevent in addressing this huge issue? Read the 2016 Displacement Brief for yourself here: http://files.ctctcdn.com/c5679d79501/8b862fbe-6570-4a29-bc8e-29e7fbeef38e.pdf Mental Health Impacts: The emotional toll of displacement and living with the threat of displacement is significant, affecting mental wellbeing, sense of belonging and...
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Sonoma County is well represented in a new Bay Area initiative to address childcare adversity in pediatric safety net care settings
The Center for Care Innovations (CCI) and Genentech have selected seven Bay Area sites to participate in the Resilience Beginnings Collaborative (RBC). The Resilient Beginnings Collaborative is a 24-month learning program dedicated to addressing childhood adversity in pediatric safety net care settings. As the momentum to spread the word about ACEs and implement trauma-informed care increases, Sonoma County leads the way. Of the seven sites selected, two are from Sonoma County: Petaluma...
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Sonoma County Resiliency Collaborative A Practical Approach to Post-Wildlife Resilience and Wellbeing
The traumatic events of the North Bay wildfires affect our emotional and physical health, social functioning, and overall well-being, both as individuals and as a community. Unresolved, they can damage our health and limit our potential to rebuild a strong community. Join diverse Sonoma County leaders and representatives to participate in dynamic workshop where you will practice tools for effectively addressing personal and team stress after the fires, network with peers, and learn about an...
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Strategic Plan Survey- Santa Rosa’s Violence Prevention Partnership
The City of Santa Rosa’s Violence Prevention Partnership, funded by Measure O , has launched a Strategic Plan Survey in order to better serve the needs of our community . Please find links to the survey below in both English and Spanish. We ask that you share the survey with our youth and families in-person, through email, and various social media outlets, so together , we can continue to create change for our community. If you’d like to print out the survey and have youth & families...
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STRATEGIES 2.0 -Fires/Floods/Earthquakes: Resiliency in the Face of Disaster (FREE)
Fires/Floods/Earthquakes: Resiliency in the Face of Disaster Bay Area Learning Community Thursday, March 29, 2018 Save the date Registration will soon be available via StrategiesCA.org/Learning-Communities Strategies 2.0 facilitates six regional Learning Communities that are your opportunity to engage with your colleagues and leaders in your region about the needs and interests of the communities you serve. Take part in the quarterly convenings to network, learn, and have a more active role...
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Syrian Children in a state of Toxic Stress
An article posted by BBC News captures what the children of Syria are experiencing and how many of these children don't know anything but war. This is a huge public health concern that could lead to irreversible damage to an entire generation of children. Save the Children shares, "Millions of Syrian Children could be living in a state of "Toxic Stress" due to prolonged exposure to the horrors of war." I have attached the Report, Invisible Wounds produced by Save the Children if you're...
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Wildfire Mental Health Services Collaborative Invites You to RSVP to August 2, 2018 Meeting
Dear Colleagues, Summer is flying by and we want to honor our commitment made to you at the May wildfire mental health services mapping session by reconvening our group for an update on August 2 from 9:00 to 11:00 am. The location for our meeting is Medtronic, 3850 Brickway Blvd, Santa Rosa, CA, 95403. There are no special parking instructions. Enter through the main entrance and check with the receptionist. There will be signs to direct you to our meeting room. Because this is a secure...
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Workshop for Sonoma County ACEs Connection group members
If you're interested in becoming more involved in facilitating the work of the Sonoma County ACEs Connection group, please consider attending a free communications workshop hosted by Berkeley Media Studies Group and the ACEs Connection Network on...
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Youth-led community organizing as a tool for building resilience
It started as an answer to a youth-led campaign. Young people in arts programs in San Francisco Bay Area schools had produced spoken word videos about inequities in their communities that helped put them at risk for type 2 diabetes. Dr. Jean Junior The response by their peers was enormous, according to Dr. Jean Junior, who volunteered for the project as a pediatric resident at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). “Young people would say ‘You’ve actually gotten me interested.
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Zuckerberg-Backed Data Trove Exposes the Injustices of Criminal Justice by Issie Lapowski from WIRED
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/zuckerberg-backed-data-trove-exposes-injustices-criminal-justice/ Funded by Mark Zuckerberg, this data portal will show 32 different metrics to measure how equitable a county's justice system may be. Should be interesting to see how Bay Area counties measure up! The portal will show how many people plead guilty without a lawyer present, how many nonviolent misdemeanor offenders were sentenced to jail time, and how many people are in jail because they failed to...
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Feedback Wanted on Draft Working Guidelines for Sonoma County ACEs Connection
Dear Friends, We plan to vote on adopting the attached working guidelines at our September 28, 2016 ACEs Connection Meeting. We are looking for folks to respond with specific edits for text changes by September 12, 2016. Please feel free to use track changes, notes, or simply to send an email with suggested edits and page numbers. Thank you!
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Help our public radio station with a story: How did separation from your parents as a child impact you?
KQED is the National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco, CA. We’d like to hear from adults (18+) who were separated from their parents when they were children. Perhaps the separation was due to economic reasons, war and conflict, incarceration, foster care, or something else. How did that period of separation impact you in the long-run? How has it impacted your connection to others and how you build relationships? If you're a parent, how does it influence how you parent? We’re...
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One Immigrant's Path to Resilience: Community of Practice
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Child Poverty and the Social Safety Net, June 20th FREE
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Paper Tigers Screening in Petaluma on May 12
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Re: Back by popular demand: Group managers' workshop May 10! (Save the date!!)
Forgot to ask: Has NACCHO had presentations about ACEs at its conferences, or is it integrating the science of human development into its work? Also, re economics....Economist James Heckman has done a LOT of work in this area -- he and Felitti know each other. Check out his web site. The Ella Baker Center did an analysis of the cost of incarceration on families. The federal government is starting to study the health benefits and screening and linking to social services. Here's an article...
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Re: NEW DATE: November 21st: Latino Health Forum: One People, One Climate
Please see the attached 2019 LHF Syllabus and the Event Program.
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Re: ‘None of us will ever be the same’: Survivors of 2017 Tubbs Fire face long-term trauma [Sacramento Bee]
Thank you Karen, Most people don’t understand this kind of PTSD. My sister lost her home in Journey’s End and everything she owned. She got out out with her life and two of her three cats. Poor little “Betty” died in the fire. My sister now lives in Minnesota. There was a fire (actually many over the last few weeks) in a wooded area here in Lake County, where 67% of our county has burned. When some people, new to the area, were told to pack a bag and get out they scoffed at the suggestion...
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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: Hidden in Plain Sight & Why Eliminating Health Inequalities Should be a Top Priority
Thank you for sending this to me. I read the hidden in plain sight report. It was really interesting as I don’t know very much about the area and it appears it’s an area to watch… Hoping to read the NACCHO report later. Karyna Mayora-Linzer, RN, MS, PHN Maternal Child Adolescent Health Coordinator | Sonoma County Department of Health Services 625 Fifth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 | desk 707 565-4553 fax 707 565-4550...
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Re: Hidden in Plain Sight & Why Eliminating Health Inequalities Should be a Top Priority
Press Democrat: Cases of child abuse and neglect up 17 percent in Sonoma County County officials say the increases occur at a time when the county’s most at-risk families are struggling with obstacles such the rise in opioid use and the stress and strain caused by the county’s high cost of housing. Other hardship factors for at-risk families include unemployment or underemployment, and mental health problems, said Katie Greaves, section manager at the county’s Family Youth and Children...
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Re: Oswego police tout collaboration with Kendall Health Department [ChicagoTribune.com]
From the article: “As we became an accredited agency it required our police officers to work on best practices,” Burgner said. “We relied heavily on the health department to initially give us training on how to identify and react in the field and help people get the treatment and services they need.” The partnership has grown over the years to include training on behavioral health such as developmental disabilities, substance addiction and adverse childhood experiences as well as...
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Re: DULCE helps pediatricians in Oakland, CA, prevent toxic stress in newborns
Laurie, What an inspirational story built on an empowering model! Don't you just wish we could replicate this everywhere!? Thank you so much for sharing your story here on Sonoma County ACEs Connection! Karen
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Re: Policy Committee Meeting Notes
Allen, Alison & Lena - You guys are awesome! Allen, these notes are great!! The ideas and strategies you outlined have the potential to nudge real systems change! Incorporating adverse community experiences, along with ACEs - is very timely - on many levels. Speaking of systems change - some may be interested to know that the CDPH Essentials for Childhood Initiative leadership is starting an effort to push toward having California become a "trauma informed state" (details TBD). Some...
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Re: Add the Issue of ACEs to the Sonoma County Fire Recovery Plan!
Allen, you are a great ACEs champion ! And, a strong voice for vulnerable populations. Thank you! I also like your call to action and invitation to others to attend one of the meetings. Maybe some SCAC folks who reside in the Petaluma area might want to attend the meeting this Weds at the Petaluma Community Center? I know I am looking forward to hearing how this meeting goes! Karen
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Re: Section 8 stock fails to meet housing need [SonomaWest.com]
Article: Can home sharing prevent homelessness in Sonoma County? http://www.sonomawest.com/sono...9b-cbd1623a3cd2.html ------ Jacob Rich, MPH Community Outreach Coordinator El Molino High School (elmolino.org) and Russian River Area Resources and Advocates (RRARA.org) Office (707) 824 6508 Cell (707) 478 5684 jrich.ehs@wscuhsd.k12.ca.us "The challenge is to nurture a culture of altruism and empathy, seeking to imbue an instinct for social engagement." A Path Appears- Nicholas Kristof and...