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Sonoma County ACES Connection Meeting Notes from 4-26-17
(For a picture-filled and engaging version of these notes, please see the attachment.) 4-26-17 Dear Sonoma County ACEs Connection Friends, Thank you to all that participated in today’s ACES meeting. Holly White-Wolfe started us off with a meditation app (voice recording) that was shared at the MARC Gathering in Philadelphia. This “mindful moment” encouraged us to focus on our breath, noticing the rise and fall of our chest as a way to center ourselves throughout the day Nick Dalton from the...
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Sonoma County Field Nursing was highlighted during 2018 ACEs Conference Project Showcase
On October 15-17, the Center for Youth Wellness in collaboration with the ACEs Connection presented the 2018 ACEs Conference and Pediatric Symposium. The theme this year was, “Action to Access,” and communities from around the United States shared current research, programs, tools, and initiatives that use ACEs science to address childhood adversity and its impact. The Sonoma County Field Nursing team was selected to showcase their work to address ACEs with caregivers during home visits.
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Sonoma County’s parklands are already showing signs of recovery from fire (sonomanews.com)
Nearly every tree species affected by the Tubbs and Nuns fires has a strategy for returning. Some, such as coast live oak, have thick bark and may still be standing with green canopies hanging over blackened understory in places such as Sonoma Valley Regional Park. Trees in this condition will be helped in the years to come because the competition around their bases is gone. If burned, coast live oak have an amazing ability to sprout from the trunk. This can happen as quickly as two months...
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SonomaCountyRecovers: Official recovery information for Sonoma County fires
When we experience a disaster, people react with increased anxiety, worry and anger. With community and family support, most of us bounce back. Some of us, however, may need extra assistance to cope with unfolding events and uncertainties. Everyone, even the people that others look up to for guidance and assistance, is entitled to their feelings and deserves support throughout the recovery process. If you or someone in your care needs additional assistance recovering emotionally from the...
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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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Supporting Parents & Children after a Disaster: A Training for Providers on 3/2/18
The recent fires have had a profound and lasting impact on the entire Sonoma County community, including its youngest residents. Parents and providers may be unsure about how to best respond to questions, emotions, and behavior following the fires. Please join us for a presentation and discussion for providers on how we can best support parents and their children. The training will cover: How to manage children’s emotions and behavior after a fire. Answering children’s questions. Why some...
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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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Yes! Magazine article related to impact of wildfires
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/mental-health/what-wildfires-do-to-our-minds-20180807
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Andy's Unity Park Dedication
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Birth: An Intersection Between Maternity and Mental Health
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Tipping the Scale: Our Role in Building Resiliency
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Viewing of Paper Tigers
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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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Better Beginnings announces launch of the My Navigator Program!
INTRODUCING THE MY NAVIGATOR PROGRAM Better Beginnings , in partnership with First 5 Sonoma County , is proud to announce the launch of the My Navigator Program! A warm line designed to provide free resources and information to women and their families during pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenthood during the COVID-19 pandemic. The My Navigator Program also offers free Baby Weight Stations designed for mothers to come with their baby for a quick baby weight check, with locations...
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BZA backs mobile home park closure, winery expansion (Sonoma Index Tribune)
By Christian Kellan, July 6, 2020, Sonoma Index Tribune. It was the final meeting for long-time Planning Commissioner Dick Fogg when the county’s Board of Zone Adjustments (BZA) met on June 25 – Fogg’s retirement was announced four days later. But all three items on the agenda pertained to the first district, the one Fogg has represented since 2002, on issues whose importance hasn’t diminished over the past 18 years: wineries, affordable housing and water use. [ Please click here to read more. ]
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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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Hanna Boys Center Alumnus Runs for Rohnert Park City Council!
Before coming to Hanna, Walter Linares was living in a small townhouse in San Francisco with 16 people, from three different families. His father died when he was seven, leaving his mother to support Walter and his three siblings. “My mom was working 16 hour shifts to provide for us and while she was at work I was babysitting my siblings and shouldering a lot of responsibility from a very young age.” Without supervision and left to themselves, Walter and his siblings were “running a bit...
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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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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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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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Santa Rosa Attorney Takes On Racial Disparities Within Sonoma County Government | Sonoma Magazine
The daughter and granddaughter of leading farm labor advocates, Alegria De La Cruz is taking on the next role in her family's long campaign for social justice. https://www.sonomamag.com/santa-rosa-attorney-takes-on-racial-disparities-within-sonoma-county-government/
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Where are Sonoma County's child care deserts? [pressdemocrat.com]
By Elissa Chudwin, The Press Democrat, March 2, 2021 Several regions of Sonoma County, including the majority of Santa Rosa, do not have enough access to child care, according to an interactive map published by the Center for American Progress. The interactive map highlights places across the United States with child care deserts ― areas where demand exceeds the space available in state-licensed child care programs. In Sonoma County, parts of Santa Rosa, Sonoma Valley and west county have...
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Mortality Report for Sonoma County in 2020
Attached is the link to view the Mortality Report for Sonoma County in 2020. Limited to residents of Sonoma County
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April's meeting to take a deeper dive into 2020 Mortality Report for Sonoma County
Our upcoming SCAC meeting on April 22nd will have guest, Jenny Mercado-Epidemiologist at Sonoma County Department of Health Services Public Health to walk us through the Sonoma County Mortality Report for 2020. Please join us and feel free to share! Attached is the report to view.
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Sonoma County Cities Developing Police-Free Crisis-Response Teams
by Chelsea Kurnick Apr 13, 2021 It has been almost one year since nationwide protests against police brutality began in response to a Minneapolis Police Officer killing George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who had not committed a violent crime. As a result of these protests, communities across the U.S. have looked at how city and county funds are allocated, highlighting the large size of police budgets relative to mental health services, substance use treatment, housing and resources uplifting...
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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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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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Housing, homelessness, and Mental Health
West County Community Services is hosting a Facebook Live on December 13, 2021, at 6:00 PM where they will be giving an update and hosting a discussion on current and planned housing and mental health services available in Greater Sebastopol. Items to share and discuss include: -focus of Sebastopol Homeless Outreach Coordinator -Park Village successes and updates -Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) and how to access it -Mental health walk-in and group support available at Wellness...
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Sunrise Salutation Series: a leisurely community hike
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Positive Experiences through Sebastopol's Peacetown Family Village
As the season begins to wind down, I love to reflect on the impact made during the Peacetown Summer Concert Series. As a board member, Founder of the Peacetown Family Village, and took on a new role this year as Stage Manager for a youth led stage, it was a HUGE undertaking with more value than any price tag (thankfully because I do this uncompensated). Moving from a local park with one stage to The Barlow with 13 different music venues every Wednesday for 14 weeks during the summer. I take...
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Our Trauma-Resilient Educational Communities (TREC) Model's website launched on 1.25.24 with our Award Ceremony!
The culmination of thousands of hours from our Trauma-Resilient Educational Communities (TREC) team in developing our TREC Model, we launched TRECeducation.com website on Thursday, January 25, 2024. Craig Beswick, Vice-President, School Development Division, Lifelong Learning Administration Corporation (LLAC) opened up our exciting launch, which was hosted by the beautiful UCSD Park & Market in downtown San Diego. Craig warmly welcomed over 200 attendees to our Awards Ceremony and TREC...