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Re: Proposed Changes to the SCAC Working Guidelines: Vote at October Meeting
Hi Allen- I am very excited to see you final approved working guidelines after your Oct 28th vote. We will share with communities that are wanting to develop something similar (no need to re-create any wheels, huh?!). Thank you Sonoma Co for your great momentum in this movement!
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Re: Will You Marry Us?
This is such exciting news, Sonoma Co! We really look forward to continuing to share what you are doing in Sonoma across the region/ state and figuring out ways to "ride your funding wave"!
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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: Building Human Resilience for Climate Change in California Conference
Sonoma County ACEs Connection is one of the Founding Co-Sponsors of this event.
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Re: Feedback Wanted on Draft Working Guidelines for Sonoma County ACEs Connection
Hi there, Have these been officially adopted?
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ACEs Research Corner — May 2020
[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site -- abuseresearch.info -- that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she's posting the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Williams AB, Smith ER, Trujillo MA, et. al. Common health problems in safety-net primary care: Modeling the roles of trauma history and mental health. J Clin...
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Ready to join All Children Thrive - California?
Learn about the statewide All Children Thrive Initiative. Fact sheet and enrollment contact included.
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ACEs Champion Brian Semsem — Transforming Trauma Neural Pathways into Resilience Pathways
Brian Semsem, a pastor based in Fresno, California, who has been working with troubled youth and adults for most of his professional life, says when he first learned about ACEs in 2014 from a colleague in a county foster youth program, “I started seeing numbers over everybody’s head.
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New Report Finds 1% of Sonoma County Residents Account for Over 25% of Jail, Shelter, and Behavioral Health Utilization (ACCESS Sonoma)
Santa Rosa, CA – July 8, 2020 – A new report released today by the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley helps Sonoma County government leaders to identify and better serve a group of about 6,600 high utilizers of health, justice, and homelessness services provided by state and county agencies. These high utilizers represent approximately 1% of the county population, but account for an average of 26% of jail time, 28% of annual costs for behavioral health services, and 52% of nights in...
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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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Hanna appoints new board chair, trustees, interim co-CEOs (Sonoma News)
By Anne Ward Ernst, July 16, 2020, Index Tribune. Hanna Boys Center’s Board of Trustees recently chose a new chair, announced four new board members, and appointed two top-level senior managers to act as interim co-chief executive officers while a search continues for a new permanent CEO. “All of our new board members bring considerable talent, expertise and energy to the table. Hanna has been a part of the Sonoma community for nearly 75 years and we are thrilled to have these trustees on...
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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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Today's agenda and zoom link
See attached for a printable version of our meeting agenda. Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78601927053?pwd=S0xXc0RDVGVCOXo1TVpXUHdKVmtGQT09 Meeting ID: 786 0192 7053 Passcode: iPi187l6Xj About this community: We bring the community together to prevent, heal, and treat ACEs while promoting resiliency. Working together, we seek opportunities to leverage and coordinate with others. Welcome! Review agenda - any additions Introductions if you feel comfortable Recognition of our...
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Class: Co-Crianza de Los Hijos Después de un Divorcio
Co-Crianza de Los Hijos Después de un Divorcio Martes | 29 de Septiembre & 6 de Octubre | 2 sesiones | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm GRATIS clase de crianza en línea REGISTER NOW Add To My Calendar Este taller de dos noches ayuda a los padres separados y divorciados a manejar el desafío de criar hijos en dos hogares. Ayuda para reducir los conflictos de co-paternidad que persisten después de 1 año de separación. Aprenda a manejar una nueva relación de co-paternidad de manera que reduzca los...
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Class: Co-Parenting Children After a Divorce
Co-Parenting Children After a Divorce Saturdays | September 19 & 26 | 2 sessions | 10:30 am - 12:00pm FREE online class REGISTER NOW Add To My Calendar This two Saturday morning workshop helps separated and divorced parents handle the challenge of raising children in two homes. Learn ways to reduce co-parenting conflicts that persist after 1 year of separation. Learn how to manage a new co-parenting relationship in a way that reduces conflict and reduces children's anxiety and confusion.
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Coping with Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Protective Factors are sprinkled throughout the document! During the COVID-19 Pandemic.”The California Departmen of Public Health Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP), Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative, ACEsConnection, and the Yolo County Children's Alliance have co-created a newly developed resource, “Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Learn more here: ...
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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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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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Power of Play for Family Strengthening
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Power of PLAY during COVID
September 23, 11:30 PM to 12:45 PM PST: Webinar Wednesday - Promoting the Power of Play for Family Strengthening. Co-presented with Families Canada . Find more information and register here .
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LAUNCH Together Supports Social Emotional Well-Being in Southwest Denver
As the COVID-19 pandemic blurred from days into months, the leadership team of LAUNCH Together Southwest Denver began hearing about the sense of anguish and confusion felt by directors of early-childhood learning centers: Should I re-open? Is that financially feasible? Is it ethical? And how do I decide, in a sea of fast-changing information about a virus scientists are still struggling to understand? LAUNCH Together SW Denver, a collaborative formed in 2016 to boost community capacity to...
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FINDING POSITIVE HEALTH IN “FORTALEZAS” AND “COMUNIDAD”: A Case Study of Latinos/X in Sonoma Valley (Hanna Hawk)
Hanna Institute launched an 18-month study, “Finding Positive Health in ‘Fortalezas’ and ‘Comunidad’: A Case Study of Latinos/X in Sonoma Valley” in 2018. Using a community- engaged research team, the study explored the unique assets, power and resilience of the Latino/x population that enables it to cope with and overcome stress, including those exacerbated by structural inequalities. The study focuses on community, political, spiritual, cultural and physical resources perceived within the...
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Opportunity! All Children Thrive invites you ....
Please see the attached flyer for more information! ACT invites you to participate in their information sessions! Information sessions will be held every other Wed, starting September 30th, 12:30 to 1:30. Feel free to bring your lunch! Imagine a city designed with child well-being at its center that fosters healing and resilience, so that all children, of all backgrounds, can thrive. All Children Thrive-California (ACT) is a community-led movement in cities that: transforms current systems...
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Friendly reminder: join us tomorrow (Wed 9/23) at 3:30!
Plan to participate! See the attached notes from our last meeting too. SCAC agenda ACEs Enthusiasts Community Meeting September 23, from 3:30 to 4:30 Location: Zoom Sonoma County ACEs Connection About this community: We bring the community together to prevent, heal, and treat ACEs while promoting resiliency. Sonoma County ACEs Connection emphasizes community collaboration and seeks opportunities to leverage and coordinate with others. Please join us! Agenda Items ● Welcome – Mindful Moment ●...
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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...