Tagged With "Protective Factors Framework"
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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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Cracked Up, The Evolving Conversation: Generational Trauma - Breaking the Cycle [crackedupmovie.com]
CRACKED UP THE EVOLVING CONVERSATION Episode 4: Generational Trauma - Breaking the Cycle with Darrell Hammond, Comedian, actor, SNL Legend Michelle Esrick, Filmmaker, activist Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Author of The Body Keeps the Score Jane Stevens, Founder of ACES Connection and special guest Jane Fonda Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author and activist Thursday June 25th at 1pm PDT / 2p MT / 3p CT / 4pm EDT Hosted by ACEs Connection THE PRICE OF THIS LIVE EVENT IS $12.50 We have...
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Free: LEARN HOW TO HANDLE EMOTIONAL STRESS OR TRAUMA
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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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Re: Sebastopol Peace Bag concept has spread to Southern California
That's wonderful! I just responded to another in your community group, offering one of my books to help out during this initiative. Let me know if you are interested, and I am happy to help. Brava to you all! : ) Jondi https://www.amazon.com/dp/0976320002/
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Sebastopol Peace Bag concept has spread to Southern California
Local Sebastopol non-profit Peacetown is spreading joy and community engagement through the Family Village's project called Peace Bags. Every week for 13 weeks a different local organization "sponsors" a week by providing printed resources and an activity that supports community connection, family engagement, and some fun. The bags are distributed for FREE in collaboration with a local toy store. I happen to come across a conversation on one of the posts I made regarding Peace Bags. The post...
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Peacetown Family Village building on Protective Factors
Check out the innovative way we are engaging the community during these times of social distancing! The Peacetown Family Village is creating space for communities to come together and build on the Protective Factors and strengthen communities. View the video for more information. https://youtu.be/DQPZHIqadt4
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Strengthening Families 101 Webinar
Strengthening Families introduction for people who are new to the protective factors framework and the Strengthening Families approach. This will serve as a free, pre-conference training for people attending the Together for Families conference October 14-16 but is open and available to anyone who would like an introduction or refresher on what Strengthening Families is all about. Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues and partners who are newer to Strengthening Families...
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Expansion of School-Based Health Services in California: An Opportunity for More Trauma-Informed Care for Children
Expansion of School-Based Health Services in California: An Opportunity for More Trauma-Informed Care for Children , is a paper that describes a new opportunity for California to leverage federal funding to provide physical, mental, and behavioral health services in schools to Medicaid-enrolled students experiencing trauma and violence. It explains a newly approved Medicaid State Plan Amendment (SPA) that allows school districts – known as local education agencies (LEAs) – to access more...
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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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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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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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Spreading the Science: Michigan's NEAR Collaborative Aims to Infuse ACEs Science into State Departments and Agencies
Mary Mueller likes to call herself an “opportunistic infection.” What that means is that Mueller, project coordinator for trauma-informed systems in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), is determined to share the science of ACEs and resilience wherever she goes. After Mueller attended the state’s first ACE master trainer two day session hosted by the Michigan ACE Initiative , she wanted to bring the foundational science shared by ACE Interface back home—to her MDHHS...
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"A Better Normal" Community Discussion: Suicide Awareness and Community Cafes
Join us on Friday November 6, 2020 from noon to 1:00 PST as we come together and join Satya Chandragiri MD, Bonnie O’Hern RN, Denise PNP, & Michael Polacek RN for a discussion around the tender issue of suicide. Together we will discuss ways people and providers can support each other and encourage communities to take action to support one another around suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and the layers of culture and structural barriers to care. A special emphasis will be on...
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Re: Protective Factors Framework in your work Introduction
To register:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-bringing-the-protective-factors-framework-into-your-work-tickets-128933881711
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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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Re: Protective Factors Framework in your work Introduction
To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ 128933881711
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Re: Protective Factors Framework in your work Introduction
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Protective Factors Framework in your work 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 keep a family strong and prevent child abuse and neglect Identify strategies and...
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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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SCAC Community Manager is a "Local Who Makes a Difference"
So often the work we do around ACEs, trauma, and resilience can be seen as part of the larger landscape and not receive the recognition it deserves. Today I am happy to share tha t Elizabeth Smith the Sonoma County ACEs Connection Community Manager was formally selected by the City of Sebastopol! The City of Sebastopol explains why Elizabeth was selected: Elizabeth is an author, public speaker and advocate for suicide awareness and the prevention of child abuse and neglect. She is the...
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Sonoma County ACES Connection Monthly Meeting 1/28/21
Hello, Sending a reminder that the Sonoma County ACEs Connection meeting is TOMORROW 1/28/21 from 3-4:30 PM. Please delete the standing calendar event for today's meeting, I am unable to do so as I do not have access to the email that it was set up originally with. Below is the agenda. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Zoom Link: ID: 91864522660 Password: 557951 Welcome Introductions- What brings you to SCAC? National Parent Leadership Month Recognitions Community...
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CASEL Competencies for Educator Wellness
With 12 years of experience in social and emotional learning education, Dovetail Learning realized that promoting an SEL program for children was not addressing the educators’ core SEL challenge. We have learned that the best way to help children is to ensure that the adults who serve them have strong Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and resilience skills . We Are Resilient™ was created to meet that need. We know that “ stress affects teachers’ health and well-being, job satisfaction, job...
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Join Special Guest Father Paul Abernathy for a Zoom Discussion on March 16th, at 7p.m. EST to discuss the Whole People Documentary Series and Trauma-Informed Community Development
On behalf of ACEs Connection , the CTIPP (The Campaign for Trauma -Informed Policy & Practice), and the Relentless School Nurse , we want to invite you to the streaming of parts 4 and 5 of the Whole People documentary series on the weekend o f M arch 12th through March 14th, 2021. We will stream both parts on ACEs Connection in the Transforming Trauma with ACEs Sciences Film Festival community. The documentary viewing will be followed by a discussion with special guest, Father Paul...
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My WHY I show up to do this work
I recently read a quote that @Christine Cissy White (ACEsConnection) shared that says, "Trauma informed care isn't trauma informed, without the trauma survivor." No matter what degree, training, or book you acquire you can never really know how it feels to experience trauma unless you go through it. I remember when I first discovered I had an ACE score of 7; I had been serving the community by supporting resiliency, self-healing, and breaking stigmas around mental health. I came across the...
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Sonoma County Data Dashboard-Check it out!
The Sonoma County Data Dashboard contains select indicators of child adversity and well-being. The dashboard is a product of the Shared Data and Outcomes Workgroup of the California Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative, a CDC-funded child maltreatment prevention project hosted by the California Departments of Public Health and Social Services. These indicators reflect the vision and mission of the EfC initiative to create safe, stable nurturing relationships and environments, and to...
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Elizabeth Smith knits together families and communities through her own healing journey
(l to r) Elizabeth Smith and Peacetown board of directors: David, Amitiel, Jim aka Mr. Music, and Jasmine. Only eight years ago, Elizabeth Smith was experiencing severe chronic stress. Raising a young son on her own, she was employed as a technician at a county hospital in Northern California that had downsized staff and increased her workload , as well that of other staff. She was helping to raise the morale of her fellow workers and served as a liaison between staff and the administration,...
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HOPE Summit speakers show how positive childhood experiences offset adversity
The Rev. Darrell Armstrong, pastor of the historic Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, New Jersey, is an accomplished man. He graduated from Stanford University in public policy and went on to get his master’s degree in divinity studies at Princeton. As a former director in the New Jersey Department of Human Services, he was responsible for New Jersey’s statewide strategy for preventing child abuse and neglect. Armstrong has also worked as an entrepreneur, workshop facilitator, and radio host.
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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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Childcare providers use two- generational approach to help preschoolers from being expelled
It’s shocking: Preschoolers are three times more likely to be expelled than children in elementary, middle and high school, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Boys are four times more likely than girls to be kicked out, and African American children are twice as likely as Latinx and White children. One organization with childcare centers and mental health providers in Kentucky and Ohio began a long journey 15 years ago, when they began hearing about...
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Sonoma County Early Learners Conference
Don't miss this free virtual event! Theme: “The role of ECE in promoting social-emotional health during times of challenge” Click Here to Register! Saturday, August 28 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM This conference will feature keynote speaker, Barbara Stroud, PhD,Renowned trainer, consultant, author, co-founding organizer of CalAIMH and an experienced graduate level faculty member. And, twenty workshops on early care and education to choose from! Click here to view the list of workshops. Dr.
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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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Supporting Mental Well-Being through Child Care Settings - 9/30, 1:30-3:00 ET
A webinar offered by the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) Thursday, September 30, 1:30 - 3:00 pm EDT Register today . Addressing the mental health needs of child care providers and children in care is vital in the face of the pandemic, a population-level traumatic event. CTIPP is offering a "plug and play" framework to ease the process of developing a continuum of training, reflective coaching, and consultation to build the capacity for supporting relational health...
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Women’s Resilience Circle
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