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In Southern Oregon, Janai Mestrovich, MS, Early Learning & Child Development, labels her curriculum Empowering Superkids. The focus is on pre-K and Kindergarten kids and teaching them to know her/himself and tap inner resources of mind/body/emotions/breathing and have skills to make good choices and feel like a SUPERKID. Teaching self awareness, self respect and communication/collaboration are essential towards resiliency. Janai has developed and taught the Superkid Guidebook over a 40...

To see the conference agenda, list of all-star speakers, and to register go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/california-2018-conference/

On March 15, Gov. Kate Brown visited Tillamook to hear about the work that Tillamook Schools are doing around trauma informed care and Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACEs. Gov. Brown, along with Chief Education Officer Lindsey Capps, met with the Tillamook School District leadership team to discuss the innovative work that Tillamook Schools have taken on. The District used presentations from student Brandon Reichow, teacher Kimberli Callahan and student-teacher, Tania Flores, who each told...

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACEs), conducted by Dr. Vince Felitti of Kaizer Permanente and Dr. Robert Anda of the Center for Disease Control, was a groundbreaking study when it’s findings were released in 1998, and it confirmed what nonviolence advocates, social service and health care providers had witnessed for decades–violence is bad for your health. ACEs provided a wealth of information to illustrate how deeply our individual and community health is impacted by trauma. [For...

Hello all! The Columbia River Gorge is hosting a Trauma & Resiliency Summit on October 20th & 21st, 2016 in The Dalles, OR. Registration is made free to attendees through MARC Grant funding. If you are in the area please join us! And please note that registration is only available prior to the event as we have a limited amount of space. Claire

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Healthy Columbia Willamette Collaborative (HCWC) is conducting the 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment and invites you to please take their survey and also share it far and wide. Survey responses will help to inform health improvement projects...