Tagged With "Behavioral Health"
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Do you live in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Nevada or the US Pacific Islands? Come to our no-cost mental and school mental health Winter Institute!
Do you live in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Nevada or the US Pacific Islands?If so...Check it out! 👇 NO COST. MENTAL HEALTH & SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH WORKFORCE. AMAZING FACULTY. JANUARY 14, 15, & 16th! LONG BEACH, CA. JOIN US. 🤝 👏 Learn more here: http://bit.ly/mhttc-winterinstitute-flyer Register here: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07egq2f9gaebafa6bd&llr=8wdk4ubab
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Don't miss the AVA Global Health Summit in St. Paul, MN, October 3-4!
The 2019 Academy on Violence and Abuse Global Health Summit will be October 3-4, 2019 at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota . Keynote Address from Dr. Vincent Felitti : "Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Their Relationship to Adult Well-being, Addiction, Disease, and Premature Death" ACEs Connection Network founder/editor Jane Stevens will receive an AVA Change Maker award and give an address: "Origins of ACEs Connection and the Future" Check out the full agenda and...
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Durbin, Capito, colleagues introduce bipartisan, bicameral legislation to address childhood trauma [Office of Senator Durbin of IL]
The following is a press release issued by the office of U.S. Senator Durbin (D-IL) on Monday, June 10, announcing the introduction of bipartisan bicameral legislation that builds on last year’s opioid legislation SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act and recommendations from a recent GAO report. A link to the bill and other information will be provided as soon as possible. In the meantime, an earlier draft of the bill and a section by section are attached to this post. For Immediate...
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Early-childhood development offers a brighter future to entire nations [The Seattle Times]
By Steve Davis and Peter Laugharn, July 29, 2019 The Seattle Times The World Health Organization just unveiled an initiative that could improve millions of children’s lives and boost the global economy by trillions of dollars. The initiative, known as the Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development , [ PDF attached ] seeks to change how we raise infants and toddlers. Children’s experiences during their first three years of life heavily influence their well-being as adults,...
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Essentials for Childhood Washington State Fact Sheet, March 2017
Attached below is an updated Fact Sheet for Essential for Childhood in Washington State.
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Facing Addiction in America - The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
Executive Summary The first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health reviews what we know about substance misuse and how you can use that knowledge to address substance misuse and related consequences. Read the executive summary . Vision for the Future The last chapter of the Report presents a vision for the future, five general messages, their implications for policy and practice, and recommendations for specific stakeholder groups. Read the vision for the future . Key...
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Facing opioid and foster-care crisis, Spokane’s Rising Strong seeks to keep families together [The Seattle Times]
By Claudia Rowe, May 3, 2019, The Seattle Times Rising Strong Twice a day for months, Cicelia Bracken and her children tracked the progress of their home-under-construction, watching as beams were erected to sketch the outlines of an imagined life with a working kitchen. At 31, Bracken hadn’t had a place where she could shut the door and sit with her thoughts for years. Nor had her four young children, all of them under 6, who peered into the windows, jostling for first pick of the new...
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Focus on Prevention: Strategies and Programs to Prevent Substance Use
New report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Focus on Prevention: Strategies and Programs to Prevent Substance Use http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA10-4120/SMA10-4120.pdf
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Foundation Funding to support ACEs/Resilience Team & Children’s Resilience Initiative
Congratulations to all involved in the successful application for funding to support the work of the ACEs/Resilience Team & Childrens Resilience Initiative. The award was made to Whatcom Family and Community Network to expand the innovative work already undertaken. The network was one of 14 states, counties, and cities selected to receive funding as part of a new initiative on childhood trauma prevention, Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC). MARC was...
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From Tory Henderson: ACEs and Resilience
ACEs and Resilience Hello! This email includes several resources on the ACEs Connection website: Webinar – Self-Healing Community Model, Laura Porter, February 28 (State-to-state best practices series) Recorded Webinar – New Alaska statute directs state policy to incorporate principles of brain development (State-to-state best practices series) ACEs Connection Update from Tory Starting an ACEs Connection Community Webinar Series – Growing Resilient Communities 2.0 Resources - ACEs Connection...
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Funding Announcement: SAMHSA Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (Short Title: ReCAST Program)
Award Information Funding Mechanism: Grant Anticipated Total Available Funding: $2,500,000 Anticipated Number of Awards: Up to 2 awards Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000 per year Length of Project: Up to 5 years Cost Sharing/Match Required?: No Eligibility: Eligible applicants are local municipalities (e.g., counties, cities, and local governments) in partnership with community-based organizations that have faced civil unrest within the past 24 months from the posting of this FOA.
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GAO report on challenges that states face in addressing child trauma
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on May 22 on the challenges that states face in their efforts to support children affected by trauma. The findings were based in part on interviewing state and local officials in six states (Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Washington, and Wisconsin) along with questionnaires to 16 states. The request for the report was made by two Illinois members of Congress, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and Congressman Danny Davis, and...
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Getting Tri-City kids to read is just what the doctor ordered [tri-cityherald.com]
For about 10 minutes, Aryanna Vargas sat quietly with her Curious George book. Then Dr. Saul Valencia walked in and began asking questions about the book. “Can you tell me what he’s doing in this picture?” he asked, pointing to a man making a phone call. “Who do you think he’s calling? Do you think he’s calling his mom, his dad, a friend?” Aryanna began laughing and filling in the pieces of the story. As they finished with the story, Valencia said, “That’s exactly how it works in the room.”...
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Governor Newsom announces Nadine Burke Harris to be CA's first-ever surgeon general
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the appointment of Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a national leader in pediatric medicine, to serve as California’s first-ever Surgeon General. There is overwhelming consensus in the scientific community around early warning signs and childhood determinants of serious health outcomes. As California's Surgeon General, Dr. Burke Harris will urge policymakers at every level of government and leaders across the state to consider the social determinants of health,...
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Grassroots resilience: Rural communities tackle ACEs
Rt to left—Adrienne Coopey, DO, Billings Clinic, MT, Lorenzo Lewis, The Confess Project, Little Rock, Ark, and Mendy Spohn, MPH, public health administrator in several counties in Oklahoma ________________________________________________ The three presenters for the “Grassroots Resilience: Rural Communities Tackle ACEs” workshop brought to life the unique challenges of addressing ACEs and trauma in rural communities and shared some valuable lessons for communities of any size. Mendy Spohn, a...
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May 21st Teleconference: Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health (GCACH) Leadership Council Meeting
GCACH Leadership Council Meeting Reminder Thursday, May 21st from 9:00 am - 11:30 am Teleconference +1.312.757.3121; Access code 776.402.557 At the beginning of May, Governor Inslee announced a four-stage phase in for lifting of restrictions – starting with allowing retail curbside pick-up, automobile sales and car washes – with a minimum of three weeks between each phase. There has already been the easing of some restrictions, including the resumption of existing construction projects and...
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Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health has launched an ACEs website
Thanks for LC Valley Resilience Coalition for sharing this on Facebook. Website sections: - What are ACEs? - What can you do to help? Including What can you do to build community resilience? - Resources - Including resources in Spanish - Training To visit the website: https://gcach.org/build-community-resilience?fbclid=IwAR0dyFC9NSCP9Tbn7UctjIwaEMZYVLgSTuADIQjr34W7LPYDrjnwTkgwjiw
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HCA is looking for community partners to sponsor and host Trauma Informed Approach trainings
Message from Diana Cockrell, Children's Behavioral Health & Substance Use Disorder Services, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA): Imagine a world where we interact with every life we meet as if we knew their story of hardship and trial…and engaged with them from that knowledge…Welcome to trauma informed approach. Trauma informed partners, HCA’s Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) currently has the opportunity, through...
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Healing the whole person: Premera leads effort to focus on behavioral health [Social Impact Report]
Homelessness. Domestic violence. School suspensions. Drug abuse. Criminal activity. What’s one common thread that runs through all of these issues? Behavioral health problems. And yet for many people — and society in general — the subject is still taboo. When someone is diagnosed with cancer, their community rallies around them. When someone has mental illness, the topic is hidden. It’s difficult to talk about and even more difficult to treat. “If you go back to when I was being trained, the...
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Resource List - Self-Care
Self-care is a key element of a trauma-informed approach, at individual, organization, and community levels. This internet resource list includes links to introductions to ACEs and the ACE Study, self-care, secondary trauma and mindfulness. Self-Care - General Self-Care Starter Kit, School of Social Work, University of Buffalo http://socialwork.buffalo.edu/...are-starter-kit.html Relaxation Tool Kit, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center...
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Resource List - Trauma Informed Approaches and Autism Spectrum and Other Developmental Disabilities
Resources for individuals, organizations, and communities moving along trauma and hope-informed pathways in order to: Prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Promote resilience and safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. Promote equity and racial justice. Prevent substance abuse and promote mental health. … so that all children, youth, families and communities have equal opportunity for educational success, economic stability, health, and well-being.
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Resource List - Trauma Informed Pathway
This resource list is based on a pathway suggested by some local community leaders: LEARN about Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACEs and Resilience (NEAR) and how a history of trauma can impact individuals. DISCUSS how a history of trauma impacts service delivery. IMPLEMENT policies and procedures that support people with a history of trauma and the staff who work with them. DEVELOP organizational and community culture that embeds trauma-informed and restorative practice. It includes information...
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Resource Lists
I've put together a set of ACEs to Flourishing Resource Lists. They include internet (and some print) resources for individuals, organizations, and communities moving along trauma and hope-informed pathways in order to: Prevent and mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Promote resilience and safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. Prevent substance abuse and promote mental health. Move toward hope and flourishing individuals, families and communities Resource List...
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RFP: due Sept 16, 2019 King County WA
Applications are due September 16 , 2019 via the online application portal Survey Monkey Apply. Read the full RFP and begin an application . You may also download a pdf of the RFP contents . ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: Aug 6, 2019 RFP DEADLINE: Sep 16, 2019 AMOUNT AVAILABLE: $2,000,000 available annually, from 2020-2021. Awards may be extended for a third year, pending allocation of COO funding in subsequent years. D ESCRIPTION: Multi-year grant cycle for two years of funding towards transforming...
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RSVP for the Washington State Public Health Association's online support group!
Colleagues, These are not easy times for public health, WSPHA is here to support you. We have set up a daily public health support group via Zoom . The group will be open daily (7-days/week) from noon to 1:00 PM . You are welcome to join for the whole hour, or just a few minutes as you are able. I f you would like the link/phone number to join, email me at jeff@wspha.org If there is interest to have other groups at different times, please let me know and we will arrange them. You are all so...
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RSVP now for two lunchtime webinars! April 14th & April 28th!
Washington State Essentials for Childhood is launching a series of lunchtime webinar series. Series three and four webinars are: 3 Guiding Truths for Building Regulation and Resilience in Children with Significant Trauma Related Needs Time and Date: April 14, 2020; 12:00 – 1:00pm Presented by: Tiffany Sudela-Junker Mother by adoption, Tiffany Sudela-Junker shares stories from her own personal and parenting transformation along with the science & insight that led her to uncover Three...
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Rx for success: Pediatricians handing out books [seattletimes.com]
AS pediatric health-care providers, one of the most powerful tools we can pull out during exams is not a piece of medical equipment, but a book. Investments in a child’s earliest months and years offer the best chance for all children to succeed in life, but not every child has the same access to those investments. Washington state has been missing opportunities to ensure every child goes to school ready to learn. We have 23,000 children who are eligible for the state’s Early Childhood...
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Save the Date - 2017 Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference
Celebrating Opportunity – Supporting Health & Recovery Sponsor: Washington Council for Behavioral Health June 14-16, 2017 -- Vancouver, Washington Our goal is to provide a learning experience that expands professional knowledge, promotes community partnerships, and helps make recovery a reality. This year there will be 35 workshops on a broad variety of behavioral health topics, and tracks on corrections & mental health, recovery & resiliency, management, leadership &...
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Save the Date – Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - ACEs and Resilience Community of Practice Event
Mark your calendar for the third Washington statewide ACEs and Resilience Community of Practice event, hosted by the Washington State Essentials for Childhood, Washington State Department of Health, and Everett Public Schools. Time: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm Location: Everett Public Schools Community Resource Center 3900 Broadway Everett, WA 98201 Registration information will be available soon. This event will provide opportunities to connect with people across the state who are working to grow...
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Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma
This new technical assistance tool from the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) offers a variety of approaches for screening adults and children for adverse childhood experiences and trauma, including examples of screening protocols used at several provider practices that have embraced trauma-informed care.
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Screening of "Resilience" - Kamiak High School, Mukilteo WA [mukilteowa.gov]
“Resilience” Documentary at Kamiak High School April 26 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Free Watch the new documentary “Resilience”: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope” in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) at Kamiak High School on April 26. This documentary chronicles the promising beginnings of a national movement to prevent childhood trauma, address toxic stress, and greatly improve the health of future generations. This is the much awaited follow-up to “Paper Tigers”, a documentary about...
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Secondary Traumatic Stress Affects Child Abuse Prevention Champions
Each year, millions of children in California endure the trauma of abuse, violence, natural disasters, and other adverse events. These experiences can give rise to significant emotional and behavioral problems that can profoundly disrupt the children’s lives and bring them in contact with child-serving professionals. For therapists, child welfare workers, case managers, and other helping professionals involved in the care of traumatized children and their families, the essential act of...
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Send It Society: Bottoming Out on Mental Health (PinkBike)
I recently had the opportunity to connect with Josh Fulmer and learn more about the non-profit he created this year, Send It Society. Read on for an excerpt from Josh's PinkBike article and the link to the full story. About the Send it Society Send It Society is a Non-profit with the mission of providing a non-clinical healing environment to raise awareness, bring education, and action to mental health through mountain biking and extreme sports. What does that mean? It means we want people...
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Sequim Mayor and City Council Proclamation of October as Resiliency Month
PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, there is compelling scientific evidence of a correlation between negative childhood experiences known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) or “toxic stress”, and WHEREAS, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) include such experiences as physical, sexual, or verbal abuse, physical and emotional neglect, witnessing domestic violence, losing a parent to separation or divorce or having a family member who is: experiencing mental health issues, struggling with substance...
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Service Clubs in the ACE and Resilience Movement: Reaching Out with Facts and Stories
Before Claire Ranit spoke to her local Rotary Club about ACEs science, she needed to know if her listeners would be elephants or riders.
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Shifting the focus from trauma to compassion
photo: Rolf Schweitzer/CCO Dr. Arnd Herz, a self-described champion for ACEs science, would like nothing more than to witness a greater appreciation of how widespread adverse childhood experiences are. Herz, a pediatrician and director of Medi-Cal Strategy for the Greater Southern Alameda Area for Kaiser Permanente Northern California, would also like to encourage more people in health care to engage in a trauma-informed care approach, a change in practice that he says not only benefits...
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States Produce a Bumper Crop of ACEs bills in 2017—nearly 40 bills in 18 states
A scan done in March by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) through StateNet of bills introduced in 2017 that specifically include adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the text produced a surprising volume of bills (close of 40) in a large number of states (18). A scan done a year ago produced less than a handful. NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves both state legislators and their staffs. The shear volume of bills in so many states represents a promising...
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Student Project Investigates Incarceration and Debt as Predictors of Homelessness [NWCPHP]
The Nickelsville Northlake tiny-house village provides shelter to Seattle's homeless residents.
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Substance-abuse doc says: Stop chasing the drug! Focus on ACEs.
He says: Addiction shouldn’t be called “addiction”. It should be called “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking”. He says: Ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking (what traditionalists call addiction) is a normal response to the adversity experienced in childhood, just like bleeding is a normal response to being stabbed. He says: The solution to changing the illegal or unhealthy ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking behavior of opioid addiction is to address a person’s adverse childhood...
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Supporting Tribal Public Health Capacity in Coronavirus Preparedness and Response (non-competitive grant) CDC’s Office of Tribal Affairs and Strategic Alliances
Description: To support tribal public health emergency response to COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is announcing a new, non-competitive grant CDC-RFA-OT20- 2004 Supporting Tribal Public Health Capacity in Coronavirus Preparedness and Response. To carry out public health emergency response activities in response to COVID-19, CDC is awarding at least $40,000,000 of initial funding to federally recognized tribes and tribal organizations that contract or compact...
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Talking ACEs and building resilience in prison
At Washington State Penitentiary, Tony McGuire talks to the inmates in his construction trades apprenticeship preparation (CTAP) class about ACEs, trauma and resilience every single day. Not only is he teaching the guys a trade, but he also teaches them how to be a healthy, happy and well-adjusted employee. Note: Becoming a healthy, happy, well-adjusted employee is way harder than basic carpentry, plumbing, electrical and HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning).
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Temple Grandin Has Some Great Tips to Help Kids With Autism Cope During the Coronavirus Quarantine (Parade)
By Deborah Wallace, April 3, 2020, Parade Parents who are working at home during the coronavirus quarantine face many challenges. But the boundaries between work and home life are blurred even more when your child has autism. To commemorate National Autism Awareness Month in April , international autism expert Temple Grandin spoke to Parade.com about how parents and caregivers can help their families thrive during this unprecedented time of isolation. Grandin, Ph.D., professor of animal...
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The Art of Participatory Leadership - March 3, 4 & 5 - Lacey, WA
From the Art of Participatory Leadership website: "What would it look like for our communities to work together in a healthy way to address wicked problems such as homelessness, health, and climate change while building resilience? Join us for 3 days of learning, innovation, and capacity building. Together, we will explore what's possible when people and organizations from across our communities are fully engaged in and accountable for not only identifying promising strategies to address...
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The Campaign to Heal Childhood Trauma is coming!
Maybe you have heard about this initiative on one of the social networks or you followed the tour last year. If not, The Campaign to Heal Childhood Trauma is a grassroots partnership between Calo Programs and three leading, national attachment, trauma and adoption nonprofits; The Attachment and Trauma Network (ATN), The American Adoption Congress (AAC) and Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children (ATTACh). The purpose of this collaboration is to increase compassion and...
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The Center for Youth Wellness Launches Childhood Adversity Screening Program with Leading North Carolina Health Systems [PR Newswire]
Charlotte pilot program with Atrium Health and Novant Health supports state's goal to address social, economic and environmental health to improve child and family health outcomes The Center for Youth Wellness (CYW) announced it is partnering with two leading U.S. health systems in the Southeast to launch a screening program on childhood adversity. CYW's National Pediatric Practice Community (NPPC) has done on-site training at the headquarters of Atrium Health and Novant Health in Charlotte,...
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The Journey From Me to We: The Walla Walla Way
“We’re all humans and we’re all going through the same things,” Kelsey Sisavath explains. “It’s important for everyone to know. It can change your perspective on how you see yourself, how you see others, and how you see the world.” The “it” Kelsey is talking about is trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) . She has a unique perspective on the topic given her range of experiences throughout her 19 years of life. The story...
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The Power of Hope to Mitigate Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified child maltreatment as a major public health concern, and adult survivors of child maltreatment are at significant risk of chronic disease and premature mortality. This constant exposure to child maltreatment makes these health care practitioners uniquely vulnerable to stressors associated with burnout.
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The Rise of the Trauma-Informed Mothers
The next generation is less likely to wear predisposed shackles of trauma because as trauma-informed parents we are re-wiring the traumatically stressed DNA that was passed down to us.
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The Science of Hope Conference - Foundation for Healthy Generations
April 26-27, 2017, Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center The Science of Hope brings together health equity front-line practitioners, system leaders and leading researchers and academics to learn from one another, build new relationships across silos and sectors, and explore leading -edge issues to foster innovation and positive change. Featured Speakers & Workshops Keynote panel with renowned health equity leaders discussing the new norms needed at all levels to create enduring...
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This Town Adopted Trauma-Informed Care - And Saw a Decrease in Crime and Suspension Rates [yesmagazine.org]
Lincoln Alternative High School is in the small city of Walla Walla in southeastern Washington. It had been a place for students with disciplinary issues, those removed from the area’s other high schools, ordered there by a judge, or those who had performed poorly in middle school. Tucked in the middle of a residential neighborhood, Lincoln’s brick edifice and cherry-red doors now serve as a place of opportunity for many students. At Lincoln, the first trauma-informed high school in the...