Tagged With "Primary Care"
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Virtual Screening of Cracked Up for ACEs Connection Members: June 9-10 - Register Now!
We are excited to offer an exclusive virtual screening to all ACEs Connection members of the new, acclaimed film, CRACKED UP . This documentary film is about the long term effects of childhood trauma, told through Saturday Night Live veteran Darrell Hammond’s journey in discovering adverse childhood experiences at the root of his lifelong battle with self-harm, addiction, and misdiagnosis. The film’s director, Michelle Esrick, and other special guests will join us after the screening window...
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WA Strengthening Families May June Newsletter 2019
Thank you to everyone who participated in April’s Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) month – from those who helped plant pinwheels at the capitol or at their home or work, to those who helped share our social media messages – it was a great month! Here are some highlights from this year’s events and displays. We started the month with our annual Pinwheel Planting at the Capitol Campus - helped once again by bikers from Bikers Against Child Abuse and the Junior League of Olympia, along with staff...
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Washington State Agency Involvement in ACEs-Related Work
Cross Agency Initiatives Essentials for Childhood: Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships & Environments for Children - Essentials for Childhood Washington State -- www.doh.wa.gov/efc - Essentials for Childhood - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/childmaltreatment/essentials/index.html Washington State Frontiers of Innovation - http://www.wafoi.org/ Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University – Frontiers of Innovation...
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Washington State At-A-Glance
Here is an overview of what Washington State is doing in six major areas related to ACEs and trauma-informed programs and practices: ACEs module in the BRFSS (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) survey; laws/pending legislation; state...
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Washington State Prevention Summit - Nov 5-6
Registration is Now Open! Washington State Prevention Summit Celebrating 35 Years! Click here to register. Registration deadline: September 20, 2019 Date : November 5 - 6, 2019 Location : Yakima Convention Center 10 N. 8th St. Yakima, WA 98901 About the Summit The goal of the Prevention Summit is to provide an enriching and culturally competent training and networking opportunity for youth, volunteers and professionals working toward the prevention of substance abuse, violence and other...
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Washington to combine child services programs into one department [RealChangeNews.org]
A commission released its recommendations to fix Washington state’s faulty system that delivers services to children and families by breaking up the agency out of the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) and creating a new, independent department addressing the needs of children 21 years old and younger. The proposal would dramatically realign the current system, including the state’s foster care system, by taking the Children’s Administration out of DSHS and combining it with the...
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Washington Weighs an End to Locking Kids Up for Truancy [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
As a teenager in foster care , Zack Zibrosky was detained eight times, five for running away from the same group home where some of the other kids had a history of aggressive behavior. Running away is considered a status offense, an activity that is prohibited only if you are a minor. In between trips to detention, Zibrosky spent time on the streets. School fell by the wayside amidst all that upheaval. “Kids who are going through this obviously have some type of turmoil or something in their...
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We Have to Better Understand What Foster Parents Need [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
By Ross Hunter, The Chronicle of Social Change, October 11, 2019 As a new leader in the child welfare space, I thought it would be worth my while to do some listening before I made any big changes. So I went on a tour all over the state of Washington. I talked to caseworkers, foster parents, birth families, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and anyone else I could find who had an opinion. I got an earful. “Everything is broken.” “I had a great experience.” “The caseworker never called...
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Webinar Oct. 17 — Integrating ACEs science in pediatrics: Early adopters share lessons from the field
An ACEs Connection webinar co-sponsored with 4 CA In 2017, California became the first state in the country to pass a law supporting universal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the 5.3 million children in the state’s Medicaid program. As clinicians around California await the state’s announcement of what this new policy will entail, many are wondering what it takes to integrate ACEs science in a pediatric practice. Meet Drs. Deirdre Bernard-Pearl, R.J. Gillespie and...
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Webinar Slides and Recording: The Human Impact of Climate Change
Recorded live November 13, 2019. Find the slides attached below. Speaker: Elaine Miller-Karas, MSW, LCSW, Executive Director and Co-founder, Trauma Resource Institute. Guest: Kelly Doty, MA, Strengthening Families Program Manager, Youth for Change Host: Carey Sipp, Southeast Community Facilitator, ACEs Connection. Climate change emergencies are real and the human toll during and in the aftermath impact children, teens and adults. This webinar will hear from Kelly Doty, a survivor, who lost...
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When Being Trauma-Informed Is Not Enough
Trauma-informed care is the new gold standard. For the last several years, Echo has been providing professional development in trauma-informed care but we’re beginning to notice a worrying aspect of the new push to train staff and transform systems. Some human service professionals are seeing ‘trauma-informed care’ as another skill to add to their resume or a box to check off on a grant proposal. But if the information stays with the professionals and is not used to empower survivors, then...
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Why Focus on Resilience? 2019 BPT Conference Big Idea Session with Teri Barila
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in” -Desmond Tutu. This quote captures the essence of why resilience matters. To Community Resilience Initiative, Resilience is not about “lifting yourself up by your bootstraps” or “bouncing back” from serious harm or injury. To us, Resilience is about self-discovery and self-awareness based on what the ACE Study, neurobiology, and epigenetics tell us...
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Willipa Behavioral Health to Open a Trauma-Focused Residential Treatment Facility
From Adam Marquis, MBA, ACHE, LSSBBP, AAC, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Willapa Behavioral Health Willipa Behavioral Health (WBH) is planning to purchase and open the former “Klean Building” on 211 Pioneer Ave. West in Long Beach in Summer/Fall 2020 to open a 54-bed Trauma-Focused Residential Treatment Facility (TF-RTF) likely to include a Brain Institute as we focus on healing the brain! Latest neuroscience points to the need to healing the brain and not treating symptoms and WBH...
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Wisconsin state agencies end year one of trauma-informed learning community; goal is to be first trauma-informed state
Here in California, many people think that it’s only liberal Democrats who have a corner on championing the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and putting it into practice. That might be because people who use ACEs science don’t expel or suspend students, even if they’re throwing chairs and hurling expletives at the teacher. They ask "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?" as a frame when they create juvenile detention centers where kids don’t fight, reduce...
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Building Community Resilience Infographic
Is anyone familiar with any counties in WA state that have filled in the BCR Infographic? Attached here for reference. Would be interested in filling it in for Tacoma-Pierce County area!
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Pediatric Referral for ACE Screening
Hello, I am a pediatric resident at University of Washington and Seattle Children’s and I am in the process of implementing universal ACE screening in our pediatric clinics. From conversations I have had with clinic leadership, the largest barrier to screening for ACEs is having a clear algorithm of what to do with a positive result. Our integrated Social Worker does not have the time, unfortunately, to address all the counseling, referral, and resource needs that our patients with high ACEs...
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2nd Annual Washington State Fatherhood Summit 8/9/19
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FREE The Fatherhood Summit WA
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OSPI Student Support Conference
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Paper Tigers screening
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Washington State Prevention Summit - November 5-6
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Webinar: Immigration and Trauma
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Re: ACEs-ResourceList-GettingStartedList-FINAL.docx
This resource list includes links to internet resources that introduce people to ACEs and the ACE Study. It also includes links to resources related to self-care, equity and historical trauma, the NEAR speakers bureau, resilience, and addressing ACEs in your community and in Washington State.
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Re: 9 Key Resources on Trauma-Informed Schools [schoolleadersnow.weareteachers.com]
Leckey - That's a great question. Self-care for teachers is a key component and maybe the best starting place for trauma-informed approaches in schools. The Heart of Learning includes a chapter on self-care. The Wisconsin Trauma-Sensitive Schools online modules (not on the list) includes a module on self-care.
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Re: ACEs-ResourceList-GettingStartedList-FINAL.docx
Jondi - I will add this resource to the Primary Care Resource list. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Resource List - Primary Care
Jondi Whitis posted: Can someone please point me to the right place/space to post these resources? I found the events section, and posted an event for schools there, but I cannot yet find a place that I might post with integrity a wonderful book resource for Nurses, by Holistic Nurse Terry Maluk, Rx for RNs , and a place for my own labor of love, Compassion in Action: Emotional First-Aid for Children , strategies for helping children better weather troubling times. I would love folks to find...
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Re: Coping with stress during the 2019-nCoV outbreak - WHO
Brava for the list. Nicely done. I am thankful for helpful resources. And of course I would add, to that list, learn effective self-care. Personally, I continue to teach Emotional First-Aid, especially for times like these, and always I include the evidence-based 'people's tool' known as EFT Tapping. Easy to learn, apply, remember ...and just as importantly, it's effective . I have taught thousands to use these Emotional First-Aid tools to combat worry and anxious, looping thoughts, before...
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Re: Carnegie Resource Center Opens as an Innovative Gateway to Services (Pioneer Human Services)
Thank you for sharing. I wonder how many communities in Washington have similar centers. The Providence Community Care Center opened in Olympia a year or two ago. https://washington.providence....ommunity-care-center
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Re: Save the Date – Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - ACEs and Resilience Community of Practice Event
Hi, Is there a way to be connected with one of the presenters? I missed the event, but Karen Clemmer and I met on Friday last week and she recommended being connected w/ Ron Murphy and the work he's doing around Trauma-Informed Care and Racial Equity. I tried to find contact info online but no luck. Thank you for any help you can provide!
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Re: Save the Date – Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - ACEs and Resilience Community of Practice Event
I responded to Melissa via Private Message.