Tagged With "social emotional learning"
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Archived Webinar - Change, Challenge, Adversity, and Resilience: Ideas and Tools for a Turbulent World
Presented by Region IV Public Health Training Center Speaker: Dr. Linda Hoopes "Dr. Linda Hoopes helps individuals, teams, and organizations learn to thrive in turbulence." Some of the key points were: Building Blocks of Resilience Calming yourself Choosing a strategy – Reframe the challenge, change the situation, accept what is Solving problems – Problem solving “muscles:” Positivity, Confidence, Connection, Experimenting, Structure, Priorities, Creativity Managing energy – physical,...
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Artists in the ACE and Resilience Movement: Creative Avenues to Change
They began with a song and ended with a poem. In-between, there were photographs and giant graphic renderings, movement exercises and a “human pulse” formed when 90 people stood in a circle and squeezed each other’s hands. At a June summit in Whatcom County, Washington, titled “Our Resilient Community: A Community Conversation on Resilience and Equity,” the arts played a starring role. Kristi Slette, executive director of the Whatcom Family and Community Network, one of two Washington sites...
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Beyond Paper Tigers is Back!
Back for the second year, Beyond Paper Tigers conference will take place June 28th and 29th in Walla Walla, WA. Featuring Dr. Ken Ginsburg from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as the keynote speaker, BPT builds on the story of one community and how they've learned that embracing trauma-informed care and implementing ACEs science truly takes a village. Operationalizing the latest in brain science, BPT will provide concrete strategies for intervention with youth, families, and communities...
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Beyond Paper Tigers: The Heart of the Matter
Graphic artist Anne Nelson created this visual roadmap during the partner showcase, capturing the "heart of the matter" for each community member Teri Barila, co-founder and CEO of the Children’s Resilience Initiative and the igniting force that brought change to a quiet corner of southeast Washington, kicked off last month’s Beyond Paper Tigers Conference by sharing one of her “aha” moments. In 2007, she attended a conference in Winthrop, WA, where Dr. Robert Anda spoke about the CDC-Kaiser...
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Building Resilience 2: Firmness Tools
Join us May 21 from 4:30-7:30 at the 2100 Building in Seattle. Review and learn more of the brain science behind trauma informed practices. Learn Firmness Tools. Tools for setting clear and respectful limits while maintaining connections with youth. More information and registration is here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-resiliency-2-firmness-tools-may-21-tickets-42104657163 Group discounts are available. Clock hours are available.
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Building Resiliency 1: Strategies to Engage Youth Exposed to Trauma
Workshop May 9 - Building Resiliency 1: Strategies to Engage Youth Exposed to Trauma DO THE YOUTH IN YOUR LIFE OVER REACT TO SMALL THINGS? DO THEY STRUGGLE TO REGULATE EMOTION? DO THEY ACT YOUNGER THAN THEIR AGE? Many children and students have been exposed to trauma and as a result have difficulties in school and in life. Learn: What trauma and insecure attachment do to growing brains. How to lead a classroom to benefit all students - including those exposed to trauma. How to teach youth...
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Building Resiliency 1 Workshop - in Spokane April 25th
Presented by Sound Discipline Do your students over react to small things? Do they struggle to regulate emotion? Do they act younger than their age? Many students have been exposed to trauma and as a result have difficulties in school. In this workshop, you will learn: What trauma and insecure attachment do to growing brains. How to lead a classroom to benefit all students - including those exposed to trauma. How to teach students why their brain sometimes "won't cooperate" and what to do...
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Building Resiliency 1 Workshop - May 8 at the 2100 Building in Seattle
Presented by Sound Discipline Do your students over react to small things? Do they struggle to regulate emotion? Do they act younger than their age? Many students have been exposed to trauma and as a result have difficulties in school. In this workshop, you will learn: What trauma and insecure attachment do to growing brains. How to lead a classroom to benefit all students - including those exposed to trauma. How to teach students why their brain sometimes "won't cooperate" and what to do...
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Building Resiliency 1 Workshop - Strategies to Engage Students Exposed to Trauma
School's Out Washington is presenting Sound Discipline's Building Resiliency Workshop on June 5th. Price: $59.00 Monday, June 5th 9:30am - 12:30pm Location: 2100 Building, Community B 2100 24th Ave S, Seattle Register at this link - https://www.schoolsoutwashington.org/products/building-resiliency-working-with-students-exposed-to-stress-and-trauma-seattle-jun-5 Participants will learn the impact of trauma and insecure attachment on developing brains, tools for building children’s resiliency...
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Building Resiliency 1 Workshop - Strategies to Engage Students Exposed to Trauma
Sound Discipline has room for a few more participants in our next Building Resiliency workshop on March 5th. Registration deadline is Sat, Feb 24. Workshop cost is $55. CEUs are available for this workshop through Seattle Pacific University. We also offer registration fee discounts for groups of 5 or more. Description: Do the youth you work with or live with overreact to small things? Struggle to regulate emotion? Act younger than their age? Many children have been exposed to trauma and as a...
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Building Resiliency Workshops in Seattle
Join us for one of our upcoming Building Resiliency Series Workshops September - November at the 2100 Building in Seattle. No community is immune from the impact of toxic stress. How can you become a buffering adult who helps children deal with toxic stress and build resilience? Learn: The brain science around what trauma, toxic stress and insecure attachment do to growing brains. How to lead a classroom or environment to benefit all students – including those exposed to trauma. How to teach...
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Call for Abstracts for NCHDV 2020 conference
The National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence (NCHDV) seeks submissions that highlight research reports, practice innovations, advocacy initiatives, educational advances, and/or community programs that address one or more aspects related to domestic/sexual violence, other forms of violence, and health. The Call for Abstracts (CFA) invites leaders working in the fields of health and domestic/sexual violence to present their work at the 2020 Conference. Submission Deadline: Monday,...
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Challenging the status quo | My View [NorthKitsapHerald.com]
By DAVID FOOTE and JO REASONS At United Way of Kitsap County, we believe in challenging the status quo to the way we approach fighting poverty in our community. We believe in thinking differently and we are excited to be taking bold,...
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Community Leaders Connect in ACEs and Resilience Community of Practice
https://nacchovoice.naccho.org/2018/09/25/community-leaders-connect-in-aces-and-resilience-community-of-practice/
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CRI Course 1: Trauma-Informed Training Webcast!
CRI Course 1: Trauma-Informed Training Webcast! Date: February 26, 2019 Time: 8am - 3pm Pacific Time A dynamic six-hour WEBCAST course, Course 1 introduces CRI’s capacity-building framework for building resilience, KISS. Knowledge, Insight, Strategies and Structure describes our community’s learning and movement from theory to practice and how to implement evidence-based strategies into action. The training includes three groups of topics: the NEAR sciences , a cluster of emerging scientific...
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CRI is hiring an Associate Director!
Community Resilience Initiative is seeking an innovative and passionate individual to join our organization as an Associate Director (AD). The AD reports to the Executive Director and to the Board of Directors. Job Overview The role of the Associate Director is to sustain the resilience-based, trauma-responsive capacity building work at the local, regional, state and national stage for which CRI is recognized. Success in this position will be evidenced by recognition of its exceptional...
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CRI of Walla Walla accepts $15,000 Premera Grant to create Spanish materials
Walla Walla’s Community Resilience Initiative (CRI) has been awarded a Social Impact Grant in 2019 through Premera Blue Cross. Premera’s award will provide funding to translate the CRI materials into Spanish, thus providing access to Spanish-speaking members of our community and elsewhere. Ultimately, the award will help support CRI’s community work in addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)- by expanding understanding of the impact of ACEs on parenting and health, and more...
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CRI's Newest Course 3- a Trauma-Informed Approach to Challenging Behavior
September 23rd- 26th, Community Resilience Initiative (CRI) will be holding a trauma-informed boot camp , in which participants can spend an exciting week learning our Course 1, Course 2, and/or Course 3 information. Many of you have already attended Course 1 and 2, and are eager to learn more strategies. Course 3 describes training on topics that teach the knowledge and skills required by individuals who have more regular and intense contact with individuals who may be adversely affected by...
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Deadline Extended - Apply Today to Build Resilience, Be Trauma-Informed
When you face obstacles that threaten delivery of quality services and positive outcomes, it’s more important than ever to address trauma and build resilience – for your organization, your staff and those you serve. But how can you do it? Since 2013, the National Council for Behavioral Health has worked with more than 650 behavioral health, social service and community organizations to deliver trauma-informed, resilience-oriented care. With the launch of our 9th Trauma-Informed,...
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Developing Super Powers: Using Resilience Strategies to Cope with Negative Experiences. Introducing CRI's Newest Book!
“I believe that everyone, especially a child, deserves to know how their brains are shaped by environment, to then understand their capacity for building proactive protective factors. We all deserve to be super heroes as we do the best we can to consciously live life well. ” - Teri Barila The superheroes we learn about in comics, movies, and TV shows swoop in to save the world with their incredible powers, to shield people from harm. But in our world, no matter how much we wish to protect...
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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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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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Enhancing Resilience Through Human Design
{Photo above is the visual depiction of my human design} Have you ever wondered how the day and time of your birth, coupled with the precise location in which you were born could help you enhance your own resilience? If you’re like me, that thought may have never crossed your mind. And until very recently, I had never heard of “this thing” called Human Design , a visual representation of how individuals function that names our feelings and provides insights into how we work as human beings.
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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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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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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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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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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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Self-care leadership
Join the SELF-Leadership Cohort Your inner-state makes all the difference, as a care provider and/or leader. We are in a time of disruptive change that has us challenged and facing higher stress loads. We can turn to the N.E.A.R. Sciences to help us upgrade our practices for navigating change (N.E.A.R. = Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACEs, and Resilience). Are you ready for new strategies and self-care practices? Join the six-week SELF-Leadership Cohort . The cohort launches June 9 th with...
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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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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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Snohomish County teachers studying impacts of trauma [heraldnet.com]
EVERETT — As you learn to look at something in a different light, it can change the choices you make. When children get into trouble at school, sometimes the root cause is trauma and toxic stress they have experienced outside the classroom doors. If the people who provide care for them — including teachers, principals and social workers — know how to recognize and address that trauma, they can do a better job. They can try to make sure it doesn’t keep the child from growing academically,...
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Solutions-Focused Reporting: The Role of Journalism in Community Engagement
“This is a rich vein of stories that is underreported,” Linda Shaw remarks. “There are more than just problems in the world, and it’s easy to forget [that].” Linda spoke at CRI’s 2018 Beyond Paper Tigers (BPT) conference about her network, Solutions Journalism. The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) encourages journalists to add more balance to their coverage, to include how people are responding to a problem. It is not advocacy; SJN does not focus on intentions as much as the credible...
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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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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 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 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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Thrive Washington: 3rd Edition of NEAR@Home Toolkit Released
Thrive Washington is pleased to announce that the 3 rd edition of the NEAR@Home toolkit is now available and offers home visitors more guidance on how to safely, respectfully and effectively address Adverse Childhood Experiences with the families they serve. This new edition reflects what was learned when the toolkit was incorporated into a Facilitated Learning Process with 225 home visitors and 54 supervisors in the four states of federal Region X: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. It's...
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Trauma-Informed Training for Trainers! Course 1 Webinar - 4 part Course
CRI Trauma-Informed Training for Trainers Course 1 Webinar - 4 part Course Trauma-Informed Training for Trainers is a course that prepares individuals to conduct CRI’s Trauma-Informed Certification Program, Course 1 in his or her organization or agency. Attendee must have taken CRI’s Trauma-Informed Certification Course 1 as a prerequisite for this course. This online 4 Part [3 hours per part] Course will be held via Zoom on 4 Consecutive Thursdays. August 29th, September 5, September 12,...
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Tribal Behavioral Health Grant Program (SAMHSA)
Click HERE to learn more. Description The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Centers for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), are accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2020 Tribal Behavioral Health Grant Program (Short Title: Native Connections). The purpose of this program is to prevent suicide and substance misuse, reduce the impact of trauma, and promote mental health among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN)...
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Virtual Screening of Broken Places on March 21st & Registration for ACEs Connection Members!
Please join us on Thursday, March 21st for a special virtual screening of Broken Places , the latest U.S. documentary on early childhood trauma and resilience. The film will be offered via a private Vimeo link with passcode to all registered members of ACEs Connection, for free, accessible in the United States and internationally. REGISTER TODAY: To register, please visit : https://goo.gl/forms/apdoINwgtQmydEXK2 The viewing portal for the film will open on Vimeo at 6am EST and close at 11pm...
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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...