Meeting notes - May 21, 2015

Sarah Roseen -- Woodland School District. Working with first-year, second-year teachers to teach them about ACEs, trauma-informed practices.

 

Karleen — As a result of presentation WHEN?, Woodland High School hired a full time counselor. Whitehead Elementary half-time. Other schools mental health based. Probation youth throughout the county. WHAT IS? written into LCAP in Woodland School District.

 

Tracy -- LCAP getting counseling staff on the campuses. Using what's in the county. Enhancing counseling that's there. 

 

Jane -- We can get a teacher to come talk with teachers. 

 

Karleen -- We're not a huge agency. Behavioral health is smedium. Can't expand too much internally. Can expand some in field positions. Done limited services in West Sac. 

 

CIVIC SECTOR -- Tracy did presentation for Davis Social Services Commission WHEN. Robb Davis and 2 others. Supposed to have 15 minutes, gave us 30 minutes. Pulled from parent engagement slides and some of Jane's slides. So many nodding heads. Good questions at the end. Wanted to know what we can do with this. Homeless population -- 36% suffer from PTSD. Did a trauma assessment on every person in homeless shelter, it would be everyone. Got followup from one of the commissioners -- Tracy Tomaski (SP?) -- to present to new group. Davis Social Justice Coalition. June 2 is first meeting. Interested in making sure that it understands trauma. Inspired an enthusiastic conversation at the end of the meeting. 

 

HEALTHCARE SECTOR -- Julie reports: Anna's been presenting through MCAH program. In the next month, change in Yolo County Health Dept (the big merge). How that's going to affect things is unclear. Take info from public health sector to the private health sector. They want answers. Problematic in this population. Anna's working on that. (Jane: Could bring in Teri Pettersen from Oregon to talk with pediatricians.) Met with professor who works in migrant health at UC Davis. Master's program students -- do projects with us. She's giving Julie a name. Need to get clout with UC Davis Medical School -- opportunities for putting in programs. Do we want to approach UC Davis, or students? Through CARE trying to help me find the right connections. So far haven't found any specific group to sponsor Paper Tigers program. Education or psychology departments? Both? 

 

JUVENILE HALL -- Karleen reporting: Doing Seeking Safety with migrant kids in juvenile detention facility who have a lot of trauma. Going well. Providing additional mental health services. Screening ACEs with kids. Full assessments UCLA for JJ youth transition into community-based services. Seeking Safety with women. Perinatal day treatment -- do Seeking Safety, which is dual curriculum for people substance abused experienced trauma. Cognitive behavioral based curriculum -- developing skills to cope with trauma. Creating safety within yourself and your relationships. They've been developing an adolescent version. Shaunda Cruz taking over programming for juvenile hall. M-F, from 2-4 pm, circles, art program, Seeking Safety, social skills. Two JH commit to fit -- circuit training. Ramy planning to do sex ed. 

 

JAIL -- Emily suggested ACEs training for correctional officers, but idea was turned down. Adult corrections perspective not as soft as juvenile. Some barriers and hurdles. Hope there will be a message to sneak in elsewhere. Funding never easy. Let's get a curriculum -- ACEOvercomers offers curriculum. Religious and secular versions. Training for correctional officers and staff -- getting curriculum in jail would be easier.

Ramy -- in Solano County creating programs for sheriff dept. resiliency training. PTSD -- this is something to make you more of a man. Post-certified. Interim post coordinator -- continuing education training.

Center for Mindfulness Corrections in Providence, RI-- transition to help prisoners. 14 prisons, over 1400 correctional officers. Story in Oregonian about Oregon Dept of Corrections. 23% suffer from PTSD. After going through mindfulness bring down. Stress reduction. 

 

CHILD CARE -- Gail on task force for child care training. Sue Delucchi also part of that group. Working to incorporate ACEs/trauma-informed/resilience-building into training for 80,000 child care providers in state. 

 

PARENTS -- Gail reporting: DPU really pushed for Dan Siegel. Looking to bring in Brene Brown. Queen Bees and Wanna Bees author also a candidate. Another woman provost at Stanford. 

 

PAPER TIGERS -- Could do screenings in Davis, Woodland, West Sac on consecutive days, perhaps with a showing at a HS in the afternoon and for the general community in the evening. Julie set up Google doc for contacts. 

 

MISCELLANEOUS — Julie describes yoga meditation event, raising money for getting yoga into schools.