On Wednesday night, Tracy Fauver did a presentation for parents of kids in the Davis Joint Unified School District. Gail Kennedy, who was at her presentation, will provide more details. She said Tracy knocked their socks off. Yesterday...
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Weekly update of what's happening in Yolo re: ACEs work!
Hi all- Thanks to all that attended our January meeting of Yolo ACEs Connection and special thanks to Jane Stevens who did fabulous presentation on ACEs for us. I promise that the notes from the meeting will be published in the Meeting Notes...
HI All- My daughter had an appointment with her pediatrician, Dr. Kimberly Breneisen from Sutter Davis last week and I took the opportunity to talk to Dr. B about the ACEs study and the work we are doing in Yolo County. She had NOT heard from...
Yolo CASA hosts California CASA
Tracy Fauver, executive director of Yolo County CASA, hosted a lunch meeting on Tuesday with California CASA officials CEO Cory Pohley, program manager Karen Finan, and legal director Phil Ladew so that Gail Kennedy and I could talk with them about...
Long-term heart health initiative pays off in Maine [ModernHealthCare.com]
If a long-term community-wide heart-disease prevention program shows these amazing results in a community in Maine, just think what the effect of a long-term community-wide ACEs prevention program can do in Yolo County! The value of sustained...
Slideset for Jan 16th ACEs presentation
Hi everyone- Hoping to see you all at the meeting TODAY, January 16th, 12-1:30pm in Woodland. If you look in the "Activity Stream" - in the right hand column of the Yolo ACEs home page, you will see Jane's slideset for her presentation...
Meeting notes - Dec 19th, 2014
We had a great meeting on Dec. 19th. Thanks to all of you that made it out to the meeting during the busy holiday time! In attendance: Melanie Bowden Triple L Parenting melaniebowden@earthlink.net Regan Overholt First 5 Yolo...
JANUARY 16TH YOLO ACES MEETING
Greetings all and Happy New Year! We hope everyone enjoyed a joyous and restful holiday season and you are ready for a new year dedicated to creating a trauma-informed Yolo County in 2015! Below are notes from our December 19th Yolo ACEs Connection...
Adult Migraines linked to Childhood Emotional Abuse
ACEs in MedScape Medical News!! Adult Migraines and its link to ACEs! http://www.neurology.org/conte...WNL.0000000000001120
ACEs in the Atlantic today!
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/12/how-teachers-help-kids-heal/383325/
Meeting notes - Nov. 21, 2014
Attending: Haydee Dabritz, Gail Kennedy, Regan Overholt, Jane Stevens, Anna Sutton. We spent a lot of the meeting time talking about what organizations and agencies in the county we need to reach out to. We came up with this list, with the goal...
Reminder -- Meeting this Friday
Hi, Everyone: Just a reminder that we're meeting this Friday, from 11:30 to 1 pm in the Walker Room at the Yolo County Department of Health Services, 137 N. Cottonwood St, Woodland, CA (We moved it up 1/2 hour to accommodate Anna...
Briefs on ACEs in Children in selected CA communities
Attached are briefs on current ACEs in children in selected California cities, with comparison with state and county data. They were prepared by the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, a project of the Child and Adolescent...
Meeting notes - Oct. 24, 2014
We met in the Thomson/Walker Room in the Yolo County Dept of Health Services, at 137 N. Cottonwood St, in Woodland. (Next time I WILL remember to take a photo!!!!) Attending: Natalie Audage -- Child abuse prevention...