Health

11am-12:30pm on Wednesday, December 2 In this interactive presentation, Dr. Corey Waller, Principal at Health Management Associates and Board Certified Addictionologist and ED physician, will offer an overview of the neuroscience of addiction that explains the brain-based nature of substance use disorders, evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder, and how to overcome stigma and other barriers to implementation of treatment. Anyone looking for a great primer in MAT/SUD, please...

COVID-19 Fall Wellness Series in Spanish The Ventanilla de Salud and Ventanilla de Asesoria Financiera is inviting you to a 4-part workshop series on how to stay healthy during COVID-19 this holiday season. You have an opportunity to ask questions and learn valuable information from subject matter experts. NOTE: Series will be in Spanish. The sessions will be 6-7:30pm on the following dates: November 16: Cooking Healthy on a Budget November 18: Financial Literacy November 30: Financial...

Managing Distance Learning at Home Webinar for Parents This is a Zoom Call for parents to learn some tricks for Managing Distance Learning At Home. We will talk about how to manage your children with their distance learning while caring for younger kids and/or trying to get your own work done. Please share the attached flyer with parents! The link for the call from MOSIAC Children's Museum on November 19th at 6:30pm is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87678548820 . Caring for Young Children While...

“How to Motivate the Unmotivated Student”: Tools for school counselors, psychologists and social workers on 11/11 12pm on Wednesday, November 11 In this webinar we will discuss how school mental health teams can begin addressing these issues with the highest need students and then how they can help expand this approach to support all students, teachers and staff. Hear from our panel as they discuss how to promote SEL and creating buy-in with administrators teachers and staff. How Trauma...

This study found that having at least one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) was associated with $10.5 billion in excess personal health care spending. For more information, please find the study attached or at this link .

In honor of Prematurity Awareness Month, we will be hosting a Virtual Breast Milk Drive from November 11 th to the 17 th . We hope you and the community will support our efforts to help premature babies. Feeding preemies breast milk has become a standard of care; studies have proven that premature babies fed breast milk have several neurological and developmental advantages. While mother’s milk is always the best and preferred feeding option for all infants, there are cases in which a mother...

Supporting Families through Best Practice: An Overview of the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support on 11/4 11:30am-12:45pm on November 4 This webinar provides an overview of the nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support . These Standards have created a common language across different kinds of Family Strengthening and Family Support programs and are used as a tool for planning, providing, and assessing quality practice. Relationship...

CommuniCare is committed to keeping our community members healthy and safe during this especially important flu season. Attached is a flyer for distribution for our weekly drive-up flu clinics, by appointment only . The flyer is in English, Spanish and Russian. Remember, CommuniCare’s mission is rooted in the notion that healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and no one will be denied high-quality care based on their insurance status, financial hardship, or immigration status.

How Poverty and Trauma Affect Brain Development (recorded) In this presentation to the National Press Foundation, Harvard Center on the Developing Child Director Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. discusses how leveraging advances in the biology of adversity and resilience can reduce inequalities in life outcomes. Swati Adarkar, president and CEO, Children’s Institute in Portland, Oregon, also presents. October Educational Online Forum: A Trauma Informed Response to Protests on 10/26 1:00 -2:30pm on...

Information session at 9:00AM on Friday, October 23rd Want to know more about the Greater Sacramento Community Network ? Increase the health and well-being of their clients/patients by facilitating connections with network partners. Collaborate with other organizations serving the same clients to ensure those clients’ needs are met. Save staff time by making the referral and follow-up processes more efficient. Demonstrate impact by tracking the referrals and outcomes of services delivered.

• Implications of COVID-19 for LGBTQ Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention The Trevor Project outlines how LGBTQ youth may be impacted by the pandemic and offers suggestions on how to support LGBTQ youth during this time. • COVID-19 Resources for Children with Special Health Care Needs The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health continually updates a curated list of resources. • Health and Learning Are Deeply Interconnected in the Body: An Action Guide for Policymakers From...

The Science Behind Your Child’s Tantrums: And how to nip them in the bud before they start Parenting videos in English and Spanish from Positive Parenting SPACE: Helping Kids with Anxiety : Psychologist, Eli Lebowitz and his colleagues developed a method for training parents to support anxious children known as SPACE: Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. In a study of 124 children and their parents, Yale researchers examined whether the SPACE intervention was effective in...