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Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda May 18, 2022 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Kristy Blackwell, Carey Sipp, Amy Read, Melanie Garner, Carra Osborne, Kelly Purcell Notetaker: Kelly Purcell Celebrations: Guilford County CRM for DSS for 40 people and community CRM for 30 people, Amy success with CRM for students at DC Virgo, CRM workshops scheduled with YWCA, 15 year old teaching an 11 year old CRM skills. Items to Discuss: Upcoming Trainings - Kelly Trainings YWCA June -Grandparents/Children...

This is an incredible opportunity to learn more about hurricane preparedness, recovery, and resiliency on Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.

Key Facts and Statistics from Childwelfare.gov Include these key points in your messaging to demonstrate the important role relative and kinship caregivers play in supporting family connections that are essential to a child’s health and well-being. There are over 407,000 children and youth in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin. The term kin encompasses both relatives (those related by blood or marriage) and fictive kin (those who are unrelated but have such a...

Join your local initiative to learn and support the incredible work being done to educate and create sustainable solutions around the area of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda April 27, 2022. 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Zyanta, Kristy Blackwell, Carra Osborne, Kelly Purcell, Carey Sipp Notetaker: Kelly Purcell Check ins/Celebrations Trainings Scheduled Collaborative Screening 4/28/22 Items to Discuss/Updates: Kelly - DSS upcoming trainings - need for brainstorming plan to support trainings HBI Training Document Presentations Tracker/Healthy Blue Site - Please continue to add to the page and presentations tracker Amy/Kristy -...

Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender County resiliency initiative leaders Cape Fear Collection and came together to show a screening of the film Resilience and collectively share about efforts being done to prevent and heal ACEs at an individual and systems level as well as data to demonstrated the need for these efforts and task forces. J'vanete Skiba shared about the Realms of ACEs and their impacts as it relates to the film as well as the impacts on individuals in our community. Nicholas...

Dr. Boone spoke to Resilient Bladen on Monday, April 25, 2022.

Magazine Article about R.O.A.R.

The Healthy Blue Initiative Leadership Team was joined by a young man who was recently adopted to share his insights about learning resiliency skills and how we can reach more youth in foster care and youth in high schools. HBI Team Meeting Date: 4/13/22 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Attendees: Zyante, Carey, Amy, Kelly Purcell, Kristy Blackwell Goals: Discussing/creating plan for paying CRM trainers in HBI counties Explain how to input presentations in presentations tracker Presentations Tracker Provide...

Join the Bladen County DSS for a Butterfly Release Ceremony in honor or Child Abuse Prevention Month on April 28th at 12:00 p.m.

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda January 19, 2022 4:30-5:30 p.m. Check ins Items to Discuss: -Discuss long range goals/plans Healthy Blue Initiative Long Range Goals to Discuss Meeting with State DSS: Tuesday, January 25 at 4:00 Ask how we can measure success? What would success look like to you? Imagine if you could retain folks? Benefits? How many foster youths are moved/displaced from one foster home to another due to a youth's trauma response and/or behavior annually? Please share...

Join three Resiliency Initiatives in the Cape Fear area to be part of the imperative conversation and learning of information about the biology of stress and resilience. Thursday, April 28 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. virtual event! Register Here .