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This April 14, 2015 staff file photo shows the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Mental Health Unit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.   Hans Gutknecht/Los Angeles Daily News/File Los Angeles County jails have frequently been referred to as the largest de facto ental health facility in the country. On any given day, the region’s jails house and treat an average of 3,500 to 4,000 mentally ill inmates -- more than the number of patients managed in the entire...

Welcome to the TIC Education Workgroup!  For those that were unable to attend our recent community round table, the Greater LA Task Force is mobilizing through the formation of specific workgroups.  These groups will inform the Task...

Please join us! Attached, please find our Community Trauma / Community Healing Roundtable flyer. Hosted by Hillsides located at 149 Pasadena Avenue, South Pasadena 91030 on Tuesday, November 10th from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, we look forward to...

From Deanna Handel, Ventura County ACEs Connection group Community Manager.    For a different work project, I came across this slideshow on cultivating knowledge through communities of practice, with a focus on online communities, and it...

The  Center for Youth Wellness  released a new report “Children Can Thrive: A Vision for California’s Response to ACEs”.     This report is a follow up to last November’s Children Can Thrive Summit.  ...

http://www.100resilientcities....ience-challenge#/-_/   Los Angeles, chosen by the Rockefeller Foundation, is one of the 100 Resilient Cities globally. With a population, geography, infrastructure, and economy comparable to those of states and...

Hi folks, I will also post this on the events calendar.   I've been writing a musical theater show called PTSD: A Musical Guide to Surviving  for the past two and a half years. The book (dialog) is now done, and many of the song lyrics have...

Two-and-a-half years ago, a school administrator confronted District of Columbia Councilmember David Grosso with a stark and surprising reality when he visited the Walker-Jones Education Campus to learn about a literacy intervention program. At the...

The Los Angeles Trauma Informed Task Force launched their first Community Roundtable on Tuesday, July 14th, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.   A rousing success, their location was at City Council Member Mike Bonin's Westchester Field Office located at...

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  The springtime sun blazes over East Arrow Highway in Pomona, California, and the glare off the whitish-gray concrete walkways forces everyone to squint. Regina Dotson moves busily in and out of her office on the second floor of a residential...

  FATHERS WITHOUT FATHERS Every Wednesday night around two dozen men from the Jordan Downs housing project meet to teach each other, and themselves, how to be fathers. “See, most of the men in the group never had fathers,” Mike...