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Dr. Melissa Merrick, president & CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America, provides four key takeaways from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest Vital Signs/ACEs report , of which she is the lead author. Merrick also identifies several practical solutions for creating the conditions for safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments for all children, families and communities, which are fundamental to preventing ACEs. Among these solutions is strengthening economic...

Copied from the Yakima Valley Community Foundation website on 10-1-19 In 2015, the Yakima Valley Board of Directors approved a strategic grant to Memorial Hospital. The grant was issued to bring a train-the-trainer model to Yakima County around cultivating trauma-informed practices and building resiliency skills within our community. The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention delivered the Strengthening Families Train-the-Trainer Curriculum over the course of three days. The...

By Tammy Ayer, for the Yakima Herald, originally published on Dec 2, 2017 Ivan Godinez arrived at Sunnyside High School one recent morning in an angry mood, rudely responding to Principal Ryan Maxwell who noticed Godinez was late and asked him if he was going to class. That’s when teacher Felix DeLeon stepped in. “He’s like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa.’ He calmed me down,” Godinez said of DeLeon, who immediately took the teen aside and talked with him privately rather than confronting him in anger. A...

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Great news! Our leadership team was chosen to participate in the statewide ACEs and Resilience Community of Practice 2019 Leadership Development Program . We will be meeting with ACEs coalitions throughout the state to develop a plan to help spread resiliency throughout our community! We are very excited to bring this information back to Yakima and start implementing more ways to provide trauma-informed services and increase resiliency for our community! Stay tuned for information following...