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Family physician Ronald Chambers has spent hours searching the website Backpage to see if he might recognize former patients among the dozens of girls posing and smiling in sex ads. He wonders if their layers of makeup hide bruises or if he might have missed the telltale signs of sex trafficking in patients at his south Sacramento clinic. Chambers, like a growing number of health care providers across the country, has waded into the disturbing world of human trafficking to learn how to...

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” –Oprah Winfrey We think we can speak for all who attended the CA Department of Health Care Services Learning Series on January 17 th when we say we are immensely grateful to Dr. Felitti for sharing with us findings from the original CDC-Kaiser ACE study and inspiring us with his passion and heartfelt commitment to this body of work. Dr. Felitti, who turned 81 years old the next day on January 18 th , was the co-principal investigator on the...

On the role of healing in liberation work; and how liberation work, heals.

The UC Consortium on the Developmental Science of Adolescence will feature speakers with a focus on Adolescence as a Second Period of Transformation.

A new training opportunity is available in Arkansas on March 9, 2017. From Trauma To Resilience: Fostering Hope Through Trauma-Informed Care Studies have shown that adverse childhood experiences and traumatic events can have a lasting, negative impact on a person’s health and well-being. This new training is designed to help you develop the unique skillset needed to support individuals who have experienced adverse childhood experiences and traumatic events. What participants told us they...

DO NOT MISS THIS PLAY! Mark your calendars for March 24 & 25. Playwright is our own DeAngelo Mack! Along with his young people served through SVIP. Trigger follows a small group of young individuals through a journey of discovery and healing.

At the Northern California Construction Training Center in Sacramento County, you can find a number of probationers hard at work learning new crafts. And over the sound of hammers and buzz saws, a four-letter word is frequently heard. That word is H-O-P-E. For many of those taking part in this career training, it’s the first time they’ve had any hope in a long, long time — thanks to a joint program created by the Sacramento County Probation Department, County Office of Education and the...

Brian Goetsch, mindfulness instructor, and Susan Jones, trauma-informed practitioner, will lead a district-focused group of educators to discuss secular mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and restorative practices.

On January 25 2017 De Angelo Mack and I had the privilege of presenting ACEs 101 to an audience of 60+ working to reduce African American childhood deaths. We followed Dr Nadine Burke-Harris's Ted Talk so we had to be creative to keep our audience engaged and introduced the Brain Architecture Game to the group. The goal of the game is to build a brain that is tall, which represents functional brain ability, but is also as strong as possibles so that it won't collapse in later years under the...

Interdisciplinary Research Leaders is a leadership development opportunity for teams of researchers and community partners, including community organizers and advocates. These teams use the power of applied research—informing and supporting critical work being done in communities—to accelerate that work and advance health and equity. Their innovation helps build a Culture of Health , one that enables everyone in America to live longer, healthier lives. For this second IRL cohort (beginning...

Finding culturally competent care is sometimes an issue in Sacramento. There is a group of minority therapist in Sacramento we just found out about from De Angelo Mack. They run the Rosetta Center for Counseling and Wellness right here in Sacramento. See link below. Attached is a 10 week series they are doing with black women around depression. http://www.therosettacenter.com/default.html

Just to let you know that Jennie Joseph, the midwife in Florida who sets up "perinatal safe zones" in marginalized neighborhoods in Florida to emotionally support pregnant moms and families resulting in full term, bonded/attached families will be here on Wednesday, January 18. You are welcome to attend.