Resources/Toolkits

Our June meeting focused on best practices in broadening the trauma lens to include structural oppression. Key resources attached.

Attached find a 2018 version of Sacramento County community profile detailing information about your community ACEs initiative. This will be shared with CA legislators at the Trauma-Informed Policymaker Awareness Day on May 22nd in Sacramento. I attach it here as a PDF ready to print and share! I also have uploaded into 'Resources for Downloading' the same PDF, and an editable Word document so that you can update or otherwise improve it. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out...

In regards to our conversation at today's community meeting, please comment below with links that you think should be included as resources.

First 5 Sacramento has developed a toolkit to help families develop material and emotional safety plans to ease and heal the community stress that arises from immigration and deportation fears.

What Resilient Sacramento is all about: A one page introduction

I was very intrigued, and eagerly registered- this is what we're trying to ramp up here in Sacramento! And there were many great nuggets of wisdom shared. (Powerpoint slides are attached).

This video is about 2 years old, but I just came across it last week and wanted to share with you all. It is a powerful statement by the students at Leadership High School in San Francisco, CA. They speak about the ongoing adversity and toxic stress in their daily lives and in their community, all through the power of music. The youth voice is so important as we work to bring trauma-informed and resilience building practices to communities. Link to video: Toxic Stress, Toxic Streets

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) is offering four free webinars from January 12-20th on When Terrible Things Happen: Helping yourself and your community address trauma and build resilience.  https://carolynyoder.leadpages...webinar-information/   These webinars offer: Insights that will help you keep going when the going gets tough. Knowledge and skills of a trauma-informed lens to increase the impact you and your organization have.

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler- former editor of The New York Times Book Review and editor of SafeKidsStories shares the perspective of staff who attended a course given by the Institute for Family Professionals (IFP) , an organization based in Philadelphia that, since 2003, has provided training for professionals who work with children and families. Using recent research on brain theory and the effects of childhood trauma, IFP provides researched and proven best practices on topics such as...

January 15 th , 2016 Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Location: 75 Quinta Court, Suite D Sacramento CA 95823 Objectives for the TF-CBT Booster training:   Identify and practice strategies for overcoming common challenges to implementing TF-CBT Learn how to incorporate gradual exposure into early treatment components Practice eliciting detailed trauma narratives Describe the components of Childhood Traumatic Grief Treatment Identify techniques for addressing secondary traumatic stress.

                                                                                    photo by JOE GUSZKOWSKI Holistic Life Foundation instructors Michelle Lee (left) and Jazmine Blackwell lead students through an exercise during an after-school yoga and meditation program at Lillie May...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbsXh6wwc3Q