SDTIGT: San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team

Hi All, Thank you to all who attended our last SDTIGT Member Meeting on Friday, October 6, 2023 from 12:30-2pm. Attached you will find the meeting notes, as well as the handouts from our guest speakers from Center for Community Solutions. Please save the date for our next meeting on December 1, 2023.

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Hi Everyone, it was great to see everyone last Friday! Please see attached for our meeting minutes.

It was wonderful seeing those who could attend - both in person and virtually! Congratulations to Shor Denny, our new Guide Team Co-Chair! See attached for meeting minutes and handouts.

It was wonderful to see so many of you at our first hybrid meeting since the pandemic!! Thanks to Adrienne Markworth from Leah's Pantry and Jeannie Oestreicher from San Diego Center for Children FFAST program for their presentations on the use of their Guide Team mini-grants! See attached for meeting minutes, their presentations and more!

Back in 2019, we began planning to write a book, From Trauma to Resiliency, that would describe the experiences of survivors who have experienced multiple traumas and who have benefitted from relationship-based, collaborative family-school-community-based services. We asked colleagues doing amazing work in San Diego County to contribute chapters, and they shared stories of oppressed, traumatized groups of survivors that include, people who have faced abuse, war, and poverty,...

Thanks to Dana Brown for her thought-provoking presentation on San Diego's Coorperative of Communities! See attached for minutes, Dana's presentation and many other informational handouts.

We welcome you to our San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team's 2023 Membership / Visitor bi-monthly meetings on the first Friday of each even month. Networking is from 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm. Our meeting is from 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm. SDTIGT will also host Learning Exchanges during some of these meetings. We encourage you to join us, dialogue, learn from, and share with like-minded professionals integrating PACEs Science within practices, policies, and programs. Thank you, to each of you, for your...

A HUGE Thank YOU to Debbie Bock for her informative and understandable presentation on ACEs and Epigenetics! Please see attached for meeting minutes, epigenetics resource sheet and other meeting handouts. A recording of Debbie's presentation can be seen on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXTZHCggSqc Happy Holidays! We hope to see you in January!

Deborah Bock is presenting for 45-minutes on Friday, 12.2.22 during the San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team membership meeting. The meeting starts at 12:15 pm - 12:30 for networking. Following the welcoming by the Tri-Chairs, Deborah will be presenting following with a Q & A after her presentation. Please join our Zoom meeting. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81377622442 Meeting ID: 813 7762 2442 Call mobile (669)900-6833 Our meeting will end at 2:00 pm

Networking (12:15 – 12:30 pm) Welcome and Introductions (12:30 – 12:45) Tri-Chairs Amelia Barile Simon, Dana Brown, and Linda Ketterer Amelia read aloud the Land Acknowledgement. Learning Exchange (12:45 – 1:45) Melissa Tran Chamblin introduced speakers. Shulamit Ritblatt and Audrey Hokoda Reviewing SD-TIGT Goals and book, From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma - Informed Practices for Working with Children, Families, Schools & Communities Shulamit Ritblatt: Read aloud goals of the SDTIGT...

I. Networking (12:15 – 12:30 pm) II. Welcome and Introductions (12:30 – 12:45) Tri-Chairs Amelia Barile Simon, Dana Brown, and Linda Ketterer III. Learning Exchange (12:45 – 1:45) Shulamit Ritblatt and Audrey Hokoda Reviewing SD-TIGT Goals and book, From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma-Informed Practices for Working with Children, Families, Schools, & Communities Chapter 6. Creciendo Juntos (Growing Together): Building Leadership in Latino Parents in a Trauma-Informed Elementary School...