Community Spotlight
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The ACEs Aware Community Spotlight webinar series highlights the innovative work being done by organizations across California to prevent, identify, and respond to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress.
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This series is still active. The most recent or upcoming episode is listed first.
Young people who have experienced adversity can be among the most competent healers, protectors, and lifesavers in a community, yet they are historically underrepresented in the emergency medical services (EMS), fire service agencies, and allied health workforce. This webinar will focus on how the EMS Corps program combines rigorous emergency medical technician (EMT) training with counseling, healing circles, professional development, and an earned stipend to train young people facing barriers to employment, including people in foster care and involved with the ...
In this Community Spotlight webinar, we feature the National Foster Youth Institute (NFYI), which is a national nonprofit that works to empower current and former foster youth to use their lived experiences to tackle issues that most impact vulnerable children, families, and young adults. Los Angeles County is the largest child welfare system in the nation, and members of NFYI’s Los Angeles Chapter will share their lived experience of navigating issues with housing, mental health, justice, parenting, and substance use. ...
This webinar will introduce participants to how Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening is being used alongside other assessment measures as part of the intake process in a community mental health program that serves English- and Spanish-speaking patients. The presenters will discuss their culturally competent trauma-informed care model along with the rationale and techniques to overcome barriers to ACE assessment in this setting. They will also share strategies to help empower patients to live healthier lives by processing their experiences of ...
The ACEs Aware Community Spotlight webinar series highlights the innovative work being done by organizations across California to prevent, identify, and respond to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress. In this Community Spotlight webinar, we feature Underground GRIT, a Southern California community-based organization that advocates for and provides a full scope of transformative services and support to men, women, and youth who have been system impacted. Led by Co-Founder and Program Manager Sharon Tang, MPH, the presentation describe the ...