Safe Spaces Webinar: Supporting Schools and Care Settings to Be Trauma-Informed
About
This webinar provides an overview of a training launched in July 2023 by the Office of the California Surgeon General (OSG) for educators, school personnel, and early care providers to help recognize and respond to trauma and stress in children. Join California Surgeon General Diana Ramos, the OSG team, and a panel of experts to discover more about the training that shares strategies for creating the conditions for safe and supportive learning environments for everyone. This overview of the Safe Spaces training includes learning about the opportunities and challenges for trauma-informed care in educational and care settings. Presentations will be followed by a question and answer session.
Learning Objectives
- Define the key concepts related to adversity, trauma, and toxic stress and their impact on the health of children and youth.
- Discuss the possible outcomes, opportunities, and challenges of providing trauma-informed care in educational and care settings.
Featuring
Julie Rooney, MPA is the Director of Communications for the Office of the California Surgeon General. A communications strategist with more than three decades of experience working in the private, nonprofit, and government sectors, she found her true calling when she joined the California Department of Public Health more than a decade ago to help launch the California Home Visiting Program. She has worked extensively on outreach and education for a variety of public health issues, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, perinatal health equity, Zika virus, and COVID-19. In 2021, she joined the Office of the California Surgeon General where she served as Communications Director for Dr. Nadine Burke Harris. Today she leads two workstreams that are part of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, including the Safe Spaces trauma-informed training for early care and education sectors, which launched on July 12, 2023, and the ACEs and Toxic Stress public awareness campaign, which will launch in fall 2023. She also continues her role as Communications Director for the state’s current Surgeon General, Dr. Diana Ramos.
Ricky Robertson, MA, M.Ed (he/they) is an educator, author, and consultant who works with schools across the country in developing trauma-informed social-emotional supports that foster resilience for students, staff, and families. Robertson provides coaching, consultation, and multi-day professional development workshops to build systems of support for students impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma, and the educators who work with them. He has a background in restorative justice/practices, culturally responsive teaching, LGBTQ+ student advocacy, and trauma-informed practices for teaching and behavior management. Robertson is also the co-author of the Corwin Press best-selling book, Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole-Staff Approach.
As a board-certified general pediatrician, child abuse pediatrician, and integrative medicine specialist, Dr. Gilgoff brings a multidisciplinary approach to ACEs, toxic stress, healing, and well-being. Over the course of her career, she has been a co-investigator of the Pediatric ACEs Screening and Resilience Study (PEARLS), the Medical Director of the Clinical Innovations and Research Team within Center for Youth Wellness, and co-founder of the National Committee on Asthma and Toxic Stress. She co-developed the Resiliency Clinic, a group clinic intervention model to treat toxic stress, and more recently, co-created VITAL: Relational Health, a free, on-line learning series on the science and practice of relational health. Dr. Gilgoff is currently an adviser with the California Aces Aware Initiative, an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a co-PI on Systems-based, Multidisciplinary Assessment of Adversity and Toxic Stress for Individualized Care (The SYSTEMAATIC Project), an ACEs and Precision Medicine research project through the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM). She is dedicated to addressing health issues resulting from child abuse and toxic stress, creating systems of care that incorporate the science of stress biology and wellness, and collaborating across sectors to develop multidisciplinary, integrative, human-centered, and holistic approaches to healing.