All items of type 'virtual training'

Join us for a webinar spotlighting three new digital applications designed to support the behavioral health of youth and young adults in California. Funded through the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI), each app—Mirror, Soluna, and BrightLife Kids—was designed with input from the audiences they aim to serve. Clinical, school-based, and community care team members will gain valuable insight into services offered by each app and, more specifically, how Soluna and BrightLife Kids can be integrated into care pathways, ...

The California Child and Adolescent Mental Health Access Portal (Cal-MAP) is a no-cost consultation program that supports primary care and school-based providers in delivering timely, high-quality mental health care to youth ages 0–25. Cal-MAP is part of the CalHOPE pediatric access initiative and is designed to expand access to behavioral health services, particularly in California’s rural and underserved communities. Through Cal-MAP, providers who screen for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress can be connected with child and adolescent psychiatrists, ...

In this webinar, campaign representatives and youth advisors provide an overview of the Office of the California Surgeon General's Live Beyond campaign. They share the campaigns's goals ad youth co-creation process, along with key resources for educators and other adults supporting youth impacted by ACEs and toxic stress. In additional, they share research insights and strategies to engage with youth and caregivers on these topics, along with other innovative tactics to support storytelling and healing from ACEs and toxic stress.

Community Health Workers (CHW) can be trusted partners to individuals and communities given their lived experiences, connections, and knowledge. In this webinar, we will discuss CalAIM’s CHW benefit, including participant eligibility, an overview of CHW services, and how the CHW benefit can support individuals and families experiencing the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and/or toxic stress. Designed as a preventive service, the CHW benefit is available to support individuals with several risk factors and/or diagnoses, including behavioral health, chronic ...

Enhanced Care Management (ECM) is a holistic and intensive care management program established under California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM). ECM is available to children and youth with complex health needs, including those identified through an Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) screen as at high risk for toxic stress. ECM can provide Medi-Cal members with extra help in navigating the physical and behavioral health system and accessing social needs. All ECM services are available through a network of community-based providers contracted ...

Join us for an in-depth webinar exploring the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative and its role in enhancing clinical responses for children and youth at risk of toxic stress physiology. This session will provide a foundational understanding of CalAIM’s key components, including Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and Community Supports, and how these initiatives create new opportunities for integrating trauma-informed care into clinical practice. Attendees will learn how CalAIM can be leveraged to improve care coordination, address social drivers ...

This webinar focuses on supporting youth with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and equipping them with tools to thrive. Led by ACEs Aware young adult patient advisors and health professionals, this webinar highlights evidence-based approaches and practical techniques to help youth manage stress, build coping skills, and enhance their mental well-being. Whether you're a health care provider, behavioral health clinician, counselor, or advocate for youth well-being, this webinar will provide tools and inspiration to help young people heal from adversity and ...

This session in the "Implementation with Intention" series focuses on how community-based organizations (CBO) can employ evidence-informed stress-mitigation strategies to help clients heal from toxic stress. The webinar will explore practical strategies for integrating Stress Busters into local programs while honoring the lived experiences of people affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Participants will learn how to adapt the strategies to their community's unique cultural and social contexts, overcome implementation challenges, and build capacity for sustainable use. Through real-world examples ...

This webinar focuses on the revision of an American College of Surgeons trauma-informed care curriculum that was implemented, tested, and revised to educate Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital health care workers. Trauma-informed care is an approach that considers patients’ lived experience and current circumstances to provide respectful, patient-centered care. Participants will hear about how this team used human-centered design principles to revise the curriculum, train trauma-informed health care workers, and promote a trauma-informed hospital ecosystem.

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 ...

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, features Dr. Nicole Racine and Katelyn Greer, who will present on “Youth Engagement in Child Maltreatment Research: Gaps, Barriers, and Approaches.” They will provide an overview of the potential for youth engagement within the field of child maltreatment research, identify barriers to youth engagement, provide trauma-informed strategies for engaging youth in the context of research, and review existing trauma-informed models for youth engagement.

This webinar offers an overview of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their impact on children and youth well-being and shares insights on implementing ACE screening and clinical response initiatives to address ACEs and toxic stress. It covers how school-based health centers (SBHC) are in a unique position to prevent, identify, and respond to ACEs and highlights opportunities to support the launch of ACE screening in SBHCs and enhance support for patients most affected by toxic stress.

This webinar will feature a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) pilot project focused on the use of trauma inquiry in family planning sessions. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and traumatic experiences, such as intimate partner violence (IPV), impact health outcomes of people seeking family planning services. IPV and sexual assault are more common among people with sexually transmitted infections and people seeking abortion care, yet trauma is not routinely discussed in family planning settings. Clinical cases will be used to ...

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, features Dr. Joanne Ryan, who will present on “Biological Embedding of Early-Life Adversity and a Scoping Review of the Evidence for Intergenerational Epigenetic Transmission of Stress and Trauma in Humans.” Dr. Ryan will provide an overview of studies that demonstrate the impact of early-life stress on DNA methylation and the biological transmission of stress across generations.

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. ...

As part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, this webinar will feature Dr. Joan Jeung, who will present on “A Caregiver-Child Intervention for Mitigating Toxic Stress (‘The Resiliency Clinic’): A Pilot Study.” Dr. Jeung will discuss a novel primary care-based group intervention designed to mitigate toxic stress and promote resilience in children exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). 

This webinar, part of the Clinical Pilots series, focuses on a trauma-informed diabetes intervention program that screens for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) within a safety net family medicine clinic. Participants will learn about diabetes as an ACE-Associated Health Condition, the methods and findings of this diabetes pilot, and how an ACEs and trauma-informed approach for diabetes management can supplement usual care.

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, features Dr. Cody A. Hostutler, who will present on ACEs Screening in Adolescent Primary Care: Psychological Flexibility as a Moderator. Dr. Hostutler will discuss the role of psychological flexibility in moderating the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on depression and body mass index (BMI) in adolescents.

This webinar, part of the Implementation with Intention series, will explore how Enhanced Care Management (ECM) can enhance comprehensive care coordination and link families to community and social service needs. Participants will review the new pediatric ECM Medi-Cal benefit and discuss opportunities to sustain this benefit to promote the health and well-being of Medi-Cal members with the most needs.

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 ...

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Rebecca Ferro, who will present on “When Adverse Childhood Experiences Present to a Statewide Child Psychiatry Access Program.” Ferro will discuss the role of child psychiatry access programs in supporting primary care providers with pediatric patients.

This webinar will describe how and why a family wellness program that provides navigation and care coordination for the children of adult primary care patients was designed and implemented to mitigate intergenerational trauma at the UCSF Women’s HIV Program. Clinical vignettes will be used to illustrate how the program works and impacts the lives of participants. Evaluation data will be shared to demonstrate how the program has been adapted based on patient and provider/staff feedback and experience. Ideas and practices ...

In this webinar, part of the Implementation with Intention series, participants will explore the opportunity of primary care-based dyadic care for improving child and family well-being. They will review the new dyadic care Medi-Cal benefit and opportunities to pay for health promotion and prevention and explore the intersection between dyadic care and toxic stress prevention.

In this webinar, Dr. Laura Figueroa-Phillips, MD, MSCE, will discuss the beneficial effects of mindfulness and meditation for patients suffering from the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Dr. Figueroa-Phillips will give an overview of the existing evidence for these benefits and will share the results from her team’s pilot study, “Virtual Meditation as a Response to Adverse Childhood Events.” Dr. Figueroa-Phillips will conclude by sharing ideas for future projects and resources her team developed to promote mindfulness practices within ...

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, features Dr. Brian Joyce, who will present on “The Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Midlife.” Dr. Joyce will talk about how ACEs may be persistently associated with the biological aging process in later life.

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Dr. Loren L. Toussaint, who will present on “The Association Between Parent and Child ACEs is Buffered by Forgiveness of Others and Self-Forgiveness.” Dr. Toussaint will discuss how self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others may interrupt, or buffer, intergenerational transmission of ACEs.

In this webinar, part of the Implementation with Intention series, ACEs Aware youth and young adult patient advisors will share their recommendations for how health care teams can discuss Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress with young patients. Participants will also hear a clinician's perspective on approaches to addressing ACEs and toxic stress among adolescent patients. 

The Office of the California Surgeon General, in partnership with California’s Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, recently launched a campaign to raise awareness and offer resources to youth and young adults affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress. The Live Beyond campaign is grounded in science, market research, and best practice, and was co-created with subject matter experts and youth from the ACEs Aware Youth and Young Adult Advisory Board. Join current and former California Surgeon Generals, Dr. ...

In this webinar, representatives from Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Futures Without Violence, and Líderes Campesinas will discuss an ACEs Aware pilot project to promote health, leadership, and collaboration between farmworker leaders and community health centers in farmworker communities. Project NACES, built in collaboration with local community health centers and our evaluation partners, aims to increase opportunities for farmworkers to inform health care screening and responses to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), increase ACEs education in farmworker communities, build partnerships between community ...

In this webinar, Dr. Candace Gragnani, MD, MPH, will discuss the evidence base for connecting with nature to mitigate toxic stress and improve physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Attendees will learn how nature can be leveraged as part of a Trauma-Informed Network of Care from two nature-based programs that engage youth at the clinical and community level. Dr. Gragnani will highlight findings from the ACEs Aware pilot project that explored park staff and pediatric health care provider views ...

This webinar focuses on the causes and manifestations of burnout among health care professionals, evidence-based strategies to effectively prevent and manage burnout, and how burnout can be addressed as part of the implementation of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening and trauma-informed care activities. Participants will learn about self-care and stress-mitigation strategies to promote personal resilience, as well as strategies that health care organizations can use to prevent burnout, focusing on workload, work-life balance, and organizational culture.

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Dr. Diana Fishbein who will present on “Capitalizing on Neuroplasticity Across Development to Redirect Pathways from Juvenile Justice Involvement”. Dr. Fishbein will discuss insights on how to disrupt an adverse developmental pathway in young people that may lead to incarceration.

This webinar will highlight recently published key findings from the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC), which was a two-year, 48-clinic, seven-region collaborative that examined the challenges and facilitators to implementing, scaling, and sustaining ACE screening and response in frontline Medi-Cal clinics. Participants will hear from Dr. Edward Machtinger, who co-directed CALQIC (with Drs. Marguerita Lightfoot and Anda Kuo) and Dr. Nicole Eberhart, a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND Corporation, a CALQIC evaluation partner. The webinar will describe ...

In this ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series webinar, Dr. Rosemarie de la Rosa will present on the paper, “Biological Burden of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Children”. Dr. De la Rosa will discuss the relationship between ACEs and related life events and allostatic load, known as “wear and tear” from chronic stress, in a pediatric population.

This webinar will explore the fundamentals of billing and reimbursement for Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening. Tailored for health care professionals and administrators, participants will learn about the billing cycle of an ACE screen and clinical response and key steps to building a billing workflow. The presenters will share strategies that they have used successfully in clinical settings, with a focus on aligning financial practices with prevention, screening, and treatment for ACEs and toxic stress.

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Dr. M. Cooper Lloyd and Dr. Jaime La Charite, who will present on the paper, “Addressing Trauma and Building Resilience in Children and Families: Standardized Patient Cases for Pediatric Residents”. Dr. Cooper Lloyd and Dr. La Charite will discuss the creation, implementation, and evaluation of three standardized patient cases to train pediatric residents on how to use trauma-informed principles to talk to patients about Adverse Childhood ...

In this edition of the Implementation with Intention webinar series, participants will learn how to prepare and set up common electronic health record (EHR) systems for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) screening and response. Participants will learn various approaches to EHR builds, how to leverage data systems for referrals within ACEs networks of care, and see examples of actual ACEs builds in specific EHR platforms.

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Dr. Nicole Bush who will present on the following two papers: “Intergenerational Transmission of Effects of Women's Stressors During Pregnancy: Child Psychopathology and the Protective Role of Parenting” and “The Effects of a Prenatal Mindfulness Intervention on Infant Autonomic and Behavioral Reactivity and Regulation.” Dr. Bush will discuss the role of maternal histories of adversity (in pregnancy or early childhood) on their children's health, protective factors ...

In this edition of the Implementation with Intention webinar series, we will focus on how to develop your clinic's data strategy when implementing an Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) screening and response initiative. Participants will learn about the ways in which clinics have developed their rationale and approach around their ACEs data systems, and understand the range of metrics they can use to track progress and improve their ACE screening implementation process.

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Dr. Neeta Thakur and Dr. Danielle Hessler Jones, who will present on the paper, “Pediatric ACEs and Related Life-events Screener (PEARLS) and Health in a Safety Net Practice”. They will discuss the use of the PEARLS tool for identifying and facilitating early detection of and intervention for ACEs in a pediatric setting.

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Dr. Erin Hambrick, who will present on the paper, “Beyond the ACE score: Examining relationships between timing of developmental adversity, relational health and developmental outcomes in children”. Dr. Hambrick will discuss how the timing of adversity through four developmental stages affects developmental outcomes in children, and how relational health can be a supplemental tool to ACE screening in both evaluating developmental outcomes and serving as a ...

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 ...

This presentation will describe a series of pilot studies that incorporated screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and resilience as part of routine prenatal care. These pilots built a foundation for Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) to expand ACE and resilience screening to all pregnant patients as part of standard care in 2021. The presenters will share data on the acceptability and feasibility of ACE screening in standard prenatal care, provide an overview of how ACEs are associated with perinatal ...

Engaging with partners and resources within and beyond the clinic is key to providing trauma-informed care and a robust response to Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening. This webinar will explore the concept of a trauma-informed network of care to support reproductive and sexual care teams’ response to ACE screening. Participants will consider potential collaborators and resources to address immediate stressors and support healing and thriving, including in situations where resources are limited. We will also consider how support for the ...

This webinar, part of the ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series, will feature Dr. Rachel Gilgoff, who will present on the paper, “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Outcomes, and Interventions”. She will discuss how the science of stress physiology provides a window into therapeutic targets for treating toxic stress, and will examine how providers can develop their clinical response to Adverse Childhood Experiences.

The Implementation with Intention webinar series continues with a session dedicated to answering commonly asked questions about implementing ACE screening and response initiatives in clinical settings. Participants will also learn about the resources available to support California teams doing this work, including new trainings on the ACEs Aware Learning Center, technical assistance offerings, and a new implementation pilot program.

Receiving reproductive health care can be a sensitive or even scary experience for patients, particularly those who have experienced adversity and trauma. Participants will review patient cases and hear from a family doctor who is doing this work in a reproductive health clinic setting. The webinar will address how the clinical team can apply trauma-informed principles to facilitate safe, collaborative, and empowering patient experiences; to administer sensitive screenings, including Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening, in a trauma-informed way; and to ...

The ACEs Aware Science and Innovation Speaker Series provides a forum for discussing the emerging science of toxic stress, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and other early life adversities, as well as resilience and strength-based factors within a foundation of equity. The series highlights cutting-edge researchers and innovators in the field who have published evidence-based, community-engaged, and data-driven studies. In the first webinar in the series, Dr. Pat Levitt will present on his paper, “Leveraging the Biology of Adversity and Resilience ...

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 ...

In the first webinar in a three-part series -- ACEs and Trauma-Informed Care in Reproductive Health: Fundamentals and Priorities in the Field -- participants will learn about the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how a trauma-informed approach can be applied in sexual and reproductive health settings. Led by Sara Johnson, MD, FACOG, an OB/GYN and adviser to the ACEs Aware initiative, this webinar will provide a foundation of simple practice shifts and a discussion with Amanda Williams, MD, ...

In this webinar, members of the Marin Community Clinics (MCC) team will share their experience with implementing ACE screening and response in a Federally Qualified Health Center in the Bay Area. MCC, a pioneer in California since starting this work in 2017, is featured as a case study in the ACEs Aware Implementation How-to Guide and highlighted in previous “Implementation with Intention” webinars. Participants will have the opportunity to hear directly from MCC team members about their ACE screening implementation ...

This webinar will help participants tie together the elements of getting a practice ready, forming a team, getting buy-in, determining who and how to screen, and developing the clinical response to ACEs and toxic stress through real-world examples. Participants will learn how to prepare their teams and operations and discuss promising practices and lessons for ACE screening implementation from clinics in the field engaged in this work.

This webinar will help participants understand how to develop a clinical response to ACE screening and toxic stress. Participants will learn how to gather information, conduct a clinical assessment, and develop a treatment and follow-up plan using evidence-based strategies and frameworks.

In this webinar, participants will learn to understand and advance the key decisions that need to be made in selecting their clinic’s approach to ACE screening and the clinical response. This webinar will focus on helping participants determine who they will screen and how, prepare their clinical response for treating toxic stress, and map out how they will integrate ACE screening into their workflow.

The foundational information shared in this webinar will help California providers and health care teams understand the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening process at a high level and explore different approaches to implementation. Subsequent webinars in the series will focus on the specific details and logistics that clinics need to consider when implementing ACE screening and response. 

The foundational information shared in this webinar will help California providers and health care teams understand the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening process at a high level and explore different approaches to implementation. Subsequent webinars in the series will focus on the specific details and logistics that clinics need to consider when implementing ACE screening and response.