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Trainings/Conferences
On-line Resouces
An independent forum with news, programs, research, events, legislation, theory, and opinion on education, health, welfare, and justice for California's 10 million children
Focused on promoting the social emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5
Research and message development on child and family mental health Promoting the health and development of infants and toddlers Building awareness and understanding of sensory processing disorders through education and collaboration Helping parents, teachers and health professionals to proactively manage the challenging behaviors of the 21st century child |
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Meeting Information
Next Meeting:
September 11, 2012
8:30 to 10:30 A.M.
Blood Source Community Meeting Room
Presentation: Butte Baby Steps - Lynn Haskell, NVCSS
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 The Benefits of Being Awestruck
A paper published by researchers at the Stanford University and the University of Minnesota, "Awe Expands People's Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being," concludes:
"When do people feel as if they are rich in time? Not often, research and daily experience suggest. However, three experiments showed that participants who felt awe, relative to other emotions, felt they had more time available and were less impatient.
"Participants who experienced awe were also more willing to volunteer their time to help others, more strongly preferred experiences over material products , and experienced a greater boost in life satisfaction.... These changes in decision making and well being were due to awe's ability to alter the subjective experience of time. Experiences of awe bring people into the present moment, which underlies awe's capacity to adjust time perception, influence decisions, and make life feel more satisfying than it would otherwise."
Read more here.
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 Doctors Challenge Jerry Brown Over Children's Health
Los Angeles Times - August 27, 2012
The California Medical Assn., which represents more than 30,000 California doctors, is pushing legislation in the final days of the legislative year to resurrect Healthy Families, which provides medical care to about 875,000 California children. The program was eliminated under the budget approved by Democrats and signed by Brown earlier this year.
Read more here.
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Workshops, Conferences and Other Resources
The seventh annual North State Fatherhood Conference takes place September 22nd. Details here.
Strategies, in partnership with Postpartum Support International, is sponsoring a thorough, evidence-based two-day certification curriculum designed for medical professionals, mental health clinicians, social workers, and childbirth professionals interested in gaining knowledge and increasing skills for assessment and treatment of perinatal mood disorders (PMD). The course is September 27 - 28 in Folsom, California. Details here.
Beyond Consequences: Helping Children Heal, is a course offered by Heather Forbes, LCSW. This course will examine how stress and trauma affect a child's ability to regulate behav-iors and how a history of trauma compromises a child's ability to respond and develop reciprocal relationship.
The course is Friday, September 28th from 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. at the Chico Masonic Family Center in Chico. Details here.
A Train the Trainer Mandated Reporter training session takes place in Chico October 4th. This training will cover all the new laws. Only 50 participants, so register now. For more information contact: Margie Ruegger at 899-3318. Details and agenda here.
The Children's Mental Health Network is a national alliance between communities, practitioners, families, agencies, alumni of system of care communities, and individuals that seek to share information, keep in touch, advocate for children's mental health issues, and offer experience-based consultation and education to those interested in promoting the concept of systems of care.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness has been dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. For three decades, NAMI has established itself as the most formidable grassroots mental health advocacy organization in the country. Dedication, steadfast commitment and unceasing belief in NAMI's mission by grassroots advocates have produced profound changes.
The second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW II) is a longitudinal study intended to answer a range of fundamental questions about the functioning, service needs, and service use of children who come in contact with the child welfare system. The study is sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). It examines the well-being of children involved with child welfare agencies; captures information about the investigation of abuse and neglect that brought the child into the study; collects information about the child's family; provides information about child welfare interventions and other services; and describes key characteristics of child development. Of particular interest to the study are children's health, mental health, and developmental risks, especially for those children who experienced the most severe abuse and exposure to violence. Wave 2 is a follow-up of children and families approximately 18 months after the close of the NSCAW II index investigation. The NSCAW II cohort of children who were approximately 2 months to 17.5 years old at baseline ranged in age from 16 months to 19 years old at Wave 2. Data collection for the second wave of the study began in October 2009 and was completed in January 2011.
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Gloria Balch, Deputy Director