The Community Reads team would like you to join us for our second event centered around this year’s book selection The Deepest Well. In response to varying conversations and media reports about the stress healthcare providers are experiencing, we have invited a panel of SMU experts to share their insights and recommendations on ways to build resilience while experiencing toxic stress. We hope that you can join us next week and we look forward to hosting you for this timely discussion.
Beyond Survival: Resilience During and After a Pandemic
Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:00 – 6:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time
The effects of toxic stress experienced in this unprecedented global pandemic include anxiety, depression, fear, grief, and challenges to learning and memory. Today we will explore the signs and symptoms of these effects and, using the work of Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California Surgeon General and author of Community Reads book selection, The Deepest Well, we will provide resources to create a toolkit to support our mental health and build resilience. The toolkit will include the six key areas that promote health, including sleep, exercise, mental health, healthy relationships, nutrition, and mindfulness (p. 114).
Panelists
Christine Broz, Health Coach, Academic and Instructional Innovation
Dr. Marcus Penn, Assistant Professor/Restorative Faculty Diversity Coach, Center for Innovation & Excellence in Learning
Dr. Anglyn Sasser, Psychologist, Student Health and Counseling
Dr. Paulina Van, Professor, School of Nursing
Beyond Survival Resource Guide : this resource guide is a small collection of articles, videos, podcasts, mental health resources, and more for you to use in reference to this topic.
Outcomes
The participant will have an understanding of the workings of the stress response in relation to mind, body, and behaviors and how to bring the response under control, preventing and/or diminishing the overdrive response and short- and long-term effects of toxic stress by having an evidence-based toolkit at the ready.
Please save the date for our Community Reads guest presentation with the California Surgeon General, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris as she discusses the long term effects of toxic stress as it relates to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the rollout of ACEs screenings for all Medi-Cal patient beginning January 2020.
Oakland Campus| RSVP for the Bechtel Room and Online Viewing
Fresno| Online Viewing
Sacramento| Online Viewing
San Mateo| Online Viewing
Youtube recording: https://youtu.be/7mfKrhvq5zY
ACES training: https://training.acesaware.org/
Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General's Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health. The report provides clear and equitable response solutions, models, and best practices to be replicated or tailored to serve community needs. The comprehensive report brings together global experts across sectors, specialties, regions, and disciplines to drive science-based approaches to primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies for ACEs and toxic stress. (December 2020)
ACEs Aware initiative
ACEs Aware is an initiative led by the California Office of the Surgeon General and the Department of Health Care Services to give Medi-Cal providers training, clinical protocols, and payment for screening children and adults for ACEs.
ACEs Aware Training
https://numberstory.org/
Articles
This 6-part series was designed with the primary care practice in mind – those who may or may not be familiar with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the process of asking families about exposure to ACEs or other traumatic events. This project was funded through a grant (UC4MC21534) from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
California Announces Robust Perinatal Depression Prevention for Medi-CAL Recipients
There's a Score to Quantify Childhood Trauma. Some Health Experts Want you to Know Yours
Trauma on the Pandemic's Front Line Leaves Health Workers Reeling
Videos
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris presentation recording from 11/6/19
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris TED Talk September 2014
RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress. Now understood to be one of the leading causes of every- thing from heart disease and cancer to substance abuse and depression, extremely stressful experiences in childhood can alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health and behavior. However, as experts and practitioners profiled in RESILIENCE are proving, what’s predictable is preventable. These physicians, educators, social workers and communities are daring to talk about the effects of divorce, abuse and neglect. And they’re using cutting edge science to help the next generation break the cycles of adversity and disease.
9-Week Webinar Series available from the UCSF Department of Psychiatry entitled: “Emotional Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis for Health Care Providers”.
Presenters include leading mental health experts who share evidence based information on how health care providers can reduce personal stress during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The webinars are offered on the following Thursdays from 1-2pm and pre-registration is required. However, if you can’t attend, don’t worry—you can watch the archived videos of each session posted after the event.