Featuring our Partner - Center for Wellbeing | |
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The Center for Well-Being (the Center) is a 501c3 non-profit agency founded in 1994 and based in Santa Rosa – providing 27 years of health and wellness services to Sonoma County. Their mission is to improve the health and well-being of our community through evidence-based health practices and innovative programs that advance health equity for all, and their vision is to achieve improved community health through inclusive and just policies, programs, and services.
For over fifteen years, the Center has been a local leader in engaging, training, and empowering community members to be community leaders as Community Health Workers/ Promotorx de Salud (CHW/Ps). The Center also hosts a CHW Center of Excellence, which includes CHW Core Competency Training, CHW Network Meeting, CHW e-newsletter, CHW workshops, CHW workforce development, and technical assistance for CHW integration. They have served as CHW subject matter experts for several universities such as UCLA and Stanford - and their CHW-driven health equity work has been featured in the CDC Preventing Chronic Disease Journal and the Stanford Social Innovation Review Publication.
The Center is excited to share that it is developing a NEW 3-hour CHW training modular on population health management and care coordination for CHWs. After taking this course, participants will have a better understanding of chronic disease prevention and management, and they will be empowered to help individuals improve their health outcomes through education, resource connection, and support. This informative, interactive, and fun workshop is free and open to the public - and it will be offered twice via Zoom in early November (once in English and once in Spanish). For more information, please sign up for the Center's CHW Newsletter or reach out to Karissa Moreno at kmoreno@nccw.org.
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Upcoming Action Team Meetings | |
This month, the Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos Action Teams will be working on the agenda items below:
ACEs Clinical Action Team
Thursday, October 6, 2022 , 2:00pm-3:00pm
Join us to discuss the Resource Connection Network’s ACEs Screening Dashboard as well as learn about the Child Parent Institute’s (CPI) program offerings from Elizabeth Vermilyea, Deputy Director of CPI.
Community Accountability Action Team
Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 3:00pm-4:30pm
In this meeting, we will present a work product that is a work in progress for this team on DEIB that can be used as a resource in your organization to help build capacity for this work. We will also announce how you will have the opportunity to secure a spot and sign-up and delve deeper into collective DEIB systems change and help operationalize DEB-based practices by centering equity and designing to the margins starting in January.
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Resource Connection Network Action Team
Monday, October 31, 2022, 1:00pm-2:30pm
Dress up for this Halloween themed meeting and join us to discuss the pilot launch of the Resource Connection Network platform.
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New Program: Pathway to Income Equality
There’s still time to apply to Sonoma County's new guaranteed basic income program investing in family households to access $500 a month for 2 years! Applications are being accepted until October 31.
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CalHHS CDII Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Grant Program Listening Session #1
On October 17, the California Health and Human Services Agency’s (CalHHS) Center for Data Insights and Innovation (CDII) will host a public Listening Session to gather stakeholder input on the design and administration of the Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Grant Program.
California’s DxF includes the first-ever statewide data sharing agreement (DSA) to accelerate and expand the exchange of health information among health and human service organizations beginning in 2024. The California Governor and State Legislature have allocated $50 million to support the market implementation of DxF requirements through the DxF Grant Program. The program will administer grants for education, technical assistance, and health information organization (HIO) onboarding.
The Listening Session is designed to gather input from participants on DxF implementation challenges, technical assistance opportunities to address those challenges, and the administration of the grant program. During the sessions, participants will have the opportunity to provide feedback in writing and verbally.
Organizations that will sign the DSA are encouraged to participate.
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Botanical Bus Wellness Workshops: The Botanical Bus is offering several Wellness Workshops during the month of October
- Feminine Self-care – October 1, 10am-11:30
- Herbal Care for your Liver – October 6, 9:30am-11am
- As well as Farmworker Clinics in Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, and Sonoma
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Raizes Collective – Free Community Concert
Saturday, October 15 at 6pm, Santa Rosa Junior College Petaluma Campus
Aztlan Underground will be providing a live acoustic set at the Santa Rosa Junior College Petaluma Campus!
Aztlan Underground, is a longstanding influential band from Los Angeles that combines Hip-Hop, Punk Rock, Jazz, and electronic music with Chicano and Native American themes, and indigenous instrumentation.
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Child Parent Institute
CPI offers several FREE parenting classes this October. Visit their website to learn more about the different classes they offer
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Managing Anxiety and its Path into Depression: Building Skills that Lead to Action Over Avoidance | |
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Hanna Institute is providing a FREE learning series to elevate youth and empower community with different learning opportunities throughout the months of October-December. October’s session is focused on addressing anxiety. Learn more about this session and the three-month series on their website.
Spanish Transcription/Closed Captioning Provided
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Want to see your events featured? | |
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Are you a community partner and would like to see your upcoming events featured in Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unido’s newsletter? Please contact Mariana Raschke mraschke@sonomaconnect.org.
We accept submissions until one week prior to the beginning of each month.
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More Learning Opportunities | |
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CHW Conference: CHWs are Heroes
October 21, 2022 from 9am-2:00pm at Flamingo Hotel
The Community Health Worker for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) Project presents this conference to celebrate the CHW and Promotora workforce in Sonoma County for their work before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will be awarding CHWs for their work in the community and will be holding 3 workshops Mind/Body Medicine; COVID-19 Tools and Updates; Community Health Worker Core Consensus Project (C3 Project) Basics. There will also be a Resource and Career Fair during the second half of the conference. Visit the conference webpage to learn more information.
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Join Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) QPR Suicide Gatekeeper
Join SCOE’s Behavioral Health Services team for a question, persuade, and refer Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention. This educational program is designed to teach lay and professional “gatekeepers” the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to respond.
Next trainings will be offered:
- February 1, 2023, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
- May 3, 2023, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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La Familia Sana’s second annual Dia de Los Muertos
Saturday, November 5th from 2:00-5:30 PM
Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with La Familia Sana at the Cloverdale Downtown Plaza on November 5. La Familia Sana is also offering a variety of events, activities, and holiday festivities this Fall and Winter. Visit their website to learn more.
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LGBTQIA+ Free Legal Clinic
Saturday, November 12, 2022 | 11am -3pm. | Empire of College Law, Santa Rosa
A free legal clinic hosted by Crocker Law, North Bay LGBTQI Families, and Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center will take place on the Empire College of Law Campus in Santa Rosa on Saturday, November 12 from 11am-3pm.
At the clinic, attorneys and paralegals will be available to assist with forms and procedure for securing legal parentage between parents and children, as well as legal name and/or gender marker changes. Securing these rights is more important than ever following recent US Supreme Court rulings. Childcare, Spanish translation, and ASL interpretation will be available.
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The California Trauma-informed Care Academy: The California Trauma Informed Care Academy (CalTICA) is designed to provide a baseline on the neurobiology of trauma and best trauma-informed practices for multidisciplinary professionals. The course is free and available online 24/7. Anyone who is interested in learning about trauma-informed care can take the course.
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Why Today’s Workplace Needs Trauma-Informed Leadership: With the lingering stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can take steps to make our workplaces more trauma-informed. Trauma-informed leadership within workplace culture ensures that we prioritize the psychological and emotional safety of employees over productivity and results.
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Pursuing Equity in Health Care: A campaign to address systemic racism at Mass General Brigham, a large hospital network in Boston, Massachusetts, has shown early success. Read more about the work that they’re doing to reduce racial disparities in health care.
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Pursuing Equity: Applications are now open for Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Pursuing Equity Learning Network and Action Community, offered free of charge. These opportunities are designed to foster systemic action by health systems to achieve improvements in equity and become liberated in their racial justice efforts.
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We express our appreciation to our funders!
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