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Thanks to ACEs Aware funding through Aurrera Health Group, Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos has been able to work with community partners to increase ACEs screening, improve integration across sectors among our action teams, and begin to co-create a technology platform to support community-wide health. This work is just beginning and as we continue to work together to address community needs, we want to take the time to reflect on all the work we’ve done in 2021 and 2022 and to thank you for your continued engagement and participation! 

Meet our New Community Accountability Action Team Co-chair: Rocio Monter!

Rocio Monter was born in Mexico City and immigrated to Sonoma County at the age of five. She’s experience the challenges and the beauty of migration. Because of these experiences she is dedicated to closing the academic and economic gap that affects Sonoma County families, especially for our Latinx, Black and Indigenous communities. In her current role as the Community Based Service Manger at Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County she works toward building systems that foster equitable resources and healing practices to help families meet their unique goals. Rocio is a mom of a 7-year-old and in her free time she enjoys traveling and visiting new coffee shops.

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, July 7, 2022, 2:00pm-3:00pm 

Join us this month to discuss ways to address challenges in Medi-Cal reimbursements for ACEs screenings & for a presentation from the Department of Health Services’ Trauma-informed Approach Public Health Nursing team 

Community Accountability Action Team 

Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 3:00pm-4:30pm 

Join us to discuss how to build a relational culture and help us review our updated charter that will guide our future work. We will also provide an update on the requested work product from last month’s meeting. 

Resource Connection Network Action Team  

Monday, July 25 2022, 1:00pm-2:30pm 

This month the RCN Action Team will be transitioning to the NinePatch data governance committee where we will be working to identify best practices for data collection, management, storage, and exchange through an equitable framework that ensures an effective, secure, and efficient use of information. If you or anybody in your organization would like to join this committee, please contact Kellie Fernandez, kfernandez@rchc.net 

Our Action Team meetings offer simultaneous interpretation in Spanish. 



Join us in moving this important work forward by attending an upcoming meeting!



Learning Opportunities

Tickets cost $150. Contact us if you'd like to receive a promotional code to register for FREE.

Radical Inquiry Workshop

Tuesday, July 12, 2022 from 10am-1pm

In collaboration with PACEs Connection, the RYSE Center presents this virtual workshop. This webinar will examine how conventional social science research often produces and replicates unjust and harmful narratives about Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIPOC) capacities, priorities, dreams, and needs. At the same time, such research upholds and enables White middle-class norms and values as the standard of achievement, success, and health.

Cyber Mondays Trainings

Learn Cybersecurity best practices to keep your organization. staff and patients' protected. Open to all Health Centers and their Community-Based Partners

• July 11th: Organizational Cybersecurity for organizational leadership
• July 18th: Basic Cybersecurity Training for all organizational staff
• July 25th: Data System Sharing best practices for all organizational staff

Hanna Institute  Regulate, Relate, Reason: Brain-Based Strategies for Managing Challenging Behaviors in Children with Trauma Histories

Tuesday, July 26, 2022 from 9am-12pm

Cost is $90.

CalAIM: Major Components and Current Implementation Status

Thursday, July 28, 2022 from 1pm-2pm

This webinar will review the major components of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiatives, including: Enhanced Care Management, Community Supports, Behavioral Health (Criteria to Access Specialty Mental Health and No Wrong Door), and the Population Health Management Strategy and Roadmap

Community Health Worker Network Meeting

Every third Wednesday of the month from 12:30pm-2:00pm

Join the Center for Wellbeing’s CHW Network meetings to learn about community resources, important topics, and network with others! Meetings are held every third Wednesday of the month from 12:30 - 2:00pm via Zoom.

• Toolbox for Measuring Cross-Sector Alignment Aligning across sectors emphasizes coordination that extends beyond working together on a single project. Aligned systems require that sectors think and work together in fundamentally new ways to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve in ways that are built to last. 

• The QI Chat Room Podcast Episode 39 CalAIM: What do health centers need to know? 

• 2022 Edition — California’s County-Based Health Plans This study provides information on county-based health plans, how they operate, and how they have changed over the years

• Botanical Bus – Talleres de Bienstar and Mobile Farmworker Clinics

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