Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos Partner Highlight: The Botanical Bus | |
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The Botanical Bus is a bilingual mobile herb clinic that empowers holistic health by-and-for Latinx and Indigenous people. With Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos collaborative American Rescue Plan Act funding, Botanical Bus will provide seven farmworker clinics with massage therapy, acupuncture, somatic therapy, diabetes support and prevention, foot care, clinical nutrition, art, and herbalism. Group care sessions are led by Promotora/CHWs. Clinical services are offered to clients on an accessible sliding scale. Every client receives a mutual aid care kit, which includes herbal salves for wound care and teas for stress relief, sleep and building immunity.
The Botanical Bus models healing-centered care in the following ways:
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Their health services are mobile because residential segregation, by race and ethnicity, income, and occupation, is a social determinant of health (Lewis, 2021).
Botanical Bus currently offers services in Central, North, West and East Sonoma County at vineyard worksites, family service centers and schools.
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Their health services are bilingual because 4 in 10 of the 29,000 undocumented immigrants residing in Sonoma County do not speak English (Lewis, 2021).
At the Botanical Bus Farmworker Clinics: 96% of clients identify as Latinx or Indigenous and 89% as Spanish speakers.
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Their health services are bicultural because positive mental health outcomes can be better achieved through valuing cultural wealth (Adams & Chavez, 2016).
At the Botanical Bus Farmworker Clinics: 69% of clients report high levels of acute stress in the form of anxiety, depression and fatigue. Botanical Bus believes that this mental health crisis needs to be met with culturally centered care.
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Works Cited: Adames and Chavez (2016). Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724058
Lewis, Kristen (2021). A Portrait of Sonoma County: 2021 Update. New York: Measure of America, Social Science Research Council.
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Want to learn more about the Botanical Bus and the dates of their upcoming clinics and wellness workshops? Visit their website to learn more. | |
In the second half of 2022, 1,191 Individuals received culturally-responsive mental health supports, through American Rescue Plan Act funding and in collaboration with 10 Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos funded partners (Aliados Health, Botanical Bus, Community Action Partnership, Child Parent Institute, Hanna Institute, La Luz, Northern California Center for Wellbeing, Raizes Collective, and Sonoma County Office of Education). These included: | |
Group and community convivencias | In-home family & parental therapy | |
Community building & cultural events | |
cross sector resource connection | |
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274 staff in over 62 organization received professional development through Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos funded partners. These staff are better equipped to implement trauma-informed practices with potential to influence the lives of over 27,400 children, youth, and adults in Sonoma County.
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More highlights of our work can be found in our 2022 Accomplishments Infographic report. | |
Upcoming Action Team Meetings | |
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This month, the Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos Action Teams will be working on the agenda items below:
ACEs Screening Implementation Action Team
Thursday, March 2, 2023 from 2:00pm-3:00pm
This meeting will focus on updating the charter for this team. Participants will have the opportunity to provide input on the direction of this team and discuss resources and stress busters that disrupt the effects of toxic stress. This will be a highly interactive meeting and your input is requested!
Community Accountability Action Team
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 3:00pm-4:30pm
This team will resume our regular monthly meetings this month. Join us to review priorities for this team, learn about CHW workforce development work taking place in our county, and help us steer the intentionality of this team with the foundation on Diversity, Equity, and Belonging that was provided by the recent trainings we offered led by Equity First Consulting.
Resource Connection Network Action Team
Monday, March 27, 2023, from 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: TBD
This meeting will be in person, with a hybrid option. Join us as we do a deep-dive and develop tools to equip participants to be champions of this work. This team has been instrumental in the development of the Resource Connection Network, the health and social integration platform. Members have provided input on the consent agreement, the procedures and policies, the training for pilot participants, the desired features, and much more. Help us propel this work forward by shaping future priorities for this team.
Our Action Team meetings offer simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.
Join us in moving this important work forward by attending an upcoming meeting!
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Strengthening Families Using a Racial Equity Lens
Thursday, April 20 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
In honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month, CPI will be hosting a FREE virtual event presented by Dr. Jessica A. Pryce. This event focuses on how leaders from child and family serving organizations can work to understand and mitigate the problems of racism, marginalization, and injustice in our systems of care.
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2-1-1 Community Partner Office Hours
2-1-1 wants to ensure the highest quality of information is being provided to the people most in need in our communities. They know agency and program information is always changing and it can be hard to update.
2-1-1 is now offering Office Hours to community partners to provide more information on 2-1-1 and procedures for ensuring they have your organization’s most accurate information.
The next Office Hours will be on March 21, 2023 at 11am.
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NCCWB’s Community Health Worker Network Meeting
Next meeting: Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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.
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SCOE: Youth Mental Health First Aid
Thursday, March 9, 2023, 8:30AM - 4:00PM
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*Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed for adults (parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other community members) who regularly interact with young people.*
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) teaches caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis.
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Suicide Prevention: QPR Community Gatekeeper Training | |
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Next session: May 3, 2023
QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention is a 90 minute educational program designed to teach lay and professional "gatekeepers" the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to respond.
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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 Unidos’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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March is Women’s History Month | |
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Did you know that the Women’s History Month began in Sonoma County?
The National Women’s History Alliance, was founded in Sonoma County. In 1978, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women initiated the first-ever “Women's History Week” celebration.
The weeklong celebration included school programs, speakers, an essay contest, and a parade held in downtown Santa Rosa. Hearing of the success of the Sonoma County program, several prominent women’s groups began lobbying for a national celebration — and in 1980, President Carter issued a Presidential Proclamation declaring the first-ever “Women's History Week” in early March of that year. In 1987, Congress declared March as National Women’s History Month in perpetuity.
Sonoma County Library celebrates National Women’s History Month with events, displays, and resources, such as those highlighted below. Help share in this annual tribute by celebrating and learning about the generations of women who influenced and enriched our nation and society.
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Celebrating Trans Women as Women
When: March 22, 2023, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Where: Windsor Regional Library, Windsor Meeting Room
Celebrate Women's History Month! Join the Windsor Regional Library for a panel discussion, led by author Janna Barkin, featuring Rev. Barbara K. Peronteau who will share their experience and perspectives as a transgender woman and Chayla Fisher, who will share their perspective as a non-binary person. This program will support, educate, and inspire anyone who attends.
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Connect to Resources with 2-1-1 | |
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Looking for local resources to help with Housing/Shelter, Food Resources, Disaster Resources, Disaster Preparedness, Free Tax Prep, and more?
2-1-1 is an information and referral line that provides social and human service resources to communities throughout Sonoma and Mendocino counties. A team of multilingual call specialists are always ready to support our community’s needs, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can connect with a real person by dialing 2-1-1 or texting your ZIP Code to 898-211 or search local resources on 211sonoma.org..
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Upcoming Funding Opportunities | |
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The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families has announced the release of a new grant in child welfare:
Building Early Childhood-Child Welfare Partnerships to Support the Well-Being of Young Children, Families, and Caregivers
Amount: $2,200,000 Estimated Total
When: Closing day for applications is March 13, 2023.
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We express our appreciation to our funders!
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Your information will not be shared with anyone other than the Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos team. | | | | |
