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Convene for Action

Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos is a way to work together as people, organizations and communities to tackle the toughest issues that stand in the way of us being a self-healing community. We work collectively to have an impact, to move forward an agenda we build together and all care about. We work on those agendas in Action Teams, which are open to everyone and operate by consensus of Team participants. Which Team will you join? You can come and go, drop in, visit them all, or attend your favorite one regularly. Community Accountability Action Team: This Action Team meets on July 15, 1:30-3:00 pm and will dig into how we can talk about racism and equity. The team will inform an action plan and next steps for moving forward key strategies members provided at the June 21 meeting.  Resource Connection Network: At the next meeting, this Team will be informing next steps in evaluating and selecting a tech platform to meet the needs in Sonoma County. ACEs Screening Clinical Implementation Action Team: Dr. Bernard-Pearl and Jessica Moore are sharing years of ACEs screening wisdom with a diverse group that includes clinics, schools, behavioral health providers and others to spread best practices, and work together to use ACEs screenings as a way to support individual and community health. Neighborhood Resource Connection: At the next meeting on July 14, 3-4:30 pm participants will be reviewing countywide training survey results and helping articulate what are the core competencies of a Community Connection Specialist (various roles who are responsible for providing resources).

Action Team Member Spotlight

Gricelda Correa

Deeply rooted in Sonoma County, Gricelda Correa has lived and worked in Sonoma County for 25 years and is proud to live her life passion supporting community health through her roles as Communications and Community Engagement Manager at Santa Rosa Community Health, as well as the backbone support for the Resilience Collaborative and co-facilitator for the Covid Vaccination Health Equity Subcommittee through CHI.  Gricelda says she feels excited about Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos because of the opportunities it brings to collaborate with partners throughout Sonoma County to explore the intersectionality of health, education and response to our community.....

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Resources

Looking for research on resilience and real tools you can use in your work? Most commonly, the term resilience has come to mean an individual’s ability to overcome adversity and continue his, her or their normal development. However, Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos embraces the Resilience Research Centre definition which is a more ecological and culturally sensitive one. Dr. Michael Ungar, founder and Director of the RRC, has suggested that resilience is better understood as follows: Resilience Measures Resilience Research Centre Child and Youth Resilience Measure, and Adult Resilient Measure (CYRM/ARM) What's your favorite resilience tool? Share it by sending it to dswilley@sonomaconnect.org

"In the context of exposure to significant adversity, resilience is both the capacity of individuals to navigate their way to the psychological, social, cultural, and physical resources that sustain their well-being, and their capacity individually and collectively to negotiate for these resources to be provided in culturally meaningful ways.” Michael Ungar

We will be talking about resilience in all of the Action Teams as we never want to talk about an ACEs score without also talking about protective factors. We will be talking about how to assess for resilience most typically on the ACEs screening and the Neighborhood Resource Centers Action Teams. Bring what you love about the science of resilience and how to practice it and help build the agenda for Sonoma County.

Highlights

We're grateful to have Dr. Daniela Dominguez as an advisor on diversity, equity and inclusion for all of the activities of Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos. Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos partners participated in measuring their readiness on implementing a network that addresses ACEs Over 40 partners shared what their training needs are for ACEs and resilience science and practice. Top priorities are race related traumatic stress, acute trauma such as that experienced as a result of the fires, and provider resilience. To learn more about these and other activities, contact us.

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