Healthy
Communities
Newsletter
August 2020
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Community partners working together
to build health and resilience
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Our Community Meetings
Scroll to bottom for a description of each group
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Faith-Based Coffee, CHARG, the ACEs Alliance, Trauma-Informed Schools and
Safe Kids Clark County
will not meet in August.
See you in the fall!
An updated calendar for all meetings can also be found at
August 17 - Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition
- Noon - 1:30 pm
- ZOOM meeting
Sept. 16 - Evergreen Faith Based Coffee
- 8:30 to 10:30 am
- Zoom meeting: registration link and more info coming in September newsletter
Sept. 24 - Vancouver Faith-Based Coffee
- 9 to 11 am
- Zoom meeting: registration link and more info coming in the September newsletter
October 8 - Trauma Informed Schools Workgroup Meeting
- 1 - 3 pm
- Zoom meeting: registration link and more info coming in the September newsletter
- No meeting in September
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ACEs Action Alliance*
The ACEs Alliance is open to all members of the community.
- Virtual meetings of the ACEs Alliance will resume in October.
- Date to be announced in the September newsletter.
*ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Trauma-Informed Schools Workgroup meeting
- The TI Schools Workgroup is intended for people who work in or with early childhood education and K-12 schools.
- Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month from 1 to 3 pm.
- Save the date for the first meeting for the 2020-21 school year: 1 to 3 pm on October 8. More details in the September newsletter.
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For more information on the ACEs Action Alliance, resources, links to past newsletters, events and more, go to:
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- Next meeting: Wednesday, September 16
- 8:30 to 10:30 am
- Meeting will be held via zoom. Registration link and meeting details will be shared in the September newsletter.
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- Next meeting: Thursday, September 24
- 9 to 11 am
- Meeting will be held via zoom. Registration link and meeting details will be shared in the September newsletter.
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Follow us on Facebook for meeting updates and information
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Product Recalls
Safe Kids Worldwide lists product recalls each month. Please note: Product recalls never expire, so it’s important to check the recalls on a regular basis. This is especially important for hand-me-down or pre-owned children’s products.
Used child car seats and bike helmets should never be re-used in case their integrity is compromised.
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Safe Kids Clark County monthly meeting
Safe Kids Clark County
does not meet in July and August
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Child Car Seat Safety
class and clinic
Cancelled for August
Potentially may resume this fall
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The list of dangerous hand sanitizers has been expanded to over 100 brands, including one called Hello Kitty (contains methanol). Most of these are manufactured in Mexico and either contain methanol (toxic) or do not have enough alcohol. The CDC recommends hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
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Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition meeting
Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition strives to improve the health of our community by working collaboratively to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. Join us on August 17 for a special presentation.
Healthy Starts Act-Lactation Accommodation in the Workplace
Presented by:
Alma Poletti, Investigator Supervisor (Civil Rights Division) and
Ashely Dowell (WA State Attorney) from the WA State Attorney General’s Office
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Washington State Department of Health launches CORONA survey
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) recently launched the Community Recovery-Oriented Needs Assessment, or the CORONA survey to assess the behavioral, economic, social, and emotional impacts and needs of communities across the state as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Survey results will inform immediate, long-term, and ongoing actions that DOH and local health jurisdictions can take to address the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on Washingtonians.
In order to appropriately and equitably inform recovery plans at the state and local levels, DOH is requesting residents from across Washington to go to www.wacoronasurvey.com to take part in the survey. (To take the survey by phone, call 855-530-5787—interpreters are available to assist.)
The survey is voluntary and confidential. At the end of the survey, participants will be given the option to provide their name, phone number and/or email address. Each week of the survey, three participants will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift code as a thank you for their time and participation.
If you have additional questions about the CORONA Survey, you can call the Washington State Department of Health at 1-800-525-0127
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What is contact tracing and how does it work? |
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Contact tracing is a critical tool for suppressing COVID-19, but how much do you know about it? Learn more through the Public Health Institutes conversation with Dr. Marta Induni, of PHI's Tracing Health initiative, who talked about how it works, how they keep information protected, and how they help people stay at home when they need to. PHI provides all contract tracing for COVID cases in Clark County.
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Swindell's Center offers two-part webinar on
How to deal with your child or teen's challenging behaviors
during COVID-19
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Both webinars are FREE and are held at 6:30 pm
- Basics of supporting children with challenging behaviors or cognitive struggles during COVID-19
- Why many attempted strategies fail to work The Cognitive Supports™ model and practical strategies you can use immediately
- How to take a bigger view of your child's behavior and consider the factors and situations that lead to challenging behaviors.
- How to reinterpret behavior and move forward in a brain-based direction.
- More practical strategies you can use immediately
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COVID-19 Communication Toolkit available from the CDC for migrants, refugees and other limited-English populations
Resources, such as the sample in Chukkese shown here, are available in 26 languages to help public health professionals, health departments, community organizations, and healthcare systems and providers reach populations who may need COVID-19 prevention messaging in their native languages.
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Keep up-to-date with factual information about COVID-19
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Washington State Coronavirus Hotline: 800.525.0127. NEW HOURS: Open 6 am-10 pm Monday through Friday and 8 am to 6 pm on weekends and holidays. This hotline is a partnership effort between Washington State Department of Health and Washington 211. This replaces the DOH novel coronavirus call center. (Please note that the statewide 211 system differs from our local 211 system.)
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SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline: 24/7, 365-day-a-year crisis counseling and support for people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters. Call 1.800.985.5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 to connect with a trained crisis counselor.
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Let summer reading continue!
Fort Vancouver Libraries offer curbside pick-up
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What would the lazy days of summer be without a good book to read?
Our amazing local librarians have been trained on safety protocols in order to provide contact-free service to get books, movies and other materials to you and your family while we all stay safe together.
Here's how it works:
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Step 1: Place a hold on the item you want using the library catalog or library app, or by calling the library between 10 am and 5 pm Monday through Saturday.
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Step 2: When you receive notice that your hold is available, call the library to schedule a pick-up appointment.
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Step 3: Visit the library at your appointment time, look for the curbside pickup sign, and call the number on the sign. Library staff will bring your items out and place them in your trunk (or other agreed upon location).
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Resources on ACEs & Resilience |
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Vantalks: "Listen to Lead and Learn" |
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Listening sessions shed light on systemic racism in Clark County
Learn more about systemic racism in Clark County. Three listening sessions, coordinated by the Clark County Council and partner agencies YWCA Clark County, NAACP Vancouver, SW WA LULAC, and Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program, are a first step to greater understanding and action around racial injustice, system inequity and structural racism in our county.
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Register here to attend the second session at 6 to 8 pm on August 12.
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SOON! The Connecting Communities session, "Who Will Mind the Children: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Child Care Market," is coming up at noon on Aug. 6. Learn how public policy and non-government organizations can address child care challenges that existed before and are exaggerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Child care plays a critical role in people’s ability to work, but many lower-income households do not have the economic resources to afford high-quality child care. On the provider side, already-low margins mean many providers may close due to pandemic-related cost increases and revenue reductions.
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SOON! Join the Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the Administration for Community Living Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs for a Spotlight on Health webinar on August 10th. The webinar will highlight innovative solutions to address social isolation in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Register here.
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SOON! The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust will discuss the important role of nutrition in promoting health equity and reducing health disparities at the second annual Nutrition and Health Equity Summit on Tuesday, August 25 from 11 am to 1 pm. Learn more and register here.
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SOON! The NAACP Vancouver Branch is presenting a virtual education event specifically intended for parents of African American children. Part 1: Becoming a trauma-informed parent is from 10:30 am to noon, Aug. 22. Part 2: Strategies for addressing racially traumatic experiences is from 10:30 to noon, Aug. 29. Click here to register for both events.
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SOON! The 2020 Suicide Prevention Summit is coming up on August 29-30. Registration is free and the entire conference is online. The intended audience is mental health professionals and students. Learn more and register here.
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The ACEs Connection recently hosted a virtual discussion with Rebecca Lewis-Pankaratz regarding trauma, ACEs and poverty. Her compelling story and presentation on successful programs to address poverty in her community are well worth the time to view this recorded video. You can see it here.
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Local schools have found that teaching mindfulness practice is another effective tool that can help children and youth to self-regulate. Wondering how to continue this work when schools return to virtual platforms this fall? Read more in the Edutopia article "Translating Mindfulness to Distance Learning" by Michael Ray.
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Pre-K children can also benefit from mindfulness. Zero to Three recently released Getting Started with Mindfulness: A Toolkit for Early Childhood Organizations to help early childhood educators and child care staff to learn more about the case for implementing mindfulness. You can download this beautiful, 58-page toolkit for free and learn techniques that will fit into your daily work and organizational culture. The toolkit provides hands-on strategies and tips from organizations that have already started the journey. Information in the toolkit can easily be adapted to other types of organizations with questions for leaders to consider, brief survey examples to get staff input, and resources for developing emotional competence skills during supervision.
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The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) for our state adopted standards for teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) in 2019. The OSPI website for Social-Emotional Learning offers terrific resources and information regarding SEL for teachers, parents and the community.
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"Culturally-Responsive Approaches to Serve Latin American Children who Experience Traumatic Separation" will explore trauma-informed, culturally-responsive strategies for serving separated children who have migrated to the US from countries in Latin America. Speakers discuss policies and practices relevant to the protection and best interests of unaccompanied and separated immigrant children. This webinar provides an overview of a project providing mental health care and family navigation services for Latino immigrant families along the US southern border and community-based interventions in rural northern New Mexico. In addition, speakers identify clinical challenges and strategies for serving migrant children and families in a primary health care setting.
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Advancing trauma-informed care within and across child-serving systems is an outstanding toolkit that offers a framework for system-level and cross-system strategic planning and implementation processes for supporting trauma-informed systems change. The guide is intended for an audience of state or local policymakers, public agency administrators, trauma experts, provider partners, and other stakeholders who seek to advance trauma-informed care within and across their child-serving systems.
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Triple Point is now hosting virtual support group |
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NAMI introduces virtual recovery support group |
NAMI Connection & Substance Use Support Group is a recovery support group program for adults living with a dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance use disorder. These group meetings provide a place that offers respect, understanding, encouragement, and hope. All NAMI Support Groups are confidential – participants can share as much or as little personal information as they wish. Meetings will be guided by NAMI Connection’s Principles of Support. Prospective participants are welcome to drop-in and check the group out.
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EOCF open for fall preschool enrollment |
EOCF is now enrolling for free preschool for the fall term. Enrollment specialists are taking online applications, and making telephone appointments.
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Innovative Services accepting enrollment for fall programs and preschool |
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ESD 112 Early Care and Education is open for enrollment! |
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About our coalitions and community groups |
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The ACEs Action Alliance is: |
A multi-sector collaborative of public and private organizations and individuals. We raise awareness about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their long-term impact. We promote trauma-informed approaches and policies to support resilience and healing for people of all ages. All are welcome at monthly meetings.
The Trauma-Informed Schools Team is open to anyone who works in or with schools in Clark County. We meet monthly to explore tools, resources and applications of trauma-informed principles for schools.
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A non-denominational bridge that joins faith partners, communities and local schools to share learning, meet the needs of children, families and neighborhoods, and address emergent needs that arise in our community. All are welcome. Members maintain the separation of church and state at meetings and when fulfilling needs by serving from the heart without promoting personal religious beliefs or engaging in religious recruitment.
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Safe Kids Clark County is: |
A member of Safe Kids Worldwide, a grassroots network of more than 600 coalitions and chapters that work closely with law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, health professionals, educators, businesses, public policy makers, and, most importantly, parents and kids to promote safety. Priorities include proper car seat use, baby's safe sleep, reducing child vehicular injuries and deaths, and water safety. Local coordination provided by American Medical Response (AMR).
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A local forum for community members and health professionals to connect and collaborate in order to deliver appropriate services that meet the needs of the diverse populations of Clark County. At each of our bi-monthly forums, the Clark County Community Health Access Resource Group (CHARG) strives to illuminate and educate participants on a handful of themed topics relating to health access.
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Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition is: |
A coalition that works to improve the health of our community by promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding. CCBC is committed to identify and eliminate barriers to breastfeeding among families of all races and ethnicities in Clark County in order to foster a culture of inclusion.
The coalition works collaboratively to connect, educate and promote breastfeeding practices in all Clark County communities. CCBC also works to create an environment that supports breastfeeding as the cultural norm for infant feeding.
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The Healthy Communities Newsletter is published the first week of each month.
To submit announcements or share information, please send complete information or attach a high resolution pdf file to cyndie.meyer@clark.wa.gov by the 20th of the month prior.
All submissions will be screened and may be edited prior to publication.
If you would like to receive the Healthy Communities Newsletter, please email Jan.Dolph@clark.wa.gov
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For other formats, contact the Clark County ADA Office
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