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This April we are bringing awareness to National Child Abuse Prevention Month!

We know that community health stabilizes and improves when individuals have connection to systems and environments that support them. For this reason, Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos is committed to supporting and building a network with organizational capacity that supports a thriving workforce and community self-efficacy. We are excited to be on this journey with you to advance equity throughout our Sonoma County system of care, to ensure the safety and well-being of children and youth across the county.

For inspiration for activities to support positive parenting to try at home today or to share with families click the button below.

Announcements

On Tuesday, March 22, Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unido’s Community Leadership Board voted to ratify the final vendor selection for the Medical and Social Service integration platform to support closed-loop resource referrals. The selection has been narrowed down to three vendors that best represented community input on desired functions.

After careful consideration, the Community Leadership Board ratified NinePatch as the final selection.  

As of March 24th RCHC has.....



Next Steps

SC|SU will partner with RCHC and engaged workgroup members to complete next steps now that the technology vendor has been identified to:

• Articulate referral workflows and roles and responsibilities of users. 
• Develop levels of access based on consent from clients and agreements with organizations that promote case management that is shared between organizations, ensuring the client at the center. 
• Define what training is required to meet adopted goals and standards. 
• Design criteria for how the resource and referral system will be implemented. 
• Define what success for the resource and referral system looks like, how success will be measured, and track progress. 
• Create and adopt a five-year operational plan that also includes a plan to pay for and sustain the system for the long term.

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, April 7, 2:00pm-3:00pm 

 This month the ACEs Clinical Action Team will review results of the round three trauma-informed network of care assessment.  

Neighborhood Resource Centers Action Team 

Wednesday, April 13, 3:00pm-4:30pm 

The NRC Action Team will discuss next steps to gathering CHW/P insights into how to advance and support the CHW workforce pipeline development.  

Community Accountability Action Team 

Thursday, April 21, 1:30m-3:00pm 

This month, CAAT will continue its conversation on DEB practices, assess our capacity and identify areas of opportunity to support the transformation of community-led systems change. We will also be discussing data equity frameworks and further developing our strategy for community engagement.  

Resource Connection Network Action Team  

Monday, April 25, 1:00pm-2:30pm 

Join us to discuss and plan for next steps for build-out of NinePatch. We will also discuss starting a Data Governance workgroup to move forward work on data policies and procedures and data sharing agreements. 



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



Spotlight on our ACEs Clinical Action Team Co-chair: Dr. Deirdre Bernard-Pearl!

Learning Opportunities

Cradle to Career -  Sonoma County Superintendent Candidate Forum

Thursday, April 7 | 5:30-7:30PM. 

Meet the candidates for the Sonoma County Superintendent of Schools.

Learning Network Call Stress Busters Series: Sleep

Monday, April 11 | 3:30pm-4:30pm 

Sleep disturbances are common outcomes of childhood adversity.

Learning Network Call: Exposure to Racism and Discrimination as Risk Factors for Toxic Stress

Thursday, April 14 | 10:00am-11:00am 

Healthy Relationships: Teaching Appropriate Interactions, Boundaries, Self-Advocacy and Identifying Coercion for People with Disabilities

Thursday, April 14 | 10:00am-11:30am 

Deconstructing Unconscious Bias & Unintended Racism When Working with Children and Families

Wednesday, April 20 | 10:00am-11:30am

Learning Network Call Stress Busters Series: Nutrition Wednesday, April 20 | 1:00pm-2:00pm 

Partnership Health Plan of California (PHC) is offering a $1,000 scholarship for students enrolled in Sacramento City College’s (SCC) Community Health Care Worker Program. Application deadline to apply for the program and PHC’s scholarship is April 30, 2022. 

Prevent Child Abuse in Sonoma County

Prevent Child Abuse-Sonoma County (PCA-SC) provides networking opportunities, education, and professional trainings for those involved in child abuse prevention and intervention services. 

Webinars for National Child Abuse Prevention Month

This webinar series will feature presenters discussing important topics

related to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

More Resources for National Child Abuse Prevention Month 

www.sonomaconnect.org

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