According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), youth previously involved with the juvenile justice system had up to 23 times the firearm mortality rate of the general population. Black children accounted for 46 percent of gun deaths in 2021, even though they are only 14 percent of the U.S. under-18 population. Put more simply: Black children are five times as likely to die from gunfire as their White peers. This series will focus on how grass-roots care systems can wrap around youth and families impacted by gang and gun violence. So often, we blame gangs, and we forget that systemic racism is the root cause. Participants will hear from first responders who are not traditionally funded by systems of care and are doing the most vital work, including faith-based, mental health, substance use treatment, peer support, research, and street outreach perspectives. WHAT IS A HEART WORK SERIES? A Heart Work Series … [Read more...] about Heart Work Series Part 2 – Do you see me? How systems of care can wrap around youth and families impacted by gang and gun violence
National Training & Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, & Family Mental Health (NTTAC)
Heart Work Series Part 1 – Do you see me? How systems of care can wrap around youth and families impacted by gang and gun violence
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), youth previously involved with the juvenile justice system had up to 23 times the firearm mortality rate of the general population. Black children accounted for 46 percent of gun deaths in 2021, even though they are only 14 percent of the U.S. under-18 population. Put more simply: Black children are five times as likely to die from gunfire as their White peers. This series will focus on how grass-roots care systems can wrap around youth and families impacted by gang and gun violence. So often, we blame gangs, and we forget that systemic racism is the root cause. Participants will hear from first responders who are not traditionally funded by systems of care and are doing the most vital work, including faith-based, mental health, substance use treatment, peer support, research, and street outreach perspectives. WHAT IS A HEART WORK SERIES? A Heart Work Series … [Read more...] about Heart Work Series Part 1 – Do you see me? How systems of care can wrap around youth and families impacted by gang and gun violence
Public Health State Agency Actions – Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences and Uplifting Positive Childhood Experiences
Join DeAndre Cain and Grace Morrow from the Georgia Department of Public Health, as they share information regarding adverse childhood experiences/positive childhood experiences program development and evaluation from a state agency perspective. … [Read more...] about Public Health State Agency Actions – Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences and Uplifting Positive Childhood Experiences
Words Matter Discussion Series – Family
Please join us for the Words Matter series where we engage in open and authentic discussions about the impact of common terminology used in child-serving systems with those that are directly affected. Our goal is to illuminate how the terms we use can influence perception, approach, and practice, as well as explore alternative language as a means of intentionally shifting how we view and interact with youth, families, and each other. … [Read more...] about Words Matter Discussion Series – Family
Family Exchange – Family Peer Support in School Mental Health
Working from the wisdom of our lived experience as peer-support providers can be one of our strongest assets, operating from a deep vested interest such as this also runs the risk of severely compromising our ability to metabolize stress, create or maintain boundaries and prioritize our own wellness over the needs of our communities.Join us in honest conversation that acknowledges the unique strengths and experience of being a peer care-provider in effort to maximize the ways in which we build relationships with students, families and other stakeholders to navigate the systems our families wade through in service of their children. Together we will Increase our personal and collective capacity to serve families and students in a healing centered manner that meets the full range of families identified needs.Objectives:1. Explore effective tenets of a healing centered school.2. Navigating the systems of care within a school ecosystem.3. Explore perspectives and frameworks that strengthen … [Read more...] about Family Exchange – Family Peer Support in School Mental Health