Healthy
Communities
Newsletter
December 2021
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Community partners working together
to build health and resilience
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PLEASE NOTE
The ACEs Action Alliance Website is
contains links to all past newsletters with meeting dates and more.
More to come in the new year!
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SAVE THESE DATES
No meetings in December!
Happy Holidays!
January 13 - Trauma-Informed Schools Workgroup
January 24 - Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition/SW WA Healthy Families
- Noon - 1:30 pm
- Zoom meeting
February 4 - ACEs Action Alliance - Community Alliance Networking Meeting
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Clark County
Breastfeeding Coalition meeting
Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition (CCBC) strives to improve the health of our community by working collaboratively to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. The CCBC is now the SW Washington Healthy Families.
NEXT MEETING:
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ACEs Action Alliance
Trauma-Informed Schools Workgroup
The TI Schools Workgroup is for people who work
in or with early childhood education and K-12 schools.
NEXT MEETING: More details in the January 1 newsletter
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Meetings of the ACEs Action Alliance will resume in 2022.
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Safe Kids and Families
Product Recalls
Hanna Andersson recalls Baby Long Sleeve Wiggle sets due to choking hazard. Safe Kids Worldwide also lists product recalls. These recalls are not limited to child-related items, but also include appliances and food. Please note: Product recalls never expire. This is especially important for hand-me-down or pre-owned children’s products.
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Tips for Safe Holidays
Safe Kids Worldwide has holiday tips for travel, holiday decorations, fire prevention, child passenger safety and holiday cooking. The Consumer Product Safety Commission also provides holiday safety tips including toys. Dry Christmas trees and unattended candles can lead to dangerous fires. Turkey fryers create particular risks including scald/burn injuries and house fires. Roasted turkey is a safer and healthier alternative!
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Due to the strain of COVID on local schools and partners, Faith-Based Coffee has suspended meetings during the 2021/22 school year. If you represent a faith community looking for a school partner, please contact:
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Building a Trauma-Informed Community Dec. 15, 10-11 am. During this webinar, attendees will learn about how a large city used a systems approach to identifying and mitigating Adverse Childhood Experiences.
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Community Announcements
Please send pdf of announcements and fliers to Cyndie Meyer before the last week of the month.
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Important Warning: Clark County Public Health is warning the community about a recent increase in emergency department visits due to opioid overdoses. Preliminary evidence suggests much of the increase may be due to fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. “Anyone who uses powdered drugs or takes pills that were not given to them by a pharmacy should assume they contain fentanyl,” said Dr. Alan Melnick, Clark County health officer and Public Health director. “Drugs purchased online, from friends, or from regular dealers could be deadly. There’s no way to know how much fentanyl is in a drug or if it’s evenly distributed throughout the batch.” Read the full warning here.
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WHO (Winter Hospitality Overflow) Shelters opened Nov. 1. To access shelter, please call the Council for the Homeless Housing Hotline, 360. 695.9677.
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Columbia River Mental Health Services (CRMHS) and Catholic Community Services of Western Washington are teaming up on a new homeless shelter in Clark County. Former Elahan Place will become Bertha’s Too, a 32-bed shelter for single women, couples and individuals over 55. Shelter access will be available through the Clark County coordinated entry operated by Council for the Homeless. Once open, CRMHS will provide behavioral health care for residents. Click here to learn more.
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Vancouver’s first supportive Safe Stay Community, for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, will be located at 11400 N.E. 51st Circle on a city-owned right of way along an undeveloped cul-de-sac in the North Image neighborhood. It will provide 20 modular shelters, housing up to 40 people. Nearby encampments will be removed when the new Safe Stay Community is set up in adherence with the city’s camping ordinance, which prohibits camping within 1,000 feet of the supportive sites. Work on the Safe Stay Community will begin in early December. This is the first of several supportive sites the city plans to establish as part of its Homelessness Response Plan. Previously referred to as supportive campsites, the city’s Safe Stay Communities will use modular pallet shelters instead of tents, which will offer residents safer and more stabilizing shelter as they work to resolve their homelessness.
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Be a part of the future! Lifeline Connections seeks provider input. |
Lifeline Connections is listening to community partners and is seeking feedback. Referrers are encouraged to complete the short survey by Dec. 10. |
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DentistLink is a free referral service to dentists in Washington State. English Version |
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DentistLink flier in Spanish |
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The Southwest Washington Area Council on Aging and Disabilities is offering this series of six helpful classes for kinship caregivers of children with special needs. For more information, contact Sarah Revord.
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Residents without an address in Vancouver, WA can now pick up their mail at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, downtown Vancouver, Monday through Friday, 11 am to 1 pm. Learn more about this and other resources for un-sheltered residents here.
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Special in-person screening of "Terror and Hope" at Meaningful Movies, Ridgefield Old Liberty Theater on Main Street,
Dec. 18 at 6:30 pm.
Discussion to follow with R. Bernal Cruz Munoz, MSW, representatives from Lutheran Family Services and
Muslimahs United.
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About our 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 positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) 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 our meetings. The Alliance will resume meetings in 2022.
The four key functions served by the ACEs Alliance:
- Educate and build awareness of ACEs and toxic stress, resilience, the Trauma-Informed pathway and community efforts;
- Facilitate opportunities for community mobilization;
- Promote and facilitate cross-sector convening, connection and collaboration;
- Collect, evaluate and share community indicators of ACEs, identify and address root causes of adversity and efforts to increase resilience.
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ACEs Action Alliance Learning Collaborative supports learning and awareness about childhood trauma and individual/community resilience.
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The Community Action Network provides a forum for CHARG members and members of the PACEs Action Alliance to meet together to learn about community services and support inclusive and collaborative cross-sector connections.
The Trauma-Informed Schools Team is open to anyone who works in or with schools in Clark County. We meet monthly during the school year to explore tools, resources and applications of trauma-informed principles for schools.
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On "pause" for the 2021-22 school year. This group provides 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. If you represent a faith community or community partner looking for a school partner, please contact:
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Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition is: |
The Clark County Breastfeeding Coalition has changed their name to the SW Washington Healthy Families that is more inclusive of their mission. A coalition that works to improve the health of our community by promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding. They are 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. They also work 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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