This innovative collaboration seeks to level the playing field for the approximately 100 babies born each year in this low-income Sonoma County community in California.
Nearly half of the health center employees polled reported that they had had difficulty serving patients who were deaf and hard of hearing. Interpreters and some innovative solutions made a big differ…
The New Beginnings Clinic at Santa Rosa Community Health specializes in treating pregnant and postpartum patients with complex needs, which range from poverty to a history of substance use.
Moral injury describes the challenge of simultaneously knowing what care patients need but being unable to provide it due to constraints beyond our control.¹
A growing awareness around the impact of trauma on people’s health and wellbeing has underscored the need for trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches to working with patients and communities….
Racism is trauma. As such, we must acknowledge the role it plays in people’s lives and the impact it has on their health and well-being.
Racial equity is an essential component of trauma-informed c…
The Center for Care Innovations (CCI) recently gathered community health leaders to reflect on a key question: How might we imagine partnership work as a way to more deeply connect to one another?…
Finding an internal champion for childhood trauma screening — a pediatric medical assistant — proved invaluable as Community Medical Centers rolled out its resilience program.
Our webinar, Trauma and Resilience Informed Systems (TRIS) in Pediatric Primary Care, provided an overview of the principles of trauma- and resilience-informed systems and examples of how individuals,…
For LifeLong healthcare workers, the old adage of securing your own oxygen mask before assisting others is crucial, especially for those that want to support families who’ve experienced trauma.
