Hosted by The Rainbow Project
Sponsored by Dane County Children, Youth & Families Consortium and the Dane County Child Abuse & Neglect Coordinated Community Response
Join us virtually on Zoom for a presentation and Q&A about resilience
Friday, May 10th, 2024
9:30am- 11:30am CST
*This webinar will be recorded and shared with registrants
ABOUT DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS:
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is an award-winning physician, researcher and public health leader who has spent her career on the front lines of some of our world’s most pressing public health challenges. As California’s first-ever Surgeon General, she helped guide the state’s COVID response, co-chairing the committee to recommend vaccine allocation and helping California achieve the lowest cumulative mortality of any large state. Amid the throes of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Burke Harris successfully launched a first-in-the-nation statewide effort to train over 20,000 primary care providers on how to screen for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and respond with trauma-informed care.
Dr. Burke Harris’ career has been dedicated to serving vulnerable communities and combating the root causes of health disparities. After completing her MPH at Harvard and residency at Stanford, she founded a clinic in one of San Francisco’s most underserved communities, Bayview Hunters Point. It was there that Burke Harris identified Adverse Childhood Experiences as a major risk factor affecting the health of her patients and applied research from the CDC and Kaiser Permanete to develop a novel clinical screening protocol.
In 2011, she founded the Center for Youth Wellness to advance pediatric medicine, raise public awareness, and transform the way society responds to children exposed to ACEs and toxic stress. In this role she founded the Bay Area Research Consortium on Toxic Stress and Health and led the first-ever randomized-controlled trial to validate ACE screening and assess treatment of toxic stress.
Dr. Burke Harris served as a committee member and co-author for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for the consensus report Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice and Policy to Advance Health Equity, published in 2019; and as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ National Advisory Board for Screening.
Her work has been profiled in best-selling books including How Children Succeed by Paul Tough and Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance as well as in Jamie Redford’s feature film, Resilience. She has also been featured on NPR, CNN, and Fox News as well as in USA Today and the New York Times. Dr. Burke Harris’ TED Talk, “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across the Lifetime” has been viewed more than 10 million times. Her book The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity was called “indispensable” by The New York Times.
Dr. Burke Harris is the recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Heinz Award for the Human Condition. She was named one of 2018’s Most Influential Women in Business by the San Francisco Business Times and as one of Capitol Weekly’s Top 100 most influential people in 2020.
Dr. Burke Harris is also featured in the film Resilience, which can be rented on on YouTube, Apple TV, Prime, Fandango, and Google Play TV. Read more about the film HERE.
The Rainbow Project is a non-profit mental health counseling and resource clinic located in Madison, WI. The organization provides individualized and responsive services within a variety of settings. Services include short- and long-term counseling, prevention and early intervention, and crisis response. Rainbow's goal is to promote positive change within families including building, strengthening and supporting healthy parent/child relationships as well as advocate for the mental health needs and support of families and children in the community.
Children, Youth & Families Consortium:
The CYF Consortium is made of leadership from various organizations and agencies that serve children, youth, and families in Dane County. The Consortium oversees other groups such as CAN CCR and the TIC Advisory Council to set priorities, promote collaboration, and advocate for the needs for children, youth, and families in our community.
Child Abuse & Neglect Coordinated Community Response:
The CAN CCR mission is to:
Promote the development of a full continuum of best-practice strategies and services from crisis, prevention, early intervention and treatment response to remedy and reduce the occurrence of abuse and neglect of children;
Promote consensus among system members regarding the principles and philosophy of which those strategies/services/responses are based to minimize the negative impacts on children and families of the investigation, intervention and/or prosecution process;
Coordinate and collaborate with representatives of multiple systems to ensure clarity of roles and appropriate responses and referrals for victim services;
Promote the continual improvement of service & system response to child abuse, child sexual abuse and neglect through gathering of data, assessing results, modifying and coordinating systems and services as indicated.
Promote a child abuse response system of inclusion and racial equity
The CAN CCR is an advisory committee under the umbrella of the Dane County Commission on Sensitive Crimes (COSC). The CAN CCR is charged to serve a collaborative, oversight and coordination function of community child abuse response to fulfill the mission outlined above. The CCR designates subcommittees to accomplish project work. Subcommittees report on their initiatives, goals, activities, and project progress at CAN-CCR meetings to ensure coordination and support across system efforts to address child abuse and neglect issues in the community. The CAN-CCR meeting provides a forum for discussion and collaboration to inform subcommittee project work. A part-time staff person is funded through the Dane County budget to provide assistance with administrative tasks.