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Creating Culture Change With Smiles and Laughter

Smiles and laughter. When we are hosting a virtual workshop, these are two of our favorite things. When people come back from a breakout room and we can see them smiling and laughing, we know that the people in that breakout room connected in some meaningful way.

Trauma-Informed Principles Rebooted

Resilience Champion

One of the biggest questions that Andi and I get whenever we talk about a trauma-informed approach is something along the lines of “Ok I get ACEs and toxic stress, but what can I do about it in my organization?” We get it–this approach can seem overwhelming because it is literally a lens through which you see everything. We often say that a trauma-informed approach is less about what you do and more about how you do it. So how in the world do we even begin the work of operationalizing our understanding of the science behind stress, trauma, and resilience?

Some things change, some things stay the same

Resilience Champion

Since 2017, Origins has been a leader in the trauma-informed movement, working to support champions who are implementing this work across a range of organizations and sectors. Since that time, the movement has exploded, particularly in California, where the ACEs Aware initiative, led by the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG) has created even more opportunities for activation and expansion of this work.

How Healthy Is Your Health Center?

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More and more organizations are seeing the value of integrating a trauma-informed approach into their organizational culture! At the 2022 National Association of Community Health Clinic (NACHC) Conference in Chicago, Andi Fetzner, PsyD, and…

Webinar- Creating a Culture of Wellness and Connection: A Trauma-Informed Approach

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On Februray 16, 2022, Lori Chelius MBA/MPH and Andi Fetzner PsyD presented a webinar titled Creating a Culture of Wellness and Connection: A Trauma-Informed Approach telling the story of Eisner Health's experience integrating this approach...

Going Down the Mountain Together

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I learned to ski as an adult so I will never be great, but I absolutely love it and can hold my own. As my two older kids have long surpassed me in terms of skill level, one of the things I now do when I go on a hard run with them is to let…

Stories From the Field: Lessons from Eisner Health's Experience Implementing Trauma-Informed Care

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Eisner Health’s journey through implementing trauma-informed care (TIC) began more than six years ago when Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deborah Lerner attended a conference focused on community healthcare and wandered into a session hosted by a social worker who worked for the San Diego Police Department.

Webinar: Navigating the Journey Through Implementing Trauma-Informed Care

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Trauma-informed care (TIC) offers a way for organizations to start building a resilient organizational culture by understanding the impact of toxic stress and resilience on both patients and staff, then leverage that understanding to improve organizational culture and practices. Within community health, TIC provides a critical foundation for integrating screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

Origins Training & Consulting Awarded ACEs Aware Grant

Awareness, culture, Training, Trauma-Informed Approach

DECEMBER 7, 2020 | PRESS RELEASE Origins Training & Consulting has received grant funds from the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG) and the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to participate in the…

Building a Resilient Organizational Culture Can Start at Home

Awareness, culture, Trauma-Informed Approach

(Pictured above: A wise girl and her best friend) October 8, 2020| By: Lori Chelius MBA/MPH “So I want to get this straight...in our family, when something gets tough, we just give it away?” That’s what Jill Stamm’s daughter,…

Throwback Thursday: It's been a heck of a journey!

Adverse Childhood Experiences, culture, Resilience Champion, Toxic Stress, Trauma-Informed Approach

It was on a chilly Fall day after a long, hot summer in Arizona that I boarded the plane to San Francisco attend the 2016 ACESCONNECTION conference. I think of this day and the day I first learned about the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study as days that I will never forget- days that changed my life. I was (and continue to be) passionate about work in the trauma-informed space.

Root Your Culture in Values and Watch it Grow

Adverse Childhood Experiences, culture, Resilience Champion, Toxic Stress, Trauma-Informed Approach

“Change culture and you change lives. You can also change the course of history. Many well-meaning social activists overlook this essential fact. They focus relentlessly on strategy, but strategy means nothing to our bodies and our lizard brains. When strategy competes with culture, culture wins--every time.” ~Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands No one can dispute Valorie Kondos Field’s record of winning.

Creating Culture Change With Smiles and Laughter

Trauma-Informed Principles Rebooted

Some things change, some things stay the same

How Healthy Is Your Health Center?

Webinar- Creating a Culture of Wellness and Connection: A Trauma-Informed Approach

Going Down the Mountain Together

Stories From the Field: Lessons from Eisner Health's Experience Implementing Trauma-Informed Care

Webinar: Navigating the Journey Through Implementing Trauma-Informed Care

Origins Training & Consulting Awarded ACEs Aware Grant

Building a Resilient Organizational Culture Can Start at Home

Throwback Thursday: It's been a heck of a journey!

Root Your Culture in Values and Watch it Grow

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