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Agenda Item Number: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY <br /> <br />Meeting Date: February 27, 2018 <br /> <br />Agenda Item Subject: Orange Resilience Initiative <br /> <br /> <br />Attachment(s): Powerpoint and 3 Handouts <br /> <br />Staff or Board Member Reporting: <br /> <br />Purpose: ____ Action <br /> _X _ Information only <br /> ____ Information with possible action <br /> <br /> <br />Summary Information: <br /> <br />This educational session is specific to the Social Determinants Subcommittee. <br />Presenters Sara Garrison and Ennis Baker (see bios below) will inform the Board of <br />what ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) are and what being a trauma-informed <br />organization means. They will highlight the importance of health departments becoming <br />trauma-informed and recommendations on how to achieve that. <br /> <br />--------- <br /> <br />Sara Garrison, BSW- Assuring Better Child Health & Development (ABCD) Coordinator <br />& Early Interventionist, KidSCope <br /> <br />Sara has worked for KidSCope since 2013 in the pediatric office as an ABCD <br />Coordinator in Alamance and Caswell counties, and now in Orange and Chatham <br />counties since 2016. There she helps clinicians serve children birth-five years old by <br />providing assistance with developmental screenings and referrals to early intervention <br />and other community services. She is also an early childhood therapist, serving <br />children birth-3 years of age with developmental delays. <br /> <br />Ennis C. Baker, MSW, LCSW - Project Director, Trauma-Informed Infant-Toddler Child <br />Care project, Duke Center for Child & Family Policy <br /> <br />Ennis is a licensed clinical social worker, specializing in early childhood mental health <br />and has served in a variety of roles serving high risk children ages birth to 5 and their <br />families. She began her career as a toddler teacher in San Francisco’s