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Wildlife Rehabilitation & Release will be holding an open house at their Intake Center (IC), 809 Maltman Drive, on Saturday, November 26th, from 2 to 4 PM.

You can get a tour of the facility, shop our wildlife gift shop for some great Christmas presents, and even meet some of our wildlife ambassadors. You can also talk to our rehabbers and staff to learn how you can help wildlife. This also kicks off “Giving Tuesday”, and WR&R needs your donations. You can donate in person at the event, go to our website, cawildlife911.org, to donate, or mail donations to PO Box 868, Penn Valley, CA.

All donations go for the care, housing, and feeding of the wild critters WR&R rescues. This event will be fun for all ages. So come on out to the IC for a wild good time.

Wildlife Rehabilitation & Release is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of injured and orphaned wildlife. Each year our team successfully releases over 100 different species of native wildlife, including small mammals, songbirds, raptors, waterfowl, reptiles and amphibians.

WR&R is fully permitted and monitored by both the State and Federal Fish and Wildlife agencies.  However, we receive no federal or state funding.  As an all-volunteer nonprofit, we are funded by generous individuals such as yourself. If you would like to contribute to our cause, we thank you whole-heartedly. The wildlife thanks you as well.

Be Better at Telling Your Story – Virtual Workshop: Nov. 16

Wednesday, November 16, 9:00 – 10:30 am
On Zoom (attendees will receive link after registration)
Trainer: Maria Bryan
Cost: $20 – CNL Members;
$30 – Not-Yet-Members
Registration deadline: November 14th

REGISTER TODAY

If you feel stuck on how to articulate your mission and impact and how to tell your stories, you’re in good company.

In this session, we’ll talk about finding and crafting your organization’s incredible stories that change the lives of those who hear them. What’s more, we’ll explore how to do so with an ethical and trauma-informed lens that dignifies, respects, and protects those you serve.

Takeaways
> How to tell your organization’s incredible stories that will change the lives of those who hear them
> Visualize the big picture of your content
> Choose platforms that make sense for your audience and goals
> Create purpose-driven content that is both ethical and converts
> Ditch marketing panic and streamline a huge marketing task

Trainer: Maria Bryan is a nonprofit marketing and messaging strategist. She helps changemakers thrive by teaching them how to market on purpose. Maria has over ten years in marketing communications in the public sector, a master’s degree in public administration, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Maria is a firm believer that storytellers make the world a healthier, safer, cleaner, and happier place.

HOPE National Resource Center Director, Bob Sege, went to Darwin Australia two weeks ago. Below is his firsthand experience and impression of how international foster care organizations are practicing the HOPE framework.

I recently gave a keynote address at the International Foster Care Organization’s annual meeting in Darwin Australia. This was their first in-person meeting since 2019.

About half of participants were foster parents, while the other half worked for foster care organizations. Many people were both raising children in foster care and working in foster care systems. In addition, there were many children in the foster care system present at the meeting, who were enjoying their time with family and friends at the beautiful Darwin harbor.

Yet, when you look at things through their eyes, children placed in out of home care have experienced adversity. Children’s journeys through foster care vary and may include additional disruptions. Foster care placements can vary from short emergencies or last many years. Some children experience multiple foster homes, some maintain contact with their families and communities of origin, while others cannot.

The HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) framework shifts the focus from adversity to strength and resilience. Those providing care for children in the foster care system can create opportunities or build on existing positive childhood experiences, adding an additional dimension to the usual focus on diagnosis and treatment of trauma-related needs. Children, even those with mental or physical ailments, benefit from positive experiences.

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If you are interested in a HOPE 101 Training and would like to learn more about Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE), please contact Alyssa Burke at (530) 268-5879 or email her at hopewithalyssa@gmail.com.

15+ Meaningful Gratitude Activities to do With Kids

There are many “shoulds” about how families and holidays should be: Families should love each other. Families should get along. Holidays should be fun. Reality, however, is often much more complex, and hard. The facts are that many people do not have happy families, happy family memories or happy holidays.

Holidays and families can easily trigger us into states of anxiety, shame and misery. Perhaps your parent or child is mean to you, or you have an active alcoholic relative that makes everyone tense, or you have endured abuse or neglect and the holidays trigger you into a depressed mood, or you feel lonely even though people — even people you love — are all around you. These kinds of experiences are common and can make the holidays challenging.

We can avoid or medicate our painful feelings to get through. Or we can deal with holiday misery in healthier ways that serve our well-being and mental health.

How To Cope With Negative Holiday Emotions

The Change Triangle is the guide I use to help my clients work with emotions and the ways we avoid them. To “work the triangle” the steps include:

• Identifying what you are experiencing
• Pausing to breathe and calm yourself
• Naming the core emotions you are feeling in that moment
• Listening (without judgement) to what your emotions are telling you
• Thinking through how to move forward

Instead of suppressing core emotions, like anger and sadness, which when invalidated worsen anxiety and depression, the Change Triangle shows us how to identify and be with our emotions, so we stay connected to ourselves.

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Thank you to all the kiddos, families, and partners who participated in Spooky Boooky 2022. Spooky Boooky was a fun filled event with lots of great costumes, candy, and fun activities. CSN looks forward to Spooky Boooky 2023. Stay tuned for our special thank you to our wonderful community partners and more pictures of the fun that was had.

 

Nevada County Public Health is interested in how smoking affects families living in Grass Valley and Nevada City. The NCPH tobacco prevention program is asking CSNNC to please share this survey with your partners and their clients.

Survey link: https://surveyanalytics.com/t/AIz3TZOtDa

Your assistance will help us learn more about our population’s overall feelings on the idea of smoke free multi-unit housing (this includes apartments, duplexes, condominiums, town homes, and so on) in Grass Valley and Nevada City. Identifiable information is not collected, and a person does not have to live in multi-unit housing to take the survey. NCPH values and needs Grass Valley and Nevada City residents’ opinions to help make the best decisions for our community. Thank you for your partnership in helping us collect community feedback.

Thank you and take good care!

Vote in the November 8th General Election

The November 8th General Election is only a few days away. Nevada County registered voters can vote by mail, drop box, or in-person at a convenient Vote Center location.

This Saturday, November 5th, 4-day Vote Centers open providing eight locations countywide for in-person voting through Tuesday, Election Day. All Vote Centers are open from 8:00am to 5:00pm daily, and have extended hours from 7:00am to 8:00pm on Election Day. Fourteen Drop Box locations are available countywide.

Learn More

More Nevada County News:

• Prepare for Winter Weather: Sandbags Available at Four Locations
• Nevada County Awarded Funding to Provide Rent, Mortgage, and Utility Assistance to Eligible Resident
• Sierra Roots Announces Cold Weather Shelter Orientation and Training November 9^th

And more!

Click here to read the full Nevada County Newsletter.