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Lionhearted: Trauma-Informed Together

Volume 7 • Issue 3 • March 2022 What is Trauma-Informed? Being trauma-informed (TI) applies to the entire workforce, not just those doing direct service. TI means seeing clients and colleagues through a lens of empathy and respect. It means having awareness and...

A Letter from the CEO/President

CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR ANNUAL REPORT Dear friends and supporters, As we close another fiscal year and surpass another anniversary of California’s shelter-in-place mandate, I want to take a moment to reflect on the impact of our generous and compassionate community....

Program Spotlight: California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM)

On January 1, 2022, we launched two CalAIM programs: Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and Community Supports (CS) Led by California’s Department of Health Care Services, California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) is a bold, five-year initiative to...

Celebrating Black History Month

On behalf of the agency-level and regional Racial Equity & Justice (REJ) Committees, we would like to greet everyone with a happy start to the Lunar New Year and Happy Black History Month! Every Wednesday throughout February 2022, this page will be updated with...

A Puzzling Piece: The Role of Bias in Media

The following article was written by the Bay Area Racial Equity & Justice Committee (REJ) and first appeared in Winter 2021 edition of “Lift Every Voice,” an agency-wide quarterly newsletter. 8 days. That’s how long it took for five different...

Lionhearted: Uh O! Omicron

Volume 7 • Issue 1 • January 2022 Uplift Family Services is a trauma-informed agency, providing whole person care through resilience-oriented, data-driven, culturally sensitive services. We believe in the power of staff investment, advocacy and collaboration as we...