By Emma Keith, The Norman Transcript, January 7, 2020
Jeremy Elledge thinks he can change Oklahoma.
From where he sits, that’s a tall order.
Elledge works in mental health services in a state that's top in the nation for childhood trauma. Oklahoma leads in female incarceration and heart disease mortality, and has high rates of child abuse and divorce, lending to the cycles of trauma that impact the state’s youngest residents, the Tulsa World reports.
But Elledge wants to stop that cycle. For the last two years, he’s been traveling the state training Oklahomans to understand, unpack and more ethically treat childhood trauma.
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