PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities is proud to present the “Intersection of Faith, Healing, and PACEs Science” webinar January 19, 2023, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM CST! This webinar will explore how the application of PACEs science can invoke healing and mitigate harm in faith-based communities. This is a free event, but donations for participation are being accepted.
Mathew Portell, PACEs Connection director of communities, will lead a panel of experts to discuss how traditional and historical faith-based practices must be examined using PACEs science to ensure churches are conduits of healing and are not harmful.
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The Panel of Experts
Rev. Dr. Darrell Armstrong
Armstrong is a proud co-parenting father of two teenage, college-bound children and one amazing four-legged "fur-baby!" A fun fact about him is that he carried the Olympic Torch in December of 2001 for the 2002 Winter Olympiad held in Salt Lake City, a run he dedicated to displaced children worldwide.
Armstrong is the pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church, only its third in the last 118 years. Shiloh is Trenton's first Black Baptist Congregation, founded in 1880. He is also the founder/CEO of the Shiloh CDC (Comm. Dev. Corp.), a sister organization to the church, responsible for neighborhood revitalization and place-based development.
Armstrong is deeply committed to advocating for issues of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and access. Based on his early educational experiences of integrating Los Angeles public schools (in 1974) and his early childhood experiences of foster and kinship care through the Los Angeles County Welfare System, he has cultivated a deep conviction to embolden and empower marginalized communities.
His policy training at Stanford University (BA in public policy), theological training at Princeton Theological Seminary (masters in divinity), and his clinical training at The College of NJ (post-master Ed.S. In marriage & family therapy) has made him a respected voice in the national and international child and family well-being communities. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in social work at the University of Southern California, where his research focuses on the intersectionality of trauma, resilience, hope, faith, religion, and spirituality, and the elimination of racism in our nation’s child welfare system.
He is the former director of NJ's Division of Child Abuse Prevention and Community Partnerships (2006-2009) and the former chief administrative officer to the United Nations for the Baptist World Alliance (2016-2022). He is the founder and board president of the F-A-A-I-T-H (Faith-leaders Against Abuse In The Home) Global Network, a new global NGO working to help houses of worship around the globe become trauma-informed/responsive, resilience-minded, strengths-based, family-oriented, centers of hope and mindfulness. He is currently the vice-chair of the board of APSAC (American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children), one of the country's leading multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral membership organizations advocating for optimum child and family well-being.
Rev. Dr. Sanghoon Yoo
Yoo has led ministries and social services at Arizona State University and the Phoenix metropolitan area for over two decades. Besides theological degrees, he holds a master’s degree in social work. He is certified in spiritual direction, ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) TOT (training of trainer) training, trauma-informed care, mindfulness leadership, social-emotional learning, historical trauma, and many others. He offers trauma-informed discipleship, ACEs and trauma-informed care training, and organizational and cultural change consultation to faith communities, school districts, public health, mental health, and the foster care systems. Recently, he was awarded a grant by the Maricopa County Department of Public Health to train faith communities in trauma-informed substance use prevention. As an author, speaker, and servant leader, he has been organizing statewide conferences for the movement of trauma-informed care and collaborating with local and national leaders to advance the movement in the nation.
Rev. Dr. Chris Haughee
Haughee has 25 years of ministry experience, serving in a variety of pastoral roles from youth ministry to his current ministry positions as church relations and development at Intermountain and as part-time interim pastor for a small congregation in Pasco, WA. A passionate advocate for young people, he has recently served as chaplain to children ages 6-14 with a severe emotional disturbance at Intermountain Residential. Haughee has published an Advent, and Lenten devotional and a Bible study called “Bruised Reeds and Smoldering Wicks,” a first-of-its-kind Bible study on trauma-informed ministry, and a devotional book, Hope for Healing, inspired by his time as chaplain at Intermountain. Chris can be reached at haughee@gmail.com and encourages those engaged in trauma-informed ministry work to reach out to him and connect!
Dr. Janyne McConnaughey
McConnaughey is a nationally known trauma-informed author and speaker who began healing from the impact of her childhood trauma at the age of 61. Realizing that healing was possible for survivors, she wrote three memoirs describing the effects of childhood trauma and the paths to healing that changed her life. McConnaughey’s recently published book, Trauma in the Pews: The Impact on Faith and Spiritual Practices, draws from her 33-year career training teachers and ministry workers at colleges and universities and her life-long involvement in church ministry. She holds a Ph.D. in educational leadership and innovation from Colorado State University–Denver and currently serves as president of the board of directors for the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN). McConnaughey is also a distinguished visiting professor at Tabor College (master of education: neuroscience and trauma). With their rescue dog Weber, she and her husband live south of Seattle, where they enjoy exploring the Pacific Northwest and spending time with their children and grandchildren.
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