Tagged With "Civic Dinners"

The promotion of trauma-sensitive and trauma-informed schools has grown tremendously in education. Broadly speaking, trauma-informed schools maintain a framework whereby the entire school staff maintains awareness of the impacts of toxic stress and trauma, and strive to ensure that all students feel safe, supported, and connected. Such awareness and motivation among educators and caregivers to promote such a framework presents multiple opportunities to change the lives of students and help...

You’re invited to join communities across Georgia in a conversation exploring how safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments are essential to the healthy development of all children. April through June of 2018, over one hundred Civic Dinners will take place across Georgia with the aim of building a stronger social infrastructure among parents, families, and communities. The stories, ideas and feedback collected from these dinners will inform a statewide campaign led by the...

first published by The Meadows 4/15/20 Our sense of loss during the current COVID-19 crisis can trigger hidden emotions from when we experienced a sense of loss before. Whatever early losses you have had in your life — whether they be your own divorce, your parents, or both, or the abandonment of one parent, a childhood or parental illness or death, financial upheaval, constant moving around, or growing up with parental addiction or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) — they are likely to...

This is wonderful, Deborah. I would love to be included when you go to communities in the Atlantan area, especially Carrollton, Douglasville, Villa Rica, The Westside, Athens, Bowdon, Savannah, the Coast, and others where I could possibly be a help in serving, bringing ACEs literature, including community leaders I know, whatever. Thank you! Carey

Even better - you should host a dinner!

Let’s talk. I am from Carrollton and know there are people there whom I believe we could include. I need to find out the details! Let me know when you want to talk next week or the next! We can discuss who you all work with in the other places, too! Thanks! C.