I'm concerned about overusing or misusing the word "trauma" in this context, as it has specific meaning with regard to how we talk about Adverse Childhood Experiences. Just saying.

Slowly, but at warp speed. That’s what it feels like to take on educating 16,000 staff member in 21 hospitals that serve 29 counties, says Becky Haas, trauma informed administrator for Ballad Health. Turning around a culture, especially a health culture that’s more familiar with doing things the “traditional” way rather than embracing change, will take time and lots of repetition.

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By Sarah Kennedy, Yale Climate Connections, February 6, 2020 Andrew Bryant is a clinical social worker in Seattle. He says recently, global warming has started coming up more and more in his therapy sessions with clients. So to connect people to helpful resources, he started a website called “Climate and Mind.” Since then, more people have started reaching out to him. “People have been contacting me from Seattle and also from different parts of the world looking for help or resources because...

This document provides a list of county-wide (mostly) groups and initiatives in Washington State addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma-informed approaches, toxic stress, and resilience. In many communities there are other local ACEs-related groups and initiatives. In most cases, the contact people listed can provide information about the work throughout their county. The purpose of this list is to encourage connections to and across the groups and initiatives, in order to:...

As the COVID-19 pandemic blurred from days into months, the leadership team of LAUNCH Together Southwest Denver began hearing about the sense of anguish and confusion felt by directors of early-childhood learning centers: Should I re-open? Is that financially feasible? Is it ethical? And how do I decide, in a sea of fast-changing information about a virus scientists are still struggling to understand? LAUNCH Together SW Denver, a collaborative formed in 2016 to boost community capacity to...

Architectural drawing of the planned Northwest Native Canoe Center Canoe Carving House on the southwest shore of Seattle’s Lake Union, scheduled to open in spring of 2024. ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF JONES AND JONES ARCHITECTS To read more of Frank Hopper's article, please click here. Jan. 6 was a typical overcast day in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Few of the tech workers from the nearby offices of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft were outside at lunchtime. Only a few could be seen...