Hello community,
My state organization, the Alaska Resilience Initiative, is working on setting up a meeting with our US Senator, Lisa Murkowski, to discuss ACEs, trauma, and S.774, the federal legislation on trauma-informed care that Sens. Durbin (IL) and Heitkamp (ND) introduced in March -- a Senate version of the bill that had been introduced in the House in the previous session.
In addition to meeting with Murkowski, we are planning to send recommended revisions to the sponsoring Senators, and are in conversation with a national attorney working on the bill.
In order to weigh in well, I have been searching around ACEsConnection for conversations and posts about the bill, and have found very little -- just one from last year by Elizabeth Prewitt when it was introduced in the House, and one link to an article. If you:
* have read or know of an article critically analyzing the bill and/or the political strategy on it
or
* have taken part in written conversations about or revisions to it that you could share
or
* would be willing to comment here with your thoughts, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I'll also attach the PDF summary of the bill that my intern created, and the critiques/revisions of the bill by one of my steering committee members, to kick the conversation off.
Thanks!
Laura