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Reply to "Principles of trauma-informed care for meetings?"

     This may well be the start of a good guidebook for "Community Organizers"- as a profession, as well as up-and-coming [field-trained] organizers, and Social Justice advocates. Having worked professionally [and volunteered] as a 'community organizer', I think every potential asset is worth considering, especially in the planning stages. 

     While Saul Alinsky's book: "Rules for Radicals" addresses many needs for 'dis-empowered communities',  I'd also recommend "Power: A Repossession Manual" by Greg Speeter of the U.Mass-Amherst / Citizen Involvement Training Project.

     I think the [link above to] the Trauma Informed Oregon "Trauma Informed Care Workgroup Meeting Guidelines" raises many pertinent factors for consideration, too.

     Lest I forget, while we're on this topic, my old 'librarian' allies in Oakland, California at The Data Center (where "Impact Research" for Social Justice was their 'Art Form'). Oops-I just discovered this "Library" closed July of 2016, and transferred their holdings to the Bancroft Library (reportedly at U. Cal-Berkeley).

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