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Reply to "Request for Information about ACE/Resliency Scores of Practitioners - impact on burnout & service provision"

I ended up being asked to "Get Help", at a [human services: suicide hotline/shelter/drug and alcohol treatment center/information and referral agency] job, because it was alleged "I was getting too stressed".

My insurance carrier said I had to be assessed at the local teaching hospital emergency department-for a referral. So on 9/11/2001, in the early morning, I headed to the Emergency Room-where a number of [ER] waiting room television screens were all focused on the World-Trade Center buildings. (I had previously worked as an Aviation Public Safety officer [airport Crash-Fire-Rescue, etc.], and knew all the NY/NJ Port Authority Police assigned to the WTC were 'cross-trained' in aviation fire- fighting, but had no aviation fire-fighting foam at their disposal in the WTC buildings.

Long before that, in college, I had read "Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A history of Women Healers" by Barbara Ehrenreich, for one of my Human Services classes. A note in the book's introduction indicated a survey had been done of all the Bachelor degreed Registered Nurses in the State of California, and 85% of them acknowledged growing up in Alcoholic households.

Best wishes for ACEsConnection-Napa in securing funding to provide support to practitioners...

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