Trauma-Informed Care within Native Communities

Hi Elizabeth,

Here are three sources that may help and provide you with some contacts:

Building Partnerships: Conversations with Native Americans About Mental Health Needs and Community Strengths - UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities (2009)

http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/MH/Documents/BP_Native_American.pdf

Reclaiming Connections: Understanding Residential School Trauma Among Aboriginal People, A Resource Manual - (The Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2005) [FYI, this document loads slowly.]

http://www.ahf.ca/downloads/healing-trauma-web-eng.pdf

“Our Culture Is Medicine”: Perspectives of Native Healers on Posttrauma Recovery Among American Indian and Alaska Native Patients - full text (2012)

http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/our-culture-is-medicine-perspectives-of-native-healers-on

Here are some ACEsConnection members that work with this group; you may want to get in contact with:

Gary Weglarz http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/who-are-we-what-s-our-interest-in-aces-part-26

Allegra Magil Pratt http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/3495110:BlogPost:7772

Patrick M. Anderson http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/who-are-we-what-s-our-interest-in-aces-part-3

Hope this is helpful.

Best, Chris/Resource admin.

Thanks so much, Chris!  Have a great weekend.

Best,

Elizabeth

Thanks for those resources, Robert!

FYI, we have a page on Historical Trauma & Microaggressions you might want to be aware of.

http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/historical-trauma-and-microaggressions-a-framework-for-culturally

I recently ran across some items about the Canadian Aboriginal Schools, at our (U.S.) National Center for PTSD Library (I live nearby). One was a 2003 report from the Solicitor General of Canada which included apologies to their Native People's from the four Canadian Protestant church groups which previously ran those "Aboriginal Schools". Another of the NCPTSD Library "Canadian Aboriginal School" publications bears a remarkable similarity to ITOW (In Their Own Words: [Maine] Trauma Survivors tell what helps and what hurts), and I found it quite enlightening.