Here in Kansas, some very exciting conversations are happening in education and in our communities. Several communities and even more school districts are asking the question: "How do we become trauma-informed? How do we create communities and schools where everyone can win? How do we become healthier as a whole and how do we begin the long overdue process of healing individually and collectively?"
Of course our spotlight search has led us here and to Jim Sporleder. The work done with Paper Tigers, says so much for us! Jim's outreach has propelled us toward our vision of healthier communities for all. Especially for those plagued
by generational patterns of loss and destruction. My last several years have been spent working for a poverty resolution project in Kansas, that works with families in economic survival mode for two to five years to pull them completely out of poverty. Me and my three little boys actually found the project while we were still living in abject poverty in need of a community to help us get out. Shortly after joining, I went to work for that project and have been solving poverty with families, communities and schools ever since.
I, like many of us, stumbled across the ACE Study and upon doing so, felt like I could suddenly answer so many "unanswerables". Not only that, I could help other people find their own answers and more importantly, shift towards conversations of solutions much quicker. I do not know about anyone reading this, but I get so excited by this movement. Now we know. And now we can do better.
If there is anyone in or near Kansas, who may be interested in this conversation of solving poverty by using a trauma-informed framework within schools and communities, I wanted to post this conference here for you!
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I certainly look forward to learning and growing with all of you here and everywhere!
#lovewins
Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz
@povertyedge
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