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In Alaska, trying to create a "new" normal in a place where childhood trauma is too normal

[Editor's note: This very moving essay by Chantelle Pence, a family advocate for the  Copper River Basin Child Advocacy Center  and a consultant  at  Copper River Consulting  in Gakona, Alaska, originally appeared on the Anchorage Daily News web site.] It was autumn. The time of harvest. I walked with my dad to the ridge to target practice with a .270 rifle. I got the target in my sights and pulled the trigger. I don't know if I hit my mark, because as soon as the...

Talking ACEs on a Sunday afternoon

...were Burtt and Gladys Richardson, and Barbara Jones Stern who gathered at my house in Winters, CA. We spent four hours talking ACEs. Burtt, a retired pediatrician, and Gladys, a community organizer, are developing an approach on how to engage their...

Immigration Trauma

When Immigration is Trauma: Guidelines for the Individual and Family Clinician , 2001 "...Two pertinent strands in the contemporary immigrant mental health literature: 1) the distinction made between stressors that are endemic to most immigrant...

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