Tagged With "Introducing Dawn Daum"

This is a collection of resources regarding structural racism and trauma. This list aims to give a broad overview and is not all-inclusive. We welcome suggestions; if you have any, please comment below! The titles below and the PDFs in attachments are in alphabetical order. BSC Full Report Trauma Resilient Informed City Baltimore: This is the full report of the work, data, lessons, and direct quotes from several teams of people from various backgrounds in the Baltimore community as they...

"Over the last few years there has been a positive increase in the amount of awareness in our communities on understanding the impact of trauma, ACES and resilience. Training has become more frequent and accessible, but I have noticed that many people are still stuck on what to do next. What do I do with all of this knowledge? How do I actually change my response? What does being trauma informed actually look like in practice?" Melissa McGinn Our Becoming Trauma-Informed & Beyond...

The movement to incorporate trauma-informed care, and the wave to bring awareness to ACEs science has manifested in to the perfect storm; the perfect mix of compassion and frustration. I've said over and over again, once you become aware of the research and science behind trauma, and start to talk to other people about what it all means and how it looks, its a game changer. Since our agency-wide ACEs/Trauma 101 training by Acesconnection.com community member, Dave Wallace , atleast once a...

Earlier this year @Dawn Daum wrote to us when she was ready to share ACEs science with people in the organization she works in to make a case for moving towards more trauma-informed care for the benefit of the staff and those they serve. She was frustrated because almost all the training and resources she found were geared towards schools, clinical staff or to organizations working with children and families rather than ACE-impacted adults in the workplace and who are...

“Just leave.” It’s the advice many domestic-violence victims hear most. But leaving—the meetings with lawyers, the court appearances, the apartment hunting, the counseling sessions, the all-consuming physical and emotional path to recovery—requires time and flexibility. Dawn Dalton, the policy director at the Washington, D.C., Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said scheduling demands are consistently the largest obstacle standing between the victim and a different life: “I hear, again and...

I share my story of having an ACE score of 9 and how that has effected me as a mother, because I can make sense of it now.

Resilient Sacramento has recently made explicit, their commitment to doing trauma-informed education & engagement that centers race, and other forms of structural oppression, as sources of trauma. The resources shared in a recent Resilient Sacramento meeting are described here for the entire ACEs Connection community. Please add your resources to the comments!

The next generation is less likely to wear predisposed shackles of trauma because as trauma-informed parents we are re-wiring the traumatically stressed DNA that was passed down to us.

Thanks for sharing Dawn! Folks can also check out our Fairfax Trauma-Informed Community Network site directly at http://bit.ly/fairfaxTICN

Dawn: I'm a hardcore fan as well. Her work and style are great and she makes it safe (even for introverts)! And her workshop made it so we got to meet in person so I have extra great feelings about it because of that! Cis

Dawn: Those tears you had and shared with Joyelle - I totally get it and I'm so inspired by how you have merged all you know about trauma, ACEs, service, stress and found ways to continually improve things for individuals, families, organizations and communities. You bring together care managers, survivors, parents, and who used to be called clients (also known as people) and make it so that all perspectives can be shared, said, heard and considered. This movement needs you and I'm glad you...

Cis, you always have powerful words of support to offer. I love you for that. And I had to laugh when you called me out for using the word "client." lol I was at a training recently and the presenter used the term "participants." I have mixed feelings about that one too. The language needs to change in a big way. We have a long way to go but progress is starting to pop up all over. And how amazing is that?!

Dawn, than you for sharing. I too had a similar experience to you. I had been working in international HIV work through a university for almost 20 years and was searching for the next chapter in my professional life. I enjoyed my work and felt like it was important but something was missing. THen I learned about the ACE study, met Jane Stevens and my world got rocked... ACEs were underlying the folks i worked within the PH work i did and were underlying my history (i determined i had an ACE...

Me too!! Dawn, Melissa and Lisa will be sharing more about themselves and why they are here in the next week. I can't wait for those posts! This is going to be such a great community. Thanks for supporting it from the start, Gail! Cissy

THANK YOU for posting this Dawn! And THANK Joyelle for writing it! SO right on! And I LOVE the patient form and am going to use it with my care providers the next time i see them. I have shared ACEs info with my care providers in the past without being explicit about MY ACEs with them and they seemed interested in the topic but didnt connect ACEs back to me (one said oh that would be useful for the patients at the community clinic and i said yes but it is also useful here with her patients...

@Dawn Daum Thank you for posting this here and sharing with the wider community. I do let mental health practitioners know my ACE score though I don't share the particular answers. And I've sat around while they go on the CDC site to learn about ACEs but this is more direct and time-saving. Also, I love the title. I have my own personal "Don't die early" plan and find it's VERY motivating. The fact is survivors do lose years of life far too often and quality of life as well. It doesn't have...

Great introduction, Dawn. This community is lucky to have you!!! Cis

Thank you for sharing this Dawn. As a public health professional with an ACE score of 4, I have begun trying to bridge the personal and the professional in my work. And that is one reason I appreciate ACEs - I can tell folks I have an ACE score of 4; I don't necessarily need to go into my story depending on the audience and yet it breaks down the barriers of "us vs. them". When talking about ACEs - they affect all of us; there is no "us and them" and the more we can talk freely and openly...

Thank you for all that you already do Dawn, and thank you for offering your experriences, perspectives and passion to this important community.

Please join us for the ongoing community discussion of A Better Normal, our ongoing series in which we envision the future as trauma-informed. Protests and riots across the country--and even worldwide--are making it impossible to ignore the racial trauma of police brutality and historical trauma embedded within our society. Many of us are grappling with complex feelings of helplessness and righteous anger. In response to this pandemic of racism in America, "A Better Normal" will hold space...