I am a practical person... and in ministry I am one of those that asks questions like, "Can you give me some examples?" and "How would that look in MY ministry setting?" While theoretical knowledge is helpful, and ACEs science is amazing and interesting in its own right, trauma-informed/trauma-sensitive ministry must actually APPLY that knowledge in order to help anyone.
So, as my colleague Rev. Sami Pack-Toner (chaplain, Intermountain Residential) and I prepared for the Mountain Sky Conference's Annual Conference to visit, we decided that we needed to come up with a few resources that would interpret the work we do to the local church setting. While what we came up with is in no way exhaustive in scope, it does address the most common issues I have seen in ministry.
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