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Pottstown faith leaders join dialogue about effects of trauma [The Mercury]

 

POTTSTOWN — More than 30 faith leaders of the Pottstown area participated  in a recent dinner program hosted by Pottstown Trauma Informed Community Connection to learn about the effects of trauma and how to become involved in trauma-informed practices as a community.

The program held at TriCounty Active Adult Center was hosted by the Networks Work Group of PTICC and featured as guest speaker Robert K. Reed, a former federal prosecutor who heads the Office of Public Engagement for the state attorney general.

“What you’re doing here is phenomenal,” Reed told the group. He said that a Trauma Informed Network is being implemented across Pennsylvania to train police, teachers, health care workers, faith leaders and others about the effects of childhood trauma on issues of gun violence, suicide, and opioid abuse.

The goal is to build networks in schools, churches, and communities which foster resiliency in children and families, Reed said. The work being done by PTICC is an example for other towns to follow.

“ACEs are not what you find in your deck of cards; they are Adverse Childhood Experiences, or trauma, and they constitute a public health crisis in our communities,” Reed said. Using melons and citrus fruits to demonstrate, Reed explained that by the time a child is 3 years old, trauma can have neurological effects that shrink the brain from the size of a grapefruit to an orange.

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