Tagged With "healing"
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At "Healing our Communities” conference in LA, youth, parents work with social service providers to impact change!
More than 300 people gathered for the 4th Annual Public Safety/Re-Entry, “Healing our Communities” conference in Los Angeles. The first three conferences were for USC students in the School of Social Work and people who provide social services in the LA area. This year the conference included youth and parents served by those providers. The community safety conference highlighted re-entry initiatives and programs in Los Angeles County organized by agencies such as Homeboy Industries, Project...
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Table read of a musical theater piece about trauma
Hi folks, I will also post this on the events calendar. I've been writing a musical theater show called PTSD: A Musical Guide to Surviving for the past two and a half years. The book (dialog) is now done, and many of the song lyrics have...
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The Campaign to Heal Childhood Trauma is coming!
Maybe you have heard about this initiative on one of the social networks or you followed the tour last year. If not, The Campaign to Heal Childhood Trauma is a grassroots partnership between Calo Programs and three leading, national attachment, trauma and adoption nonprofits; The Attachment and Trauma Network (ATN), The American Adoption Congress (AAC) and Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children (ATTACh). The purpose of this collaboration is to increase compassion and...
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Reading of New Musical About Healing from Trauma
A new musical about healing from trauma, LOOK FOR ME, will be performed in a reading/lab in Los Angeles on the evening of Thursday, August 9 at 8 p.m. Location: New Musicals Inc., 5628 Vineland, North Hollywood. Admission is free. Please RSVP to ptsdmusical@gmail.com. Space is limited. LOOK FOR ME challenges the conventional wisdom about trauma and PTSD. The show invites audiences to recognize the commonalities between their own lives and the diverse characters' experiences, and to care...
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Re: Table read of a musical theater piece about trauma
Hi Liz, Please know I just joined your listserv for your musical on PTSD and Trauma. A dear friend and colleague of mine, James Encinas, was Butch during your Table Read. Thank you Liz for bringing to light how imperative our nation's understanding of PTSD and Trauma are. Very much looking forward to following your process of bringing your musical into fruition, please know I am excited to come to your Musical. What you've created is groundbreaking history!
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The Time is Now for Healing Justice Leadership
Social justice and human rights leaders are then told to practice self-care to cope with the impact of the trauma and stress they experience only to return to the work, organizations, and movements where trauma and oppression are often re-enacted.