It has been an honor to collaborate with the wonderful and wise Elaine Miller-Karas on 5 online events since I started working at ACEs Connection a year ago. The recordings of these events are our most popular videos on YouTube, with a combined total of over a thousand views. I have now compiled them into a single playlist on our YouTube Channel.
>>Click here to visit the playlist<<
The videos include:
1. Building Resilient Communities - August 8, 2019
2. The Human Impact of Climate Change - November 13, 2019
3. Community Resiliency Model and COVID-19 (A Better Normal Ep.12) - April 24, 2020
4. Overview of the Community Resiliency Model Part I - May 7, 2020
5. Overview of the Community Resiliency Model Part II - May 14, 2020
To learn more about Elaine's work or to inquire as to how to bring her CRM model to your community, visit her website: The Trauma Resource Institute.
After working with Elaine on the two webinars in 2019, I reached out to her about giving a guest lecture in my Trauma-Informed Care graduate class at Boston University School of Public Health Fall of 2019, a course taught by Dr. Carol Dolan. It ended up being a lot of students' favorite class because she taught us tools we could use to regulate our own selves. In public health, all we do all day every day is discuss all the ways in which people die or could die. Most of these ways affect us personally. We all have friends and family members suffering from cancer, heart disease, mental illness, or substance use disorder. And yet we don't ever talk about the ways the coursework could be impacting us personally. I know students getting their Master of Social Work and they do both: learn how to help others and process their own emotional response to the material. Public Health programs are still missing that second part and students are suffering as a result, having to pretend that this loaded material isn't affecting us. Elaine, through her Trauma Resiliency Model taught us the exact tool we as students needed to help us process difficult emotions and difficult public health material.
Her model works wonders at helping us understand our biological response to stressful triggers and traumas. Implemented at the community level, her teachings have the power to transform society as healthier and more resilient, needed more now than ever in the wake of this global pandemic.
Darrell Steinberg, the Mayor of Sacramento, recently said about Elaine's work in an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times, "Contract with organizations such as the Trauma Resource Institute in Claremont to train laypeople in the community in techniques for coping with stress and trauma. The institute’s evidence-based methods, used across the U.S. and around the world to help people recover from disasters and traumatic experiences, help people cultivate their own resources and natural resiliency. For about $1 million, 1,000 people could be trained within a few weeks."
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