I recently had the pleasure of attending via zoom, a Trauma-Informed Care training. I wanted to share some take always and encourage all to attend one. Hosted by Community Resilience Initiative, with trainer Rick Griffin. The trainer had such a lovely way of taking heavy topics that can feel uncomfortable to talk about and deliver them in a gentle, authentic way that provided the human touch with extensive knowledge.
This being my first formal training on just Trauma-Informed care I learned that it is to understand the impact of stress on our individual and community health so that we can end the unhealthy cycles of punishment, shame, blame, humiliation, shifting to a more peaceful positive intent, insight, empathy, compassion, and love.
I appreciated the discussions on neuroscience, epigenetics, the ACE study, and resilience. There was one portion of the training that I took particular interest in that was new information I had not heard before. CRI, has grouped 4 ACE Categories:
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Adverse Community Environments
- Adverse Cultural Exposures
and just added a NEW one since the pandemic
- Adverse Catastrophic Events
This Pandemic is changing textbooks and will leave a significant mark on our generation. This clicked in my mind and I do hope to continue seeing work done around these ACE categories.
If you are interested in learning more you can go to their website: https://criresilient.org/
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