ACE and Native Americans

I'll post this request in next week's newsletter, Dan.

Thanks

Hi Daniel,

Don Coyhis, through his non-profit organization White Bison, has been working with Native American communities for years. He has adapted the 12 steps for this population but also focuses on whole community healing from intergenerational trauma, not just addiction issues. He calls the program Wellbriety and has published a couple of books on the subject (The Red Road to Wellbriety, Alcohol Problems in Native America). If you google White Bison you should find his website.

Nicole

Somehow my reply to Daniel Press went to facebook rather than here...

Jane -- thought you would enjoy learning the following: One of the responses informed me that a Patrick Anderson in Alaska was doing work on ACE in Native American communities. I have known Pat for many years, back before he gave up the legal profession to run a health program. When I emailed him, it turned out he was in D.C. for meetings so we got to spend several hours talking about the applicability of ACE in Native American communities. He is implementing programs in the health area and doing some amazing innovate stuff. we now have a regular dialogue going.

ACE Connections works.

Thanks, Dan

Thanks so much for telling me, Dan. You just made my day. This is exactly why I started ACEsConnection!

Cheers, J. 

Hi Dan,

     I'll try resending it, when I locate the facebook entry, print a copy of it, and retype it here. Please bear with me...

     I noted the 2002[?] Canadian Solicitor General's Report on the (Canadian) Aboriginal Schools, which I'd seen at our Nat'l Ctr. for PTSD Library; some copies of books written by "Native American Survivors of the Aboriginal Schools";  Felix Cohen's "Handbook of American Indian Law" [I have a copy of the Univ. of NM Press reprint edition of Cohen's original manuscript; The U.S. Interior Dep't tried to censor/re-edit it unsuccessfully...]; a native American publishing/printing outfit operating in both Canada & US near the eastern end of Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence Seaway, which has published some English texts of Native stories, lore, etc.----Bob

Can you please resend it. I am not on Facebook so I will not be able to access it. Thanks, Dan

Some ISTSS members may have noted ACEs with historical trauma among Halocaust survivors...Susan Lawrence, M.D.'s book "Creating A Healing Society: ..." not only looks at her personal "trans-generational trauma", and ACEs in her childhood, but interventions she developed to address some aspects of those, and how her Catalyst Foundation has tried to address some of those issues, both in California school districts and elsewhere. Peter Levine, who wrote "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma" (www.healingtrauma.com? website) spent considerable time among the Hopi's in the southwest during his career, and notes some tribal "resilience building" and "recovery" efforts....