#TransformTrauma, a Podcast for the Trauma-Informed Movement

Have you ever wondered how design intersects with trauma-informed care? Learn how simple adjustments in design can create profound changes, enabling transformation and positively affecting the lives of those who have experienced trauma. We discuss practical strategies, principles, and real-life examples to foster environments that promote healing and safety. Inclusivity lies at the heart of our discussion. We explore how design can be a tool for empowerment, giving voice to marginalized communities–and how co-creation builds spaces that genuinely reflect and uplift the people they represent.

CTIPP INTERVIEWERS: Whitney Marris, LCSW, and Laura Braden

GUEST: Our guest, Julie Stevens, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, where she has developed an innovative student design-build service-learning program.

Beginning in 2011, Stevens has established a multi-year partnership with the Iowa Department of Corrections to create therapeutic environments for prisons, including gardens for prison staff and incarcerated individuals.

The team of Iowa State students, prison staff, and incarcerated individuals at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women (ICIW) received the Award of Excellence in Community Service from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 2015 for the ICIW outdoor classrooms and a decompression deck and the 2018 ASLA Award of Excellence in Community Service for the Children’s Garden, a visiting garden for incarcerated women and their visitors.

Stevens founded ASLA’s Environmental Justice Professional Practice Network, which focuses on creating healthy environments for all people by integrating environmental justice issues into landscape architectural education, research, and professional practice. Stevens is a contributor to Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity, Island Press.

• WATCH: Lecture Series: Julie Stevens: Trauma-informed Design in Theory and in Practice (Penn State)

#TransformTrauma is a podcast by the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP). Through coalition-building, advocacy, and policymaking, we’re building a national movement that integrates community-led, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered prevention and intervention across all sectors and generations. Learn more at CTIPP.org.

(Recorded December 2023)

The discussion provided insights into the challenges counselors face, including the increased demand for mental health services and the swift rise of telehealth. The guests emphasized the importance of a holistic approach to trauma, addressing not only individual treatment but also systemic issues contributing to it.

Listeners will gain an understanding of the need for mental health literacy and the role of counselors in fostering it. The conversation also touched upon the significance of professionalism in virtual counseling sessions, ensuring quality care irrespective of the medium. A key theme was the need for representation and advocacy in mental health within the black community.

This episode promises to offer valuable insights into the evolving landscape of the counseling profession and the holistic, systemic approach required to effectively address trauma and mental health needs in today's world.

RESOURCES:

• CTIPP’s Vision for a Trauma-Informed Society
• American Counseling Association

CTIPP HOSTS:

• Whitney Marris, LCSW, Director of Practice & System Transformation
• Jesse Kohler, M.Ed., Executive Director

GUESTS:

• Shawn Boynes, FASAE, CAE, CEO of the American Counseling Association
  • Shawn E. Boynes, FASAE, CAE, has over 25 years of association management experience and serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the American Counseling Association. He previously served as Executive Director at the American Association for Anatomy (AAA) in Rockville, MD for nine years where he successfully partnered with volunteer leadership to rebrand and transform the 135-year-old organization into a thriving society committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as leading impactful change in the scientific community. Prior to joining AAA, he served as Senior Director of Education for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). During his career, he has worked for a broad variety of other associations including the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, American Trucking Associations and the Association of Corporate Counsel. In this time, he developed a true appreciation for continuous learning and the value that mission-drive associations bring to the world, which has undoubtedly shaped who he is today as a leader. Boynes is very active with the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) having served on its Board of Directors in 2014-2017, the Certified Association Executive (CAE) Commission, as well as a variety of other committees. Shawn was named an ASAE Fellow in 2017 and served as Chair of the ASAE Fellows program in 2022. He is also a Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP) Scholar. He earned his Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential in 2010. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a concentration in marketing from Howard University.
• Carla Adkinson-Johnson, PhD, LPC, professor in the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology at Western Michigan University (WMU)
  • Dr. Carla Adkison-Johnson is a professor in the department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology at Western Michigan University (WMU). She is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, the official journal of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, a division of the American Counseling Association. Dr. Adkison-Johnson is nationally known for her research on culturally competent mental health counseling and African American child-rearing practices and family dynamics. She has served as a child discipline expert witness in civil and criminal courts. She is a project director and primary investigator on a $1.9 million grant funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, which is focused on a culturally competent behavioral health workforce. Dr. Adkison-Johnson is a 2021 Mid-American Conference Academic Leadership Program Fellow. In 2017, she received the WMU College of Education and Human Development’s Distinguished Scholar Award. Dr. Adkison-Johnson is a past member of the board of directors for the Council for Counseling and Educational Related Programs (CACREP), the national and international accrediting body for the counseling profession. In this capacity, she served as chair of CACREP’s training committee.

#TransformTrauma is a Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) podcast. We’re building a national movement that integrates community-led, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered prevention and intervention across all sectors and generations through coalition-building, advocacy, and policymaking. Learn more at CTIPP.org.

**Content advisory of workplace stress and trauma, as well as violence and tragedy.

Explore the profound impact of trauma-informed journalism -- an innovative approach to news reporting and media interviews. From rewriting narratives to creating safe spaces, we discuss strategies and tactics that redefine the way we approach storytelling. Discover how trauma-informed approaches, backed by the latest scientific evidence, not only builds transformational resilience but can also lead to more accurate stories while safeguarding survivors from retraumatization. Join us on a journey that fundamentally shifts the paradigm from viewing 'victims' to 'survivors,' emphasizing empathy, transparency, and choice at every stage of the process.

• Toolkit: Trauma-Informed Journalism
• Advocacy Series Module 9: Modeling the Model
• Guide: Trauma-Informed Meetings, Discussions & Conversations

Our guest Tamara Cherry is an award-winning journalist, trauma researcher, and communications consultant who spent nearly 15 years of her career as a crime reporter for the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, and CTV News Toronto. Tamara’s latest book, The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News, was described in a Quill & Quire starred review as “a stunning work that should be required reading for journalism students, news reporters, true crime junkies, and anyone who wants to write narratives that heal, instead of harm.”

Highly regarded in the survivor support community, Tamara assisted in developing the Victimology program at Durham College, east of Toronto, where she created and taught the Victims and the Impact of the Media course for several years. She has routinely aided in the media training of police officers across Ontario and has been called upon as an expert presenter on the topic of human trafficking for police officers, Crown attorneys, and front-line service providers. Members of the media frequently turn to Tamara to comment on stories involving trauma, and she is a regular commentator and host across the iHeartRadio Talk Network.

#TransformTrauma is a Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) podcast. Through coalition-building, advocacy, and policymaking, we’re building a national movement that integrates community-led, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered prevention and intervention across all sectors and generations. Learn more at CTIPP.org.

Content warning re: sexual assault and medical trauma

A trauma-informed care model revolutionizes women's healthcare by acknowledging and responding to patients' trauma experiences to meet them where they are—not where a provider expects them to be. This approach promotes understanding, empathy, equity, and compassion, enhancing how patients perceive and receive healthcare.

Fostering a safe and accepting environment that encourages open communication can also help healthcare providers better address their trauma, including burnout and professional bias. Adopting trauma-informed policies and practices is crucial for women's long-term physical, emotional, and psychological health.

HOSTS: CTIPP's Whitney Marris and Laura Braden

SHOW GUESTS:

• Amanda Gill, OB Outreach Educator, and former Labor and Delivery Nurse, Franciscan Health (Indiana)
• Lori Hardie, Director of Health Sciences, Transfr, and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) candidate, George Washington University (Washington, DC)
• Cherrell Triplett, M.D., Obstetrics & Gynecology Specialist (Chicago, IL)

#TransformTrauma is a Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) podcast. Through coalition-building, advocacy, and policymaking, we’re building a national movement that integrates community-led, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered prevention and intervention across all sectors and generations.

Learn more at CTIPP.org.

ROUGH TRANSCRIPT (powered by AI):

00:00:02
Hello and welcome to the Transform Trauma Podcast. My name is Whitney and I am the Director of Trauma-Informed Practice and System Transformation with the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice, and I'm here with Laura, who is CTIPP’s Director of Communications and Outreach, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to spend time today chatting with Amanda Gill, outreach educator and former labor and delivery nurse with Francisco Health, Lori Hardie, the Director of Health Sciences with Transfr, which provides virtual reality training solutions for workforce development and upskilling; and Lori is also a doctor of nursing practice candidate with the George Washington University, as well as Dr. Cherrell Triplett, an Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialist and education. And we are all gathered here today to have a conversation about integrating trauma-informed approach and practices into women's healthcare. And Laura and I want to begin by extending to all three of you a warm welcome. We are just so jazz to be connecting with you right now and also before we dive more deeply into the details of our topic. Today we are wanting to extend to each of you the invitation to briefly share whatever parts of your story about what called you to this work of promoting trauma-informed principles into all that you do that you might like to uplift just so our listeners can get to know a bit about each of your journeys up to this moment in the here and now, and so, Lori, would it be okay if we invited you to get us started there?

00:02:05
I am a nurse. I've been a nurse for almost 30 years and which, while that sounds like a really long time, but all in women's health, primarily labor and delivery, but also, you know, going to college and postpartum and nursery and nice. So spent a lot of time working at the bedside with women and in an area where it was very potentially very triggering for people depending on their histories. As somebody who has kind of my own personal history, I was always very aware and cognizant of that in my patients and I realized that the nurses, physicians, others working around me on my team were not. But there was no, I mean, in those 30 years I never received any education around Trama. Informed care ever then kind of became my mission to do some of that education myself. But now, as you said, working on my doctrine and health policy, to really make that something that is available to all health care professionals, because it's a small adjustment but it's very impactful, and so that has really kind of become my life's work, is not only for the benefit of patients but for the benefit of all of us who are caring for them and have our own dramas and our own histories and, I think, especially kind of post-COVID it's even more relevant because we've got traumatic people taking care of dramatized people without a lot of tools.

00:03:49
And, Dr. Triplette, would you be willing to share next?

00:03:53
So I just kind of fell into this, you know, into train from care. I like to think after learning about from influence. I like to think that I have practiced it and for the last 15 years without really knowing what I was doing. But recently I've kind of put a framework around it, really really became involved when I made a career change and went from being a doctor to being a person right, and so in realizing my own dramas right and how I was burnt-out and bringing those times to my patients and how I dealt with them and said I have to deal with my own things before I can really provide good care and the care that I want my patients to receive. So in talking with Amanda, it kind of went from there and then met with Larry, and so I'm very passionate about it, especially since I've kind of made a career change, but within the same profession and putting myself first as a person helps me to be a better practitioner and helps me to cover and unfold the dramas of the patients that I do take care.

00:05:11
I also want to invite Amanda to share as well.

00:05:14
I've been a nurse for 22 years. 20 of those years I worked in labor and delivery. I had a passion for women's health. Going into nursing school. I absolutely knew that's what I wanted to do. That was where I was destined to be and I adore caring for women. It certainly is applicable to all people in all sections of healthcare. But specifically, like Lori said, in that arena we certainly see patients who that puts them in a very specific, delicate space for possibly being dramatized. I was certainly aware that there were patients who had some sort of history while I was caring for them and I would do an exam or be involved in their care. But, like Lori said, never received any type of education and honestly had no idea how to react. And then when I began work closer with Lori, she was already working in the arena of trauma-informed care in human trafficking. And so when a transition from bedside care to education within my organization I learned more and more about that. I became working part of an alliance in human trafficking, got to know survivors and really learned a lot through those survivors. And now I feel like once you know once I know what I didn't know before. I can't unknow that and I have a deep passion to share that with others, because it's just what we don't know. We don't know what we don't know and they don't know it and it is. No one intends to provide for care. Once we know better, we will do better.

00:06:49
The spaces that you will occupy, how do you go about, on a day-to-day basis, making sure that women feel hurt and empowered, whether they are patients or fellow colleagues?

00:06:58
Like I said, I made a transition from physician to being a person, and that's really my tagline right now in my in my life. So now I just lead with being human and being a person rather than leading with being a physician right. So it puts me and my co-workers and my patients kind of on the same level right and I'm a little vulnerable. So I let them know that I have a little bit of drama, whether I express frustration because I'm running behind or whether I say you know I'm burnt-out or whatever, that that little drama is for me, just to let them know there is some similarity here and some difference, and so I think it creates a space that they feel that they can share right and share some of those things that they may not have shared and break down some of those barriers that we put up, because a lot of it is perception, a lot of it is real, but it kind of breaks down some of those barriers. So I think just approaching patients as a person for and not as a physician, not as a nurse, not as whatever the title is, like. Strip yourself away from the title. You still have the knowledge they're coming to you for something, it's there, but you don't need the title to prove that you have the knowledge. Just be a person, and I think that's the most important thing for me, as I try to incorporate the tenants and the principals and the approaches to inform care when I do interact with my colleagues and patients.

00:08:37
I just want to say I mean thank you for that. To hear a physician talk like that is revolutionary. Honestly, that is not how they were raised, that's not how we are raised. That's not the history of healthcare. You know when you look back into health care, since the beginning we have been taught that we are in control right, like when patients are with us. You're the expert. I have seen many people you know come in to do again. We all come from a background, so those are my biggest references. But you know to come in and do a cervial exam without ever asking for consent. That's not something that you could do anywhere else in the world and not be arrested. Right so. But even when you look back at the history of right and you look at the racial atrocities, the atrocities that were done to women, how we, you know, even came to her. So what Dr. Triplette is saying while it sounds like yeah, that's you know, nice is truly revolutionary when, especially for physicians, because again, that's not the indoctrination that you get. You get the opposite and you know to say to patients when they are, you know in the hospital to ask for consent, to give them, to give over control is not how physicians were trained and not how

Content advisory: Sexual assault and suicide (:9:13 - :19:58)

What does it mean to be “trauma-informed,” and why should organizations make their workplace more trauma-informed? How can it improve a team member’s (and the organization’s!) well-being, safety, productivity, fulfillment, and growth? How do you build, implement, and sustainably maintain trauma-informed workplaces? Who is responsible for such endeavors within the organization? How do I get started?

We aim to answer those questions and more with our podcast on creating and maintaining trauma-informed workplaces, featuring CTIPP’s Board Chair, Sandra L. Bloom, M.D.  

• Episode Transcript
• CTIPP’s Trauma-Informed Workplaces Toolkit
• Dr. Bloom’s Creating PRESENCE
• CTIPP’s Instruction on Safety & Wellness Planning

Dr. Bloom is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, a Temple University School of Medicine graduate, and an Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. A pioneer in the trauma-informed care field, she is the Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She has spent over three decades researching, developing, and promoting trauma-informed practices, particularly in workplace settings.  

Her work emphasizes the importance of creating safe, supportive, and empowering environments for individuals who have experienced trauma. Her approach to trauma-informed care is comprehensive and holistic, recognizing that the impacts of trauma extend beyond an individual's physical and mental health

#TransformTrauma is a Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) podcast. Through coalition-building, advocacy, and policymaking, we’re building a national movement that integrates community-led, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered prevention and intervention across all sectors and generations. Learn more at CTIPP.org.

 

ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: I incorrectly said that airlines got a $500 billion bailout, when in fact it was a $50 billion bailout. My apologies. 

Intro: Elijah Cummings passed away last Thursday morning at the age of 68. He was an amazing man who spent his entire life fighting for those who were marginalized and voiceless in our society. He listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. as a boy, and grew up to embody those principles and faithfully and respectfully work toward equity and justice. This was going to be his last term in Congress, even if he was still alive. In his role as the Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he not only helped lead toward impeachment proceedings of President Trump, but was also a champion of the trauma-informed movement. On July 11, Chairman Cummings held a hearing called, Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Childhood Trauma: A Pervasive Public Health Issue that Needs Greater Federal Attention. During that meeting, Chairman Cummings shared a personal anecdote from his own childhood. From Kindergarten until 6th grade, he had been placed in a special education classroom and was told he would never read or write. He reminded everyone that, “it’s not the deed we do to the children, it’s the memory.”
He was not the only person at that meeting who vulnerably shared adversity they had faced during childhood that day; however, he is the one who created the platform for one of the most powerful legislative hearings in recent memory. As our guest on today’s episode of Press On, Dan Press, has said since that meeting, it is the only time in his memory where those presenting received a standing ovation from members of Congress. Dan Press is the Pro Bono Advisor for the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice, also referred to as CTIPP. For over 40 years, Dan has provided legal and Washington representation assistance to Native American tribes, Native American organizations, and companies doing business with tribes. Welcome to the podcast and thank you for joining me today, Dan.
Dan, will you please share some of the work you and Chairman Cummings did together?
What made the July 11th hearing groundbreaking and where has the trauma-informed movement been heading in the time since?
Dan has been working on a big vision paper with members of CTIPP’s board, as well as other experts in the field. Can you share what the purpose of this big vision is?
What is the ultimate goal of this big vision paper?
What will it take to ultimately pass comprehensive legislation at the federal level?
What is the big vision?
Much room to discuss this.
Conclusion: During the first episode of Press On with Sandy Bloom and Diane Wagenhals, Sandy brought up the need to answer the question, what is the vision? What can the world look like in the future with trauma-informed care and a greater appreciation for the role that adversity plays in all of our lives. Fortunately, Dan has taken the lead to begin really piecing together what this vision could be. There is a need to build resilience for populations to overcome adversity, from abuse to climate change to terrorism, as well as increased funding necessary to provide the mental health services necessary to accomodate the need our society has. Dan, as we continue to develop this comprehensive vision, I hope that we will have the opportunity to catch up and discuss the progress we are making. I want to thank you very much for taking the time to discuss this all with me, and thank you for all of the work you do. Thank you to our listeners for tuning into this episode of Press On, and keep working to make our world a better place!

My first introduction to the vast number of inequities in our world was socioeconomic immobility and injustice. I grew up believing in the myth of the American dream that anyone from anywhere could reach the pinnacle of success if they just worked hard enough. Sheltered by my own privilege the world that I grew up knowing was a meritocracy. This false idea was only reinforced by the success stories I heard about kids who grow up in poverty and went on to make millions of dollars. I had not critically considered how few people this actually happened for.

We should take pride in helping make others lives better, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, yet our backward society treats life like a zero-sum game. "There's only so many pieces of pie, so if somebody else has success, her beauty, or whatever, somehow it leaves less for you. Or if you can get it, too it's less meaningful if all these other people have." (Lost Connections, 219). To save the future of our world we must undergo a paradigm shift in how we see ourselves, our motivations, each other, and our purpose. As a society we must find ways to promote opportunities for meaningful work that makes everyone's lives better.

Since graduating from Oberlin in 2016, I have made sure that my work positively impacts people in need. I've coached high school age baseball since moving back home, and my first job was a fellowship with the nonprofit 12+ at Hill Freedman World Academy. In my role at the school, I had a great introduction to education serving a variety of functions. From varsity basketball middle school baseball coaching, to college advising and mentorship, to working with students with autism on writing and delivering speeches for the school's Black History Month celebration advocating for their own civil rights, I learned a ton.

My career ambition, since my dreams of playing in the Major Leagues fell by the wayside, has been to someday hold public office. I have never had much interest in conforming to traditional means of running for any office, for a long time I have found the campaign process quite distasteful. I saw education is a different path to my desired goal, and I enrolled in a one-year Master's Program in Educational Leadership at Arcadia. Through that program I was given the opportunity to explore the academic theory behind education, but it was more so my extracurricular activities that help me grow that year. During the summer after my fellowship, while moving to a volunteer position in development for 12+, I was introduced to Rob Reed, the Executive Deputy Attorney General for Josh Shapiro's Office of Public Engagement. There I began working on policy to ameliorate the opioid epidemic, gun violence, and other travesties that cost the state billions of dollars each year. Soon after, I became an assistant varsity coach at my alma mater Upper Dublin High School. Later that year, I also got an internship working on Gov. Tom Wolf's campaign on the finance team.

Most affected by my work at the Attorney General's office, helping to develop a statewide policy that will one day help save thousands of lives through a budding field known as trauma informed care. Supported by evidence from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study in the late 1990s (and follow-up research that has been done since), this is a proactive effort that spans all human service industries to help prevent and mitigate the compounding effects of trauma throughout our society. I ultimately wrote my thesis on the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the education system and help trauma informed practices would improve long-term educational outcomes.

Upon graduating with my Master's, I got my first full-time job as the Director of Development at North Light Community Center, a social service nonprofit organization that has served the Manayunk and surrounding Philadelphia communities the Great Depression. My boss, Executive Director Irene Madrak, has been in her current role since 1984. In a world infested by selfish interest, it is inspiring to learn from someone who is been in the same role for virtually her entire professional career. The work that we do is great, but given the global doom that looms if we do not act soon, I am not content just succeeding in my current role.

In part, I do hope that by starting a blog and podcast more people will hear about in interact with North Light helping me in my current role; but the main goal for setting out on this journey is to influence public dialogue toward progress to improve the lives of all people. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "it really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly." I cannot be all that I can be until you are also all that you could be. The same, of course, goes for you and everyone else. This is the paradigm shift that must happen in order to save our world.

This is not a zero-sum game, we live in a world of excess wear billion starving poverty. You can have all you need without my giving up more than I would receive in return. Investment in this way would make us all wealthier and in different ways than are currently fathomable. Trauma informed care is one way to invest in future dollars created-from better public health outcomes, to better educational outcomes, to better economic outcomes, to a more just "criminal justice" system-the faults in our current system that ultimately cost global society trillions of dollars, if fixed, would free up all of those dollars to be invested elsewhere. The same could be said for renewable energy, artificial intelligence, and other efforts that modernize our world and increase efficiency, ensuring sustainability for future life.

What I fear most, perhaps, is that people are giving up on things possibly getting better someday. I am not certain that my efforts will be successful, but I am sure that if nothing is done future generations will be faded to a doomed life, if there is any life for them to live at all. What makes the most hopeful is that I am not alone. There are a group of incredible people who work very hard to make the world a better place as well. I want to create collaboration amongst such optimistic people, or at least become a part of such a conversation, and change the narrative in our nation from one of hatred to one of love. Imagine the children that we will produce if we spread such a mentality. Rather than the chaos and dysfunction that we see in our world today, we will see beauty and brilliance change the landscape of our world. There is no effort more worthwhile than to make the world better place, and that's all have ever wanted to do.

Intro: Welcome listeners to Press On, where we discuss solutions to build a sustainable future and a better world. Today, I am joined by Dr. Meagan Corrado.
Meagan has the space to introduce herself for listeners.
Key Questions and Points of Discussion:
What is your favorite part of the work you do?
Why is it important to encourage creativity in growth and healing, especially for children?
What is the importance in story telling when it comes to healing?
If you could reimagine the “American Dream”, what would it look like?
How did you get involved with CTIPP? What have your responsibilities been for CTIPP?
Why is CTIPP so important? Why is the trauma-informed movement so important?
How can a paradigm shift promote safety throughout a society?
How does trauma-informed care improve the lives of those who have been impacted by trauma? How does it improve the lives of those who have not directly been impacted?
What are some the specific obstacles that you face when it comes to working with youth from the inner city?
Why does climate change matter when having discussions surrounding privilege?
What is your greatest hope for the future? What is your greatest fear for the future?
What will CTIPP accomplish in the next five years?
Extraneous conversation is encouraged. Questions are meant to guide conversation, not restrict it. If any questions are not covered, that is ok!
Conclusion: Draw attention to all of CTIPP social media, website, and other ways for people to engage. Finish out by addressing APA Award and discussing Sandy’s blog post (hopefully drawing attention to the blog itself).

My name is Jesse Kohler and I am the host of Press On. For the first episode I wanted to tell you some of my back story, so that we come from a common ground as we explore new ways to build a sustainable future and a better world. Just me in the studio with a microphone, I hope you enjoy.