Trauma/Healing

Don’t decide to run until you have your helpers. You need a treasurer or someone to collect up the money and put it in the bank and get the thank yous ready. You need a volunteer coordinator who will recruit people to go door knocking with you who will help. You need someone to head up doing your social media.

Suicide, or death by intentional self-harm, has been steadily rising in Minnesota for the past 20 years.

“[We are working] towards creating an entire region of adults who understand what children need and how to provide it for them.”

Thanks to underwriting from University of Minnesota Press, the third in our series of Values & Vision discussions will feature “Take What You Need: Life Lessons After Losing Everything,” by Jen Crow (Broadleaf Books), to be held online August 25, 7pm.

“We punish those who are already victims of their own circumstances and put them into even worse circumstances.”

Getting funded requires a culture shift in society, she says. “A recognition that incarceration does not work. We do not acknowledge the reality of where the harm is coming from.”

“It became clear to me that any program addressing the violence women had committed would also need to address the aggression and violence they had personally experienced.”

What could have been, had the biomedical model not been held up as the only legitimate pathway to healing?

I am able to talk freely about my story without judgment and with total acceptance. This has changed my life.

Somebody came into my office and said ‘I relapsed yesterday. I already talked to my probation officer. I already have my bags packed to go to treatment.’ That is success for that person.

Naloxone Finder Map, Monthly Addiction Treatment Shot, Mental Health Crisis Response

We can interrupt the cycle of children aging up into homelessness, which is a problem in our state.