WEBVTT 00:00:00.930 --> 00:00:06.824 - Good afternoon, everyone. Quite a buzz going on in the room. We've got lots of attendees. It's great 00:00:06.824 --> 00:00:12.894 - to see some faces back from vacation that we haven't seen in a while. Welcome to the Bloomington Rotary 00:00:12.894 --> 00:00:18.730 - Club's weekly celebration of service. My name is Tracy Yovanovich, and I'm honored to serve as your 00:00:18.730 --> 00:00:24.741 - president. And please silence your electronic devices. And in honor of Labor Day next week, if you are 00:00:24.741 --> 00:00:28.126 - able, please stand and we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:32.066 --> 00:00:40.555 - I pledge allegiance to the flag and the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, 00:00:40.555 --> 00:00:48.563 - one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And as you all know, 00:00:48.563 --> 00:00:56.571 - or those of you who've been coming recently, I am doing the Where in the World series. If I can get 00:00:56.571 --> 00:00:59.934 - this quicker to work. Can you forward it? 00:01:02.338 --> 00:01:08.361 - Okay, there we go. So, many of you may know that Sally just returned from being in Ireland, and she 00:01:08.361 --> 00:01:14.504 - shared a little sign. If you look in the middle, she saw a sign for Rotary Cork County and Cork City. 00:01:14.504 --> 00:01:20.707 - So, I thought I would do a little investigation to see what it is that they do in Ireland to raise and 00:01:20.707 --> 00:01:26.850 - help the community projects. And there were a couple of—and we have some screen issues, so use your 00:01:26.850 --> 00:01:27.934 - imagination here. 00:01:28.194 --> 00:01:33.773 - As I said, we have technical difficulties occasionally. And so what you see, they do Friendship Night, 00:01:33.773 --> 00:01:39.406 - and Art, you're going to love this one, Friendship Night for over 200 senior citizens at Cork City Hall 00:01:39.406 --> 00:01:44.876 - for an evening of music, dance and laughter. The Army Band performs, and the dance floor comes alive 00:01:44.876 --> 00:01:48.830 - with old friends and news, sharing waltzes, quick steps and line dances. 00:01:49.154 --> 00:01:54.577 - So, there's something to think about. They also do Art from Inside, which is a collaboration between 00:01:54.577 --> 00:02:00.107 - Cork Prison, the education unit at the university, and the Rotary Club. And it provides an opportunity 00:02:00.107 --> 00:02:05.369 - for prisoners to display talents during incarceration and raise funds for the Children's Leukemia 00:02:05.369 --> 00:02:09.342 - Association. And then the last one that I'm going to bring up is the Cork 00:02:09.602 --> 00:02:16.625 - tree of remembrance and it's adorned every year that if you look at the Christmas tree there those are 00:02:16.625 --> 00:02:23.920 - yellow ribbons it's adorned every year with thousands of yellow ribbons each carrying handwritten messages 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:31.011 - of love remembrance and hope for family and friends near and far and has raised over 1.2 million pounds 00:02:31.011 --> 00:02:35.102 - not dollars pounds for local charities since 2003 so heroes 00:02:38.594 --> 00:02:45.374 - Sorry, euros. What was I thinking? Yeah, that's the part of Ireland that's down south. So anyway, euros. 00:02:45.374 --> 00:02:52.025 - But anyway, those are some fun ideas of something that they do elsewhere in the world. And after that, 00:02:52.025 --> 00:02:56.158 - I would like to invite Carol Ann Hossler up for our reflection. 00:03:17.154 --> 00:03:28.089 - Good afternoon. Thanks for that. Do we, that is you and I, share this post-vacation memory? Write a 00:03:28.089 --> 00:03:39.242 - two-page essay on what you did during vacation. When I lived in Connecticut, I hated that assignment. 00:03:39.242 --> 00:03:47.006 - Most of the kids went to really exciting places, Switzerland, Vermont, 00:03:47.650 --> 00:03:56.697 - Florida. I went to Campo Beach, which was located about 10 miles from our house, and I didn't go to 00:03:56.697 --> 00:04:06.197 - camp. I've just returned from vacation to California, where Don and I visited friends, longtime friends. 00:04:06.197 --> 00:04:15.245 - This trip was a royal pain in the neck to set up, and I'm not talking about the airline tickets. We 00:04:15.245 --> 00:04:17.054 - had several friends 00:04:17.410 --> 00:04:25.444 - we hoped to see. And when we contacted them, they were very happy that we were coming. But, and to no 00:04:25.444 --> 00:04:33.399 - surprise, everyone has their own schedule. And most families want to get together during the summer, 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:41.827 - which is totally understandable. But the process of figuring out the dates, the times, and the whereabouts 00:04:41.827 --> 00:04:45.214 - of connecting was tricky to say the least. 00:04:45.826 --> 00:04:54.151 - It felt like we were moving the chairs around on the deck. And at one point, we seriously considered 00:04:54.151 --> 00:05:02.805 - canceling the trip altogether. I'm so glad we didn't. It was a nostalgic time at every stop. We rehashed 00:05:02.805 --> 00:05:11.130 - shared memories and times of days gone by. The journey from Sacramento to San Diego provided us with 00:05:11.130 --> 00:05:13.438 - a glimpse into the treasure 00:05:13.538 --> 00:05:22.513 - times that are etched into our hearts and minds. Let me introduce you to some of our friends and briefly 00:05:22.513 --> 00:05:31.060 - share about those friendships and some lessons learned. We met Mary Lou and Jim at the beginning of 00:05:31.060 --> 00:05:39.950 - the new year, new faculty event at Shawnee Bluffs. Some of you may remember that. That friendship spans 00:05:39.950 --> 00:05:43.454 - 40 years. Chris was my college roommate. 00:05:43.714 --> 00:05:52.983 - I learned about Manzanar from her. Her parents were interned there. It's a 57-year friendship. College 00:05:52.983 --> 00:06:02.073 - years are great years for friendship foundations. Melinda, college roommate, 57 years. Kate and Tom, 00:06:02.073 --> 00:06:11.162 - college friends, 55 years. Mike and Sue, college friends, and basketball buddy, 58 years. Barron and 00:06:11.162 --> 00:06:13.502 - Joanie, college roommate, 00:06:13.794 --> 00:06:23.302 - 55 years. Reg and Peg, 54 years. College friends who share common connections to beloved mentors and 00:06:23.302 --> 00:06:32.998 - friends from the past, Ron and Eilidh Jean, Jerry and Jan. Doug and Pam, basketball buddy and teaching 00:06:32.998 --> 00:06:43.070 - colleague, 55 years. Connie and John, concert choir connection, 57 years. Then there's Margaret, 61 years. 00:06:43.874 --> 00:06:50.903 - I met Margaret during summer school at Point Loma High School. I was new to San Diego and we connected 00:06:50.903 --> 00:06:58.205 - immediately. Fortunately, there was room for me in her social network. Sometimes you just need one friend, 00:06:58.205 --> 00:07:05.507 - especially if the school is big. We've shared life with all these people and they've shared theirs through 00:07:05.507 --> 00:07:08.510 - joyous days and sad ones. Most importantly, 00:07:08.930 --> 00:07:17.847 - They supported us and loved us as we made the most difficult decision of our lives to place our son, 00:07:17.847 --> 00:07:26.853 - Jonathan, in a group home. And not only that, they never, ever forget him and the challenges he faces 00:07:26.853 --> 00:07:36.830 - every day. That's 923 years of friendship. But I would be remiss if I didn't add in the years for Mike and John. 00:07:37.026 --> 00:07:45.797 - With those years added in, the total becomes 1,016. Husbands, dear friends who have passed away, but 00:07:45.797 --> 00:07:54.569 - whose spirits were with us during our time with Chris and Melinda. Three couples married just a week 00:07:54.569 --> 00:08:03.253 - apart in 1971. We always said we'd share a 150th anniversary. It wasn't to be, but the memories are 00:08:03.253 --> 00:08:06.814 - vivid and the friendship remains strong. 00:08:07.970 --> 00:08:17.606 - Is it true that you can never make a new old friend? Maybe so, maybe no. But if you find yourself looking 00:08:17.606 --> 00:08:26.787 - back on friendship, my wish for you is that you have friendships that are as beautiful and treasured 00:08:26.787 --> 00:08:29.150 - as what I've experienced. 00:08:35.490 --> 00:08:43.872 - Thank you, Carol Ann. That conjured up visions of the Big Chill reunion. It's lovely. And for introductions 00:08:43.872 --> 00:08:51.634 - of guests, Katie. Hello, everyone. I'm here to introduce today's guests. First, we have, oh, sorry. 00:08:51.634 --> 00:08:59.396 - When I say your name, if you are able, please stand so that we can recognize you and welcome you to 00:08:59.396 --> 00:09:03.742 - Rotary. First, we have Ann Bright, guest of Jim Bright. 00:09:08.770 --> 00:09:22.212 - Next, we have Mara Green, guest of Leanne Ratcliffe. Nicole Mante, also guest of Leanne Ratcliffe. Brian, 00:09:22.212 --> 00:09:35.019 - is this Hayne? All right, from Bloomington North. Sorry, Brian. Next, we have Kerry Martin, guest of 00:09:35.019 --> 00:09:36.414 - Liz Irwin. 00:09:40.866 --> 00:09:49.826 - and Michelle Kirby, also guest of Liz Erwin. And do we have any guests online? No, we do not. Just all 00:09:49.826 --> 00:09:58.698 - Rotarians here. All right. Thanks, Leslie. Thank you, Katie. And now for birthdays and anniversaries. 00:09:58.698 --> 00:10:07.571 - If you could bring it to that page for me, Tyler. We have Laurie Garrity on the second, Jeremy Graham 00:10:07.571 --> 00:10:08.702 - on the 31st, 00:10:08.834 --> 00:10:16.403 - Don Hossler on September 3, Maryland, September 5, and Shelly Yoder just had one on the 30th. Anniversaries, 00:10:16.403 --> 00:10:23.486 - Peyton Flynn for one year, Emily Herman four years, Diana Hoffman two years, Charlie Osburn 34 years, 00:10:23.486 --> 00:10:30.430 - Leanne Ratliff two years, and Eric Spoonmore two years. So there's the anniversaries and birthdays. 00:10:34.114 --> 00:10:39.593 - And for announcements, just reminders, no one signed up for reflections yet. So we still have three 00:10:39.593 --> 00:10:45.072 - openings for September. There is a scholarship committee meeting right after this event here in the 00:10:45.072 --> 00:10:50.661 - room. And then quick additions, December 10th, we'll be having our holiday party. So get that on your 00:10:50.661 --> 00:10:56.578 - calendar. We'll be doing that at the country club. And then again, toast. We have the rotary toast tickets, 00:10:56.578 --> 00:11:00.030 - individual tickets go on sale next week. Is that right, Brian? 00:11:00.546 --> 00:11:07.566 - next Tuesday. So still got quite a few tables that we can sell. If you want to sit with specific people, 00:11:07.566 --> 00:11:14.386 - tables are your best bet. Do us all a favor and get them while the getting's good. And with that, I'd 00:11:14.386 --> 00:11:21.072 - like to bring up, I don't even know how to describe you, Mr. Baker for a very special presentation. 00:11:21.072 --> 00:11:25.150 - And when I say that, you'll understand why when you see him. 00:11:31.970 --> 00:11:38.824 - Can you see me okay? Okay, just wanna make sure. So I just also wanna mention that I didn't tell my 00:11:38.824 --> 00:11:45.884 - wife to sign as a guest, but my wife Beverly is with me today. And I wanna thank her, especially thank 00:11:45.884 --> 00:11:52.943 - her for picking this out for me. So, maybe. So good afternoon, Rotarians and guests. As you might have 00:11:52.943 --> 00:11:59.866 - noticed today is special for me and it is gonna be for the club. It's a special presentation of Paul 00:11:59.866 --> 00:12:00.894 - Harris Fellow. 00:12:01.730 --> 00:12:10.374 - They're all special, but I thought I would try to dress this one up just a little bit. I know you're 00:12:10.374 --> 00:12:19.189 - aware that Rory does good in the world, but here's some results from 2025, 2026 for Rory International 00:12:19.189 --> 00:12:27.833 - that sort of make a point. $477 million donated, not all by us, but Rory returns all over the world. 00:12:27.833 --> 00:12:29.630 - 1,800 global grants, 00:12:30.370 --> 00:12:39.000 - The vaccinations are over 350 million people in 128 countries, protecting people from malaria and other 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:47.547 - major diseases. These are made possible by donations from Rotarians all over the world, like Rotarians 00:12:47.547 --> 00:12:56.509 - in this room. So thank you for that. Okay, today we're going to have a special mystery Rotarian recognized. 00:12:56.509 --> 00:12:58.750 - One of our newest members, 00:12:59.586 --> 00:13:09.707 - less than a month. This person has collected more crayons, school supplies, packed more food boxes, 00:13:09.707 --> 00:13:20.030 - volunteered at teacher warehouse more hours almost than anyone in our club and only been a member for 00:13:20.030 --> 00:13:28.734 - less than a month. Any guesses? You have a guess? Oh, okay, okay. Maybe this'll help. 00:13:29.634 --> 00:13:45.107 - She once acted as assistant district governor, although not on official position. Any guesses? Ann Bright, 00:13:45.107 --> 00:13:51.614 - would you please come forward? Katie, Katie. 00:14:03.202 --> 00:14:10.633 - You stand here, it'll be easier to embarrass you, okay? Okay. Just, I have just a few notes. 00:14:10.633 --> 00:14:18.623 - First of all, has anyone ever told you you spell your first name wrong? Yes. And you really spent a 00:14:18.623 --> 00:14:26.853 - year of high school in Nova Scotia. So how was that? Wonderful. Best year of education I ever had. And 00:14:26.853 --> 00:14:32.286 - later taught school in Newfoundland? For how long? Two years. Okay. 00:14:32.418 --> 00:14:40.903 - Well, I heard special sisters on the news this morning. They have an open position teaching geography 00:14:40.903 --> 00:14:49.555 - lessons about the Great Lakes, if you're interested. Even though you've worked tirelessly by Jim's side 00:14:49.555 --> 00:14:58.206 - in raising money for a beacon and other causes and helping him with all of his roadie duties, including 00:14:58.206 --> 00:15:01.118 - when he was our district governor, 00:15:01.730 --> 00:15:09.070 - and club president. Service above self-attitude made it easy for a club to make you a Paul Harris Fellow 00:15:09.070 --> 00:15:16.061 - Plus One. We know your extended family of kids have been impacted along with Jim. Would all love to 00:15:16.061 --> 00:15:23.192 - be here with you, recognize your service to others today. Often quietly behind the scenes, you are an 00:15:23.192 --> 00:15:27.806 - inspiration and real force of nature. So would you please welcome 00:15:28.066 --> 00:15:51.212 - We come over here, Natalie and Penner, and would everyone please rise and join me in recognizing and 00:15:51.212 --> 00:15:56.254 - with the knee bright. 00:15:57.506 --> 00:16:06.694 - Hold on and we have one more thing so I think we may have thrown you for a loop on the questions by 00:16:06.694 --> 00:16:16.067 - saying the member less than a month did that throw you guys so the board voted and you are officially 00:16:16.067 --> 00:16:19.742 - an honorary member for life in the club 00:16:34.050 --> 00:16:43.281 - So please, after wearing that outfit, don't stop. And with that, Kyla Cox Deckard, if you could introduce 00:16:43.281 --> 00:16:51.902 - our speaker. Congratulations, Anne. That is very exciting. I'm thrilled to be here for this honor. 00:16:52.610 --> 00:16:59.129 - So our guest speaker today is a colleague of mine from Indiana University. John M. Kiesler is an alum 00:16:59.129 --> 00:17:05.519 - of the University of Buffalo, New York and associate professor tenured at Indiana University School 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:12.102 - of Social Work here on the Bloomington campus. He teaches in the graduate program and engages students 00:17:12.102 --> 00:17:17.534 - in innovative community focused initiatives to complement their classroom education. 00:17:18.370 --> 00:17:25.594 - His scholarship focuses on adversity, trauma-informed care, and quality of life in the disability service 00:17:25.594 --> 00:17:32.545 - industry and in rural communities. He has presented and published nationally and internationally. His 00:17:32.545 --> 00:17:39.700 - teaching and research has been honored with awards from Indiana University, University at Buffalo, ABAI, 00:17:39.700 --> 00:17:46.788 - National Association for the Duly Diagnosed, and American Association of Intellectual and Developmental 00:17:46.788 --> 00:17:47.742 - Disabilities. 00:17:48.482 --> 00:17:54.403 - John was among the first faculty members who I had the good fortune to work with at the Center for Rural 00:17:54.403 --> 00:18:00.099 - Engagement. He was part of the pilot program Sustaining Hoosier Communities, which has continued and 00:18:00.099 --> 00:18:05.851 - is thriving today, partnering with its seventh community this year in Brown County. He has gone on to 00:18:05.851 --> 00:18:11.603 - serve at the Center for Rural Engagement on our Faculty Advisory Council alongside Alon Barker. So we 00:18:11.603 --> 00:18:15.550 - actually have two members of our Faculty Advisory Council here today. 00:18:15.650 --> 00:18:21.820 - He is also part of our ministry in rural areas and small towns initiative where he's developing a trauma 00:18:21.820 --> 00:18:28.049 - informed care training for clergy and lay leaders in rural congregations across the US. And I have really 00:18:28.049 --> 00:18:34.102 - appreciated the opportunity to work alongside Dr. Kiesler, get to know him and watch him help students 00:18:34.102 --> 00:18:40.273 - connect with these rural opportunities. So please join me in welcoming Dr. Kiesler to talk with us today 00:18:40.273 --> 00:18:41.918 - about trauma informed care. 00:18:52.770 --> 00:19:03.470 - you advance the slides? Or is there something I need to do? Okay. Good afternoon, folks. Normally I 00:19:03.470 --> 00:19:14.597 - lecture for upwards of three hours. So I'm assuming you're all here for that. It's good to be here with 00:19:14.597 --> 00:19:22.622 - you. This is only my second Rotary meeting in my lifetime, and I certainly 00:19:22.850 --> 00:19:29.662 - appreciate the work that all of you do and what you stand for. As a social worker, by training 00:19:29.662 --> 00:19:37.047 - and profession, we share a lot of the same values. Carol Ann, I think, was the person that spoke about 00:19:37.047 --> 00:19:44.218 - the summer reflection. Where are you, please? Thank you. I need to see a face and a name to get the 00:19:44.218 --> 00:19:49.022 - rest of what I was going to say. Thank you so much for your story. 00:19:49.250 --> 00:19:55.804 - And I recognize the challenges of placing a child in a group home. For more than a decade, I worked 00:19:55.804 --> 00:20:02.685 - with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families directly in various 00:20:02.685 --> 00:20:09.369 - positions. And that support is very much needed. And we also need to improve the care that folks get, 00:20:09.369 --> 00:20:15.923 - and we need to recognize them as members of our community as well. So thank you. So trauma-informed 00:20:15.923 --> 00:20:19.134 - care, what is it about? Where does it come from? 00:20:19.714 --> 00:20:27.678 - I want to begin with an understanding of trauma. I think we've become very loosey-goosey with the term 00:20:27.678 --> 00:20:35.565 - trauma. I know I've said this before, if you've ever heard me talk, but my students will tell me that 00:20:35.565 --> 00:20:43.452 - sometimes they find migrating as traumatic. Now, you don't like migrating, you might be stressed out, 00:20:43.452 --> 00:20:46.622 - but it's not traumatic. We use that word 00:20:47.074 --> 00:20:53.761 - so commonly that it's lost some of its power. If you think of a Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic 00:20:53.761 --> 00:21:00.848 - stress disorder, then you think trauma. And I think times have changed, and our understanding has changed 00:21:00.848 --> 00:21:07.668 - a little bit, but sometimes I think we need to get back to the roots. Because trauma is not something 00:21:07.668 --> 00:21:14.622 - that we need to take lightly, it's not just everyday stress. Because if it's everyday stress, then what 00:21:14.622 --> 00:21:15.358 - is stress? 00:21:15.458 --> 00:21:22.731 - And so I begin here with a definition, so we're all on the same page about what we're talking about. 00:21:22.731 --> 00:21:30.364 - SAMHSA at our federal level, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, agreed that we needed 00:21:30.364 --> 00:21:37.709 - to come up with a common definition of what trauma is. And so they have the three E's. The event, the 00:21:37.709 --> 00:21:45.342 - experience, and the effects. Good thing I've not done this before. So the event, something has to happen. 00:21:46.242 --> 00:21:56.899 - A car crash. A plane crash. I hate to say that. Sorry, Kyla. But it was on my mind. You know, murder. 00:21:56.899 --> 00:22:07.452 - Poverty. Neglect. Ongoing conditions even. So something has to happen. We oftentimes think of trauma 00:22:07.452 --> 00:22:12.990 - as the event. It's not. The event is just the event. 00:22:13.954 --> 00:22:21.669 - The next critical piece is the experience. How does the person assign meeting to that event? How many 00:22:21.669 --> 00:22:29.612 - of you have been in a car accident? Many of us, many of us. And we don't necessarily see it as traumatic 00:22:29.612 --> 00:22:37.176 - life threatening, but for some of us it is, it is. So it's how we assign meaning to that event, how 00:22:37.176 --> 00:22:43.454 - we experience that event. And there's so much that goes into how we experience it. 00:22:45.058 --> 00:22:52.003 - What are our friends and our social connections? Friends that last 50 and 60 years, totaling over a 00:22:52.003 --> 00:22:59.435 - thousand years. That can bolster our resilience and our ability to bounce back from traumatic experiences. 00:22:59.435 --> 00:23:06.519 - But imagine that you're isolated. Imagine that you don't have access to mental health resources or to 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:13.534 - basic needs. These can really influence how you see or experience an event and how you experience it 00:23:13.826 --> 00:23:21.208 - ultimately predicts or influences the effects of that event or those circumstances on your life. Sometimes 00:23:21.208 --> 00:23:28.246 - these effects can be immediate. Sometimes they can be delayed. Sometimes you can get over them pretty 00:23:28.246 --> 00:23:35.145 - quickly, and sometimes they're lifelong. The only way to truly understand if something is trauma or 00:23:35.145 --> 00:23:40.734 - traumatic to a person is to ask them. We cannot assign that meaning for a person 00:23:41.730 --> 00:23:49.227 - We cannot walk or replace or be there in their shoes, but we can ask them. They're the best person to 00:23:49.227 --> 00:23:56.724 - give us that information. But I wouldn't also advise that you go around asking people if they've been 00:23:56.724 --> 00:24:04.221 - traumatized. So what is trauma-informed care? Here again, we have four Rs. So we had the three Es for 00:24:04.221 --> 00:24:08.190 - trauma. We have the four Rs for trauma-informed care. 00:24:08.642 --> 00:24:17.033 - It's about realizing the widespread impact of trauma and understand that there's multiple pathways for 00:24:17.033 --> 00:24:25.343 - healing and recovery. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities, three, four, ten times 00:24:25.343 --> 00:24:33.816 - more likely to experience trauma, depends on the study. Veterans, military-connected populations, twice 00:24:33.816 --> 00:24:36.830 - as likely as the general population. 00:24:37.762 --> 00:24:44.945 - many of us will experience potentially traumatic events in our lifetime. Okay. So we have to understand 00:24:44.945 --> 00:24:51.852 - that it is very common. It was once thought that it was outside the norm. It was until the nineties 00:24:51.852 --> 00:24:58.966 - that we realized how common actually adversity and potentially traumatic events are in people's lives. 00:24:58.966 --> 00:25:06.494 - Okay. We need to recognize the signs and symptoms. So things like hypervigilance, nightmares, night terrors, 00:25:06.882 --> 00:25:15.464 - Changes in mood, negative changes that is, negative changes in cognitions or thinking processes, avoiding 00:25:15.464 --> 00:25:24.208 - places and things that remind you of that event. But there's also others. Inability to sit still, inability 00:25:24.208 --> 00:25:32.547 - to self-regulate, inability to learn and pay attention in the classroom, inability to do well on a job 00:25:32.547 --> 00:25:33.438 - interview, 00:25:34.050 --> 00:25:40.094 - All of these things we're finding are actually linked to trauma. Not always, not always, it's not a 00:25:40.094 --> 00:25:46.560 - given, but in many cases, it has been linked, okay? So we need to realize that trauma's pretty widespread. 00:25:46.560 --> 00:25:52.785 - We need to recognize the signs and symptoms, and we need to respond. We need to respond by integrating 00:25:52.785 --> 00:25:59.010 - what we know about trauma and the principles of trauma-informed care that I'll talk about here shortly 00:25:59.010 --> 00:26:01.790 - into our policies, procedures, and practices. 00:26:02.690 --> 00:26:09.717 - So right there, you should have some idea of what I'll be talking about next regarding organizational 00:26:09.717 --> 00:26:16.883 - wide approaches or systems approaches to responding to folks who may or may not have experienced trauma 00:26:16.883 --> 00:26:23.910 - because we're talking about policies, procedures, practices, how we train our staff even, and we need 00:26:23.910 --> 00:26:31.006 - to resist causing further harm. There are things that we can do the way we approach people, the things 00:26:31.006 --> 00:26:31.902 - that we say, 00:26:32.546 --> 00:26:38.791 - how we respond that can actually cause more harm. That can trigger them, can re-traumatize them. I'm 00:26:38.791 --> 00:26:45.283 - not talking about we won't need to walk around and handle everybody with kid gloves. That's not reality. 00:26:45.283 --> 00:26:51.527 - But we do need to understand the impact of trauma. We need to be kind, and there's other things that 00:26:51.527 --> 00:26:52.702 - we can do as well. 00:26:54.018 --> 00:27:01.229 - So realize that trauma is common, recognize the signs and symptoms, respond with integrating this knowledge 00:27:01.229 --> 00:27:08.106 - into what we do and how we interact with folks, and resisting causing further harm. But where did this 00:27:08.106 --> 00:27:14.983 - come from? There's two places that I'd like to talk about here briefly. One is psychiatric and patient 00:27:14.983 --> 00:27:21.660 - facilities. Sandra Bloom is a psychiatrist, and she realized patients were not getting better. They 00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:23.262 - were getting treatment. 00:27:23.394 --> 00:27:29.785 - But they're not getting better. Why? Why? Because they were using restrictive practices. Their staff 00:27:29.785 --> 00:27:36.175 - were about power and control. They weren't listening to clients. Clients had no voice. And they also 00:27:36.175 --> 00:27:42.566 - were not addressing or responding to the trauma that was underlying some of the mental health issues 00:27:42.566 --> 00:27:46.046 - that were—folks were experiencing. The other part— 00:27:46.274 --> 00:27:52.800 - was from an obesity clinic in California where doctors were recognizing that patients were losing weight, 00:27:52.800 --> 00:27:59.081 - so the treatment was effective, but they weren't staying in the treatment program. They were dropping 00:27:59.081 --> 00:28:05.361 - out. Well, they began to question, was eating a way of coping with underlying stress? So in 1998, the 00:28:05.361 --> 00:28:12.318 - study was published by Felity and ANDA around adverse childhood experiences. How many of you have heard of that? 00:28:14.050 --> 00:28:20.209 - Yeah, adverse childhood experiences are 10 types of adversity—that could be a whole presentation in 00:28:20.209 --> 00:28:26.490 - and of itself, but I'll refrain from that now—that are categorized as abuse and neglect and household 00:28:26.490 --> 00:28:32.528 - dysfunction. What they know at the population level is that they are pretty good predictors of poor 00:28:32.528 --> 00:28:36.574 - outcomes later in life. That's why early intervention is critical. 00:28:37.762 --> 00:28:46.839 - But since 1998, there has been a influx of studies and scholarship around adversity, trauma, trauma-informed 00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:55.333 - care, and how do we respond? So they notice these things in inpatient units. They notice these things 00:28:55.333 --> 00:29:01.246 - in a clinic. Where else do such trends occur? Lots of places, schools. 00:29:01.986 --> 00:29:08.226 - We've recognized a lot about schools and the environment and teaching kids to identify their emotions, 00:29:08.226 --> 00:29:14.345 - helping them to cope. You may not be for social emotional curriculums, but I assure you that there's 00:29:14.345 --> 00:29:20.949 - a reason for them and it's backed by science because kids aren't learning this stuff elsewhere. So sometimes 00:29:20.949 --> 00:29:26.462 - we have to teach them in the classroom. So trauma informed care is a system wide approach. 00:29:27.042 --> 00:29:33.553 - In the upper corner, you'll see a picture of two people one-on-one. I'm not talking about trauma-specific 00:29:33.553 --> 00:29:39.818 - treatment like directly addressing somebody's trauma. I'm talking about, at the organizational level, 00:29:39.818 --> 00:29:45.960 - the environment, the culture and climate of workplaces, how we train staff, how we support clients, 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:51.550 - how we support each other. This is the one thing that's unique about trauma-informed care. 00:29:52.418 --> 00:29:59.324 - is it's a philosophy for system-wide way of doing things. It's not just about how our clients or our 00:29:59.324 --> 00:30:06.229 - customers are doing, it's how our staff are doing. There's five basic principles. Six in this one, I 00:30:06.229 --> 00:30:13.203 - used a different. There's basically five, but depends on the model you use. So first thing is safety. 00:30:13.203 --> 00:30:20.382 - We have to make sure that our environments are safe, not only physically safe, but psychologically safe. 00:30:21.346 --> 00:30:27.987 - Do people feel OK sharing their thoughts and feelings and perspectives? Or do they fear retribution 00:30:27.987 --> 00:30:34.694 - or harm or being belittled? OK. Trustworthiness and transparency. We have to build trust. We have to 00:30:34.694 --> 00:30:41.866 - follow through with what we say we're going to do. Collaboration and mutuality. Sharing power. Empowerment, 00:30:41.866 --> 00:30:48.573 - voice and choice. Giving people a sense of agency, allowing them to have a voice in their treatment, 00:30:48.573 --> 00:30:50.366 - in their work environment. 00:30:50.946 --> 00:30:57.215 - and recognizing cultural, historical, and gender issues. From a social work perspective, I call that 00:30:57.215 --> 00:31:03.671 - cultural humility. I only know my life experience. I only know my family's culture. I don't know yours. 00:31:03.671 --> 00:31:09.506 - So I need to take a step back and ask you about yours. It's not OK for me to assume what your 00:31:09.506 --> 00:31:15.837 - life experiences have been, or what's important to you, or what's culturally valued. OK? If you think 00:31:15.837 --> 00:31:19.934 - about these things, you're probably like, John, OK, that's great. 00:31:20.066 --> 00:31:26.894 - That's pretty basic. Yes, we should be trustworthy. Yes, we should follow through with what we say. 00:31:26.894 --> 00:31:34.064 - We should provide collaboration. Yes, we should engage people that have lived through what we're talking 00:31:34.064 --> 00:31:41.029 - about. But it's all of these things combined. And it's with the purpose of recognizing that folks may 00:31:41.029 --> 00:31:48.062 - have experienced trauma that can be lifelong and enduring. The other thing is, is all of these things, 00:31:48.738 --> 00:31:58.391 - or most of them, are generally compromised in a traumatic experience. Think about combat. You're probably 00:31:58.391 --> 00:32:07.953 - not feeling very safe. Think about sexual assault. You're not feeling safe. You don't know who to trust. 00:32:07.953 --> 00:32:17.150 - You certainly were not a collaborator in the matter. Your power was taken away from you. Think about 00:32:17.150 --> 00:32:18.334 - child abuse. 00:32:19.586 --> 00:32:29.521 - Children don't feel safe. They don't have a say in the matter. They're disempowered. So that's where 00:32:29.521 --> 00:32:39.850 - all of this is coming from. It's about restoring what has been jeopardized by the traumatic experiences. 00:32:39.850 --> 00:32:44.670 - It works. It works, I can tell you. When you use 00:32:45.058 --> 00:32:53.512 - or adopt practices that align with trauma-informed care. We see a reduced use of restraints and restrictive 00:32:53.512 --> 00:33:01.810 - interventions. We see a reduced dropout rate, so clients stay in treatment longer. Employees are happier. 00:33:01.810 --> 00:33:10.264 - There's increased satisfaction. There's decreased dropout, or burnout rather, decreased secondary traumatic 00:33:10.264 --> 00:33:14.334 - stress. We see increased organizational commitment. 00:33:14.498 --> 00:33:24.016 - People wanna stay with their employers longer, okay? The fundamental mechanism for trauma-informed care 00:33:24.016 --> 00:33:33.168 - is you and me. Relationships. I wanna come back to Carol Anne, right? Your presentation was perfect 00:33:33.168 --> 00:33:43.326 - timing. Because you talked about the relationships, the friendships, and you talked about how they endured for 00:33:43.490 --> 00:33:50.362 - many years, decades. In this day and age, a lot of people are struggling with isolation and loneliness 00:33:50.362 --> 00:33:57.434 - despite the fact that we have social media. But what did you get back to? Your college campus interacting 00:33:57.434 --> 00:34:04.773 - with people. One evidence-based curriculum around trauma-informed care has this phrase of risking connection. 00:34:04.773 --> 00:34:09.310 - And that's really what this is about is we need to risk connection. 00:34:10.018 --> 00:34:16.773 - If I walk up to somebody like Kyla, I'm not guaranteed that she's gonna like me. I'm not guaranteed 00:34:16.773 --> 00:34:23.730 - that she's gonna be receptive to what I have to say. I could be rejected. But if I fear that rejection 00:34:23.730 --> 00:34:30.484 - and I don't reach out, then I miss the opportunity for collaboration, a friendship, a relationship, 00:34:30.484 --> 00:34:37.577 - somebody I can trust, somebody I can confide in. Simultaneously though, if Kyla reaches out to me, she's 00:34:37.577 --> 00:34:38.590 - taking a risk. 00:34:39.234 --> 00:34:46.588 - Because I could say, Kyle, no, thank you. Risking connection. In human services and organizations, how 00:34:46.588 --> 00:34:53.941 - likely are we to connect with people? In our communities, how likely are we to step out of our comfort 00:34:53.941 --> 00:35:01.295 - zone and reach out to somebody and connect with them to recognize their humanity? That's a fundamental 00:35:01.295 --> 00:35:06.078 - part of trauma-informed care. You become that vehicle for healing. 00:35:06.434 --> 00:35:14.247 - So much can happen between us as human beings based on how I respond to you. If you're interested in 00:35:14.247 --> 00:35:21.984 - learning more, IU has this handy-dandy online platform called Expand, and you can take many courses 00:35:21.984 --> 00:35:30.261 - for free, not all of them, this one is free, and provides you with more information around trauma-informed 00:35:30.261 --> 00:35:32.350 - care. For our base course, 00:35:33.026 --> 00:35:38.660 - as well as submodules around working with children and youth, working with folks with intellectual and 00:35:38.660 --> 00:35:44.294 - developmental disabilities, working with veterans. We did a collaboration between the Center for Rural 00:35:44.294 --> 00:35:50.037 - Engagement here and Goodwill International Industries to do a training supporting justice-involved folks 00:35:50.037 --> 00:35:55.726 - reentering the workforce, so folks that have a criminal history getting back into the workforce because 00:35:55.726 --> 00:36:01.524 - they realized that they were not being successful and in large part because of their own trauma histories 00:36:01.524 --> 00:36:02.782 - were influencing that. 00:36:03.714 --> 00:36:11.183 - And the latest is we will be working with Alasi down in Dubois County, developing a training on how 00:36:11.183 --> 00:36:18.950 - to support our Latino immigrants because there are a lot of issues there, especially with their journey 00:36:18.950 --> 00:36:26.717 - over and everything that's happening now across our nation around immigration. So how was that? I don't 00:36:26.717 --> 00:36:30.750 - know if I was 20 minutes or less, but I felt like it. 00:36:44.098 --> 00:36:54.177 - depression could that be a result from trauma yes yes I could share personally as well as professionally 00:36:54.177 --> 00:37:03.967 - not always I mean there are chemical imbalances as well there's other reasons but yes trauma can lead 00:37:03.967 --> 00:37:12.510 - to depression as well you are Kayla mentioned earlier that you'll be working with clergy 00:37:12.930 --> 00:37:21.123 - and which is interesting and that's great. But sometimes the church in certain denominations can actually 00:37:21.123 --> 00:37:29.085 - cause trauma. Oh, yes. Depending on what your sexual orientation is or your marital status or the list 00:37:29.085 --> 00:37:37.278 - goes on. So I'm wondering in addition to helping them understand some of these tools to deal with trauma, 00:37:37.278 --> 00:37:42.302 - do you also have a moment where perhaps the church and your team 00:37:42.690 --> 00:37:49.306 - calls for a bit of self-reflection and self-awareness. Yes, so in my prior life, before joining IU in 00:37:49.306 --> 00:37:55.858 - 2016, I worked as a director of music and church for 22 years. So I'm very familiar with the context 00:37:55.858 --> 00:38:02.474 - and everything that goes on. And yes, so we're not only talking about trauma-informed care with them, 00:38:02.474 --> 00:38:09.609 - but we're also giving them tools from evidence-based interventions, like solution-focused therapy, acceptance 00:38:09.609 --> 00:38:11.166 - and commitment therapy, 00:38:11.266 --> 00:38:17.242 - et cetera, but yes, we also do encourage them to pause and reflect. I'm not a miracle worker. I'm grateful 00:38:17.242 --> 00:38:22.995 - for the collaboration with CRE. I'm grateful for the funding from Lilly, and this is just, we're gonna 00:38:22.995 --> 00:38:28.581 - see what we can do, but we're building it in such a way that we can add more to it. Same thing like 00:38:28.581 --> 00:38:34.222 - with the way we structured the trauma-informed care training. We're building this in such a way that 00:38:34.222 --> 00:38:40.254 - we can add and augment. We're gonna ask faith leaders for their feedback, but yes, that is a critical part. 00:38:40.770 --> 00:38:49.027 - Definitely. Thank you. I'm interested in the role of school teachers, especially with these adverse 00:38:49.027 --> 00:38:57.285 - childhood effects, because they're the ones most likely to see them. And I want to know whether you 00:38:57.285 --> 00:39:05.542 - provide any sort of training or what an awful lot is expected of our school teachers. And I want to 00:39:05.542 --> 00:39:08.350 - get your take on that. Thank you. 00:39:08.514 --> 00:39:15.277 - Yes, thank you. Excellent point. Yes, I do do trainings and I'm happy to assist however I can. There 00:39:15.277 --> 00:39:21.974 - are other trainings out there as well. There's various curriculum around this. Teachers have a hard 00:39:21.974 --> 00:39:28.737 - job. Even at the university level, I've had two students with significant trauma histories. One died 00:39:28.737 --> 00:39:32.286 - by suicide and then the other one attempted suicide. 00:39:36.002 --> 00:39:42.430 - Yeah, I had to pause there because I don't know where my mouth was going to go. But yes, we also need 00:39:42.430 --> 00:39:48.857 - to support our teachers, not only giving them the education and the training and the tools to support 00:39:48.857 --> 00:39:55.285 - the students, but we also have to support our educators from a higher up perspective because they are 00:39:55.285 --> 00:40:01.586 - taking all of this in on a daily or regular basis. Can you talk about in the situation of a natural 00:40:01.586 --> 00:40:04.926 - disaster where people are traumatized, just the role 00:40:05.090 --> 00:40:11.964 - of having people to listen and so as the traumatized people can just tell their stories over and over 00:40:11.964 --> 00:40:18.771 - and over again. Okay, so if you always want to learn more about trauma, I'm happy to come back or do 00:40:18.771 --> 00:40:25.712 - one-on-one or something else because what you're doing is getting a little bit deeper. So what we know 00:40:25.712 --> 00:40:32.721 - is that trauma between two people is far worse than a natural disaster for a number of reasons. In part 00:40:32.721 --> 00:40:34.878 - because with natural disasters, 00:40:35.234 --> 00:40:40.942 - there's an influx of resources and support and people to connect with. That immediate response actually 00:40:40.942 --> 00:40:46.431 - alleviates and helps to soften the blow, if you will. I would not encourage people to talk over and 00:40:46.431 --> 00:40:52.084 - over again about their experience unless you're trained, a trained listener, because it could actually 00:40:52.084 --> 00:40:57.682 - get worse. But yes, being able to share your story and your experience in a safe environment and with 00:40:57.682 --> 00:41:03.006 - somebody that's gonna be supportive and well-trained is part of the healing process, definitely. 00:41:12.866 --> 00:41:19.792 - Hello. I work with students. I work at IU. I work with college freshmen in a residential setting and 00:41:19.792 --> 00:41:26.855 - I teach a course for them as well. We do a lot to build community and to be as supportive and kind and 00:41:26.855 --> 00:41:33.986 - respectful as possible. I can cultivate that in my classroom, but what I find sometimes is they go back 00:41:33.986 --> 00:41:37.758 - to the dorm and sometimes those interactions are maybe 00:41:38.306 --> 00:41:44.551 - not as positive and sometimes I've worked with students who have had trauma and it's been triggered 00:41:44.551 --> 00:41:50.858 - for, I don't know if that's the word that you would use. So I guess my question is someone who works 00:41:50.858 --> 00:41:57.227 - with students or working with people and wants to take that approach but sees it not always happening 00:41:57.227 --> 00:42:03.721 - with others. How do you recommend handling that or supporting students who had an experience that maybe 00:42:03.721 --> 00:42:08.030 - brings up that trauma and addressing it with both the person who was 00:42:08.130 --> 00:42:15.268 - perhaps retraumatize in the person who maybe wasn't fully aware of what was going on, if giving the 00:42:15.268 --> 00:42:22.478 - most charitable interpretation. Yeah. This happens not only at the college level, but organizations. 00:42:22.478 --> 00:42:29.901 - I mean, even as a faculty member, I have had some issues and I've asked higher up for support. How they 00:42:29.901 --> 00:42:37.182 - respond can make it actually worse in some cases. I would say be very careful with how you respond or 00:42:37.378 --> 00:42:43.434 - whoever else is in that situation. Grounding and stabilizing that person depending on how activated 00:42:43.434 --> 00:42:49.490 - they are. I mean, if you see that they're visibly upset, being present with them, if that's calming 00:42:49.490 --> 00:42:55.849 - to them, talking to them, moving them to a different environment to just breathe, sit and relax. I mean, 00:42:55.849 --> 00:43:01.905 - there's other things that I'm happy to share with you. For the peer, I think that there needs to be 00:43:01.905 --> 00:43:05.054 - some accountability. They may or may not have known 00:43:05.954 --> 00:43:12.753 - but they may have done things intentionally as well. But I can tell you, even as a professional, we 00:43:12.753 --> 00:43:19.688 - can only do the best we can do. And sometimes our humanity takes over. Sometimes we lose our control. 00:43:19.688 --> 00:43:26.691 - We lose our cool. We say things that are hurtful. The best thing you can do is go back and repair that 00:43:26.691 --> 00:43:33.694 - relationship. Nobody's expecting perfection. Not one of us here is God. Maybe, I don't know. But yeah. 00:43:33.858 --> 00:43:40.242 - I think accountability, retraining, but also not chastising that person, because they may not have known. 00:43:40.242 --> 00:43:46.385 - And again, you are in that position sort of triangulating with the person that was re-traumatized and 00:43:46.385 --> 00:43:52.468 - the perpetrator, and you can be that point of connection for both of them and a point of healing for 00:43:52.468 --> 00:43:58.491 - both of them. So you have to be mindful about how you approach them. But yes, I do think, you know, 00:43:58.491 --> 00:44:03.550 - helping that person come, but also holding the other person accountable and saying, 00:44:03.874 --> 00:44:14.357 - How could you do that differently? Do we have any questions online? So I'll do one. So in my role in 00:44:14.357 --> 00:44:25.255 - staffing the Human Rights Commission at the city, I frequently have to do interviews and take interviews 00:44:25.255 --> 00:44:33.662 - with people in the community who feel like they have been discriminated against. 00:44:33.922 --> 00:44:41.285 - And a large portion of the time there are people clearly who have suffered a lot of trauma. Like what 00:44:41.285 --> 00:44:48.793 - are you or we doing in that world of trying to get those people trauma? I mean, when we try to get them 00:44:48.793 --> 00:44:56.156 - to any other kind of help, we're pretty stymied because they're not interested in it. And yet you can 00:44:56.156 --> 00:45:03.230 - tell they really, really need it. Can you talk about that at all about what you do in that world? 00:45:04.770 --> 00:45:12.223 - Yes. All you can do is offer. You can't force. Um, and there is, I'm going to go a little bit too deep 00:45:12.223 --> 00:45:19.530 - here, but it's relevant. Jeff Young, uh, talks about, uh, the 10 life traps and sometimes people get 00:45:19.530 --> 00:45:27.128 - stuck in the victim mentality and that's all they see. Again, it's based on life experiences, but that's 00:45:27.128 --> 00:45:33.278 - not someplace where we should be staying. However, you can't force people to change. 00:45:34.178 --> 00:45:41.854 - How many of you have tried to change somebody? How many of you have been successful? So there's some 00:45:41.854 --> 00:45:49.758 - tools around motivational interviewing, I think, that can help get people more motivated, more inclined 00:45:49.758 --> 00:45:57.662 - to seek the help, to accept the help that you might be offering. So there's strategies and ways to talk 00:45:57.662 --> 00:46:00.094 - with them. But other than that, 00:46:00.226 --> 00:46:06.891 - You can do the best you can, offer support, follow through with what you're saying, but it's ultimately 00:46:06.891 --> 00:46:13.300 - the person's choice. And I'm also not talking about trauma-specific treatment because that requires 00:46:13.300 --> 00:46:19.836 - usually a graduate degree, credentialing, and specialized training. Trauma-informed care is something 00:46:19.836 --> 00:46:20.990 - everybody can do. 00:46:25.282 --> 00:46:34.276 - I want to go back to where you started, where you're talking about stressed versus traumatized and your 00:46:34.276 --> 00:46:43.270 - people interpreting stress as trauma. As a society, how do we create individuals or nurture individuals 00:46:43.270 --> 00:46:52.264 - to be kind and sensitive, yet also resilient? And it just seems like we've lost some of our resilience. 00:46:52.264 --> 00:46:54.686 - Yes. And how do we do both? 00:46:55.522 --> 00:47:01.846 - Yeah, that's a good question. I do believe that, and I've seen the change in the classroom over the 00:47:01.846 --> 00:47:08.170 - 10 years of being here, I do see a shift in resilience with students. And that's a good question. I 00:47:08.170 --> 00:47:14.494 - think some of it happens very early on. I think some of these interventions around social emotional 00:47:14.494 --> 00:47:20.818 - wellness can really be helpful to help people identify their emotions, to cope with their emotions, 00:47:20.818 --> 00:47:22.462 - to build that resilience. 00:47:23.426 --> 00:47:29.443 - I think that this idea that everybody's a winner? No. I mean, you know, everybody should get an award, 00:47:29.443 --> 00:47:35.343 - everybody should get a trophy. It doesn't work. That's not reality, folks. But what that has done is 00:47:35.343 --> 00:47:40.776 - I think has diminished people's resilience to cope with, OK, I need to try harder next time. 00:47:40.776 --> 00:47:46.910 - I can do better, or I will do better, or I'll practice more. This sense of it has, I think, in some ways 00:47:47.010 --> 00:47:53.722 - This is not based on science. This is my opinion now. I think it has decreased resilience in people's 00:47:53.722 --> 00:48:00.566 - ability to cope with stress. I also think that how people manage that has come out oftentimes in social 00:48:00.566 --> 00:48:07.410 - media rather than actual person-to-person resolution. We don't interact with people very well. We don't 00:48:07.410 --> 00:48:13.990 - play on playgrounds anymore. We don't run down to the milk machine at the end of the street for our 00:48:13.990 --> 00:48:16.030 - older senior citizen neighbor. 00:48:16.322 --> 00:48:24.115 - and I'd learned that not everybody had milk machines on their street. I did. It's 50 cents for a quart 00:48:24.115 --> 00:48:31.909 - of milk. So I think we need to get back to people skills. I think we need to, we've lost some of that, 00:48:31.909 --> 00:48:39.475 - quite frankly. And we need to, some of the basic lessons in life. I don't have the solution. Again, 00:48:39.475 --> 00:48:45.982 - I don't have the science behind that part, but I do think that giving people feedback 00:48:46.562 --> 00:48:55.156 - Criticism isn't always bad. It can help you to learn and grow, but it depends on how you respond to 00:48:55.156 --> 00:49:03.836 - it and whether or not you're given it. So couldn't agree with you more on the trophies. Feedback's a 00:49:03.836 --> 00:49:10.110 - gift. I'm very gifted, hence the gray hair. But one of the things I just 00:49:10.274 --> 00:49:16.890 - I've been doing CASA work since moving back here, so about seven years, and the ACEs scores is dead 00:49:16.890 --> 00:49:23.838 - on. Anyone in this room—you know, there's still about 130 kids out there that don't have CASAs helping 00:49:23.838 --> 00:49:30.653 - them as they navigate through everything you just talked about, and that's Monroe County only. You can 00:49:30.653 --> 00:49:33.630 - make a difference by helping those children. 00:49:33.858 --> 00:49:43.667 - by modeling and working with them. So while I'm not necessarily asking a question, I would just put 00:49:43.667 --> 00:49:53.476 - that out there, since we are about service, about self, that that's some way you can impact a child 00:49:53.476 --> 00:50:00.734 - very positively, albeit for a brief time. So. Yes, definitely. Thank you. 00:50:00.834 --> 00:50:07.664 - I have a statement and I have a question. First of all, I am very stressed and traumatized. And one 00:50:07.664 --> 00:50:14.563 - of the ways that helped me and has helped me is I do a kickboxing class through Revelation Wellness. 00:50:14.563 --> 00:50:21.393 - And it's also with prayer and scripture. And there's a group of ladies and it really like helps me. 00:50:21.393 --> 00:50:28.360 - But is there any other resource or besides exercising or things like that that will help in instances 00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:29.726 - besides medication? 00:50:30.306 --> 00:50:35.838 - Yes, yes, that's an excellent question. Okay, so I could actually refer you to somebody if you wanted, 00:50:35.838 --> 00:50:41.263 - talk to you afterwards, my own therapist. So yes, I am a social worker and yes, I've gone to therapy 00:50:41.263 --> 00:50:46.795 - and need to tune up from time to time. Nothing wrong with that. No shame in the game. That's also part 00:50:46.795 --> 00:50:52.274 - of the process. We need to talk about mental health. We need to talk about mental illness. We need to 00:50:52.274 --> 00:50:57.752 - talk about these things. We need to stop stigmatizing them because there are people in our midst that 00:50:57.752 --> 00:51:00.062 - are experiencing what we're talking about. 00:51:00.546 --> 00:51:07.239 - So yes, physical activity, anything, is great. Doing activity with other people, even better. Adding 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:13.933 - scripture and prayer, if that's for you, it's not for everybody, maybe it's mindfulness. Yes, all of 00:51:13.933 --> 00:51:20.758 - that together sounds like a great combination. Medications do help, whether that's with the depressive 00:51:20.758 --> 00:51:27.518 - experiences or the anxiousness or the intrusive thoughts, the sleepless nights, medications can help. 00:51:28.098 --> 00:51:34.966 - I would never say just rely on medication. I would say that needs to be paired with some mental health 00:51:34.966 --> 00:51:41.767 - intervention. There are specific—trauma-specific interventions that can be done. EMDR, eye movement 00:51:41.767 --> 00:51:48.502 - desensitization reprocessing, is well established, well researched, and is even effective for people 00:51:48.502 --> 00:51:50.302 - that are non-speaking. OK? 00:51:50.402 --> 00:51:56.777 - You don't have to go through and tell your whole life story. It's pretty focused. It's pretty effective. 00:51:56.777 --> 00:52:02.910 - There's trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy. There is exposure therapy. There's CPT. There's 00:52:02.910 --> 00:52:09.407 - progressive counting. There are a number of evidence-based practices. Not every mental health professional 00:52:09.407 --> 00:52:16.086 - is trained in all of them. Some of them aren't trained in any of them. But if you want to connect afterwards, 00:52:16.086 --> 00:52:17.118 - I'd be happy to. 00:52:21.314 --> 00:52:31.622 - One more question? No? Okay. Thank you very much. Yes, thank you. Thanks. We have about three minutes 00:52:31.622 --> 00:52:42.638 - left if there's any happy dollars for Teachers Warehouse out there. Is anyone happy in here after discussing 00:52:42.638 --> 00:52:46.782 - trauma? Lynn's always happy about the... 00:52:46.914 --> 00:52:54.995 - I should give you $17. Last night, the, oh no, I'll give you nine. Last night, the Cubs scored nine 00:52:54.995 --> 00:53:03.076 - home runs. Yes. Three of them from Bregman. Yes. We scored 17 runs, beat our nemesis, the Milwaukee 00:53:03.076 --> 00:53:10.430 - Brewers, who lead the division 17 to three. First game of a four game series. I'm hopeful. 00:53:13.410 --> 00:53:21.151 - Ironically, Phil Amerson was at that game. I saw a post from his daughter on it. So a lot of Cubby fans. 00:53:21.151 --> 00:53:28.745 - Steve? So to build upon Carol Anne's reflection, later next week, I'm going to head east, join a group 00:53:28.745 --> 00:53:36.413 - of friends whom I've known since kindergarten. We're going to bicycle 200 miles and then go to our 50th 00:53:36.413 --> 00:53:40.542 - high school reunion. Oh, that's cool. I'm pretty happy. 00:53:47.810 --> 00:53:56.385 - I'd like to give 20 happy dollars to say thank you to all these wonderful Rotarians. So many of you 00:53:56.385 --> 00:54:04.960 - I've known for a long time now and love you all. Thank you. I have a happy dollar because I'm going 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:11.134 - to Italy in Thursday. So it's my first international trip. Oh, awesome. 00:54:15.554 --> 00:54:24.316 - I'm actually going to give a dollar because I told Emily she needed to do a happy dollar, so. And do 00:54:24.316 --> 00:54:33.251 - we have any online? Yes, we do. We have myself. I'm going to give 18 happy dollars. We lost you. Yeah, 00:54:33.251 --> 00:54:42.186 - the host muted me and I'm a host. That's funny. 18 happy dollars for the Wonder Lab Gala. We only have 00:54:42.186 --> 00:54:44.702 - 19 seats available. Alright. 00:54:45.410 --> 00:54:52.446 - And last one. So on the theme of high school reunions, I'll go to my 55th on Saturday. Wow. All right. 00:54:52.446 --> 00:54:59.482 - So we have lots of happy people. So John, thank you for your presentation. And in honor of your topic, 00:54:59.482 --> 00:55:06.313 - we will donate $100 for the quarter to C-Jam for their efforts. So thank you. I'd like to thank all 00:55:06.313 --> 00:55:13.144 - of our volunteers today, because without you, we couldn't do the program. Greeting was Dr. Winston, 00:55:13.144 --> 00:55:15.262 - Katie for guest introductions, 00:55:15.522 --> 00:55:21.777 - Kyla for a great speaker and introduction. And then Leslie, as always, for Zoom between you and Joy. 00:55:21.777 --> 00:55:27.970 - Thank you for all that you do. Carol Ann, a perfect reflection. Sarah Laughlin, so good to have you 00:55:27.970 --> 00:55:34.039 - back and now doing reporting. God bless you. Michael Shermus doing the camera and mic, as always. 00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:36.702 - And Alon, I think you did the photography. 00:55:37.026 --> 00:55:43.443 - And then Jill, as always, handling the desk, and Tyler, all our audio. And we will have the screen jumping 00:55:43.443 --> 00:55:49.861 - fixed next week. We just want to keep you guys on your toes. Our next meeting will be here in the Georgian 00:55:49.861 --> 00:55:56.038 - room on the 8th. Michael Arnold will be our guest discussing public media. That should be interesting. 00:55:56.038 --> 00:56:02.155 - So please join us if you can. And with that, if you could, Tyler, put the screen up and stand for the 00:56:02.155 --> 00:56:05.214 - four-way test. Of the things we think, say, or do, 00:56:05.570 --> 00:56:12.749 - First, is it the truth? Second, is it fair to all concerned? Third, will it build goodwill and better 00:56:12.749 --> 00:56:18.590 - friendships? Fourth, will it be beneficial to all concerned? And fifth, is it fun?