History. Culture. Trauma
According to Resmaa Menakem, trauma decontextualized over time looks like culture.
Episodes
September 28, 2023 • 60 mins
In this episode, PACEs Connection partners with the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health (NTTAC) to discuss the importance of healing-centered youth engagement. Our hosts, Ingrid Cockhren & Mathew Portell, will interview Joshua Smith. Smith is a juvenile justice advocate and peer support expert. Join us for a rich discussion highlighting how healing-centered approaches are the...
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September 21, 2023 • 60 mins
America's students have returned to the classroom and the school year is well underway. In this episode, PACEs Connection tackles the importance of trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive schools. Our guest, Dr. Tyisha Noise and hosts, Ingrid Cockhren & Mathew Portell, dig into the paradigm shifts needed to change the landscape of our schools. Our nation's children are grappling with the stress of a global pandemic, our country's raci...
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September 14, 2023 • 60 mins
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. It is a well-studied and highly effective treatment for those who have experienced trauma or have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. In this week's episode, we will speak with Yunetta Smith, one of few African American EMDR certified therapist.
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August 31, 2023 • 60 mins
In this episode, our host, Ingrid Cockhren, will speak with Rev. Deanna Hollas. Rev. Hollas is the Gun Violence Prevention Ministry Coordinator with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, a founding member of the Everytown for Gun Safety Interfaith Advisory Council, and the co-founder of Retreat House Spirituality Center. In her role with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, Rev. Hollas empowers and equips individuals and congregations a...
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August 24, 2023 • 60 mins
As we move into the month of September, PACEs Connection is taking a break. Our staff will be on a retreat next week and will celebrate Labor Day the following week. We will be taking the next two weeks to restore ourselves. We will engage in self & collective care. Here is CEO Ingrid Cockhren's favorite episode, What if Self-Care isn't the Answer? with Candice Valenzuela.
Self-care has become a buzzword but is self-care enough t...
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August 17, 2023 • 60 mins
As the summer winds down, its time to go back to school. This month, we will examine America's school system. In recent years, COVID-19, school shootings, affirmation of LGBTQ students, institutional racism, critical race theory, teacher burnout and parent's rights, have transformed America's schools into cultural battlegrounds. In result, students, teachers and administrators are experiencing poor mental health outcomes, secondary...
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August 10, 2023 • 60 mins
As the summer winds down, its time to go back to school. This month, we will examine America's school system. In recent years, COVID-19, school shootings, affirmation of LGBTQ students, institutional racism, critical race theory, teacher burnout, and parent's rights have transformed America's schools into cultural battlegrounds. As a result, students, teachers, and administrators are experiencing poor mental health outcomes, second...
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August 3, 2023 • 60 mins
As the summer winds down, its time to go back to school. This month, we will examine America's school system. In recent years, COVID-19, school shootings, affirmation of LGBTQ students, institutional racism, critical race theory, teacher burnout, and parent's rights have transformed America's schools into cultural battlegrounds. As a result, students, teachers, and administrators are experiencing poor mental health outcomes, second...
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July 27, 2023 • 60 mins
In part two of this series of episodes dedicated to the systemic nature of child abuse and neglect in America, Ingrid and Mathew will discuss the different layers of influence embedded within our society that create the conditions for abuse and neglect to fester. The focus will be on community-level influences. This discussion will include the influence of school environments, rural communities, housing discrimination, community vi...
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July 20, 2023 • 60 mins
Child abuse and neglect negatively impacts every aspect of American life. For the entire month of April 2022, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren and Mathew Portell examined America's history of child abuse and neglect and outlined how this history connects to our current child abuse crisis. Please join our hosts for an encore of Part one of this series. This episode is dedicated to illuminating the systemic nature of child abuse and neglect ...
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July 13, 2023 • 60 mins
Long-time health, science and technology journalist Jane Stevens joins PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren to do a deep dive into why people aren’t getting an accurate picture about violence in their communities. In fact, the state of violence reporting boils down to this: the news media is unintentionally providing misinformation about violence. Remarkably, the basics of crime reporting haven’t changed much since the late 1890s. ...
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July 6, 2023 • 60 mins
In response to the recent rash of mass shootings (that have mirrored July 2022), we will revisit our discussion with Timothy Hughes focused on our country's gun violence epidemic. Since 2020, America has been ravaged by a pandemic and endured political divide, nationwide protests and civil unrest. It is apparent that the collective trauma of the past three years has accelerated America's already dire gun violence crisis. However, w...
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June 29, 2023 • 60 mins
We have all heard of generational curses. But did you know that a growing body of research finds that it is possible for trauma to pass through generations? This research implies that the experiences of your ancestors can have real impact on your physical and mental health. This phenomenon is known as intergenerational transmission of trauma. Research in this area dates back to the 1960's when scientists were studying the effects o...
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June 22, 2023 • 60 mins
As we reflect on this past weekend's celebration of Juneteenth, it is obvious that the historical trauma of chattel slavery still lingers today. This week's episode is an excerpt from a recorded interview of Dr. Bruce Perry conducted by our hosts, Ingrid Cockhren & Mathew Portell. The interview occurred on June 28th, 2022 and launched PACEs Connection's Connecting Communities One Book at a Time initiative. In this interview, Dr. Br...
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June 15, 2023 • 60 mins
The History. Culture. Trauma Podcast examines trauma and resilience, not just at the individual level but at the systems and cultural level. How has the trauma of slavery and genocide impacted our current society? Why are the cultural manifestations of trauma, i.e., community violence, school shootings, etc., so pervasive? It was not until June 19, 2021, that Juneteenth, which marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston,...
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June 8, 2023 • 60 mins
This week's episode is an excerpt from a recorded interview of Donna Jackson Nakazawa conducted by PACEs Connection team members, Carey Sipp & Natalie Audage. The interview occurred on October 12th, 2022 and is the second installment of PACEs Connection's Connecting Communities One Book at a Time initiative. In this interview, Donna Jackson Nakazawa discusses her latest book Girls on the Brink (2022), which focuses on the impact of...
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June 1, 2023 • 60 mins
Pride Month occurs in the United States every June to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which happened at the end of June 1969. During this month, we recognize the impact LGBTQ+ people have had in the world. This week's episode is an encore discussion with Joe Brummer. Brummer uses his own life experiences to impact schools across the country to shift their paradigm towards strengthening individual and student school experiences th...
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May 25, 2023 • 60 mins
Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with mental health struggles. The collective trauma of COVID-19 has exasperated our country’s mental health crisis. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This week we have an encore discussion with Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz. Lewis-Pankratz will share her life experience in rural poverty and the impact systems, including foster care, had on her journey.
Rebecca grew up in ad...
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May 18, 2023 • 60 mins
As we continue to reflect on Mental Health Awareness month, please enjoy this encore episode with special guest, and former PACEs Connection team member, Dr. Donielle Prince.
Research has found that there is credibility to the term mind-body connection. There is a clear link between our thoughts, feelings, emotions and our physical body. At this point, should we, as a society, stop separating mental health and physical health? Are...
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May 11, 2023 • 60 mins
Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with mental health struggles. The collective trauma of COVID-19 exasperated our country’s mental health crisis.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In this encore episode, our co-hosts, Ingrid and Mathew, speak with Robert Sege, MD, Ph.D. Dr. Sege is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he directs the Center for Community-...
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