History. Culture. Trauma
According to Resmaa Menakem, trauma decontextualized over time looks like culture.
Episodes
April 18, 2024 • 60 mins
Often lacking in funding and support, Black non-profit leaders are driving the work to liberate Black communities and bring in an age of equity and reconciliation. This week, we welcome Travis Claybrooks, founder and CEO of the Raphah Institute. Raphah Institute envisions a cradle-to-homeownership pipeline that has replaced the cradle-to-prison pipeline. Through partnerships and programming, Raphah helps marginalized community memb...
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April 11, 2024 • 60 mins
America's culture of child abuse and neglect negatively impacts every aspect of American life. During 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 two of this series. This episode is dedicated to illuminating the systemic nature of child abuse and neg...
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April 4, 2024 • 60 mins
Child abuse and neglect negatively impacts every aspect of American life. To honor Child Abuse Prevention Month, we will revisit a discussion between co-hosts, Ingrid Cockhren and Mathew Portell. In this 2-part conversation, Ingrid & Mathew examine America's history of child abuse and neglect and outline how this history connects to our current child abuse crisis. This episode is dedicated to illuminating the systemic nature of chi...
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March 28, 2024 • 60 mins
In consideration of Women's History month, we will revisit our talk with Dr. Sandra Bloom. For the past forty years, Dr. Bloom has done pioneering work in the field of traumatic stress studies. From 1980-2001, Dr. Bloom served as Founder and Executive Director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the treatment of trauma-related emotional disorders and during those years was also President of the Alliance fo...
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March 21, 2024 • 60 mins
As we continue to honor women in the worldwide PACEs movement, this week our guest is Beth Tyson. Beth Tyson is a childhood trauma consultant and author. Our discussion will center on the state of infant and child mental health post-Covid.
Beth Tyson, MA, is an international childhood trauma consultant, acclaimed author, CASA volunteer, and co-chair of the PA Child Abuse Prevention Team. With a background as a family-based trau...
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March 14, 2024 • 60 mins
In honor of Women's History Month, in this episode PACEs Connection tackles the importance of trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive schools with guest, Dr. Tyisha Noise. Dr. 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 racial reckoning, a polarized political climat...
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March 7, 2024 • 60 mins
This week, in honor of Women's History Month, we will speak with Elona Washington. Elona is the founder of The Author’s Journey, an award-winning marketing agency. Elona is a childhood trauma survivor who understands firsthand the challenges of revealing life's most intimate, personal moments. After self-publishing her memoir, she was catapulted in the public eye as a #metoo activist, appearing in the USA TODAY, Canadian Broadcasti...
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February 29, 2024 • 60 mins
As we close out Black History Month, we must reflect on the vital role of Black non-profit leaders. Often lacking in funding and support, Black non-profit leaders are driving the work to liberate Black communities and bring in an age of equity and reconciliation. This week, we welcome Travis Claybrooks, founder and CEO of the Raphah Institute. Raphah Institute envisions a cradle-to-homeownership pipeline that has replaced the cradl...
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February 22, 2024 • 60 mins
In this episode, Candice Valenzuela joins us again. Her last episode focused on self-care and minority mental health aired in 2022 and is one of our most popular episodes. We are excited to have her as a guest again.
Candice and our hosts, Ingrid Cockhren & Mathew Portell will discuss the importance of healing intergenerational trauma. How can parents ensure that generational issues do not continue to impact future generations? Th...
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February 15, 2024 • 60 mins
As our nation celebrates Black History Month, we at PACEs Connection believe it is appropriate to recognize the history of enslavement, discrimination, Jim Crow and domestic terrorism that Black people have endured. The resulting historical trauma of racism should be recognized and honored.
This week's episode is an excerpt from a recorded interview of Dr. Bruce Perry conducted by our hosts, Ingrid Cockhren & Mathew Portell. The i...
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February 8, 2024 • 60 mins
In this week's episode, we are excited to have Dr. Amy King. Amy King, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who provides training, consultation and education to professionals and organizations. She specializes in trauma-informed work and resilience building. Dr. King advises organizations around wellness, staff vitality and creating trauma-responsive spaces. Her specialties include working with professionals to help create resilient chi...
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February 1, 2024 • 60 mins
We are excited to announce another episode of History. Culture. Trauma.! Our next conversation is with VictimFocus CEO & Sunday Times Bestselling author, Dr. Jessica Taylor.
Late last year, the World Health Organization and the United Nations acknowledged that environmental factors played a large role in the current mental health epidemic. Also, with a new understanding of scientific colonialism and scientific racism, the questi...
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January 18, 2024 • 60 mins
History. Culture. Trauma has returned! This episode is dedicated to the work of the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice, known as CTIPP. CTIPP's mission is to create a healthy, just, resilient, and trauma-informed society where all individuals, families, and communities have the social, political, cultural, economic, and spiritual opportunities and support necessary to thrive.
Our host, Ingrid Cockhren, will talk with...
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December 28, 2023 • 60 mins
This week's episode focuses on how grief and mental health issues can be exacerbated by the holiday season. As we are emerging from the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have lost loved ones. And, even pre-pandemic, the holiday season was often a time of grief, loss and sadness. Our host Ingrid Cockhren will welcome former PACEs Connection team member and Grief & Wellness consultant, Gail Kennedy, and Yolo Cares for ...
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December 21, 2023 • 60 mins
This week's episode focuses on how grief and mental health issues can be exacerbated by the holiday season. As we are emerging from the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have lost loved ones. And, even pre-pandemic, the holiday season was often a time of grief, loss and sadness. Our host Ingrid Cockhren will welcome former PACEs Connection team member and Grief & Wellness consultant, Gail Kennedy, and Yolo Cares for ...
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December 14, 2023 • 60 mins
In response to the surge of new listeners, we want to highlight our first episode. Long-time health, science and technology journalist, and founder of PACEs Connection, Jane Stevens joins PACEs Connection's 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 provid...
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December 7, 2023 • 60 mins
This week, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren & Mathew Portell will speak with author Mary Giuliani. We will discuss her new book It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD. The book launched on February 21st, 2023.
Even though Mary was in long-term recovery with food, severe obesity, drugs, and alcohol and had what most people would consider a successful life— behind closed doors, she still struggled and won...
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November 30, 2023 • 60 mins
This week's episode is an encore of our discussion with Dr. Robert Sege. Robert Sege, MD, Ph.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he directs the Center for Community-engaged Medicine and is a core faculty member of the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Dr. Sege is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, is part of the Leader...
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November 16, 2023 • 60 mins
A supportive community can serve as a primary catalyst for healing both individual and collective trauma. Faith-based entities, organizations, and churches have been the conduit for transformation and healing if they understand PACE's science. Unfortunately, history has shown shame and blame theology, as well as the stigmatization of mental health supports, has not only perpetuated but also inflicted trauma on many in the congreg...
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November 9, 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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