Trauma

YOUTH SERVICE PROVIDER

TOWNHALL @ Metzner

The Problem

Children who witness gun violence experience dangerous levels of traumatic stress, yet more than 76 percent who would benefit from treatment are never referred for diagnosis.

Bloomberg philanthropy project

Mayors challenge

ARE WE TRAUMA INFORMED;

TRAUMA AWARE?

Test

Learn

Adapt

NEXT STEPS

volunteers to . . .

https://mayorschallenge.bloomberg.org/ideas/hartford/

Networking

Eli Mercado - faith based initiative

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MARCH and APRIL UPDATES

Renewed Attention . . .
Whether begging is truly on the rise or there are simply more people are attuned to it, the issue prompted leaders from the Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association to convened Wednesday evening for a special forum. It brought together social workers, mental health and addiction specialists, church leaders and a prosecutor who handles the brunt of Hartford’s panhandling charges.

“We’ve perceived there to be an increase in panhandling in our neighborhood,” said Cathy Zeiner, chief operating officer of the YWCA on Broad Street, which hosted the forum.

“There’s been an uptick, although it’s nothing on the level of what New York, San Francisco or Seattle are seeing,” said Jordan Polon, executive director of the Hartford Business Improvement District. “But it’s all relative. Panhandling is panhandling, and people are seeing it in their community.” - SEE THE REST OF THE STORY HERE

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Special Dinner and a Story birthday 
celebration at AHFC for Mahliia

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A good team effort today (4/17/18) DINNER & A STORY@ Parker • Spring is in the air ! 
“April Showers bring May flowers” . . .  Seriously? . . .FAMILY CENTERS ROCK !!

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Green Team Event – 

Parker Memorial Community Center

Date: 21 April 2018 9:00am 

The Greater Hartford Green Team meets (usually) the third Saturday of each month from March Through October 2018 from 9 am to 1 pm. They will be coordinating beautification projects, planting and sprucing- up various sites throughout the City of Hartford. 

For more info, or to sign up for future Saturdays, 

contact Nicola at (860) 951-7694 ext 14 or nicolaa@knoxhartford.org.

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Burned

TRUSTWORTHY?

INTENTION & EXPECTATION

I must want to trust, be trusting?

Two year old 

twins in the bathtub - 

Her: "what's that?"

Him: "I dunnow"

Her: "can I touch it?"

Him: "heck no u dun broke 

yours off already".

S U S P I C I O N

WHEN, HOW & WHY

we default to distrust?

"Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled."

HOW IS TRUST BUILT?

1. Never assign motive
2. Seek explanations 
3. Always forgive

Lines of communication 

LOYALTY, LIES & TRUST

OBSERVATIONS 

1. Did Judas tell the "truth"?
2. Opinions are not just facts
3. Beliefs are not just facts
4. Truth is not just facts
5. Peter lied

TRUST DECREASES 

As biases are denied

As facts are withheld

As inaccuracies are enlarged 

As inconsistencies are flaunted

 

 

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Civil Engagement

CIVICS ???
Civics: the political and practical aspects of citizenship, rights and duties of citizens to each other. It includes the study of government with attention to the role of citizens in the operation and oversight of government. - WIKI

What if civics includes civility?

What if politics meant being polite?

"To be polite is to do or say

The kindest thing in the

Kindest way."

My parents taught us this little saying when I was a child. I have not forgotten it. 

They also taught me this bible verse from the book of proverbs: "a soft answer turns away wrath but grievous words stir up anger".

Civic engagement for me has to be first about family. The first "institution" that every individual will experience.

It is as a factory turning out citizens into our communities. Our schools or our prisons rarely correct what our families support. 

So, yes, parents, parent leaders are of necessity the prime movers in the mission of civic engagement - that mission: "producing" good citizens. 

To that end, I believe whatever else civic engagement may involve, it must have as a primary focus the strengthening of the family.

Mothers and fathers must be able to maintain strong, stable and sustainable family life across many generations to keep that supply of good citizens "flowing" out into our neighborhoods our communities our societies - our world !

Civic engagement initiatives should build support systems for fathers and sons and for mothers and daughters. Civic engagement to be effective must be two generational.

Every effort to lobby the legislature should have as its primary motivation the well-being of the next generation of citizens who will emerge from strong, stable sustainable families.

As we leverage the various economic successes of the marketplace in the political assemblies of this great 'constitution state', let us never forget that it is first and foremost for the family that we engage, let our civic engagement be always a civil engagement. In the words of scripture: "be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another; even as God for Christ sake has forgiven you".

Amen

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