Becky Haas describes strategies for states and employers to become trauma-informed and responsive; discusses the importance of working across sectors to address trauma; and shares tips for avoiding re-traumatization in the justice system.
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Pawan Bareja, PhD, is a trauma resolution practitioner who teaches trauma-informed mindfulness meditation at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in San Francisco, California. Mindfulness meditation is an evidence-based “stress buster” that can be used to regulate the stress response and promote healing.
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Dr. Gilgoff is a child abuse pediatrician and serves as a member of the Pathways to Resilience Expert Advisory Committee. She has been a clinical advisor to the California ACEs Aware initiative since 2020. Dr. Gilgoff has worked at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital & Research Center and helped develop and implement the Pediatric ACEs and Related Life Events (PEARLS) study as a co-investigator with the Bay Area Research Consortium. Her work now focuses on prevention efforts and program development and aims to incorporate trauma interventions into routine pediatric clinical practice.
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Sectors: Early Childhood, Education, Health

In this video, the last in our three-part series, Dr. Rachel Gilgoff discusses evidence-based strategies, or “stress busters,” that help mitigate and treat toxic stress and improve health. Dr. Gilgoff provides examples of how providers and families can incorporate these strategies – supportive relationships, quality sleep, balanced nutrition, physical activity, mindfulness practices, experiencing nature, and mental health care – into their clinical practices and daily routines to improve overall wellbeing.
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Rachel Gilgoff, MD, is a child abuse pediatrician and serves as a member of the Pathways to Resilience Advisory Committee. She has been a clinical advisor to the California ACEs Aware initiative since 2020. Dr. Gilgoff has worked at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital & Research Center and helped develop and implement the Pediatric ACEs and Related Life Events (PEARLS) study as a co-investigator with the Bay Area Research Consortium. Her work now focuses on prevention efforts and program development and aims to incorporate trauma interventions into routine pediatric clinical practice.
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Sectors: Early Childhood, Education, Health

Dr. Rachel Gilgoff talks about implications of toxic stress, which is the prolonged activation of the stress response system. She explains how the repeated activation of the stress response system can impact both the body and mind and increase the risk of serious health conditions.
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In the first of a new series of videos engaging national experts on resilience strategies,  Dr. Roy Wade Jr., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Pediatrician, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses opportunities for clinicians to improve communications with their patients to address trauma and prevent toxic stress.
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Jasmine Allen is a trauma-informed yoga instructor, trainer, writer, and owner of Soul Haum Yoga, the only trauma-informed yoga studio in Philadelphia. She provides trauma-informed trainings and workshops for businesses, organizations, small groups, and individuals. Her articles on trauma-informed best practices have been featured in Yoga International and XONecole. Jasmine holds a 200-hour yoga teacher certification, 40-hour trauma-informed yoga teacher certification from Yogaworks, and 30-hour certification in Accessible yoga. She received her bachelor’s in Sociology from Temple University and Master’s in Education Policy from Columbia University. Jasmine is also a somatic experiencing practitioner in training.
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Hear from Jasmine Allen, trauma-informed yoga instructor, trainer, writer, and owner of Soul Haum Yoga, as she discusses the benefits of trauma-informed yoga and how its accessibility, inclusivity, and healing focus can help individuals who have experienced trauma to feel greater personal agency, increased safety within their bodies, and improved nervous system regulation.
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Pawan Bareja, PhD, is a trauma resolution practitioner who teaches trauma-informed mindfulness meditation at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in San Francisco, California. Mindfulness meditation is an evidence-based “stress buster” that can be used to regulate the stress response and promote healing. In this video, Dr. Bareja describes trauma-informed mindfulness meditation and how it helps people recognize and address their physical and emotional responses to stressful situations. Anyone can use mindfulness meditation to help find inner peace and balance when experiencing stressors in life, such as illness, family challenges, or financial worries. Building capacity to face to these stressful situations helps build individual resilience.
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