Engaging Experts: Dr. Rachel Gilgoff on Seven Strategies for Healing

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

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Skills That Go Beyond the Classroom and Prepare Students for Life: Social Emotional Learning

The Pathways Learning Network convened on Thursday, March 23 to learn about how school districts are going beyond the traditional academic structures to create inclusive learning environments and teach specific skills like self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. During this session, Andy Tucker, CASEL; Tanya Albornoz, Utah State Board of Education; and Emily Arkfeld, Nebraska’s Multi-Tiered

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It Starts With Us: Building a Trauma-Responsive and Resilient Workplace

Individuals who work within systems that respond to trauma carry a high risk for secondary traumatic stress and vicarious trauma. Building a trauma-responsive organization can support a happy, healthy, and resilient workforce. The Pathways Learning Network convened on April 10, 2023 to learn more about actionable steps that can make your organization more trauma-responsive.

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Creating Physical Spaces to Foster Healing and Resilience: Trauma-Informed Design

Pursuing trauma-informed and trauma-responsive approaches across sectors extends to the spaces and settings we inhabit. The Pathways Learning Network convened on May 17, 2023 to learn about advances in the fields of architecture, design, and urban planning that consider the needs of people with lived experiences of trauma to prevent re-traumatization and promote overall well-being, healing, and joy in individuals

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Preventing Violence and Helping Survivors Heal with Trauma-Responsive Policies and Practices

Learn about how policymakers, community leaders, and advocates are working to prevent violence and provide trauma-responsive services to individuals and communities affected by violence to support the healing process in this Pathways Learning Network session held June 13, 2023. Abigail Hurst, Director of Trauma-Informed Programs at Everytown for Gun Safety, explores recent research on the far-reaching impacts of gun violence

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Building Trauma-Responsive Networks of Care

Trauma-responsive Networks of Care are cross-sector collaborations that provide services and supports to help children and families prevent, address, and heal from trauma and toxic stress. They may include government agencies, community organizations, schools, health care providers, community members, and others. The Pathways Learning Network convened to learn how counties in California and Ohio are developing and sustaining trauma-responsive Networks

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