Indigenous Strategies for Healing and Helping | April 1st, 2022
Date of Presentation: April 1, 2022
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical Community
Keywords: #Community healing #Culture as prevention #resilience #trauma
In this series of presentations, Danica Brown, and Alison Whitemore provide further discussion on trauma and indigenous strategies for healing and helping, including the healing tools of ceremony and familial healing. The session also focuses on the outcomes of community conversations being held in Tribal communities in the Pacific Northwest around screening for ACEs, violence prevention, and other difficult topics.
Recording:
Presented by:
Danica Brown | Alison Whitemore
Danica Love Brown, MSW, CACIII, PhD, is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma born and raised in Northern New Mexico. Danica is the Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and has worked as a mental health and substance use counselor, social worker, and youth advocate for over 20 years. Danica is an Indigenous Wellness Research Institute ISMART fellow alumni, Council of Social Work Education, Minority Fellowship Program fellow alumni, and Northwest Native American Research Center for Health fellow alumni. Her research has focused on Indigenous Ways of Knowing and decolonizing methodologies to address historical trauma and health disparities in Tribal communities.
Alison “Al” Whitemore, LCSW, RPT, is an enrolled tribal member of Round Valley Indian Tribes. She has 25 years of experience in social work bringing collaborative approaches in Neuro-relational, Ecological, Developmental and Cultural frameworks in Indigenous mental health and wellness. She works to be in right relationship with Mother Earth and the imperative social justice movements of our time. As well, she grapples to subvert colonial approaches by connecting with traditional ways of thinking to restore health and wellbeing to our communities. Al has been privileged to work in both Tribal public health programs and with national Native organizations, currently focusing her energies on strengthening the relational health of families. As a current Napa Parent/Infant Mental Health Fellow, Al is expanding her understanding of how we nurture the development of our infants and young children.
Resources Provided:
- Evaluation
- The Return to the Sacred Path: Reflections on the Development of Historical Trauma Healing (Takini Network)
- “I’m stronger than I thought”: Native women reconnecting to body, health, and place (Health Place)
- didgʷálič
- Dolores BigFoot (Univ of Oklahoma)
- Neurodecolonization and Indigenous Mindfulness
- Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships (Journal of American Academy of Child Psychiatry)
- Angels in the Nursery: The Intergenerational Transmission of Benevolent Parental Influences (Infant Mental Health Journal)
- Arietta Slade (Yale)
- Serve and Return (Harvard)
- Family Spirit (Johns Hopkins)
- Minding the Baby (Yale)
- Child Parent Psychotherapy (Website)
- Brazelton Touchpoints (Website)
- Additional Resources (Healing ECHO)
Date added: March 31, 2022