Screening and Assessment as Sacred Meaning Making | March 18, 2022
Date of Presentation: March 18, 2022
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical Community
Keywords: #ACEs #Domestic violence #healthy relationships #prevention #protective factors #resilience #risk factors #sexual assault #trauma #violence
In this series of presentations, Al Whitemore and Maleah Nore, provide an overview of why it is important to screen for child abuse and neglect, sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, and ACEs, with a focus on resiliency screening questions from a non-nuclear family orientation that are more culture and community-based. This session also provides an overview of how to screen for and respond to child abuse and neglect, sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, and ACEs.
Recording:
Presented by:
Alison Whitemore | Maleah Nore
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.
Maleah Nore, is a member of the Tlingit Nation from Wrangell, Alaska. She is the Tribal Health – Reaching out InVolves Everyone (THRIVE) Suicide Prevention Project Coordinator at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB). She provides technical assistance, training, and data dissemination efforts for the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and coordinates the annual THRIVE Suicide Prevention Conference for Youth. Maleah graduated from Dartmouth College in 2020 with a B. A. in Psychology and a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She has been involved in grassroots and non-profit violence prevention for over four years. Maleah’s work focuses on bolstering resilience amongst tribal communities and youth and creating systems that effectively support people during times of distress.
Resources Provided:
- Evaluation
- Understanding the Dynamics and Tactics of Intimate Partner Violence through the Lens of Indigenous Survivors (NIWRC)
- Domestic Violence Prevention and Sexual Assault Training (ANTHC)
- Cultural Abuse 101 (StrongHearts Native Helpline)
- Domestic Violence 101 (NPAIHB & Stronghearts)
- Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention (CDC)
- ACEs Aware (Website)
- Toxic Stress in Children and Adolescents (Adv in Bed)
- Roadmap for Resilience The California Surgeon General’s Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health (CA Sure Gen)
- Adverse Childhood Experiences, Outcomes, and Interventions (Ped Clinic of NA)
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (CDC)
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (Website)
- California Rural Indian Health Board, (March 2022) Practice Paper Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives - Trauma and Resilience in Native Communities (CRIHB)
- ACEs Video (Sonoma County Indian Health Inc.)
- Native Wellness Assessment (Thunderbird Partnership Foundation)
- Aboriginal Children’s Health and Wellbeing Measure (ACHWM)
- Intimate Partner Violence Screening: Fact Sheet And Resources (AHRQQ)
- Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Victimization Assessment Instruments for Use in Healthcare Settings (CDC)
- Understanding the Power and Control Wheel (Domestic Abuse Intervention Project)
- Intimate Partner Violence Triangle (NIWRC)
- Nonviolence Equality Wheel (NCDSV)
- Improving the response of primary care providers to rural First Nation women who experience intimate partner violence: a qualitative study (BMC Women's Health)
- Preventing IPV Across the Lifespan: A Technical Package of Programs, Policies, and Practices (CDC)
- Primary Care–Based Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence (AJPM)
- Strong Hearts Native Helpline (Call 1-844-7NATIVE)
- Additional Resources (Healing ECHO)
- Benevoent Childhood Experiences and Resillience Questionnaires
- Long Term Resonance of Benevoent Childhood Experiences amoung Indigenous Young Adults
- Positive childhood experiences predict less psychopathology and stress in pregnant women with childhood adversity (IJCAN)
Date added: March 15, 2022