Trauma and “Addiction” in Indian Country | September 17, 2020
Date of Presentation: September 17, 2020
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Cherokee Substance Use Disorder
Keywords: #historical trauma #opioids #OUD #traditional intervention #traditional stories #traditions #trauma
In this presentation, Dr. Danica Brown, ECHO faculty member and Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, demonstrates how traditional indigenous knowledge and stories can aid in overcoming trauma related to opioid use disorder, provides an overview of substance use disorder, and shares harm reduction principles emphasizing the need to focus more on stress, trauma and poverty while providing intervention options that are grounded on traditional indigenous knowledge.
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Dr. Danica Love Brown
Danica Love Brown, MSW, Ph.D., is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, born and raised in Northern New Mexico. She currently is the Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and has worked as a mental health and substance abuse counselor, social worker and youth advocate for over 20 years. She has a history of working in the areas of prevention, drug and alcohol/mental health treatment, community and restorative justice, and sexual health with Native American and adjudicated youth, families and women. She specializes in working with culturally and socioeconomically diverse populations and Tribal communities, utilizing a trauma informed care framework. 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 is focused on Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Decolonizing Methodologies to address historical trauma and health disparities in Tribal communities and she loves puppies.
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Date added: September 17, 2020
