Profile Information
Location
Bozeman, MT
Country
United States
Postal Code
59717-2230
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Researcher & Chaplain
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Montana State University
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
My interests in ACE concepts are at least three-fold. First, as a grandparent who has helped raise two granddaughters into adulthood with profound ACEs; second, as a volunteer chaplain in a county jail and a state men's prison, I get to see where we are warehousing ACE kids later in life - sadly, embedded in our criminal justice system is an underground trauma-to-prison pipeline; and, third, as a Community Health Specialist in my day job, I advocate for more trauma-informed schools, trauma-informed law enforcement, trauma-informed healthcare, trauma-informed correctional facilities, and trauma-informed communities. We need to be implementing upstream interventions to prevent the mass incarceration of traumatized individuals.