Profile Information
Location
Cornwall, PA
Country
United States
Postal Code
17016
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Counselor and spiritual director, facilitator of writing workshops for survivors of child sex abuse.
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Safe Places Community, various churches, and self-employed.
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I work with survivors of child sex abuse, and want to expand my knowledge and understanding of their experiences, needs. ACES is something I've worked with as a former college professor whose students all had trauma-filled lives. As I began to work with survivors, had to study this field, to come to terms with the full impact of childhood trauma. (As well as to understand the way trauma has been inflicted on certain groups in our culture, including people of color, immigrants). I am currently writing a memoir about parental abduction and the impact it has had on my own life--how it has harmed me, but also how it has opened my eyes to the experience of exile that so many endure.
If you're part of a community-based PACEs initiative, which one?
Safe Communities (formerly Samaritan Safe Church)