In this episode, Jesse Kohler, executive director of the Campaign for Trauma informed Policy and Practice talks to us about leadership in a trauma-infromed world, creating meaning within hardship and how small acts of kindness can change people’s lives. I am your host, Luis Calderon, and I hope you enjoy today’s episode.

Welcome back to the second season of the Insight Cafe, An SBI Podcast! The SBI or Strong BRAIN Institute, uses science related to both childhood adversity and building resilience to prevent or lessen the negative impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs) on people’s lives. We want to promote awareness and the use of resilience informed procedures, policies, actions, and words. We are happy you are here.

In this episode, Dr. Julia Thompson, an expert in child psychology talks to us about how children encode memories, how to foster resilience in children and she provides us with some insight on the recovery path for the Appalachian community after Hurricane Helene.

Resources:

Sesame Street:

https://sesameworkshop.org/resources/

National Child Traumatic Stress Network:

http://nctsn.org/

U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs:

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/

SAMSHA (Disaster Relief):

The SBI or Strong BRAIN Institute, uses science related to both childhood adversity and building resilience to prevent or lessen the negative impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs) on people’s lives. We want to promote awareness and the use of resilience informed procedures, policies, actions, and words. We are happy you are here.

In this episode, the host talks to us about his story, his experiences and how the Insight Cafe was born. If you want to be a guest in this experience, please email us at:

sbi@etsu.edu

calderonlf@etsu.edu

The SBI or Strong BRAIN Institute, uses science related to both childhood adversity and building resilience to prevent or lessen the negative impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs) on people’s lives. We want to promote awareness and the use of resilience informed procedures, policies, actions, and words. We are happy you are here.