Tag: Trauma

How This Minneapolis Man Is Healing Collective Trauma Through Creative Counseling and Mentoring

Jamil Stamschror-Lott is a mental health provider running his own therapy practice, Creative Kuponya, which he and his wife Sara founded together in 2017. The practice — named after the Swahili word for “healing” — is based in Minneapolis, the city he moved to as a child in the ’90s.

June 17, 2021

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Creating Equitable Classroom Environments

The decision to pivot to remote learning brought its own set of challenges for countless children and families across diverse communities. Foremost, were the ongoing efforts to create, establish, and maintain a caring and equitable classroom environment with actively engaged children and their families.

April 22, 2021

A Message to Educators: Hygiene, Hand Washing, and Cultural Considerations Before, During, and After Health Crises

Like medical and mental health professionals, educators who are ignorant and incompetent relative to culture (especially those other than their own) can and have been harmful by contributing to school-based racialized trauma. ‘Do no harm’ must not be tossed aside like old news and discarded like trash when teaching, counseling, and delivering other health services. Doing so is a disgrace to the education profession and an affront to Black and other culturally different students, families, and communities.

March 29, 2020

2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Apryl Alexander

Alexander began her research by focusing on individuals who had experienced various levels of trauma such as sexual assault, abuse, neighborhood violence or natural disasters. She studied how those violent incidents impacted them.

February 5, 2020

Teaching Through Trauma

Trauma nestles in the crevices of our memories. It burrows in our shoulders, lies dormant in our muscles, and creeps in via a smell, a word, or even an unrecognizable reminder of the pain of the past. For our students, those triggers can be class discussions on controversial topics like the Department of Education’s retreat from addressing sexual assault or debates about sexual misconduct during judicial confirmation hearings.

January 7, 2019

Scholars, Health Care Professionals Call for End to Family Separations at Border

As images emerge of child immigrants being separated from their families at the border, scholars and human rights advocates who study these issues refer to President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy as heartbreaking, immoral and, at the extreme, a “systematic use of violence.”

June 19, 2018

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