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Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Hi all!
My name is Carley Flanery and I am a new intern from the University of Michigan working with Brenda Carney and Rachel Jacobsen. “Trauma Stewardship” is the book that I recommended during our professional development training on Suicide Risk Assessment. The following information is from the “Trauma Stewardship” website:
Inside the Book
From the Introduction
The essayist E. B. White once wrote that the early American author, naturalist, and philosopher Henry Thoreau appeared to have been “torn by two powerful and opposing drives—the desire to enjoy the world, and the urge to set the world straight.”
This book is written for anyone who is doing work with an intention to make the world more sustainable and hopeful—all in all, a better place—and who, through this work, is exposed to the hardship, pain, crisis, trauma, or suffering of other living beings or the planet itself. It is for those who notice that they are not the same people they once were, or are being told by their families, friends, colleagues, or pets that something is different about them.
This book is a navigational tool for remembering that we have options at every step of our lives. We choose our own path. We can make a difference without suffering; we can do meaningful work in a way that works for us and for those we serve. We can enjoy the world and set it straight. We can leave a legacy that embodies our deepest wisdom and greatest gifts instead of one that is burdened with our struggles and despair.
*The book can also be purchased from sites like Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
Wayne County Health on Wheels Schedule
The Wayne County Health on Wheel Mobile Health Unit will be in the Hamtramck and Highland Park community this month. Please share this vital information with your family, constituents, colleagues, neighbors, church members and friends. See attached flier for details.
Updated Scudder Fund Application
The updated form for the Scudder Fund available through Hannan Foundation is available. Please connect on the link below.
Legal Aid and Defender Winter 2013
Attached are upcoming Legal Aid and Defender outreach and workshop schedules for Macomb and Oakland counties for Winter 2013. LAD also plans to hold a Family Law workshop in January at the Roseville Public Library.
A visit to TSA
This afternoon, I had an exciting opportunity to meet with Douglas Simpson, information resources manager at The Senior Alliance.
The purpose of the meeting was to help me get a handle on my ever burning question:
What does The Senior Alliance do?
Prior to the meeting, I knew that The Senior Alliance (TSA) provides information and referrals for older adults in Wayne County. I was also aware that TSA is the place to go for things like Meals on Wheels, Michigan Medicaid/Medicare Assistance Program, and other government programs for older adults.
From this meeting, I was hoping to get more of a concrete explanation of services, and perhaps a tour of the office building to meet some of the workers.
While I didn’t get exactly what I was looking for, the experience was worthwhile.
TSA is nestled in a multi-tenant office building on Second Street in Wayne – just off of Michigan Avenue. Agency staff are divided between cubicles. It was busy and crammed and there are future plans to move TSA to a bigger facility in Allen Park.
Simpson greeted me at the door and we went straight to a small office.
Turns out, Simpson is new to TSA – he worked as business man until three months ago. Simpson said he was surprised to find himself heading the information and referral department at a non-profit agency.
Simpson told me that he really enjoys his job and finds it to be very rewarding.
In terms of services provided by TSA: I didn’t quite get a concrete answer. During the meeting, Simpson had a book in front of him that detailed the agency’s services. I noticed that: A book. I asked my question anyhow and the response was that which I already knew: Information and referrals.
Simpson said that case workers at TSA help clients work through virtually every sort of problem – from evictions to substance abuse. TSA employs case workers who have been in the field for eight to nine years, Simpson said, and many of them are great resources in and of themselves. I asked him if it would be okay if I called a TSA caseworker to help a client if I ever got into a jam. Simpson said that would be a great idea, and confirmed that TSA can be a great place to start with complicated cases.
I also asked Simpson about programs that I could get involved with through TSA as a representative of the Hannan Foundation. Two programs that he mentioned was MMAP (!) and delivering meals on holidays. I asked Simpson if people working for other agencies can be involved with MMAP. He told me that he wasn’t sure, but to contact Bettie Hughes. I asked Simpson to put me down for holiday meals delivery, for now.
So I didn’t get the tour I was hoping for and I didn’t get the concrete answer that I wanted.
What I did get, however, is a solid contact at TSA. I got a business card, a chance to ask questions and also, Simpson told me that he would be happy to send someone to the co-op to explain TSA to members if I would like (heck yeah!).
All of that was worth a short drive and a handshake, I think.
Douglas Simpson can be reached directly at 734-727-2052. His e-mail address is dsimpson@tsalink.org.
Hannan Center for Senior Learning Course Catalog
Happy New Year All,
Here is the Hannan Center for Senior Learning (HCSL) winter semester course catalog. Please share it with members at your co-ops (distance dependent!) or gain ideas to share with your education chairs. Andrea Clark (cc’d) did a beautiful job pulling together the brochure. Because it is on legal size paper, we may need to reproduce it here at Hannan. Hence, please contact Andrea directly with the number you would like and your address. Andrea’s extension is 14 if you want to talk with her directly. Please note that there is a finite registration period for classes.
PATH Presentation at Flat Rock Towers
Presenters from The Senior Alliance (TSA) will be at Flat Rock Towers (FRT) on Monday, Jan. 7 to educate members on the PATH program. TSA is willing to bring the entire 6-week program to FRT if there is enough interest. Additionally, Rachel is visiting FRT that afternoon to answer member’s questions about the service coordination program.
See the attached flyer.
Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
The Library of Congress
Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.
Eligibility for Service
The following persons are eligible for service:
- Blind persons whose visual acuity, as determined by competent authority, is 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees.
- Other physically handicapped persons are eligible as follows:
- Persons whose visual disability, with correction and regardless of optical measurement, is certified by competent authority as preventing the reading of standard printed material
- Persons certified by competent authority as unable to read or unable to use standard printed material as a result of physical limitations.
- Persons certified by competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner.
Certifying Authority
In cases of blindness, visual impairment, or physical limitations, “competent authority” is defined to include doctors of medicine; doctors of osteopathy; ophthalmologists; optometrists; registered nurses; therapists; and professional staff of hospitals, institutions, and public or private welfare agencies (e.g., social workers, case workers, counselors, rehabilitation teachers, and superintendents). In the absence of any of these, certification may be made by professional librarians or by any person whose competence under specific circumstances is acceptable to the Library of Congress.
In the case of reading disability from organic dysfunction, competent authority is defined as doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy who may consult with colleagues in associated disciplines.
Residency or U.S. Citizenship
Eligible readers must be residents of the United States, including the several states, territories, insular possessions, and the District of Columbia; or, American citizens domiciled abroad.
Lending of Materials and Classes of Borrowers
Veterans. In the lending of books, recordings, playback equipment, musical scores, instructional texts, and other specialized materials, preference shall be given at all times to the needs of the blind and other physically handicapped persons who have been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States.
Institutions. The reading materials and playback equipment for the use of blind and physically handicapped persons may be loaned to individuals who qualify, to institutions such as nursing homes and hospitals, and to schools for the blind or physically handicapped for the use by such persons only. The reading materials and playback equipment may also be used in public or private schools where handicapped students are enrolled; however, the students in public or private schools must be certified as eligible on an individual basis and must be the direct and only recipients of the materials and equipment.
Go to the following link to find your local library: