Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience

Susan Kim | Mennonite Disaster Service

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) emerged from the ashes of Sept. 11, when hundreds of millions of people were grieving over the deaths and destruction caused by the attacks. The evidence-based training program offered by 91大神 teaches people how to understand trauma, stop cycles of violence, and build healing resilience. Twenty-five years later, STAR is still changing lives.

UNDP

Barry Hart, professor emeritus at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, completed a one-year project with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in South Sudan. He and colleague Bena Mark, lecturer of psychology at Juba University, trained 45 psychosocial support facilitators in trauma awareness, resilience, psychosocial support, psychological first-aid, peacebuilding, restorative justice and trustbuilding, as well as a range of related subjects that are context-specific to South Sudan, but can be applied to other settings. They also produced a training manual on these subjects.

Redding Record Searchlight

Professor Kathy Evans contributes on the effects of trauma in educational environments in this coverage of the US government's boarding schools for Native Americans.

MCUSA

Katie Mansfield, lead trainer of 91大神's聽STAR聽(Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience) program, shares this blog post is part of Mennonite Church USA鈥檚聽听颈苍颈迟颈补迟颈惫别.