A conversation on the future of trauma-informed care
The American Association on Health and Disability is proud to announce our next conversation in the Disability & Health Webinar Series! Join us on Wednesday, September 25th from 2:00–3:30pm ET/ 11:00am-12:00pm PT, for a special conversation for National Recovery Month. This conversation will explore recovery related to mental health and substance use. We invite community members, disability advocates, and health care providers to tune in. Learn how research can improve our understanding of best practices in trauma-informed care.
This event is hosted by the Disability Community Engagement Partner Project (DCEPP) at the American Association on Health and Disability (AAHD) in partnership with the All of Us Research Program. Learn more about how All of Us is helping to improve mental health and substance use recovery research. ASL Interpretation and Closed Captioning (CART) will be provided, and other reasonable accommodations are available upon request by contacting danderson@aahd.us.
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Meet our Panelists
Katie Bourque (she/her) has been engaged in non-profit work for the last fifteen years and has been managing innovative projects and programs for the last nine years. Katie’s passions are decarcerating care, harm/risk reduction, and centering the voices of folks with lived experience. Katie has experienced the power of mutuality and collective healing with peer support. She has worked with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals for over a decade in prisons, hospitals, and in the community. Katie has experience in numerous residential settings, including as Soteria Vermont’s director for many years. Katie graduated from Yale University’s Lived Experience Transformational Leadership Academy with a capstone project focused on cognitive liberty. This led to a leadership role in the psychedelic space for one year, with a focus on psychedelic peer support. Katie identifies with an array of lived experiences, including: psychiatric labels, trauma, personal and relational substance use, parental incarceration, and loved ones attempting and dying by suicide. Katie aspires to reform systems that perpetuate oppression and to create inclusive and dynamic community spaces.
Earl Miller (he/him) first entered the psychiatric and foster care systems when he was 12. He went on to spend as much of his teen years in the system as he did out, which continued into early adulthood and included experiences of homelessness, hospitalization, and a great deal of trauma. Nowadays, Earl is the father of two healthy, and full-of-life kids who he credits with helping to tether him to this world. He is also a successful musician and poet who has produced several albums. He currently serves as the Director of Community Supports at the Wildflower Alliance.