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SUMMARY:Webinar: Trauma Informed Practice: Foundations in Frontline Work
DESCRIPTION:-- Webinar Description: --\n\nThis presentation reimagines tr
 auma-informed practice beyond the confines of institutional checklists a
 nd surface-level empathy. Rooted in harm reduction and abolitionist valu
 es, it explores how trauma is shaped by structural violence, systemic op
 pression, and carceral responses to care.\n\nParticipants are invited to
  engage critically with dominant frameworks such as ACEs, challenge medi
 calized and individualistic narratives, and embrace relational, non-carc
 eral, and dignity-based approaches to healing. This session centers the 
 lived experience of those most impacted and offers pathways for practici
 ng trauma-informed care that resist harm and foster true safety, account
 ability, and collective liberation.\n\n-- Instructor: Heather Tunold --\
 n\nInstructor Bio: Heather is a harm reduction educator, drug policy st
 rategist, storyteller, and abolitionist organizer with lived and profess
 ional experience at the intersections of substance use, trauma, homeless
 ness and systemic violence. Heather brings twelve years of frontline exp
 erience in harm reduction.\n\nMost recently working in health authority 
 leadership, Heather has trained and socialized thousands of healthcare p
 roviders in critical harm reduction, prohibition, trauma-informed practi
 ce, and transformative justice. Her work resists carceral logic and cent
 ers the expertise of people most impacted by criminalization, colonizati
 on, and structural harm.\n\nHeather believes in speaking truth to power 
 and intentionally speaks openly about her relationship with substances w
 hich has ebbed and flowed for twenty-one years. Despite professional and
  academic training, Heather's lived and living experience profoundly sha
 pes the way she shows up to do this work. She is committed to building s
 ystems rooted in dignity, accountability, and care. Heather's heart lies
  in community organizing, collective liberation and reimagining the stat
 us quo. 
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