Dear TIS Network,    This month we focus on the principle of collaboration and empowerment with an emphasis on climate change and health. Collaboration and empowerment promote collective action to address factors that hurt our humanity and work to build communities of care that lead with love and compassion. Inequities in the impacts of climate change and healthcare highlight the need to continue in our collective work toward justice and the reallocation of resources: divesting in systems of oppression and white supremacy and investing in the health and wellbeing of our communities. We invite you to explore the resources in this newsletter and take part in combating racism and building community and healing at all levels: individually, interpersonally, organizationally, and structurally. We encourage us all to practice self-care to sustain us for the long game! We are with you all in the struggle.

In Solidarity,

The staff at Trauma Transformed

Trauma-Informed Systems (TIS) was created to humanize bureaucracy and center equity - tasks that are especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Resources for Supporting Each Other During COVID-19 and the Direct Connection of Racism in Climate Change and Healthcare

TIS Principle: Collaboration and Empowerment Trauma involves a loss of power and control that makes us feel helpless. However, when we are prepared for and given real opportunities to make choices for ourselves and our care, we feel empowered and can promote our own wellness.

Link to Climate Change and Racism Learn:  How Racism is Killing the Planet Read up on the Links Between Racism and the Environment Black Environmentalists Talk About Climate and Anti-racism Climate Change is Also a Racial Justice Problem Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change Act:  Climate Change, Health and Equity Guide: A Guide for Local Health Departments Learn about and contribute to Community Wealth Building Support a Regenerative Economy: Protect, Repair, Invest, and Transform 

Racism in Healthcare Learn:  Health Disparity, Racial Weathering, and Social Determinants: How Do We Create Antiracist Healthcare? Racism and Discrimination in Health Care: Providers and Patients Racism and Health Act:   How Should Organizations Support Trainees in the Face of Patient Bias? Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action Addressing Racial Health Disparities In The COVID-19 Pandemic: Immediate And Long-Term Policy Solutions 

Supporting Collaboration and Empowerment Leadership in Crisis: Responding to the coronavirus outbreak and future challenges Creative Responses to COVID-19 Frontline Workers Counseling Project During these times, front line workers may be experiencing feelings of anxiety, depression, sadness, anger, confusion and much more. Fortunately, help is at hand. Free mental health counse ling is available to all Bay Area frontline workers through the Frontline Workers Counseling Project. Learn more Having Fun with Face Masks Make a Face Mask Fashion statement. COVID-19 Survivors; Implicit Racial Bias In Social Settings, Policing  Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt explains how implicit bias works in different social settings including police departments in NPR's "Here and Now" series. Listen Now Take our Anti-racism Declaration of Action* and share with friends, colleagues, and family. We will use this information to learn and share what kind of actions are being taken. *We will not share private or personal information.

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