On this episode Will Sherwin and Scott Ralston talk with Art Fisher and Nancy MacDonald, co-founders of the Nova Scotia Trauma-Informed Network and Directors of the Family Service Agencies of Western and Eastern Nova Scotia respectively.  We discuss honoring people’s response-skills to violence, thinking critically about the language of trauma-informed care, the social determinants of health, “going rogue” and more.

Art Fisher can be reached at [email protected]

Nancy MacDonald can be reached [email protected]

Will Sherwin, LMFT works in Irvine, CA and can be reached at [email protected]

Scott Ralston, LCSW works in Oakland, CA and can be reached at [email protected]

Show References:

CHNET-WORKS! Webinar #437 Family Violence Prevention – Building Trauma Informed Communities with Nancy McDonald and Art Fisher.

“Health, Illness, Men and Masculinities (HIMM): a theoretical framework for understanding men and their health” by Dr. Blye Frank.

Decolonizing Trauma Work by Renee Linklater.

Originally published on March 25, 2018.