Searching for Solutions
As the former mayor of a mid-size Canadian city, I witnessed firsthand the growing social challenges facing communities across North America. Searching for Solutions explores urgent issues like the housing crisis, homelessness, mental health, addiction, and food insecurity and, more importantly, the disruptive ideas that are making a real difference.
Each episode features a guest who helps unpack a problem and points toward practical, proven solutions.
This podcast is for anyone who cares about their community and wants to move from frustration to action at a time when too many people feel powerless to create change.
Searching for Solutions
Understanding the cause and effects of trauma
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Learning about trauma and its impact on the human mind and body is a way to unlock understanding about the long term impacts of trauma. To gain a better understanding of the issues of addictions, homelessness and mental health, a trauma informed community approach has been gaining traction as a way to develop better programs and policies to help people
On this episode Lori Gill, founder of the Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing Niagara , explains the impacts of trauma in a person's life and how trauma informed care is an important part of the healing process. We also talk about creating trauma informed communities and how this approach can help break down some of the barriers that have created the conditions for increases in addictions and homelessness.