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HopeWorx Inc is an incredible community-based, peer support mental health services advocacy program in Pennsylvania. I enjoyed learning more about this organization with Clare Higgins and Alissa Catherman-Garrison.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Their personal parental trauma and foster care stories and the road that led them to advocacy
- What to do when you feel alone, exhausted, and judged
- Lived-experience-based peer support
- Grant funding
- Crisis support
- Parental support for their child's crisis
- De-escalating during family crisis
- Community support, outreach, and support groups
- Peer support and helping to find resources and funding for families in need
- Building community through trusting relationships
- Trauma informed care and trauma trained care
- Once you see life through a trauma lense, you can't unsee it
- Sitting with people in really hard places
- Long term chronic stress
- Self-advocacy
- Learning opportunities to promote personal growth
- "Do For. Do With. Cheer On." (HopeWorx Inc. mantra)
- Setting boundaries
- Carrying the voices for those that come behind us
- You are not alone
- Finding local resources
GUESTS' MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1. Having dual-timed therapy sessions - receiving therapy while her child was receiving theirs
2. Self-care/reading/retail therapy
3. Fundraising/helping others
4. Self-help books and reading as much information as they can about their child's mental health
5. Finding people who understand their struggle and who believed and encouraged them
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT HOPEWORX INC.:
1. Website
2. FB
3. Email - info@hopeworxinc.org
For help in any crisis and to find local support for yourself or someone you love who is struggling with mental health:
National Text Hotline 741741
Text 988 for mental health crisis
Use 211 from your mobile phone for local resources
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