Laura Braden

Our co-founder and counsel, Daniel Press, passed away in October 2022 after a long battle with lung cancer. Dan fought hard and never stopped working, despite his declining health. His love and passion for the trauma-informed movement inspired so many lives. He was fiercely dedicated to supporting advocates across the country, working tirelessly to promote healing and resilience. Over forty years of advocacy and counsel alongside and on behalf of Native American tribes and reservations...

By Tasha Seneca Keyes and Kenneth G. White, Jr. EXCERPT: The Warrior Spirit Movement to Heal Historical Trauma, through Native Health Care Solutions LLC, is a grassroots nonprofit movement that integrates Western science about trauma with traditional healing and knowledge to address the many serious problems associated with trauma (Igniting the Warrior Spirit, 2020, May 28). The founder of the Warrior Spirit Movement and contributing author of this chapter is Kenneth G. White Jr., MSW. In...

Trauma-informed leadership: McKinsey's recent report, How Leaders Can Help Their Organizations Metabolize Strain, finds that managing how stress affects attention, judgment, and relationships improves organizational performance. Employees who feel supported and psychologically safe report engagement and innovation at six times the rate of those who don't.