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December 2022 CTIPP CAN Call on Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience Plan & Messaging

This month’s CTIPP CAN call featured Erin McDonald from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) on the just-launched Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience Plan.


We also had Lisa Cushatt and Sara Welch from Iowa ACEs 360 share their valuable findings on the most effective messaging while advocating for trauma-informed policies and practices. And Jen Curt, CTIPP’s Director of Government Affairs, recapped our 117th policy accomplishments and provide an update on federal appropriations

02:35 - Jen Curt, CTIPP’s Director of Government Affairs

  • Policy achievements

18:35 - Erin McDonald from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)

  • Introduction to CTIPP and priority of administration

  • Reimagining not only due to pandemic but structural inequities.

  • Emerging methods to address drivers through trauma-informed and healing-centered to if vital conditions are not addressed then support services will be used more greatly.

  • Vital conditions for health and wellbeing

  • Policy levers to vital conditions

  • Resources available to build transparency and access

  • Max’s points about need for lived experience and how resources/services as they currently exist is inadequate

54:00 - Lisa Cushatt and Sara Welch from Iowa ACEs 360

  • Collective advocacy to shape policy

  • Good parenting needs to be viewed through conditions that impact abilities to do so

  • Trauma-informed movement needs to take ownership of how its framing has perpetuated harm and negative frames

  • An incomplete picture if we don’t talk about the overall conditions for families

  • Need to take a holistic approach to lead toward positive experiences

  • Each key statement as it’s own clip, or whole thing as long clip

  • Being intentional about ask and call to action. Need to call policymakers to their role

  • Need to connect the dots

  • Bringing in experience and lived expertise

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