-Education and Training-

We provide trauma awareness training to state and local government bodies which include. We also offer training to non-profit and for-profit organizations—these pieces of training help to increase awareness around staff and client or program participants with trauma histories.

-Awareness-

We raise awareness around the high levels of trauma present in people experiencing homelessness, poverty, and incarceration through writing and speaking on these topics. We lend a lived experience voice from all of our board members and staff who all score a four (4) or more on the Adverse Childhood Experiences test.

-Advocacy-

We advocate for equal access to justice and services through bringing awareness to be unfair and unusable accommodation policies for individuals with untreated trauma and other invisible mental health disabilities covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

We seek to build a database of ACES scores from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. We are doing this to provide evidence that trauma-informed practices, and trauma interventions are desperately needed prior to release from incarceration. If you are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, please fill out the survey under the ACES

Survey tab.

We seek to provide technical assistance to States that want to become designated traumainformed. As a result, many States and local governments around the country are becoming “designated trauma-informed.” State agencies become required to recognize trauma responses and implement trauma-informed practices, policies, and procedures through executive action.

Name

Isabel Coronado

Position

President

BIO

Isabel Coronado is a policy entrepreneur at Next100 and a citizen of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. She will be policy director at The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls. Isabel is focused on creating policy aimed at reducing the generational cycle of incarceration in Native communities. Isabel has spoken to the public and the media numerous times about the experiences of children of incarcerated parents, and has written on the same. She has also worked closely with the Families Integrity Campaign to pass the FAMILIES Act, a federal bill that would keep parents home with their children instead of going to prison. Isabel has worked with the Center for Native American Youth to put together a petition to Congress (that gathered over one thousand signatures) to ensure that Indian Country is accounted for in federal COVID-19 aid packages. She has also continued work in Oklahoma, her home state, co-authoring a response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s State of State in February to lay down a marker of where the state has succeeded—and where it hasn’t gone far enough— in changing its criminal justice system.

Name

Leander Yatin

Position

Treasurer

BIO

Here I am about to share a little about my history and my experience with my trauma. I was born and raised on the Yakima Nation Reservation. I never had the privilege to grow up with my biological mother and father. I was orphaned at the young age of fourteen months. My grandmother took the loss of her only daughter very hard. She had to ask my entire family to help raise me. My adolescence was like most rez boys highly defiant, rebellious, ignorant, and senseless. Getting in trouble with the tribal judicial system came at the early age of fourteen. Eventually this life led to jail time in Yakima, Wapato, and Toppenish. Later I was gradually introduced to treatment centers, and the blessed opportunity of recovery through twelve step programs. It took six treatment centers for me to finally come to terms and realizing I no longer can afford the unpleasant leisure of relapse after relapse. There were no more elders in my life to get after me and store their cares and concerns around my downward spiral. I finally called out for mercy body, mind, and spirit and cried out to our creator asking in a desperate prayer to help me get back on the red road of recovery. Today ever since that date, I have been walking and living every blessed given day on the healing path of the Red Road. Hoping to achieve nobility, honor, wisdom as our great ancestors had with their life styles. I dream of living my life as an example to my relations!

Name

Nicole Rose

Position

Board Member

BIO

J. Nicole Gamboa Rose grew up in North and Northeast Portland currently lives in Clark County with her Husband and four children. She is a graduate of the Willamette University College of Law, and a former staff attorney at the Portland office of Legal Aid Services of Oregon. She clerked at the Public Defender of Marion County, and for Judge Angel Lopez in Multnomah County. Nicole is a delegate for the House of Delegates for the Oregon State Bar, and formerly served as secretary to the Portland based non-profit Don’t Shoot Portland. Nicole was placed in the foster care system at the age of 15 in the State of Oregon. This experience shaped how she would go on to interact with power systems. As someone who has experienced the trauma of the state system as a child, Nicole believes in recognizing the impacts of trauma on individuals as they interact with systems of the status quo. She currently works as a public servant advancing health equity for Multnomah County as a contract and procurement supervisor for the Multnomah County Health Department.