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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Nov 28
- 7 min
9 Types of Safety Most People Don’t Know About
Safety is a crucial topic for trauma-informed systems, and understanding how your community defines safety is no small task. If I asked...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Nov 21
- 5 min
Why is Safety Important in a Trauma Informed Approach?
No matter what model you use, SAMHSA or Sanctuary, safety is a core value of trauma-informed care. Safety is arguably one of the most...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Nov 7
- 2 min
Recognize Trauma at Work with This Easy Acronym
Awareness is fundamental to sustained trauma-informed change, and part of awareness involves recognizing when you’re having a trauma...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Oct 31
- 4 min
What Are the 12 Executive Functioning Skills?
Trauma disconnects us, making it difficult for us to access the parts of our brain responsible for executive functioning skills. When we...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Oct 24
- 3 min
The Science of Substance Use: Trauma and Addiction
There is a strong connection between childhood trauma and addiction, which is why preventative trauma-informed interventions are crucial...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Oct 17
- 6 min
Building Resilient Organizations: Lessons in Trauma Informed Change and Organizational Resilience
If we want to create real change, we have to zoom way out to look at the issues, solutions, and goals from a systems perspective. We also...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Oct 11
- 6 min
Unraveling Financial Trauma: How Our Past Experiences with Money Affect Our Attitudes & Behaviors
Talking about money is taboo, but we need to have difficult conversations if we want to improve our relationships with our wallets....
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- May 30
- 3 min
9 Surprising Facts About Foster Care
These fast facts might change your perspective on the foster care system. Most people in the US don’t have a solid understanding of the...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- May 23
- 4 min
Nurturing Resilience: The Impact of Foster Care on Child Development
Whether we’re talking about improving performance at work or raising children, resilience is a hot topic that everyone wants to learn...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- May 17
- 4 min
Adoption Alternatives: 7 Other Ways to Help Children in Need
Adoption is a common family planning tool, and foster care is often overlooked in favor of adoption. However, foster care is a viable...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- May 10
- 6 min
Foster Care Reform: How We’ll Fix a Broken System
The foster care system in the United States is broken. More often than not, the system actively harms those it seeks to protect. There...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- May 2
- 3 min
6 Things Everyone Should Know About Foster Care
The foster care system is meant to provide temporary care for children whose families are unable to care for them. While it can be a...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Apr 25
- 5 min
Is Your Job Harming Your Mental Health?
We need to work to live, but is work negatively impacting our well-being? For most of us, work allows us to meet some of our basic needs:...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Apr 18
- 4 min
5 Powerful Trauma-Informed Questions to Fuel Self-Exploration
There are tons of trauma-informed tools out there to help you integrate trauma-informed practices into your everyday life, and today...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Apr 12
- 6 min
9 Silly Methods for Emotional Regulation That Actually Work
Trauma-informed work can be difficult at times. After all, we are talking about trauma—and trauma isn’t fun. But that doesn’t mean that...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Mar 28
- 4 min
Universal Precautions in Practice: 11 Tips for Trauma-Informed Leaders
Universal precaution is a useful trauma-informed tool that helps us live our values and create safety at work.
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Mar 14
- 5 min
What is Vicarious Trauma… and Do You Have It?
Also referred to as compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma is a major contributor to chronic stress, especially for those who work with...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Dec 21, 2022
- 9 min
The Trauma Triangle: How Fostering Awareness of Reenactments Builds Resilience
The basic concept surrounding trauma-informed care is this: We all have trauma. Some of us are at a higher risk of experiencing trauma....
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Dec 13, 2022
- 6 min
9 Reasons Why Your Work Team Shouldn’t Be a Family
We’ve all heard it: “our team is a family.” Organizations across every industry use this language. From non-profits to corporate teams,...
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