Dear NICOA friends,
The Center on Aging and Trauma of The Jewish Federations of North America’s Holocaust Survivor Initiative is inviting your organization to participate in a national survey on Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed (PCTI) Care.
The Center on Aging and Trauma is a grantee of the Administration for Community Living and is working to build the capacity of aging service providers to provide PCTI care to elders with a history of trauma and their family caregivers. In working towards this goal, they are collecting information about the capacity of organizations that work with elders and family caregivers to provide PCTI care – critical information your organization can provide.
Here is the survey link: http://bit.ly/NationalSurveyPCTI
This survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Your responses to the survey are anonymous, and data will be presented in aggregate form in program reports and other materials. Only one survey should be submitted from each organization, so please make every effort to coordinate with your colleagues to reduce duplication. Only organizations in the United States should complete this survey.
If you have any questions or technical difficulties, please reach out to Carmel Rabin, project manager for research and evaluation at the Center on Aging and Trauma ([email protected]). Thank you for your support in completing the survey and advancing the field of Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed care!
Sincerely,
Larry Curley
NICOA Executive Director
Hi, my name is Brandon. I’m from Chugiak Alaska and I was just wondering if you have any types of available work that I could do for your organization virtually? I don’t have any official health care certificates, but I have been involved in person to person care for about 20 years. Professionally I am the owner of a small communications / media / strategy firm which I started in 2005, however – due to changing life circumstances and the difficult overhead of running a tech heavy service I am hoping to transition to working with a group where my experiences working with community organizers to help develop, raise funds, implement, and report up on programs servicing alaskan community needs, as well as some limited experience working with groups, individuals, and projects where cross-cultural dialogues and interface were essential for success, could perhaps bare as relevant experience that I could contribute towards work like your organization is doing? My company helped work to support programs that met our mission of “helping to amplify and support efforts across all sectors where people are working together to create a happier, healthier, and brighter independent Alaska,” and through this course I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to be involved in many diverse types of efforts – everything from working with elder patients to help independently document medical exams ordered by the court in disability claim disputes (to help ensure that provider documentation was not manipulated, edited, or falsely described the agency liable for on the job injuries that occurred due to supervisor instructions as well as a culture of negligence), to working with families with members who experience special health care needs to produce educational media materials which were distributed across Alaska through a program administrated by a local 501(c)(3) and funded by the State Department of Health and Human Services, to working with Indigenous Elders and families on projects working to document Indigenous language, knowledge, and and traditonal pathways towards community wellness through engagement and co-development of programs working to produce educational materials and resources for young people and future generations.
Honestly, for most of my career I was accustomed to self-representing professionally as an independent contractor of a media production and fundraising firm, but I’m getting a little older and am interested in trying to find some type of employment working to continue supporting efforts to help support our elders and communities in alaska that are prominently Indigenous, and frankly- I’m not really all that sure how to represent myself in a search for employment like that or even what all manner of opportunities there might be for someone with a background like mine that was always somewhat adjacent to career professionals in health and human services groups. I know that I like working with people and communities and that I am creative and proficient at helping develop concepts into thorough and well organized materials that help provide frameworks for program administrators, potential funders, collaborators, and the public. I have experience and am especially interested in working to design and support educational programs, activities, and content for young people and I am a passionate advocate for the types of traditional values that push for multi-generational interface, inclusion, and for Indigenous models of justice, conflict resolution, and empowerment. However: I really should say that with regards to the latter sentiment, I have really only been fortunate to be exposed to some of those concepts because of people I’ve worked with and am perhaps only a student (which is honestly also somewhat generous truthfully) with regards to indigenous ways of knowing, wellness, community, and culture. I am a dedicated learner and team member and am naturally curious and upbeat, but have also learned to be quiet and more patient with my own mind when listening to elders. I have also been involved in working with trauma in a variety of contexts and am interested in working with people and programs where there is an internal culture of trust, creativity, and flexibility in approach that allows wellness work to be expressed individually and shared together in mutually supportive, thoughtful, and understanding approaches that make supportive room for the human range of being that is an authentic and expectable part of trauma recovery and the many different ways of journey experienced by us all in our efforts to heal and then grow together towards ways of being that are joyful, fun, and grateful to be making and exploring together with spirit and one another. Also, sometimes I use the F word but I’m really trying my best to be more aware of that and use it less. Also, It’s important to me that any opportunity I find professionally be one where I’m working with people happy enough with themselves to appreciate a good joke at the end of a letter of inquiry irrelevantly submitted in a comment form. : -)
Thank you,
Brandon McElroy
Hi, Brandon! Please check out our job opportunities section to apply for a position with NICOA. Thank you for your interest!
I should also like to add that I had no idea I was commenting publicly lol, I thought this was a form for like “submitting a comment” lol! Sorry! Mgmt thanks u for your patience while my brain loads some of its updates!