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Speakers at Tulsa commission meeting describe trauma‑informed reentry work for women
Summary
At a Tulsa Women’s Commission meeting, Deidra Kirtley of Resonance Center for Women and Melissa Hoover of SheBrews described trauma‑informed treatment, transitional employment and housing programs for women leaving incarceration and how those services address high ACE scores and reduce recidivism.
Deidra Kirtley, executive director of the Resonance Center for Women, and Melissa Hoover, Claremore case manager for SheBrews, told the Tulsa Women’s Commission that trauma‑informed care is central to treating addiction and helping formerly incarcerated women reenter the community.
Kirtley opened the presentation by outlining types of trauma — acute, chronic and complex — and described how “complex trauma” (multiple, overlapping adversities) alters brain wiring in children and later contributes to substance use and criminal‑justice involvement. She said many women the Resonance Center served had very high Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) scores and that addiction and high ACEs were common threads among clients.
“Trauma‑informed care is probably the one way to be truly successful with addiction treatment. You can’t treat the addiction if you don’t treat the trauma,”…
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