Healing is a Journey

(First aired December 24th, 2021)

Episode Type: Victim & Professional 

Host: Brandon Jones

Event/Training Child & Adolescent Mental Health Conference April 23-25, 2023 in Duluth Minnesota USA. 

Links for Brandon Jones:

• Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health
• JEGNA Consulting

Description: In this episode, Brandon Jones, Executive Director of the Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health (MACMH), shares his personal journey in healing. Brandon shares about the complex trauma he experienced in his youth, and how he found healing through formal education and therapy. Brandon further discusses how he utilizes an empathetic approach to help others on their own healing journey, as well as working towards helping the community by repairing harm passed down and ending the cycle of abuse. 

People Waiting to Help in the United States:

• Emergency: 911 • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 • National Domestic Violence Hotline: Phone 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) Text “START” to 88788 • National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 • Safe Helpline, Sexual Assault: 1-877-995-5247

• StrongHearts Native Helpline: 1-844-762-8483

• LGBTQ National Hotline: 1-888-843-4564 • National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 • SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services: 1-800-662- HELP (4357) • Crisis Text Line: Text 741741 • National Eating Disorder Association Helpline: 1-800-931-2237 • Veterans Crisis Line: Phone 1-800-273-8255 Text 838255

For more resources please visit The Trauma and Mental Health Report resource page https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/resources/

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