Responding to the public health and safety crisis, Lucas County Sheriff John Tharp launched the Drug Abuse Response Team in 2014. This unit was the...
Archive for category: Trauma – Education
Investigating Behavioral Changes
Throughout our work with clients, we may see sudden changes in their behaviors. If the individual we are working with struggles to communicate, it can...
Slow Down
This time of year is busy for so many of us. For those who are in school, or who have children in school, May’s calendar...
Nature vs. Nurture and the Trauma Connection
Epigenetics can be described as the study of biological mechanisms that will switch genes on and off. The idea behind epigenetics and the connection to...
Connection between Trauma and Problem Gambling
It’s March! Do you feel lucky like a leprechaun? Do you feel the madness of college basketball? Everywhere you look it seems like people are...
How to Cope with the Holidays
It has become a cliché. The holiday comedy with the stress induced meltdown. Think Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. We...
November is National Hospice Month
Being diagnosed with a terminal illness is definitely a traumatic situation to experience. It is important for those working in hospice and palliative care to...
How to support someone with breast cancer
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which focuses our attention on an all-too-common diagnosis affecting many of our loved ones. This is a difficult battle...
National Campus Safety Awareness Month
September is an exciting time for college students beginning their studies at universities across the country. Unfortunately, the first few months of the school year...
Program Serves Expectant Women Addicted to Opiates
Mercy Children’s Hospital offers the Mother Child Dependency Program to all pregnant women in Lucas County suffering from an opiate addiction. This program offers free...