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Interior shot of Broward County Library (Main Library)

Spending 24 hours in Broward County, FL (Ft. Lauderdale) last week with library workers serving youth was my honor. I spoke for about an hour and answered questions about mental illness and how the trauma-informed framework provides guidance for supporting America’s youth and their mental illness issues.

My list of resources I referenced for the talk included (NOT in alphabetical order):

• Kutcher, Jenna. (2022). How are you, really?: Living your truth one answer at a time.
• van der Kolk, Bessell. (2015). The body keeps the score: brain, mind, & body in the healing of trauma.
• Conti, Paul (2021). Trauma: the invisible epidemic: how trauma works & how we can heal from it.
• Davis, Viola. (2022). Finding me.
• Wolynn, Mark. (2016). It didn’t start with you: How inherited family trauma shapes who we are & how to end the cycle.
• Tawwab, Nedra Glover. (2021). Set boundaries, find peace: a guide to reclaiming yourself.
• LaPointe, Sasha. (2022). Red paint: The ancestral autobiography of a Coast Salish punk .
• Foo, Stephanie. (2022). What my bones know: A memoir of healing from complex trauma.
• Hersey, Tricia. (2022). Rest is resistance: a manifesto.
• Lakshmin, Pooja. (2023). Real self-care: A transformative program for redefining wellness.
• Shiro, Edith. (2023). The unexpected gift of trauma: the path to post traumatic growth.
• Brener, Simon, Anderson M, et al. “Effect of the incidence at Columbine on students’ violence- and suicide-related behaviors.” Am J Prev Med. 2002;22:146-150.
• Donna St. George, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, & Lindsey Brewer. “The Crisis in American Girlhood.” Washington Post February 17, 2023.
• Centers for Disease Control. “U.S. teen girls experiencing increased sadness and violence.” https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p0213-yrbs.html
• Azeen Ghorayshi and Roni Caryn Rabin. “Teen girls report record levels of sadness, C.D.C. finds.” New York Times February 13, 2023.
• Jessica Grose. “Stop treating adolescent girls as emotionally abnormal.“ New York Times March 23, 2023.
• World Health Organization. “Caesarean section rates continue to rise, amid growing inequalities in access” https://www.who.int/news/item/16-06-2021-caesarean-section-rates-continue-to-rise-amid-growing-inequalities-in-access
• Varheim, Andreas. (2014). “Trust in libraries and trust in most people: Social capital creation in the public library.” The Library Quarterly, 84, no. 3.