Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience

Committed to serving fellow veterans, Michael McAndrew earns scholarship to complete counseling, conflict transformation degrees

by Walt Wiltschek

U.S. Navy veteran Michael McAndrew, a graduate student at Eastern Mennonite University, plans to use his education to provide mental health services for military veterans. His professional path towards a
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‘Paying for peace, not war’: Hospital chaplain who witnessed trauma redirects some tax dollars to the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding’s STAR program

by CJP communications staff

For the past two years, Ruth Anne Friesen has re-directed a portion of her federal income tax payments to support the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program at
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‘Conversations on Sexual Violence’ symposium aims to nurture community-building and resilience

by Walt Wiltschek and Lauren Jefferson

A multi-year research project on domestic violence, under the direction of professor Carolyn Stauffer, will be highlighted in a community education symposium at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) this spring. The
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Practititioner-in-Residence David Myers shares 30 years experience in government, non-profit and pastoral leadership

by Lauren Jefferson

David Myers last visited Eastern Mennonite University in 2014 for a one-day visit that included a seminary chapel presentation – “not a sermon,” he said at the time, “but a
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Summer seminar on slave narratives at Yale helps English professor on sabbatical delve into historic harms and trauma

by Lauren Jefferson with Kara Lofton

During her sabbatical, Eastern Mennonite University English professor Marti Eads is studying how, in one author’s fiction, “the Civil War conflict reverberates in one Appalachian community even after most people
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