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#HealMeToo Podcast S3 E10:

Supporting Teens & Kids Through This Time—Day One

The final episode of 2020 and the concluding episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo #AtHome centers the needs (and the extraordinary resilience) of young people experiencing unprecedented isolation and many forms of trauma.

As we enter a new year, with many young people resuming remote learning, we're sharing an interview recorded in early fall, with insights, guidance and practical tips from Ashleigh Anderson, a Relationship Abuse Prevention Program coordinator at NYC's Edward R. Murrow High School, working with Day One, a nonprofit that partners with youth to end dating abuse and domestic violence through community education, supportive services & legal advocacy. 

In this episode, learn about:

• Teen and middle-schoolers specific vulnerabilities to tech abuse in this time

• Creating boundaries when we're at home and everyone's connected 24/7

• Why helping our kids can be tricky when we adults are enduring the same traumas, too

• A deeper take on self-care (it's not just taking baths)

• How adults sometimes gloss over the impact of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement for young people

• Ways to normalize the way kids and teens are feeling

• Tips for recognizing and helping address some symptoms of PTSD

Subscribe now and catch new episodes of the #HealMeToo Podcast in 2021 on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our YouTube channel — for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. 

Hear all 10 #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes from Season 3 on Apple and the usual podcast platforms as well as our YouTube channel—for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now.

Listener Resources:

DayOne Online Resources, including webinars, FAQs, and tools for educators

• Tips for Parents and Caregivers

• Know Your Rights guides (download guides on topics include Healthy Friendships, a Caregiver’s Guide, How to Help a Friend, Tech Abuse and more)

• More Tools for Educators and Others Supporting Youth

Other Orgs supporting youth:

Girls for Gender Equity

One Love Foundation

Love is Respect

Okayso

The Door

The Trevor Project

Trauma Processing Resources compiled by the Swell Collective  

Heartmob.org: An online community of bystanders ready to offer support and help when you experience social media harassment, from Hollaback!

Find a variety of guides for all folk experiencing harassment here: https://www.ihollaback.org/resources/

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen, the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez, sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers, in a Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

Guest Bios

Ashleigh Andersen, LMSW is a RAPP Coordinator at Day One. During the academic year she implements the Relationship Abuse Prevention Program at Edward R. Murrow High School, which includes: trauma- informed counseling, educational workshops for students, parents and staff, and the development of a peer leadership program to promote healthy relationships in the school community. In the summer months, Ashleigh plans and facilitates an intensive peer leadership training program where young people gain knowledge and skills to be supportive peers and agents of social change in the movement to end intimate partner violence.

Prior to this role, she worked as the Intervention Coordinator at the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault and as a case manager at a domestic violence shelter. She also has experience as a social work intern at Brooklyn Defender Services Immigration Practice and Day One while receiving her Masters of Social Work from Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work. She has used the last several years of working with survivors of GBV, SV, and IPV to develop a strength-based, anti-oppression, and intersectional approach that continues to inform her prevention and intervention advocacy.