Advocacy

Gholson Consulting Group, LLC is committed to supporting individuals, organizations, and communities to actively engage in education and information dissemination to better support our communities through trauma, violence, and stress while providing proactive and preventative  action steps.

  • We provide organizing tools in order to assist mobilization and power building for groups and communities.

  • We assist in allowing individuals to tell their stories and providing fact sheets for distribution to legislators and other stakeholders.

  • We educate youth on the legislative process and voting rights and how their voice is important to civic participation.

  • We provide research and resources to address issues within communities.

  • We increase public education through meetings, events, conferences, and training.

Ways You Can Help

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A significant number of children in American society are exposed to traumatic life events. A traumatic event is one that threatens injury, death, or the physical integrity of self or others and also causes horror, terror, or helplessness at the time it occurs. Traumatic events include sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, community and school violence, medical trauma, motor vehicle accidents, acts of terrorism, war experiences, natural and human-made disasters, suicides, and other traumatic losses. In community samples, more than two thirds of children report experiencing a traumatic event by age 16. However, estimates of trauma exposure rates and subsequent psychological sequelae among children and youth have varied depending on the type of sample, type of measure, informant source, and other factors. 

  • Estimated rates of witnessing community violence range from 39% to 85% — and estimated rates of victimization go up to 66%.
  • Rates of youths’ exposure to sexual abuse, another common trauma, are estimated to be 25 to 43%. 

Other acute and potentially traumatic events also affect large numbers of children. In 2006, 7.9 million U.S. children received emergency medical care for unintentional injuries (from motor vehicle crashes, falls, fires, dog bites, near drowning, etc.), and more than 400,000 for injuries sustained due to violence. Race and ethnicity, poverty status, and gender affect children’s risk of exposure to trauma. (American Psychological Association)

 

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Contact us to see how you can be an advocate today!