Free Workshop: Recovering from Trauma

Khnuma Simmonds­-Esannason, executive director of the V.I. Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Council (DVSAC), will facilitate a free trauma and mental health workshop on Recovering from Trauma. Individual trauma results from an event, series of events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual well-being. These include: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, witnessing domestic violence, substance misuse within the household, mental illness within the household, parental separation or divorce, or incarceration of a household member.