I can think of hundreds of noble reasons to help someone, to offer a hand to someone in need. I spent a good portion of my life believing that you should help people that are less fortunate than you. I believed that helping was a responsibility because I had more than I needed and others didn’t have enough. The more than I see the world, the more that I see in my own community, the more I realize how flawed that way of thinking is. It’s harmful. Toxic, actually. The work of j

BuildaBridge International partnered with HACEY Health Initiative over the summer of 2018 for the primary purpose of training the HACEY staff in the BuildaBridge method. Staff were trained for three consecutive days by Kelly Finlaw, an Artist-on-Call and BuildaBridge board member. At the end of the training HACEY staff successfully completed a training centered on; safe space, ritual, multiple intelligences, resilience, and trauma-informed classrooms. These staff members th