| Kauffman and Associates, Inc. (KAI), Evermore, and the National Center for Fatality Review & Prevention are reimagining how grief and bereavement impact our lives.
To learn more from tribal communities, KAI is facilitating 3 virtual listening sessions to gather insights and reflections from Indian Country on traditions, beliefs, and approaches for coping with loss. The information collected during these listening sessions may help inform future resources that support grieving communities.
Listening Session Dates
Join us for a virtual listening session where we will learn from you about how our ancestors grieved and honored the departed:
Listening Session 1: May 12, 2025, 10 am CT
Listening Session 2: May 19, 2025, 6 pm CT
Listening Session 3: May 27, 2025, 3 pm CT
Please note, you may only register and attend 1 listening session.
Prize Drawing
For each listening session, we will enter participants into a drawing to win 1 of 3 prizes—an Eighth Generation wool blanket, an Eighth Generation cotton blanket, or an Eighth Generation water bottle.
About Kauffman and Associates, Inc.
KAI is a 100% American Indian– and woman-owned small business specializing in planning, evaluation, communications, training, and facilitation.
Meet the Listening Session Facilitators
Danica Love Brown, MSW, CACIII, PhD, is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma born and raised in northern New Mexico. Danica is the Vice President for Behavioral Health Transformations at KAI and has worked as a mental health and substance use counselor, social worker, and youth advocate for 30 years. She is an Indigenous Wellness Research Institute ISMART fellow, a Council of Social Work Education member, a Minority Fellowship Program fellow, and a Northwest Native American Research Center for Health fellow. Her research has focused on Indigenous Ways of Knowing and decolonizing methodologies to address historical trauma and health disparities in tribal communities.
Keli King, MSW, LCSW, CAS, is an enrolled member of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma and a descendant of the Meskwaki Nation and Sac & Fox Tribe of Oklahoma. Keli is the Indigenous resilience coordinator at KAI. She received her Master of Social Work, with a focus in Indigenous trauma and resiliency, from the University of Toronto, and she is a licensed clinical social worker. Keli has 17 years of experience in social work for tribal communities with a focus on healing from generational trauma.
Cortney Yarholar, LMSW, is a member of the Sac & Fox Nation and a descendant of the Creek, Otoe & Pawnee Tribes. He serves as a tribal technical assistance (TA) specialist for KAI’s behavioral health transformation team. Cortney has over 20 years of experience in children, youth, and family mental health and recovery services and systems development. His passion is in decreasing suicide among youth, eliminating behavioral health disparities among American Indian and Alaska Native populations, and helping organizations be more culturally responsive and responsible for the people they serve through training and TA that promotes diversity and inclusion.
About the Contract
These sessions are supported through a $5,149,996 cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Contact Information
For questions, contact Keli King, keli.king@kauffmaninc.com |
