{"id":3882,"date":"2017-08-09T20:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T20:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freshhopeformentalhealth.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:16:27","slug":"healing-and-hope-for-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshhope.us\/es\/healing-and-hope-for-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing and Hope for Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5626331\/height\/100\/width\/480\/thumbnail\/yes\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/standard\/tdest_id\/212863\" height=\"100\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>In this edition of Fresh Hope for Mental Health, Pastor Brad interviews Chaplain Joy Stevens. \u00a0Joy is a Master Facilitator for the <a href=\"http:\/\/thi.americanbible.org\"><strong>Trauma Healing Institute<\/strong><\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbible.org\/ab\"><strong>American Bible Society<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joy and Brad discuss what trauma is and the trauma healing classes that the Trauma Healing institute is sponsoring in both churches and jails. \u00a0They also talk about the healing and hope that is coming from the classes and what is necessary in order for trauma, which is a wound of the heart, to heal.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Please know, if you have experienced hope in your life, what happened to you matters. \u00a0There is hope and healing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joy&#8217;s calling is to introduce the Trauma Healing Classes within hundreds of jails and prisons that the <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnewsjail.org\"><strong>Good News and Jail Ministry<\/strong><\/a> is connected with through out the United States. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because most the vast majority of people who are incarcerated have had trauma; trauma that wounded them very deeply and they have ended up acting out in their lives, due to the trauma. \u00a0The trauma must be healed in order for behaviors can change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/show\/55638\/JoyStevens.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joy Stevens has been a jail chaplain with Good News Jail &amp; Prison Ministry since 2011 working in corrections since 1996 where she started her career on death row in Lincoln\u00a0She became Trauma Healing Coordinator with her ministry in March of 2017 after partnering with American Bible Society and will be training chaplains and volunteers in jails and prisons around the nation.\u00a0 Joy will be visiting prisons in Kenya and Rwanda, Africa in July to look for the feasibility of introducing Healing Wounds of Trauma into their prisons.\u00a0 She is a Master Facilitator with the Trauma Healing Institute.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In this edition of Fresh Hope you&#8217;ll hear about the wonderful things that the Lord is doing through these trauma healing classes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After listening to this podcast, we encourage you to email us at info@FreshHope.us\u00a0with a comment or question that we will share on our next podcast.<\/p>\n<p>If you are listening to this podcast on iTunes, we encourage you to leave a comment regarding the podcast. Or you can leave a voice message for us on the site: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshhope4mentalhealth.com\/\">www.FreshHope4MentalHealth.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Brad Hoefs, host of Fresh Hope for Mental Health, is the founder of Fresh Hope Ministries, a network of Christian mental health support groups for those who have a diagnosis and their loved ones. In other words, Fresh Hope is a Christian mental health support group.<\/p>\n<p>Brad was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1995. He is a weekly blogger for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bphope.us\/\">www.bphope.<\/a>com\u00a0(Bipolar Magazine). 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