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Trauma-Informed Elementary Teachers Explain Trauma in the Classroom
Two Trauma-Informed Elementary Teachers Explain What Exactly a Trauma-Informed Classroom is and why it's important for kids in foster care
Think Home: A Reentry Guide for Christian International Students
This popular workbook helps Christian international students think through the challenges they will face upon returning home. It includes thought-p ...
Re-Entry Challenges
Survey results In August 2013, I used Survey Monkey to find out more what challenges repatriates face on returning “home.” In this article I am sum ...
When Re-Entry is Hard
No one can prepare you for re-entry, not even your closest friends and family who have walked alongside of you through this season. Neither can a c ...
Lisa Espineli Chinn - Being Uprooted
Lisa Espineli Chinn came to America as an international student. After graduating years ago, she stayed and continued to work with other internatio ...
Returning Well: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Re-entry. “Re” – meaning “again.” Meaning that you’ve done this before. This is not the first time. Sure, this time will have its differences. But, ...
4 Things You Should Know About Reverse Culture Shock
You can’t prepare for the culture shock that hits you when visiting your passport country. You go, excited to reconnect with friends and supports, ...
Lisa Espineli Chinn: Beyond "Welcome Back!" - 10 Things You Need to Know about Reentry
Reentry is the often-forgotten part of cross-cultural transition in a short- or long-term mission experience. Join this interactive workshop and he ...
Rocky Reentry: encouragement for global workers in re-entry.
Thoughts, encouragement, and resources for the global worker transitioning back to their home country. Help with expat reverse culture shock, re-en ...
Why Missionaries Can Never Go Home Again
When a new missionary first gets to the mission field, it is obvious where home is. It is that place where you just left. It is the place where you ...
The Seven Lies of Repatriation
Ahhh “Repatriation” It’s one of those words that you don’t even look up in the dictionary until you start going through it yourself. For ...
Before you return: thoughts on preparing for re-entry.
The last couple months I’ve chatted with a half a dozen friends who are preparing for their reentry or are just beginning to find themselves naviga ...