Co-lead, with Imani Chapman, a national team of volunteers and staff to explore antiracist organizational structures.

Safety is Communal is a 90-minute in person or Zoom workshop that integrates polyvagal theory, mindfulness, and community organizing frameworks to resource individuals and communities to increase felt safety culminating in writing a community safety plan as a take home resource. This program emerged from relationships and collaborations around increasing community safety beyond policing after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis. Abbie is available to facilitate this workshop and/or train facilitators in this model.

Be Well Lake Street is a collaboration between Lake Street Council and health care and wellbeing organizations in the Lake Street corridor to support business owners and employees after the George Floyd Uprising in May 2020. This program provides grant funding to organizations to provide free mental health, acupuncture, wellness coaching, and other services to eligible individuals as part of the Healthy Lake Street initiative. This program has funded more than $50,000 of services in partnership with LynLake Centers for Wellbeing, The Family Partnership, the Walk In Counseling Center, and Healing Path Wellness. In a consultant role, Abbie partnered with Matt Kazinka, the Strategic Partnerships Coordinator at Lake Street Council, to create and administer this program and create reporting and intake processes in alignment with best practices for service provision and trauma informed, culturally responsive healthcare modalities.

Caring for the Carers is a sustainable practice model that Abbie created and applies to her teaching and consulting. Differentiating between burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious trauma, Abbie applies research and specific interventions to resource people doing care work for the long term in a 90 minute workshop. She has presented this material to the Hennepin Health Gender and Adolescent Sexuality Clinic, the Hennepin County Public Defenders, at the Macalester College Library, and the Augsburg University School of Social Work.