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ACEs Health Champions Gathering

At the ACEs Health Champions Gathering, Sanghoon presented "What would a Trauma Informed Community of Belonging look like?

Summary: This session offers six principles for creating a community of belonging with the trauma informed care lens, such as ‘connection before correction,’ ‘challenges, concerns, celebrations.’ Participants will learn faith-based and scientific importance of building safe relationships as the foundation of trauma healing and restoration.

National Cooperative
of Communities

This is a recording of Dr. Sanghoon Yoo's presentation delivered at the recent National Cooperative of Communities meeting on December 9th, 2025.

Dr. Yoo's presentation provides an inspirational, best-practice methodology for weaving together Faith-Based organizations, mental health professionals, social work, and community-based organizations.

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What happens when people commit to a trauma-informed lifestyle? Perspectives and responses shift, behaviors and actions change. Multi-ethnic groups are woven together, cleaving to each other with resilience and a healthy sense of being and belonging. Join Dr. Sanghoon Yoo, founder of The Faithful City and leader of the AZ Trauma-Informed Faith Coalition, and co-host Michelle Stiffler, writer and owner of Sincerity Method, as they discuss all things faith, science, and resilience.

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“Arizona ACEs Consortium Interfaith Committee” Podcast

Journey On: Faith Communities, Resilience, and Agents of Change. Join Sanghoon Yoo, founder of the Faithful City and leader of the Arizona ACEs Interfaith Committee, and co-host, Michelle Stiffler, Director of Trauma-informed Care at Hope Women's Center, as they chat with agents of change who are advancing the movement.

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Mary's life changed in her early teens when her parents divorced. Not only did her family change, she also moved, and went from a private school setting to attending public school. It was a difficult adjustment at the time, but now she sees how the Lord used those experiences to open her eyes and heart to a bigger world than the one she had always known.

As Mary grew, so did her global perspective. She went on a mission trip to West Africa, came home and made friends with Lost Boys from Sudan, worked for Food for the Hungry, and eventually, went on to get her Master's degree in social and cultural pedagogy. Today, Mary is the Executive Director of Phoenix Refugee Connections, a ministry that equips and sustains Christians to walk in love with their refugee neighbors.

She and her husband have four children - two biological and two from the foster care system for unaccompanied refugee children - as well as four grandchildren. Mary shares about her family's dynamics on this episode. It's beautiful, heartwarming, and definitely worth a listen.

To learn about Phoenix Refugee Connections: www.phxrc.org

To connect with Mary: mary@phxrc.org

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Collaborating with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, TFC launches the “Creating Communities of Belonging” project to support faith communities in building safe spaces and relationships where people experience being connected before being corrected, share struggles in the context of compassionate relationships, and raise hope and resilience for the future journey together.