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Watch: From Boston to Belfast, graduates tell their tales of transforming trauma

Writing To Heal From Trauma: Women Pen Memoirs With Help From Michael Patrick MacDonald
WBUR Here & Now’s Deborah Becker Interviews MPM and TRS participant Jennifer Hall 

Bouncing Back From Trauma Through Writing
WGBH Interview with Michael and Tina Chery

Helping Families Of Gun Violence Grieve
Michael and Tina Chery of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute speak to Jim Braude on WGBH's Greater Boston

Celebration of The Rest of the Story cohorts at Gairdín an Phobail, Belfast North of Ireland Summer 2022

Mamadou, an activist for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers in NI and participant in The Rest of the Story in Belfast gives a reading at An Gairdin an Phobail (The People’s Garden) in Belfast

The Rest of the Story worked with Massachusetts Department of Youth Services’ Family Advisory Council to develop ‘Sisters In Strength.’ Working with The Rest of the Story curriculum SiS produced a soon-to-be-released (2023) Book of their writings and recommendations to DYS.

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in 2014, The Rest of the Story worked with the women of Crittenton Women’s Union (now EMPath) to develop a collection of stories by powerful Boston women transitioning out of poverty (click on image for a free download).