From health care to education to criminal justice, agencies and organizations throughout Wisconsin are shifting to adopt trauma-informed care – a strength and empowerment-based approach to mental health treatment that promotes empathy over punishment and acknowledges the role of adverse childhood experiences in brain development. Allison Geyer reported in last week’s Isthmus about a push to expand trauma-informed care in Wisconsin that’s been several years in the making – and how we’re not quite there yet. Geyer spoke with WORT-FM producer Dylan Brogan about the story for the station’s evening news program, In Our Backyard. Listen to the interview here: