Thank you for your question, ma'am, and for putting it in the context of the research. That helps me answer it.
One interesting thing about going through the performance as many times as we did is that, even with someone as experienced as Dr. Marvin Westwood, who has been working with veterans for a long time, we were still constantly learning. Just as some of the other witnesses mentioned, there are different generations of veterans and different needs. Even their learning abilities—how we're taught in school to learn, interpret, share—50 years ago were different from what they were 10 years ago and are today. What we noticed when audience members would come up and we'd have conversations with other practitioners in the field is that they were constantly having to adapt and change to the group.
It's difficult. It's really challenging to have one course per se, and for all people working with veterans to take this course to be certified as trauma-informed, because how trauma is perceived and how people manage it and work with it are changing.
What I personally witnessed in the play was the importance of immersing yourself in the community. You can't do it every day or all day, but at different parts, you can immerse yourself in the community, have a sense of what's happening today with the population you're serving and then inform your practice based on what trends you're seeing today. You might have to do that at regular intervals to have the best approach and be trauma-informed for today versus yesterday.