Webinar: Trauma-Informed Care through the Sanctuary Model – September 4, 2014

• Sandra L. Bloom, MD, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health of Drexel University in Philadelphia, and Co-Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, and Co-Founder of the ANDRUS Sanctuary Institute
• Denise Hinds, Associate Executive Director, Foster Care, Juvenile Justice and Supportive Housing Division, Good Shepherd Services
• Lina E. Pasquale, Division Director, Foster Care, Juvenile Justice and Supportive Housing Division, Good Shepherd Services
• Jenny Nix, Deputy Director, Program Evaluation and Planning Department, Good Shepherd Services

Moderator

• Ingvild Bjornvold, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Social Solutions

Join the co-creator of the Sanctuary Model for trauma-informed care, and staff from Good Shepherd Services to hear about what it takes to bring the model to life, and the benefits it has had for young people across Good Shepherd Services’ Foster Care, Youth Justice, and Supportive Housing programs.

In the 2000s, as the City of New York transferred all its residential services for youth to private providers, Good Shepherd Services found that the youth entering its programs had higher needs and more complex trauma experiences. It became clear that the agency’s positive youth development approach alone was insufficient to meet the increased needs of the youth and create a safe environment to support the healing process. Representatives from Good Shepherd Services will talk about how they decided to adopt the Sanctuary Model, and what they did to integrate the appropriate structures, processes and behaviors into organizational culture and into specific programs. One of the early benefits to staff and youth has been increased safety, as indicated by a dramatic drop in group home incidents. Increased staff retention has been experienced as well.

Dr. Bloom will comment on the origins and applicability of the evidence-supported Sanctuary Model, and longer-term outcomes GSS and others implementing it can expect. The speakers will take questions from the audience.

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About the Speakers

Dr. Sandra L. Bloom is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and recipient of the Temple University School of Medicine Alumni Achievement Award. She is an Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health of Drexel University in Philadelphia and Co-Director there of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice. Dr. Bloom is a Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Dr. Bloom currently serves as Distinguished Fellow of the Andrus Children’s Center in Yonkers, NY. She is a Co-Founder of the ANDRUS Sanctuary Institute, a non-profit training program to teach and certify organizations in the Sanctuary Model. The Sanctuary Model® is now being applied in over 100 programs nationally and internationally including congregate care programs for children, domestic violence and homeless shelters, inpatient and outpatient mental health settings for children and adults, child welfare agencies, and large multipurpose organizations.

Denise Hinds is Associate Executive Director for the Foster Care, Juvenile Justice and Supportive Housing Division. She oversees all Good Shepherd’s Administration for Children’s Services-funded residential and foster boarding home programs as well as two Department of Juvenile Justice Non-Secure Detention Residences and two non-secure Placement Residences, two supportive housing programs and Street Outreach for young adults experiencing homelessness and an aftercare program for youth on probation. In 2002, Denise played a significant role in the development and implementation of the Chelsea Foyer, the agency’s first supportive housing program for young adults and one of the first programs of its type in the country. During her 30 years at Good Shepherd Services, Ms. Hinds has been instrumental in developing a variety of innovative youth development driven programs.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Maryville College, in Tennessee, and a Masters in Social Work from the Hunter College School of Social Work, and recently completed the Executive Education Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is certified as a New York State Licensed Master Social Worker, as well as a Clinical Field Instructor. She has also served as a Faculty Advisor for the Hunter College School of Social Work.

Lina E. Pasquale is a Division Director at Good Shepherd Services in NYC serving as a senior leader in Foster Care, Juvenile Justice and Supportive Housing division. She has served on the training faculty of the Sanctuary Institute and is an adjunct faculty member at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY.  Her work experience includes implementing and evaluating trauma-based programs and facilitating trainings on evidence-based practice, trauma theory, assessment and treatment.  She was a researcher on the original NIMH outcome study assessing the efficacy of the Sanctuary Model with children in residential treatment and has 15 years experience implementing trauma-based models.

Jenny Nix joined Good Shepherd Services in February of 2010. As the Deputy Director of the Program Evaluation and Planning Department, Jenny partners with programs to help them use data and research to strengthen services. In addition, Jenny leads and supports agency-wide initiatives to promote evidence-based practice and effective implementation of evidence-based models, including the Sanctuary Model and Solution-Based Casework. Prior to working at Good Shepherd Services, Jenny spent several years working in clinical and case management roles with children and families involved in the child welfare system. Most recently, she was a clinician at a community-based children’s mental health clinic and specialized in working with youth placed in foster care with histories of trauma and mental illness. Jenny is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with an MSW from New York University and a BA in Women’s Studies and American Government from Georgetown University.