Special Workshop on Trauma-Informed Care
Sandra L. Bloom, M.D.
Maggie Bennington-Davis, M.D.
Jake Lukas, RSW
Wednesday 22 October 2014
14.30 – 16.00
The Sanctuary Model: An Organizational Approach to Trauma-Informed Care
In this workshop, the presenters will provide a look at how the Sanctuary Model is being implemented as an organizational approach for creating trauma-informed systems in various settings. Dr. Bloom is one of the originators of the model and of the development of the Sanctuary Institute, the training arm of the Sanctuary Model. Dr. Bennington-Davis has experience implementing the Sanctuary Model in an acute care psychiatric inpatient setting as well as the ways in which a small town in the western part of the United States are using the Sanctuary Model as a community-wide intervention. Mr. Lukas is currently leading an effort to implement the Sanctuary Model in a UK residential school for emotionally disturbed young people as well as a residence for developmentally disabled adults. Their varied experiences should enable audience members to get a sense of the many ways the Sanctuary Model can be adopted for different kinds of settings and populations.
Short biographical details of presenters
Sandra L. Bloom, M.D. is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Co-Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the School of Public Health of Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the co-founder of the Sanctuary Model. She is a Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is considered one of the pioneers in trauma studies. She has written many articles, chapters and books, most recently a second edition of Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies (Routledge, 1997 and 2013), co-authored Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Dr. Maggie Bennington-Davis, M.D., M.M.M., is a Board-Certified psychiatrist who serves as Chief Medical and Operating Officer at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Bennington-Davis is involved in leading Cascadia to develop a full Recovery orientation and Trauma-Informed services, as well as assisting an effort for optimally efficient service delivery. She has extensive physician and organization leadership experience in a variety of roles. She has served a large medical staff as Medical Staff President, leading a major organizational initiative to renovate structure, function and processes. She served as the Salem Hospital’s Medical Director for Psychiatry Service and in that role developed a cultural change model for elimination of seclusion and restraint that incorporated key elements of the Sanctuary Model. She has facilitated workshops and trainings across the U.S. and assisted many organizations in implementation of the model, and has received several awards for this work.
Jake Lukas RSW, MBASW-DipSW DipHE, is Chief Executive Officer of Novalis Trust. The Trust comprises of a residential children's home for 42 young people, in an independent Special School for 60 young people who have complex needs, attachment difficulties, and have experienced childhood trauma and adversity. Two residential care homes for adults with a learning and mental health difficulties, a therapeutic clinical resource and training centre. Mr. Lukas is a qualified social worker and trained in attachment focused therapies and has over 20 years' experience of working with complex young people and supporting and guiding staff. Jake has developed a model of practice grounded in trauma informed, attachment-focused theories and promotes relationship-based practice throughout the organisation. He continues to work directly with young people and staff and is currently leading Sanctuary accreditation throughout the organisation.
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