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Building a trauma-informed care peer workforce
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
: 5:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Cynthia Zubritsky, PhD
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Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvnia, Philadelphia, PA
Bridget Keogh, BS
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Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Leslie Brower, PhD
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Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, New Castle, DE
Rhonda Elsey, M.S.
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Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, New Castle, DE
This session provides a description of the implementation of a statewide, four year trauma-informed mental health (MH) and co-occurring disorders (COD) care systems change initiative. The goals of the systems change are to: 1) prepare outpatient mental health and co-occurring system providers and specialists to build a system of care based on a consumer-defined set of principles and values that integrate lived trauma experiences into MH and COD recovery services; 2) provide universal trauma screening and assessment to all individuals who enter the recovery system; and 3) to build a workforce of trauma peer specialists to provide trauma-informed recovery services across the service and provider network. The primary focus of this initiative is to change the culture of the treatment delivery system; incorporating a trauma-informed recovery philosophy and activities into all recovery services. This session will provide a description of the process of implementing universal screening and assessment and an analysis of the data of over 2,000 individuals who were screened for trauma experience at the onset of entering the recovery system over a three year period and on the design, implementation, and outcomes of trauma peer-delivered recovery services.
Learning Areas:
Social and behavioral sciences
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Describe prevalence and scope of lived trauma experience at intake to mental health and substance abuse services.
Describe the process of building a trauma peer workforce.
Keyword(s): Mental Health System, Peer Counselors
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the project manager for the DE Mental Health Transformation Grant since 2012. I have received training in trauma-informed care and provided training in the initiative's evaluation protocol to consumers, providers and DSAMH administration. I have regularly presented findings from the trauma-informed care implementation project at state-wide meetings and to stakeholders throughout Delaware.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
