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Trauma-Informed Approaches and the Power of Connection
DC 2015 Annual Conference on Trauma
Presented by: Mary Blake, Public Health AdvisorSAMHSA/CMHS
Lived Experience: Trauma Healing and Recovery
There is no greater agony than bearing an
untold story inside you.
– Maya Angelou
The Central Role of Trauma
School Problems, Incarceration
Homelessness, Relationship & Job Problems
Substance Abuse, Parenting Problems
Violence and Trauma
Mental Health ProblemsSuicide
PTSDDepressionSchizophrenia
The Impact of Trauma
• Trauma is cumulative• Trauma affects the developing brain• Trauma increases likelihood of health risk
behaviors (smoking, drinking, overeating) as means of coping
• Trauma is directly related to mental health symptoms, substance abuse, chronic physical illness, early mortality
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Trauma impacts our relationships and connections to ourselves and others: spiritually, socially, physically…
…Trauma often creates profound feelings of shame and isolation, and can alter our sense of self and relationship
to the world around us.
The experience of abuse and neglect often fosters a lack of safety or trust…
…Violence raises inherently spiritual questions, such as “why me?
Traumatic Experience and Connection
Rarely can a response make
something better, because what makes
something better is connection.
– Dr. Brene’ Brown
SAMHSA CONCEPT OF TRAUMA RELEASED OCTOBER 2014
Available for download at:http://store.samhsa.gov/product/SMA14-4884
SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma“The 3 Es”
Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an
individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the
individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
From SAMHSA’s Concept Paper
A Trauma-Informed Approach (Four R’s)
A trauma-informed program, organization, or system:
From SAMHSA’s Concept Paper
Key Principles of a Trauma-Informed Approach
People can't be just tied together.
They have to connect.
Otherwise, they'll find themselves
bound hand and foot.
― Ai Yazawa
When We Become Our Illness, We Lose Our Humanity
Postcards “To” The Edge
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe
place where we can go as we are and not be
questioned.
– Maya Angelou
Contact Info
Mary Blake, C.R.E, I.T.E
Public Health Advisor
SAMHSA/CMHS
Tel: 240-276-1747
E-mail: [email protected]