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Dr. Arthur Evans on Reflective Supervision and Trauma Informed Practice

On June 17, 2011 Arthur Evans, Phd, Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbilities in Philadelphia, addressed a multi-disciplinary audience of children and family services providers and stressed the importance of reflective supervision as a critical component of a trauma informed service system.

Destroying Sanctuary: A new book on the impact of trauma on organzations

Sandra Bloom and Brian Farragher have co-authored Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Services a powerful account of how organizational trauma in human services systems both mirrors and magnifies the trauma-related problems their clients seek relief from and then provides a framework for creating truly trauma-informed services.

Listen and Learn about the Adverse Childhood Events Study

Dr. Dan Gottlieb, host of Voices in the Family, which airs weekly on Philadelphia NPR station WHYY, discusses the landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES).  Guests include Vincent Felitti, MD, an internist at Kaiser Permanente and co-lead investigator of the ACE study,  Steven Berkowitz an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery and Sandra Bloom  a psychiatrist and nationally recognized expert on trauma.  She is with the School of Public Health at Drexel University and founder of the Sanctuary Model. Click here to listen to the program

Read Philadelphia Inquirer Opinion by local pediatrician on the impact of trauma on children

Philadelphia pediatrician, Dan Taylor's full page article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, poignantly discusses the impact of continuous stress and trauma on the children that he sees everyday in his practice at Saint Christopher's Hospital.  Dr. Taylor references the Adverse Childhood Experiences studies and more recent research which clearly links childhood and adult poor physical and mental health with early childhood exposure to violence and other stressful events.  Click here to read Dr. Taylor's article.

Walking the Walk: Modeling Trauma Informed Practice in the Training Environment

Multiplying Connections has developed a new resource which outlines strategies for modeling trauma informed practices when providing training about trauma and its impact on children and families.  Click here to download this new resource.

Impact of ACES/Childhood Trauma addressed in New Yorker Article

In a new New Yorker article, journalist Paul Tough profiles the work of pediatrician and Bayview Child Health Center Medical Director Nadine Burke, MD, MPH who has applied findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (AC

ISF poster on Stages of Change and Recovery Now Available

MC partner, The Institute for Safe Families, (ISF) has been incorporating the Stages of Change model into trainings on family violence prevention for over ten years. It is a useful theory about what we all go through when we decide we want to change a certain behavior. The Stages of Change Model was originally developed in the late 1970's and early 1980's by James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente at the University of Rhode Island when they were studying how

MC Presents at Zero to Three National Training Institute

PCCY's New Guide to Behavioral Health Services for Children includes Trauma Treatment Resources

The Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) has published a new guide to behavioral health services for children enrolled in medical assistance and CHIP in Philadelphia.  Titled "Where to Go for Help" the guide includes information on more than 50 behavioral health providers providing services in Philadelphia . &nbsp

Reflecting on Reflective Pratice

Two authors, Family Practice Physician, Anje Van Berckeler and Early Childhood Educator and Trainer, Monica Sullivan each write about reflective practice and its links to trauma-informed care.  Click here to read Anje's paper "Using Reflective Practice to Support Trauma Infomred Services for Children.  Click here to read Monica's p

Multiplying Connections awarded grant for Stoneleigh Junior Fellowship

Multiplying Connections updates Core Competencies

Multiplying Connections has updated Trauma Informed and Developmentally Sensitive Services for Children: Core Competencies for Effective Practice to reflect the inextricable links between trauma, adversity and early childhood attachment. Click here to download a copy of the updated competencies.

Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services appoints manager to lead trauma informed system transformation

The City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health/Mental Retardation Services (DBH/MRS) is developing and implementing a strategic plan that will usher the entire system towards being trauma-informed.  To accomplish this goal, the Department has convened The Trauma Advisory Group (TTAG) which is comprised of profe

The Amazing Brain: Materials for Parents, Caregivers and Professionals

The Amazing BrainDr. Linda Chamberlain is an epidemiologist specializing in the health effects of domestic violence on women and children.  Multiplying Connections, together with our partner organizations, the Department of Human Services and the Institute for Safe Families (ISF) hosted Dr.

Salvation Army creates new position to expand trauma-informed training

In the three years since the trauma-informed model, Sanctuary®, has been implemented at the Red Shield Family Residence homeless shelter of the Salvation Army in North Philadelphia, a non-violent cohesive community culture has been building, better enabling healing and empowerment of families and staff.  As this community has become its own resource and has been able to better understand and address past histories of chronic stress, violence, and trauma, the positive changes have not gone unnoticed by higher-level management of the Salvation Army.  As a result, Sandy Sheller- an art and fam

Trauma Treatment Services for Philadelphia’s Youngest Children

Philadelphia based Children’s Crisis Treatment Center (CcTC), long recognized for their specialized trauma assistance program (TAP) and Sexual Trauma Treatment Program (STTP) for children age 2-13, is now providing services to the very youngest children affected by trauma, infant and toddlers. Therapists from CcTC are being trained in the Child-Parent Psychotherapy model, a culturally sensitive evidence based intervention, for very young child who have been affected by trauma.

Multiplying Connections Develops Core Professional Competencies

Recognizing that translating what we know about the impact of trauma on children into effective practice requires professional training, the Multiplying Connections Cross System Training Institute has developed core competencies for children’s services professionals to provide effective trauma-informed and developmentally-appropriate services to young children and their families.