How Being Trauma-Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Responses to Women...
SAMHSA National GAINS Center. (2010). How being trauma-informed improves criminal justice system responses to women and men with mental illness training curriculum.
View ArticleJail Diversion and Trauma – Priority to Veterans
SAMHSA National GAINS Center. (2011). Jail diversion and trauma recovery – Priority to veterans. Delmar, NY: Policy Research Associates, Inc.
View ArticleTrauma Specific Interventions for Justice-Involved Individuals and Veterans
SAMHSA National GAINS Center. (2011). Trauma specific interventions for justice-involved individuals and veterans.
View ArticleToward Creating a Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice System
Recognition of the high rates of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder among justice-involved individuals is vital.1 It is estimated that 85 percent of women in correctional settings have an early...
View ArticleIncorporating Trauma-Informed Care into the Sequential Intercept Model
The traditional Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) presents a framework for communities to examine the cross-systems “flow” of persons with mental health and co-occurring disorders as they come into...
View ArticleRealizing My Voice and Choice at Alternatives
Alternatives 2013 – A 500-person conference covering practically all aspects of the recovery movement; and there I was, right in the middle of it and ready to learn all that I could. Never before had...
View ArticleShaping Reform, One Word at a Time
As the second of three sisters, I am well accustomed to life in the middle. It’s been a long time since I’ve lived with my sisters, but the lessons learned from being at neither extreme – oldest nor...
View ArticleThe Case for a Facility Dog Program
At the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) Victims Committee meeting in November 2011, I attended a fascinating presentation by Courthouse Dogs on the use of facility dogs in the courtroom....
View ArticleSmall Steps Towards Helping Parents and Children Begin to Heal from the...
Sentencing laws on both the federal and state level have not only increased the numbers of individuals incarcerated in prisons and jails, they have resulted in an increase in the number of minor aged...
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