Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care

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“Restoring Sanctuary” is the third book in a trilogy that explores the changes in mental health and human service delivery systems that disempower staff and hinder client recovery. The book offers a user-friendly guide on how to create a safe, secure, trauma-informed environment by addressing the deep roots of toxic stress and transform a dysfunctional human service system. It is a roadmap to recovery for the nation’s systems of care.

The Sanctuary Model is a value system committed to non-violence, emotional intelligence, social learning, democracy, open communication, social responsibility, and growth and change. It is not a clinical intervention but a method for creating an organizational culture that can effectively provide a context for healing from psychological and socially derived forms of traumatic experience at all levels. The book is organized around the seven Sanctuary commitments, providing step-by-step guidance on creating and sustaining fundamental change.

Becoming a truly trauma-informed system requires reconstitution within helping organizations, top to bottom. A system cannot create and sustain a process of understanding itself unless it is truly trauma-informed.

Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (February 1, 2013)
Language: English
Hardcover: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 019979636X
ISBN-13: 978-0199796366
Reading age: 1 year and up
Item Weight: 1.34 pounds
Dimensions: 9.3 x 0.9 x 6.1 inches