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Sandy Bloom

 

Dr. Sandra Bloom is a Co-Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health. She is a Board-Certified psychiatrist and renowned author who speaks nationally and internationally about the impact of traumatic experience on individuals, families, organizations, and cultures. A new book, Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery will be published by Oxford University Press and another volume about the Sanctuary®  Model as an antidote to recurrent stress and systemic dysfunction is “in the publication pipeline:.
From 1980-2001, Dr. Bloom served as Founder and Executive Director of the Sanctuary, inpatient psychiatric programs for the treatment of trauma-related disorders in adults. Her first book, Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies tells the story of the creation of one of the nation’s first inpatient programs for the treatment of adults who were abused as children. In 2006, Dr. Bloom became a recipient of the Temple University School of Medicine Alumni Achievement Award.
Dr. Bloom is a Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and in 1998 received the Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence from the ISTSS. For the last five years she has served as the Ombudsman for the ISTSS.
In addition to the books she has authored or co-authored, she has edited another book on violence, has edited or co-edited and contributed to two issues of Psychiatric Quarterly and two issues of Therapeutic Communities as well as authoring fifteen chapters and more than thirty journal articles. She and her colleagues have completed the S.E.L.F. Psychoeducational curriculum that is being utilized in a number of different settings. She is presently working on a book that focuses on the impact of organizational stress on social service and mental health environments
As the Distinguished Fellow at the Andrus Children's Center in Yonkers, NY. Dr. Bloom has helped to establish the Sanctuary Institute to train a wide variety of human service delivery programs in the Sanctuary Model, a trauma-informed approach to organizational change. Over 100 programs nationally and internationally are in the process of adopting the Sanctuary Model including residential settings for children, group homes, schools, substance abuse programs, shelters, outpatient facilities, child welfare agencies and juvenile justice programs.
She maintains a website at www.sanctuaryweb.com. Information about the Sanctuary Institute can be found at www.andruschildrens.org

 

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