1/17/2012
Center Co-Directors, Drs. Bloom and Corbin, and Research Associate Jonathan Purtle hosted a session entitled “Trauma-Informed Approaches to Public Health Problems: Lessons from City of Brotherly Love” at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) conference in Baltimore, MD.
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1/17/2012
A video produced by the Stoneleigh Foundation highlights the work the Center and Dr. Corbin—recent recipient of the prestigeious Stoneleigh Fellowship.
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1/17/2012
Dr. Theodore Corbin, Co-Director of the Center, was profiled in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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1/17/2012
The Center has developed a series of webinars for the National Network to Eliminate Disparities (NNED) on integrating trauma-informed practice into health care-based violence intervention programs.
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3/22/2011
Center authors are among those featured in  Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color, published by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at Berkeley Law, University of California.
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2/18/2011
Dr. Sandra Bloom's latest book,  Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems, is now available from Oxford University Press.
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2/2/2011
On October 20, the Center  for Nonviolence and Social Justice (Center) received the 2010 Drexel University President’s Award for Intercultural Engagement & Diversity. This award for faculty and staff recognizes and honors significant contributions that promote awareness of and respect for diversity, create opportunities for intercultural engagement, and build upon Drexel's founding principle of inclusion.
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10/27/2010
The Center's Healing Hurt People program is a proud member of the National Network of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs, which has a brand new website. Visit the new site here.
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10/25/2010
 Recently, the Center and Sandra Bloom hosted eight mental health workers from two separate regions of Iraq. The visit was a training initiative sponsored jointly by the Iraq Ministry of Health and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Sandra Bloom, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health, was asked to arrange the visit by SAMHSA because the goal of the project is to help to establish trauma-informed mental health services in Iraq. SAMHSA thought the visitors could benefit by seeing all that is being done in Philadelphia to address the posttraumatic needs of vulnerable men, women and children.
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10/12/2010
The Center's John Rich and Ted Corbin recently joined  other community leaders and experts from around California and the nation in Los Angeles at a two-day national symposium and town hall to address the health and social issues facing African-American, Latino, Asian and Native American boys and young men of color.
Read more at the website of the Drexel University School of Public Health.
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8/31/2010
The July 26th "Voices in the Family" program on NPR, 90.9 FM, featured the Healing Hurt People violence intervention program.
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7/2/2010
 On June 1, 2010, the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice and the Drexel University School of Public Health co-sponsored an event with keynote speaker Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone. The event launched the Spare the Rod collaborative effort to end corporal punishment.
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6/23/2010
Dr. Sandra Bloom will receive the Spirit of  Crazy Horse Award at the annual Black Hills Conference on June 28, 2010 at the Crazy Horse Memorial, Rapid City, South Dakota.
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6/10/2010
Creative Alternatives of New York, celebrating the use of theater to help New York’s most vulnerable children and adults, recently honored Dr. Sandra Bloom, creator of the Sanctuary Model® of trauma informed care and Co-Director of the Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice at Drexel University, at this year’s annual gala, Broadway at the Boathouse…Encore.
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5/19/2010
John Rich was recently televised on  C-SPAN2's program Book TV. This weekend cable program features 48 hours of nonfiction books from Saturday 8am (ET) to Monday 8am (ET).
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5/11/2010
Dr. John Rich was featured on  The Sound of Ideas program on Cleveland's NPR affiliate (90.3FM WCPN) on May 10 during a one-hour segment on youth violence.
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5/10/2010
Dr. Sandra Bloom, an associate professor at the School of Public Health, recently returned home from her third visit to Northern Ireland since 2007 helping residents deal with the trauma of violence. She went back this year to give the keynote address at the European Society of Trauma and Dissociation and consult with the four national trauma advisory panels that were established as part of the peace accord in 1998 to help victims recover from the decades of violence in the country. Her work emphasizes the role of public health in dealing with societal trauma, and comparisons of trauma can be made between Northern Ireland and Philadelphia.
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2/8/2010
Dr. John Rich was recently interviewed on  the Mark Steiner radio show, WEAA 88.9 in Baltimore. Joining John was Roy Martin, one of the young men John writes about in his book Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Click here for the podcast and show summary. Roy Martin is featured prominently throughout the book, and is now a case manager at the Boston Public Health Commission.
A forum for Baltimore and Maryland civic affairs, The Marc Steiner Show airs Monday thru Thursday from 5-7pm on WEAA 88.9 FM.
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12/16/2009
Dr. Sandra Bloom's Sanctuary Model is cited in the  new report "Charting a New Course: A Blueprint for Transforming Juvenile Justice in New York State." New York's Office of Children and Family Services, which runs the state's juvenile placement system, adopted Sanctuary in 2007 to establish a more therapeutic environment within its facilities.
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11/2/2009
The November 2009 issue of Essence magazine features "We Dream a World," a piece in which Essence reaches out to black men, including Spike Lee, Colin Powell, the Center's own John Rich, and others to gather their views on being black and male in the Age of Obama.
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10/22/2009
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with Chicago public school studens and elected officials on October 7, 2009, to spark a national conversation about youth violence. His appearance in Chicago draws focus to the city's recent beating death of high school student Derrion Albert, which was captured on video and widely viewed on YouTube.
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10/22/2009
Former U.S. Senator Max Cleland recently appeared on NPR's Fresh Air to discuss his new memoir Heart of a Patriot. After 9/11, the loss of his Senate seat and the beginning of the Iraq War triggered a relapse of PTSD from his experience of losing three of his limbs as a soldier in Vietnam.
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10/22/2009
The Center's Dr. Sandra Bloom is quoted in a recent article "Traumatic Childhood May Take Years Off Adult Life" by Patricia McAdams, available on the Health Behavior News Services.
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10/14/2009
On October 9th, the Center presented a training with Dr. Sandra Bloom focused on the psychobiological effects of trauma and an introduction to trauma-informed approaches to working with traumatized individuals. The majority of participants were Philadelphia Police Officers representing the divisions of Victims Assistance, Major Crimes, and Homicide.
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10/12/2009
Dr. John Rich, Director of the Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice, has been named to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
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9/28/2009
The Healing Hurt People (HHP) program at  the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice will be expanding its services to the trauma department at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children.
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7/14/2009
As part of a week-long Service Learning in Public Policy program offered by the Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge, the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice spent Tuesday July 7th working with and educating a group of high school students from around the country.
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6/18/2009
The Center's own Sandra Bloom, MD, founder of the Sanctuary Model, is attending “Transforming Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices, Neuroscience and Cross-Cultural Perspectives,” a forum held June 17-20 at the Garrison Institute.
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5/12/2009
Dr. Ted Corbin, Director of the Healing Hurt People program, was presented with a Social Action Award on May 9, 2009, by the Quaker City Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
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5/4/2009
The Healing Hurt People program is very excited to have started a weekly group for victims of violence using the S.E.L.F. psychoeducational model.
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5/1/2009
On April 29th, Dr. Ted Corbin, Director of the Center's Healing Hurt People hospital-based violence intervention program, was the featured presenter in Drexel's Africana Studies Speaker Series.
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2/17/2009
On February 16, Dr. John Rich, Director of the Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice, was the featured presenter in Drexel University's Africana Studies Lecture Series.
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2/11/2009
The Center is delighted by the recent addition of Dr. Sandra Bloom to our team. Dr. Bloom will play a key role in the development of the Center, contributing to our training and research missions in particular. She will also serve as faculty in the doctoral program in Health Policy and Social Justice at Drexel University's School of Public Health.
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11/13/2008
Drexel University and the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice had the honor of recently hosting two renowned civil  rights leaders. On November 10th, the Center held an intimate roundtable discussion with Ahmed Kathrada, South African human rights leader and prison confidante of Nelson Mandela. On November 12th, Barbara Hogan, South Africa’s newly appointed Health Minister, was the featured speaker of this year’s Jonathan Mann Health & Human Rights Memorial Lecture, hosted by Drexel University’s School of Public Health.
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