Center Presents on Trauma-Informed Public Health at International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference

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.

Dr. Corbin discussed Healing Hurt People, Dr. Bloom provided a powerful social and political history of how health and human services agencies in Philadelphia came to embrace trauma-informed approaches to practice, and Jonathan Purtle provided an overview of the parallels between trauma theory and public health practice. Jenny Rabinowich, Program Manager of Drexel’s Witnesses to Hunger, also presented at the session and discussed how principles related to emotional safety and psychoeducation have been integrated into a program serving low-income women and children experiencing food insecurity.

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