The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement [Medium.com]

Mandy Davis posted:

Thank you for sharing this.  I do think it is important to define the terms we use in our practices as they can mean different things across sectors and areas. There is rarely a phrase or title that works well overtime for everyone as we evolve and learn. What you describe I would not label as TIC.

Our TIC work at Trauma Informed Oregon is about organizational and system change. If the work does not include dismantling policies and procedures that perpetuate adversity as well as care for the workforce it is not considered TIC. We also ask entities that want to take on TIC work to include experiences of oppression and institutional abuse in the definition of trauma and toxic stress. SAMHSA's definition for TIC starts with a "program, organization, or system".  We believe systems need to be trauma informed but may not provide direct healing practices. 

We refer to the work with individuals and families as Trauma Specific Services and I would agree that if this work is only about trauma symptoms  it would not be effective or representative of a persons experience.  I see your description as a TSS focus and I agree that are healing approaches are insufficient. They lack connections, community, and lived experience support. 

Thank you for your work.

Mandy:
I love this piece.

"We also ask entities that want to take on TIC work to include experiences of oppression and institutional abuse in the definition of trauma and toxic stress."

I think it's essential because if systems don't change and turn inward, understand and change these things, it's not going to make change for those that need, rely on, use and are sometimes abused by systems. How this gets done, measured, dealt with when there is boatloads of resistance is where I wonder. If we're talking trauma-informed care, that's still a power differential model, a service orientation (as in the providers learning about trauma of "client" and other rather than all of us talking, thinking about, working with how it impacts all on a systems level, not only on individuals and families who we often ask or try to teach to just be more resilient without changing basic conditions. Great article. Love reading all the comments!
Cis 

Thank you for sharing this.  I do think it is important to define the terms we use in our practices as they can mean different things across sectors and areas. There is rarely a phrase or title that works well overtime for everyone as we evolve and learn. What you describe I would not label as TIC.

Our TIC work at Trauma Informed Oregon is about organizational and system change. If the work does not include dismantling policies and procedures that perpetuate adversity as well as care for the workforce it is not considered TIC. We also ask entities that want to take on TIC work to include experiences of oppression and institutional abuse in the definition of trauma and toxic stress. SAMHSA's definition for TIC starts with a "program, organization, or system".  We believe systems need to be trauma informed but may not provide direct healing practices. 

We refer to the work with individuals and families as Trauma Specific Services and I would agree that if this work is only about trauma symptoms  it would not be effective or representative of a persons experience.  I see your description as a TSS focus and I agree that are healing approaches are insufficient. They lack connections, community, and lived experience support. 

Thank you for your work.

Always asking for examples of "how" and your article certainly provided great examples. It seems that building hope and new community attachment is one of the answers. I also like the venerability component. Thanks

Thank you so much for sharing this Wonderful and Complete multitiered and Comprehensive look at the healing that needs to happen.  Noticing the words we use and clarifying what we meant will make the work more meaningful and effective and efficient! 

WOW...Kudos to Shawn Ginwright!

Not only massively well said but a fork in the road. 

Hereafter, there is ‘before Ginwright’ and ‘after Ginwright’

Can the trauma-informed folks see it and catch up?

This qualifies as the best directional piece towards creating a resilient, healed future.

It answers the question , ‘what’s next’.