Consultant Robert K. Macy, Hanna Institute Assistant Director Nick Dalton, and Hanna Institute Interim Director Brian Farragher inside Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma, CA.
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After the October fires, the Community Foundation of Sonoma County co-sponsored a survey of local nonprofit organizations to gauge the effect that the disaster had on the people they serve and their organizational capacity to provide services in response.
Throughout the “2018 Wildfire Response Survey,” mental health was consistently cited among the top three impacts of the wildfires.
Since 2016, the Hanna Institute, a program based at the Hanna Boys Center on Arnold Drive, has trained professionals from schools and organizations that work with at-risk youth on how to use the trauma-informed care practices that have become a hallmark at the residential treatment center on Arnold Drive.
That expertise is now being applied to the unique challenge of supporting the social-emotional well-being of fire survivors.
Thanks to a new two-year $650,000 grant from the San Francisco-based Tipping Point Community, the Institute is poised to emerge as the leader in trauma-informed care training in Northern California, with a specific focus on fire survivors.
To read the rest of this story by Lorna Sheridan, go to: http://www.sonomanews.com/news...a=AAS&artslide=0
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