For the past 18 years I have been working in Camden, New Jersey, a city that has been called America's poorest and most violent city of its size. During that time, I helped to found Hopeworks, an organization that works with youth ages 14-23...
The undertaking of Trauma Informed Care here at Hopeworks has taught me something about culture change. I have come to appreciate that culture change isn’t simply a cognitive action–where I learn new information and then...
Here is a bit that I just wrote around the connections of "GTD weekly review", safety and trauma informed care. Trying to do some real cross connecting! Here is an excerpt: At Hopeworks, we say we work in a trauma informed manner....
Rob Anda, co-author of the ACE Study, will be speaking at 2:30pm in Camden, NJ on May 5th. He will be discussing the ACES Study and the creation of healing communities, specifically the project of the "Healing 10" here in Camden. The Healing 10...
As part of our growing practice of staff development, we implemented a small group at Hopeworks to begin to talk about attachment theory and our work. We are using the book Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for...
Does anyone have any thoughts on the recent wordage around the homeless being named as "the most vulnerable population?" Here in Camden, NJ, there has been an uptick in terminology like this to push for housing with the sense that once someone...
A couple of us from my organization, Hopeworks, will be in Chicago next month and are looking for organizations that are using Trauma Informed Resources creatively and with great innovation to visit. Any suggestions?
