Issues and your trauma issues such as ptsd, to make you to be able to function on the outside in public despite what things have happened to you. Sisters empowering sisters is a program for women who are dually diagnosed with a psychiatric illness and addiction and who are the victims of violence to serve as peer mentors for other women who have similar histories. I loved the peers. I have to talk about that because i could talk to any of them. Theyre very understanding. They have a whole lot of strength with them and confidence, and you could talk about. And they make you feel so welcome. And then they give you that love and that caring and that respect. Peer Recovery Support services are consumers helping other consumers. Weve been through training, and we facilitate groups on various topics, from Womens Health to trauma survival, Substance Abuse issues with different topics each week from, for instance, evaluating relationships, red flags for Domestic Violence, and things of that is
And have histories of traumatic victimization. The mission of community connections, first of all, is Mental Health, making everybody whole, of the people who have suffered from trauma, people who have Substance Abuse, to give you the tools to be able to manage your Mental Health issues and your trauma issues such as ptsd, to make you to be able to function on the outside in public despite what things have happened to you. Sisters empowering sisters is a program for women who are dually diagnosed with a psychiatric illness and addiction and who are the victims of violence to serve as peer mentors for other women who have similar histories. I loved the peers. I have to talk about that because i could talk to any of them. Theyre very understanding. They have a whole lot of strength with them and confidence, and you could talk about. And they make you feel so welcome. And then they give you that love and that caring and that respect. Peer Recovery Support services are consumers helping ot
Well, listening to dr. Harris and dr. Gillece, but the most important thing is care that takes into consideration the traumatic experiences that a person may have had. It is care that recognizes that trauma is a very real possibility. When you take a look at the statistics and you find a lot of people who present for treatment, whether its traditional Mental Health treatment or Substance Abuse treatment or a combination, or people who enter the criminal Justice System, a significant number have had traumatic experiences. So, if were going to intervene in a positive way, we have to take into consideration, and the very strategies that allow us to take into consideration. But the most important part of it is the beginning, acknowledging the trauma that could have happened in that persons life. And dr. Gillece, how do we screen for that . Well, i think when you do traumainformed care, i think whats really important too is to create environments of care that do no more harm. There are many
Can you tell us a little bit about which ones were using . Well, theres many different. Theres many, many different trauma screens. We used to use everything from brief trauma screens to the ace study to short screens that are used to try to not retraumatizefor example, in jailthat just may ask four or five questions. So, theres many, many trauma screens that are very good and excellent for use. And what type of questions are they, for example . Well, some questions are like, for the brief ones that we have used in prisons and jails would be are you oftentimes haunted by terrible memories . Do you often have lapses of memory that werent resulting in alcohol or drug abuse . Do you have nightmares . I mean, there are certain questions that are used that are geared towards not retraumatizing and ask people to spill out all of the traumas, but will then get people screened so they can be invited into the appropriate groups. But, in addition to the screening, i think whats so important is t
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