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引领潮流

We established the Institute for Building Resilience through Trauma-Informed Practices to serve as a leading 资源 and advocate for trauma-informed practices. 

We've emerged as a leader in this space, creating and refining our curriculum over the past decade, before there were any degrees of this kind. We've introduced a dedicated one-year master's degree and a certificate program, plus we've incorporated this important work into the curriculum across other degree programs. 

研究所的目标

We'll serve as a national advocate, 资源, and model for applying trauma-informed practices to build resilience and thereby improve the quality of life for tens of millions of people who have experienced trauma.

With the support of a Social Justice Fund grant from Colonial Life and its parent company Unum, 哥伦比亚大学 has established the I-BRTIP to focus on the following goals.

• Offer Rigorous Graduate Programs
  Offer relevant and rigorous graduate degree and certificate programs in building resilience through trauma-informed practices for 教育工作者, 社会工作者, 以及刑事司法, 卫生保健, and human 资源s professionals. 
• Integrate into 本科 Curriculum
  Integrate trauma-informed practices into undergraduate programs of study in education, 社会工作, 刑事司法, 护理, 卫生保健, 业务, 还有艺术. 
• 提供继续教育
  Provide conferences, webinars, symposia, and blogs on trauma-informed practices to build resilience. 
• Provide Training for Organizations
  Share knowledge and teachings with 业务, 行业, 卫生保健, and nonprofit 组织—from schools, 服务机构, and law enforcement to churches, 艺术团体, 倡导团体. 
• 促进研究 
  Conduct and publish related research and innovative ideas about the practical application and advocacy of building resilience by establishing the Trauma-Informed Practices Quarterly.
• Model through Day-to-Day Operations
  Become a national model for trauma-informed practices that build resilience for transforming academic and student affairs programming at colleges and universities across the country. 
• Serve Communities as a Central Resource
  倡导和服务学校, 组织, and communities in ways that align with our mission of innovation, 社会正义, 服务, and leadership through a trauma-informed lens.  

SAMHSA方法

I-BRTIP endorses the Substance Abuse and Mental 健康 Services Administration (SAMHSA) definition for trauma: Individual trauma results from an event, 一系列事件, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as 物理ly or 情感ly harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, 物理, 社会, 情感, 或者精神上的幸福.  

I-BRTIP also endorses SAMHSA’s concept of a trauma-informed approach, which is grounded in a set of four assumptions and six key principles. The four assumptions: A program, organization, or system that is trauma-informed:

1. realizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery; 
2. recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, 家庭, 工作人员, and others involved with the system; 
3. responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices, and 
4. seeks to actively resist re-traumatization. 

The SAMHSA’s trauma-informed approach incorporates six key principles: 

1. 安全
2. Trustworthiness and Transparency
3. 同伴支持
4. 合作与互惠
5. 赋权、发声和选择
6. Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues

(SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach prepared by SAMHSA’s Trauma and Justice Strategic Initiative of July 2014) 

广泛的影响

There is not an area of human life that is untouched by trauma and mental health. Studies by the National Alliance on Mental 健康 (NAMI) and others confirm that the impact of trauma is a major cause of mental illness and 物理 illness. Likewise, trauma is a root cause for many children in Department of Juvenile Justice facilities.

Medical 从业人员 unknowingly respond to mental health and trauma survivors on a daily basis. Medical training includes very little attention to either, aside for a single class session. In higher education and in the workforce, lingering effects of trauma emerge as obstacles to success and worse, 作为失败的原因. 

Mental health and trauma are under-treated, 诊断不足, and overrepresented in vulnerable populations of all kinds.  LGBTQIA社区, 有色人种, and women all carry an extra heavy burden of risk and occurrence of both mental health conditions and trauma. 当然, they are intertwined and exacerbated by the far-reaching and lifelong effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. 集体, 交集, and the compounding influence of systemic racism and injustice in conjunction with trauma increases the sense of urgency to diagnose and treat trauma and to expand trauma-informed practices. 

We have more detailed research than ever before that trauma alters the development of the brain, leaving people from all of these groups with another risk of 社会 impairment due to developmental lags.  We know for instance that on a cellular level, African American women are approximately 10 years older than their chronological age.  在细胞水平上, they carry the trauma of more than 300 years of racial and economic oppression and discrimination. 

一代的影响

This centuries-long problem manifests in higher infant and mother mortality rates, as well as lower life expectancies of both men and women of color.  This also means there are members of society who cannot live up to their highest potential or contribution.  The connection between building resilience through trauma-informed practices and 社会正义 is profound.  

Not only do oppressed groups risk trauma and mental health conditions to a higher degree than others, but they also carry the oppression of the past in their DNA. This follows generation after generation. 此外, the long-term impact of trauma has already increased significantly during COVID-19, particularly among vulnerable populations. 随着疫情的持续, 对BIPOC的影响, LGBTQIA, and 家庭 living in poverty will only worsen. 

These are the issues 哥伦比亚大学 is prepared to address with our Institute for Building Resilience through Trauma-Informed Practices (I-BRTIP) as our unique contribution to advancing 社会正义. 

The name of the Institute begins with “Building Resilience,” reflecting a commitment to a strengths-based approach that draws upon insights from the history of resilience, the wealth of cultural assets in the midst of systemic oppression, and practices such as child positive thinking, creating a supportive school environment, building strong relationships between school and family, 加入同侪小组, building good relationships with neighbors and relatives, and proven strengths-based strategies such as family culture and traditions, 感情, positive and open communications, 日常工作, 定义边界, 明确的期望. 

Save the Date - March 1, 2024!

SC学校行为健康 Summit - This one-day summit will involve policy leaders, 研究人员, 从业人员, 教育工作者, family members and other advocates to review data and qualitative information on the development of School Behavioral 健康 (SBH) in our state to identify strengths, 创新领域, challenges and ways to overcome them, 朝着更连贯的方向, expanding and effective statewide approach. The summit is hosted by the SC学校行为健康 Collaborative, and will include leaders from around the state. Based on meeting recommendations, a white paper will be developed and disseminated statewide to promote progress in SBH and enhance SC's national leadership.

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