The Sanctuary Model is a trauma-informed method for creating or changing organizational culture in order to more effectively provide an environment within which healing from psychological and social traumatic experiences can be addressed.
WMPC and its partners are embarking on a Sanctuary training and implementation process that aims to help agencies reclaim a culture of hope and innovation.
As a result of our Sanctuary training, we expect:
The set of values that Sanctuary outlines as a way to lead individuals and organizations away from trauma-reactive behaviors
building and modeling safety skills
teaching and modeling affect management skills
building and modeling cognitive skills
creating and modeling civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority
overcoming barriers to healthy communication, reduce acting-out, enhance self-protective and self-correcting skills, teach healthy boundaries
rebuilding social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships
restoring hope, meaning, purpose
Participants will learn more about what causes traumatic experiences, the implication of these experiences on the organization, staff and clients, how best to treat the trauma at all levels, and how we can proactively minimize future occurrences.
The Sanctuary Model aims to improved outcomes for organizations and clients. The secret to Sanctuary is in the process.
Using the Sanctuary Model has enabled other agencies to:
The Sanctuary Model has improved outcomes for other agencies with:
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