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Community Based Trauma Healing and Reentry

Community Based Trauma Healing and Reentry. People of Color Conference; Southern Delaware March 23, 2012. John A. Shuford MBA, EdS , FACHCA NASW Delaware Chapter Executive Director. James Gilligan, MD, “Preventing Violence”. Three Conditions for Violent Criminal Behavior:.

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Community Based Trauma Healing and Reentry

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  1. Community Based Trauma Healing and Reentry People of Color Conference; Southern Delaware March 23, 2012 John A. Shuford MBA, EdS, FACHCA NASW Delaware Chapter Executive Director

  2. James Gilligan, MD, “Preventing Violence”

  3. Three Conditions for Violent Criminal Behavior: 1. Shame is a necessary but insufficient condition

  4. Three Conditions for Violent Criminal Behavior: 2. A lack of empathy 1. Shame is a necessary but insufficient condition

  5. Three Conditions for Violent Criminal Behavior: 2. A lack of empathy 1. Shame is a necessary but insufficient condition 3. Lack of awareness of alternative behaviors

  6. Three Conditions of Unhealed Trauma Especially complex trauma: 2. A lack of empathy; withdraw from self & others 1. Shame • Lack of awareness of alternative behaviors; • often rigid and protective – survival

  7. The Impact of Trauma

  8. The ACES Study Kaiser Permanente Study funded by the Center for Disease Control

  9. What do you think is the #1 predictor of criminal behavior?

  10. Tonier Cane

  11. The Prevalence of Unhealed Trauma

  12. What can we do about it?

  13. What can we do about it? 1. We can treat the cause and not the symptoms

  14. What can we do about it? 2. We can stop re-traumatizing and shaming inmates 1. We can treat the cause and not the symptoms

  15. What can we do about it? • We can stop re-traumatizing and shaming inmates by training staff in Trauma Informed Care 1. We can treat the cause and not the symptoms • We can provide Cognitive Emotional Restructuring for inmates

  16. Cognitive Emotional Restructuring Respect and Caring

  17. Cognitive Emotional Restructuring Respect and CaringcreatesSafety

  18. Cognitive Emotional Restructuring Respect and CaringcreatesSafetybuildsTrust

  19. Cognitive Emotional Restructuring Respect and CaringcreatesSafetybuildsTrustencouragesOpenness

  20. Cognitive Emotional Restructuring Respect and CaringcreatesSafetybuildsTrustencouragesOpennessleads toAwareness

  21. Cognitive Emotional Restructuring Respect and CaringcreatesSafetybuildsTrustencouragesOpennessleads toAwarenesswhich isTransformational

  22. Cognitive Emotional Restructuring StatsRecidivism Reduced 46%Inmate Write-ups Reduced 60%Violent Attitudes Reduced to Same Level as Community Comparison GroupTrait Anger Reduced a Large AmountThese results were long lasting.

  23. Cognitive Emotional Restructuring Participant Comments:Attitude: “With AVP I began to grow from a person filled with hate, anger, and despair, into a person who believes he too is responsible for the protection, preservation and enrichment of humanity."Safety: “That we are all the same beneath all that life has given us to experience. That no matter what persona or mask we wear, we can be reached, loved, and healed. Only a group of this nature can provide us with the safe environment to remove this mask.” Empathy: “I went into the workshop as a pessimist and I came out a changed person. I was alive, I was actually alive. I liked what I saw in myself. It was a real high and I’ve been doing it for two years and I love that feeling; and to see other people awakened in the workshops, to see their lives change.”Alternatives: "I had been in every group in the institution and they were all generic. They gave the same information. There were very few solutions offered. When you are given the information without the solution, you are still lost. AVP gave me some concrete solutions."

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